i’ve been waiting for a political party to adopt it, kudos to the band for having landed on a licensing goldmine only growing more valuable through 2021.
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a lot of season 2 of twin peaks is genuinely really dreadful but it’s almost worth it for the very last episode of season 2 (and season 3, i suppose… though that’s kind of its own thing).
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‘on the air’ feels like some sort of weird prank at a network executive’s expense but a lot of it’s sensibilities are distinctly season 2
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The back half of S2 soured us on Twin Peaks so much that my wife doesn’t feel like watching the rest right now. I’m sure that if we don’t watch the rest soon we never will, and I sort of am trying to convince her to get on with it at some point, trying not to be annoying about it.
This situation wormed its way into my subconscious; I dreamed that I watched the first few minutes of The Return alone, which gave me enough arguments to convince her to watch too
My dream version of The Return is sort of interactive through telekinesis. After one anodyne conversation between Dale and a new character I managed to convince Dale to drop his current investigation and follow that guy home, where that character was understandably both confused and hostile. Dale and I both got eventually fascinated by his laundry room though I don’t remember why. There was an overwhelmingly threatening aura suggesting we were not meant to be there
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this is why you just skip from s2e7 to s2e22! it’s not even that jarring a transition, especially since they suddenly start talking about laura palmer and diary pages and ronnette pulaski again. it just makes the original series feel like an extended edition of the european cut of the pilot
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one thing I was completely unprepared for in 15 years of thinking about twin peaks was how it seemed like the largest amount of backlash to s3 came from the real old timers. everyone else seemed to accept it if not love it, while the old timers on the dugpa forum were having a meltdown every week practically begging for ABC interference. 25 years only to learn nothing from fwwm, I hope history remembers their shame. but I did have a feeling there was going to be a problem when I went to the dugpa forums shortly before s3 aired and it was all memes about john justice wheeler and evelyn marsh and people were like “so how long into the new show before a body wrapped in plastic shows up?” it’d just been too long I guess and they’d somehow given themselves late s2 stockholm syndrome.
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definitely understand how your wife feels on this one! in fairness i know it’s meant to pick up and i just wanted to watch the bad ones to have done with. the clinching argument for me was seeing someone on a fan board make the argument that people should watch them on the basis that they’re at least bad in a way which is entertaining to think about in hindsight, which has been true so far.
it has been interesting for comparison purposes and made me curious about like - how the earlier episodes made the town feel larger than just a handful of recurring sets, in part maybe from having more scenes from the perspective of teens riding around at night, adulterers trying not to get caught, people whose sense of the space around them is itself more threatening or evocative. also all the boring later scenes repeating that cooper is a nice wholesome good boy etc kind of confirmed to me that part of the original interest of the character was that he was always within spitting distance of being a creepy weirdo.
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i did this the first time. i could feel the series sliding into bad and just felt like “why should i waste my life with the episodes i know are shitty”. when i’ve rewatched recently i’ve skipped to like 4 or 5 episodes before the end so i at least get the arc in, but it’s not necessary.
without saying too much i think you’ll like where the series goes on the last episode of season 2 and in season 3.
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just took a good screenshot for use if anyone asks if they should watch all the s2 eps
ANYWAY i will stop venting but i do want to say that if it wasn’t for these i would not have believed this show would ever have a scene that uses an ostentatious comedy record scratch sound effect to denote a change in mood, and for this discovery i will be forever grateful
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so crucial, and one of the many things season 2’s back half completely fumbles into the trash yes
i do kind of think it’s worth watching all the way through once because it really does heighten lynch’s return to direct the season 2 finale. there’s nothing else like it
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i watched the s2 finale today and loved it, but part of the pleasure was definitely that stuff like “laura’s continuous long, horrible shriek straight into the camera” felt like an exorcism of the half season’s worth of lowkey cutesiness that immediately preceded it
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yeah it all feels so just contemptuous of the preceding fuckin 14 hours or whatever, i love it
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he likes doing that sort of shot. there’s a similar, even spookier version of that kind of shot in Inland Empire (warning: don’t watch unless you want to be spooked):
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i meant to type found, not for
i’m guessing lots of people take photos in here because one of the staffers got passive aggressive with us loooool
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started watching season 3 and enjoying a lot so far. glad it was made specifically for all the many people out there whose big complaint with the season 2 finale was that it just wasn’t gruesome and disconcerting enough, the importance of Engaging With The Fan Community.
idk if it’s just me but whenever i watch something where people are reprising 20+ year old roles i find myself sort of checking in on and rooting for the actors maybe more than the characters, like, the palpable sense of physical discomfort that harrison ford radiates for the entirety of the fourth indiana jones movie made it more compelling in an unexpected way than any of the previous entries. and it feels like that’s something s3 is aware of and interested in. when there were older characters in the previous two seasons they were likely to be isolated grotesques (the mayor, the hotel bellhop, the bank clerk etc). now it’s the younger characters who feel like unknowable space aliens, adapted to and comfortable within this eerily flattened world. and the doubled sense of presence with the original cast, where you’re kind of watching and crosscomparing both the characters and actors, the sense of legibility as something which has to be consciously maintained, becomes the grounding point against what’s around it. it’s funny that the character played by lynch himself is the one who seems least changed.
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This might be the only part of The Return that sucks imo but it’s hard to say whether it’s intentional
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people aging and increasingly becoming weird alienated sacks of flesh seems to be an overwhelming theme of season 3. i dunno. it’s very sad.
btw if you haven’t watched Fire Walk With Me yet i’d do that before you get towards the end of season 3, since it’s referenced quite a bit.
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oh my gosh yeah you did do that right
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