BenjaminBirdie
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This is the funniest thing I have ever read. Well fucking done.
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Twin Peaks Season 3 OT |25 Years Later...It Is Happening Again
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This is the funniest thing I have ever read. Well fucking done.
plagiarize
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That's a suggested narration? I'm just checking it wasn't some weird thing I missed that subtitles unveiled.
Saw a Reddit comment get at the same idea, that entities like BOB and MIKE meet "above" the convenience store and the hobos mill around outside it.
ZombieSupaStar
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maybe body is just Doop, or its totally bob now.
Kyle playing Bob would be interesting.
Frank Silva in this would have been so awesome, such a shame.
plagiarize
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I know it was all stylistic. I just hated it.
But effects in the lodge can be whatever. Everything out of it has been good. A few super imposed signs aside.
ZombieSupaStar
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I feel like the budget was that atom bomb explosion sequence, that looked seriously pretty.
stephendedalus
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Nope, sorry. You didn't miss anything.
dougie coop is going to choke on his sandwich at the start of the next episode and it'll conveniently take place at the same time doop got shot with a swap as the result
I don't really think they have swapped, too much unresolved Dougie stuff. But I also don't understand why doppel Coop would get back up, he had seemed pretty mortal so far...
Joe Shlabotnik
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I immediately assumed the soot hobos were basically lesser demons. Possibly because they bizarrely reminded me of the shadow devils that dragged people to hell in Ghost, ha ha.
The Atticus
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oh my god
Yeah. When they appeared to "resurrect" (?) Booper I immediately thought of them as Hell's Oompa Loompas.
That atom bomb imagery combined with the shrieking music sting...
I now want David Lynch to direct live action Eva ,-,
KO Traveling Hobo
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That atom bomb imagery combined with the shrieking music sting...
Not to mention the pure white cosmic creator deity with a female form...
Not to mention the pure white cosmic creator deity with a female form...
plagiarize
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Only problem with this 9pm on Sunday thing is in get fuck all sleep even when the show is terrifying because it's all rattling around inside my brain.
Time for bed!
Time for bed!
BenjaminBirdie
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Last episode. Mark it.
KO Traveling Hobo
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Psst, someone should tell the Experiment that she put her hands on backwards (awkward!).
Sometimes her arms bend backwards, sometimes it's just the hands.
Bam Bam Baklava
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This is what sucks if you liked TP and even had hope it would be continued beyond this season. The show's ratings are already abysmal and episodes like this should worry you that more people will give up on watching. What incentive does Showtime have to make more Twin Peaks at this point? It was already a big risk for them as it is.
I expected the boy walking the girl home to become the host to Bob, and now I'm wondering if she'll give it back to him. Given that was the 50s, it could work time wise with how old Bob appears in the original series but I'm remembering Leland talking about seeing Bob, as we always see him, when he was just a boy.
So as usual, who knows?
Loved that episode though.
So as usual, who knows?
Loved that episode though.
MetroidPrimeRib
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i like how lynch had seven episodes of shitty special effects and then this episode which was like 2001 a space odyssey and eraserhead
Buttonbasher
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Live ratings don't mean much anymore when channels sell their own streaming services (which is where everyone is watching this anyway). Streaming ratings are pretty solid and increasing every day.
plagiarize
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Who cares?
This was never about relaunching the show.
This is the most creative and artistic drama that has ever aired on TV. A show that worries about ratings could never come close.
What we just shared is worth so much more than an audience friendly Twin Peaks reunion lasting multiple seasons.
The last thing I saw on TV that effected me this much was probably Ghostwatch.
TV just doesn't do what this does.
Like, never. Ever. Ever ever.
If you want something safe, then I hear Riverdale is legitimately brilliant and very Twin Peaks.
This is worth so much more than a few more hours of what we got back in the 90s.
VistraNorrez
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They had record breaking signups for the show. And by all accounts the streaming numbers are much bigger compared to what Nielsen reports. Plus Showtime sold it into international markets. It's probably already paid for itself.
But it sounds like Lynch/Frost finally got to finish telling the story they started 27 years ago. Another season won't be necessary. It's icing on the cake at this point. If this uncompromised seasons means no more Twin Peaks, so be it. I'd rather have that then a compromised Twin Peaks lurching on indefinitely.
KO Traveling Hobo
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I love, love, loved this episode, but god I wish the imagery was more interesting. A generic swirling vortex doesn't make me feel anything. I got more feeling out of those ancient Windows screensavers with the procedurally generated pipes.
The mosquito frog slowly crawling through the sand was PERFECT, though.
The mosquito frog slowly crawling through the sand was PERFECT, though.
BenjaminBirdie
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I guess they'll have to settle for the most talked about episode of television in human history.
Bam Bam Baklava
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I'd like to see some further numbers on this because people say ratings don't matter and it's all about streaming, but you can stream the 90 other shows that beat Twin Peaks in the live ratings too.
What is the ratio of streaming TP viewers compared to a typical live Sunday night audience and how does it really make up for it?
The bug is not Bob... It was birthed by the egg that the giant created. Basically Laura is a creation of the white lodge (?) sent to fight Bob. I think...maybe...
As far as I know all of the episodes are finished. Even if 1/10th of the expected audience was watching they would be fools to pull the plug when the content is done and payed for. Besides, Showtime got what they wanted when they broke their streaming record.
Buttonbasher
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I'm totally with you on this. The people that view success on ratings, and 'how many more seasons we're gonna get', are largely looking past the point.
plagiarize
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Finished. Edited. Scored. 100% done. This was always billed as a complete stand alone thing.
VistraNorrez
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So how do you think this episode relates to the first scene in Part 1? Is that scene in Cooper's future?
KO Traveling Hobo
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Also, it would have been so much better if My Prayer played all the way through to the end of episode.
Buttonbasher
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthu...ctually-good?utm_term=.gexDaWMOx2#.ivj2BLyX4v
This article is pretty good at addressing things. The premiere had 506,000 viewers live, but 3.1 million viewers on streaming.
CreeperBlocks
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Did Twin Peaks go full End of Evangelion yet?
I'm pretty sure that was Bob and we didn't see where the gold egg ended up. I don't see the soot boys helping get Laura into this world, for example.
But maybe! I say little with confidence when it comes to discussing this show.
MetroidPrimeRib
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This episode went beyond that already
It's Experiment-chan who threw up a whole bunch of those eggs along with Bob's Space Placenta (can't decide if that's my new band or restaurant).
The Atticus
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No really, what's up with that other forum
CreeperBlocks
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*fly me to the moon intensifies*
I think my other post got buried but I would like to re-bring up the fact that the guy playing the Woodsman is a known Abe Lincoln impersonator. Casting Robert Broski as the woodsman was a very purposeful choice. Also the penny thing. No idea what to make of it though.
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