Chittagong
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First two episodes:
Detecting Lynch
Yep, it's Lynch
So so good. Much better than I thought.
Detecting Lynch
Yep, it's Lynch
So so good. Much better than I thought.
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Twin Peaks Season 3 OT |25 Years Later...It Is Happening Again
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Sumio Mondo
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So I would say the best thing to do is what I did: watch the last episode of Season 2. It's only 50 minutes and it will remind you of much of what was happenng at the end. In many ways, despite taking place 25 years later, Season 3 feels like it picks up right where Season 2 ended. Not literally, but plot-wise.
It's so weird that Laura even says "I'll see you in 25 years," in the last ep of S2. Like this was all destined to happen the way it did.
The perfect Dark
Banned
I've waited at least 17 years (watched it for the first time 17 years ago). Still....I'm speechless.
The scene where (Episode 4)
Bobby sees the picture of Laura and starts crying....and the music starts
Perfection. It's like Lynch was always in Twin Peaks during the last 25-27 years.
This scene was like...should I laugh? Should I cry? I'm doing both inside....the quirkiness is back.
It seems really over the top but I agree with other posters that it's a reasonable reaction to having such a major ghost of your past suddenly thrust in your face after 25 years with no warning. Laura traumatised Bobby.
Plus everyone was always crying hysterically about Laura in the original show, it totally fit the scene.
Oh yeah, didn't the woman say no one was there when the guard was gone? I wonder if everyone really did vanish for a moment.
Hasphat'sAnts
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If you're a Hollywood actor and you're not in this show even though you wanted to, should you fire your agent?
Literally everyone is in this show.
Literally everyone is in this show.
CrichtonKicks
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This is what I don't understand. How is it more experimental than what he was doing in Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive?
It feels hard to say something like that without having it be a complete thing. Imagine watching the first hour of Mulholland Drive and making the same comparison:
-Random Creepy Old People
-Truly horrific diner scene with characters never referenced again
- Tarantino-esque Hitman hijinks
- The whole Justin Theroux storyline including requisite MJA cameo
- Naomi Watts as the world's most naive Hollywood hopeful
That would be far more disjointed than anything presented here. But the finale of MD brings it together. We aren't here yet for TP. Same applies to Lost Highway. Imagine watching the movie and then stopping immediately after the Pullman-Getty handoff.
However just the way Twin Peaks is being filmed is reasonably conventional. Lynch pulls out the stops when the scene demands that but outside of those moments the camera work is restrained (moreso than the original series). The editing for most scenes follows a normal rhythm but you still get the periodic scenes where Lynch intentionally holds the scene to the point of becoming uncomfortable (a Lynch trademark). Even the red room stuff is shot and edited more normally than the Season 2 finale and FWWM.
The perfect Dark
Banned
I can't wait for Coop to
.
This is going to be glorious.
Also,
...episode 4 is pretty depressing if you love this character and
recover and being full coffee-thumbs-up-cherry-pie-Coop again
This is going to be glorious.
Also,
Rosenfield
Miguel Ferrer. RIP.
CharminUltra
Member
HULLOOO-OOO
Seems like most of my friends are like Homer Simpson in this classic clip.
"Brilliant! (I have absolutely no idea what's going on)"
God, the wait until episode 5 is gonna be unbearable.
"Brilliant! (I have absolutely no idea what's going on)"
God, the wait until episode 5 is gonna be unbearable.
DodgyGeezerFella
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Not wanting to spoil myself do haven't read previous pages, but episodes 3 and 4 are out ?! Sky only has 1 and 2 ?
Three episodes in and loving it so far. Feels like a good balance between the old seasons and Fire Walk With Me. I'm really impressed with what Lynch is doing. Also, Chromatics! Hope that means Dear Tommy is back on track for release this year.
Anyone else love the new credits sequence? Something about the transition from waterfall to red curtains to swirling Red Room floor design is just really cool.
You should at least rewatch the S2 finale.
