Shadax the wizard
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They got Pop! ones too. Might have to get the Laura and Bob ones across both sets.
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Twin Peaks Season 3 Premieres May 21 - 2 Hour Premiere
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Never bought toy figurines in my adult life. That may be about to change 🙄
Freyjadour
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The color changes are definitely right, but there's still some good to be had in the 11-16 section and a good deal of bad to be had in the 1-9 section. S2E8 has some pretty awful parts on a recent watch.
Shadax the wizard
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Got inspired and started sketching on a black lodge entrance poster. I'm thinking of having the curtains reflecting in the puddle. It may not be 100% true to the original location but close enough. Still lots to do.
Yeah, those episodes are still pretty good, better than most in TV, I would say. I liked season one, but at times I felt it was a bit slow. Season two, on the other hand, opens up some more interesting ideas, but it gets bogged down at times.
Still enjoyable, I just felt I needed to take a break about half way through season 2.
Freyjadour
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I feel like if 11-20/21 were about half to a third as many episodes, I wouldn't have many issues with it. It's the James, Nadine, Little Nicky, etc. shit that bogs it down.
ZombieSupaStar
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I tolerate the civil war stuff because I liked Ben Horne (well he had some qualities about him at least) but man James I don't know if it was the actor or what but I can't stand him and that "trying to look brooding but just look constipated"-face he does.
And good lord the one scene he is in (and people who have seen the show know exactly what scene I mean...)
Bobby turned out much better.
Freyjadour
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Yes, I fully agree. A healthy trimming would have helped season two. There are a lot of good ideas, but they get bogged down by extra storylines.
Unfortunately, the fact that they spent so much time on these extra stories means the final episode is left feeling incomplete. The final scene is amazing, but so many things are left unanswered, and time was squandered on stories that weren't important.
Still, I don't regret watching, as even the extra stories still had good moments to them. Thankfully, we are getting a season three to continue the story.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
Did anybody here read that Twin Peaks history book that just came out? Someone just returned their copy to my bookstore and I really couldn't blame them...I'm not quite sure who that book is for but from trying to read a little bit I was like..............wut.
The Secret History of Twin Peaks? It's dense, it's obtuse, it may end up having nothing to do with the new series, but it was definitely interesting what I read of it.
If you want a good "behind the scenes" meets summary meets commentary on the original series, "The Essential Wrapped In Plastic" is a great read. Collects a bunch of writing from the seminal fanzine about the show & includes an episode by episode guide that's awesome.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
Were there any AHA! moments when you read it? Or was it just very random and only interesting in its own isolated way?
The three key things it reveals (super vague spoilers here):
1. The aftermath of the bank explosion.
2. What "Cooper" does immediately after the end of the show.
3. A minor side character was a secret big deal and close to a bigger side character (the author of the "book" in-universe).
2. What "Cooper" does immediately after the end of the show.
3. A minor side character was a secret big deal and close to a bigger side character (the author of the "book" in-universe).
Other than that, the world building's fun.
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wanderingprostheyltite
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Not officially announced yet but word going around is an audio book version is to be released with Sheryl Lee doing the recitation. Think I might have to get this.
BlueTsunami
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TheStruggler
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never watched the show at all however a friend told me to stop season 2 episode 2 because thats when david lynch stopped directing and the quality went down, or should i watch all of it?
Fantastical
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You should definitely watch beyond that. Midway through the season the show goes completely off the fucking rails, though. It gets pretty unwatchable to me at a certain point but the finale is pretty cool.
wanderingprostheyltite
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Lynch also directed episode 7 of season two as well as the finale. Slogging through it all for those is well worth it.
matrixman92
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mariachi507
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I read a little bit of it when I did my rewatch a month or two ago. I'm taking my time with the rest of season 2 because of the drop in quality and I kind of forgot about the book because of that.
The bit I read from it was pretty intense, it was really like being inside Laura's mind. An audiobook sounds amazing.
FlexMentallo
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So hyped for the return of Twin Peaks. At it's worst it's going to be a glorious train wreck.
Twin Peaks was a pretty seminal creative influence on me. I used to tape episodes on my old ass Betamax player when I'd work late nights, then sit up watching the latest creepy and wacky Peaks in a daze at 3am. Then rewatch the next day. Rewatched every bunch of years - most recently on bluray.
Season 1 thru S2 ep7/8 is of course magnificent. Whilst that mid stretch of S2 is definitely patchy, there is still lots to enjoy. I like the goofy in the Nadine & Ben plots while James & Little Nicky I could live without. Mostly that comes down to liking certain characters enough to gloss over dumb stories that drag out. Like a few others said, if S2 was half the length and some of these plots were minor sidelines it would have dragged much less. Personally I loved all the more overt weirdness around Coop & Briggs & Windom in the second half of S2, even if it's not as meticulously constructed as season 1. Finale is gold and Fire Walk With Me is different but has a lot of awesome. The Missing Pieces was, while fairly inconsequential, like revisiting old, lost friends.
I really enjoyed the Secret