I can't believe Lynch seriously suggested anyone who had never seen this show before would be just fine starting here. :lol As confusing as some things are now, I can't imagine any of it making any sense if you have no idea about Bob, the Black Lodge, and where Cooper ends up at the end of S2.
Anyone else love the new credits sequence? Something about the transition from waterfall to red curtains to swirling Red Room floor design is just really cool.
You should at least rewatch the S2 finale.
I can't believe Lynch seriously suggested anyone who had never seen this show before would be just fine starting here. :lol As confusing as some things are now, I can't imagine any of it making any sense if you have no idea about Bob, the Black Lodge, and where Cooper ends up at the end of S2.
Karl_Dilkington7
Banned
Ok, thats really jarring. I instantly recognized a song in episode 4. I usually listen to the Jazz playlist on Spotify in morning while I work and one of favorite track was, "Take Five" by David Brubeck. That was pretty awesome moment for me. I knew David Lynch had good taste in music.
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
Jesus Early episode 3 spoilers
at the opening to Episode 3. I'm in love with the franetic cut and loops here along with the environment Coop seems to be in. This a sort of cosmic horror I didnt know I wanted
Bits N Pieces
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Lmao I mean I guess you're literally right. I went back and looked at it because I remembered it distinctly looking like nerves but frick if it isn't literally a tree. I'm still gonna imagine it as a brain and nerves tho for my own sanity. I can't handle "a tree with bubblegum on it"
Discotheque
Banned
yeah, it's so disorienting I love it.
and big shout out to the first episode's credits sequence. all that ominous imagery from the pilot and then...the song and title finally drops haha. was such a good welcome back moment.
CharminUltra
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I gotta know who the muffin is once and for all.
DaxMedFlax
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I knew Michael Cera was in this, so when they were going to meet Wally I was like "Please be him , please be him." I was pleased.
"My dharma is the road. Your dharma is....."
"My dharma is the road. Your dharma is....."
Poimandres
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I only got a chance to watch the first ep last night but... it was awesome. So happy with how this turned out!
Just finished Episodes 1&2. I'm saving 3&4 for next week, so I'll be ducking out of the thread after this as I'm already making connections from what people are blacking out here.
I'm initially a bit dubious about having so much of the runtime happening outside of Twin Peaks itself, but I'll place my trust in Lynch to have these disparate threads connect in later episodes. I just hope it doesn't distract too much from the sideways-stories of the Twin Peaks residents. Those kooky side-bits were what made the original series what it was, and it'd be a shame to lose some of the underlying humour that contrasted against the darker main story.
Overall though, a great start with plenty of promise.
I'm initially a bit dubious about having so much of the runtime happening outside of Twin Peaks itself, but I'll place my trust in Lynch to have these disparate threads connect in later episodes. I just hope it doesn't distract too much from the sideways-stories of the Twin Peaks residents. Those kooky side-bits were what made the original series what it was, and it'd be a shame to lose some of the underlying humour that contrasted against the darker main story.
Overall though, a great start with plenty of promise.
CrichtonKicks
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Maybe I should have added a Convenience Store qualifier but I would say the overlap of the FBI sequence in FWWM with the Convenience Store shenanigans is every bit as insane, if not moreso.
It sounds like Cera's role might be microscopic, so we probably won't get it, but what I wouldn't give to see Wally and James together in a scene. Just two cool guys talking about cool things and being cool, as they've always been.
DaxMedFlax
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Fantastical
Death Prophet
RoyaleDuke
Banned
Mother of God when
It was late at night, and I was dying trying not to laugh and wake up the whole house.
Holy fuck that whole thing was cringy and beautiful.
Cera's character appeared.
It was late at night, and I was dying trying not to laugh and wake up the whole house.
Holy fuck that whole thing was cringy and beautiful.
The perfect Dark
Banned
I really think episode 4 connects the dots. I'm not entirely sure how and why (I have to watch it again) but it sure feels like it's going to be more classic Twin Peaks from now on.
Episode 1+ 2 were amazing but Lynch didn't really want to go to Twin Peaks this early it seems.
Episode 3 is
....and probably something more but that's too early to tell. Episode 4 is
Also, the fractured story seems to be not fractured at all. There IS something we don't know. Something we can't see (just like in season 1 and half of season 2). There's a mystery that needs to be solved.
....soon!!!!!!
Episode 1+ 2 were amazing but Lynch didn't really want to go to Twin Peaks this early it seems.
Episode 3 is
a complete mindfuck but shows Cooper's journey back to real life/ reality
pretty much 1990's Twin Peaks. That was truly amazing.
Coop, you need to come back
On the surface, she appears to give Coop information that could help him escape and she was punished for it.
darkwing-buck
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The editing in that sequence was certainly unconventional, but those were two traditionally and beautifully shot scenes edited together. It still looked like a film. Nothing in the original incarnation of the show compares to Lynch wildly shaking the camera and using special effects and editing techniques which he only really used before in his animation projects (see: I Touch A Red Button )
The perfect Dark
Banned
Episode 4
Yes,
...yes. It's like Lynch reads our minds.
Albert, I have to admit I don't understand this situation at all
Yes,
Cole
Garmonbozia
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Michael Cera playing a Marlon Brando wannabe
Only watched 1&2. It was good in its own merits bit I enjoy it as a Twin Peaks episode. It felt like a spin-off or quasi-remake.
The lodge stuff was very old school and there were a few old faces like Hawk, Andy and Log Lady, but to devote much of the opening episode(s) to new characters, new stories and new locations was a strange choice.
Felt like it was all a bit weird for weird's sake at times. I remember there being a lot more normality in the original show.
The atmosphere was strange, more like movie Lynch than TP Lynch. The pacing was also iffy, even for TP. Random, disjointed scenes here and there, like the hotel scene early on that went nowhere and the random inclusion of Shelly and James at the bar at the end.
Where was Norma? Where was Audrey?
Despite sounding negative though, I did enjoy the experience.
The lodge stuff was very old school and there were a few old faces like Hawk, Andy and Log Lady, but to devote much of the opening episode(s) to new characters, new stories and new locations was a strange choice.
Felt like it was all a bit weird for weird's sake at times. I remember there being a lot more normality in the original show.
The atmosphere was strange, more like movie Lynch than TP Lynch. The pacing was also iffy, even for TP. Random, disjointed scenes here and there, like the hotel scene early on that went nowhere and the random inclusion of Shelly and James at the bar at the end.
Where was Norma? Where was Audrey?
Despite sounding negative though, I did enjoy the experience.
ElectricBlanketFire
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You're 2 episodes into a season ending in September. Give it time.
The perfect Dark
Banned
Episode 3 is even more strange. It's probably the weirdest thing Lynch has ever made....but it's good...very good.
And then....Episode 4 will bring you back to Twin Peaks.
Camper Van Beethoven
Banned
The last thing I want is Coop just magically turning back to old Coop and saying his lines and eating pie and shit. He should suffer for a long time. For him to supposedly be trapped for 25 years and then oh it's been a few days I'm cool now would be absurd. Not to mention it's fan pandering primarily.
DoctorFling
Member
This show is perfect. 4 episodes in and I already think this is the best TP has ever been. Pure madness but if you follow the threads everything holds together. The sense of danger and unease is back.
Fluffhead14
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Anyone have that graph of seasons 1 and 2 episodes that show which are great, mediocore, awful, etc? I'm on S2E13 and I don't think it's quite as bad as I was expecting, minus James and Nadine.
Camper Van Beethoven
Banned
You're in the shit until around 18-19
iShouldGoPro
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I've been wondering this as well. The hair is on point but the cold blooded, expressionless way The doppel kills is very unlike Bob.
Color me intrigued.
The perfect Dark
Banned
I want his, I need this. ASAP.
That's true but (Episode 4)
remember the coffee? Too hot?
good Cooper
Camper Van Beethoven
Banned
It's so against the spirit of the show. Pandering to fans and making it comfortable isn't what I want from lynch. It's why FWWM is so good.
The perfect Dark
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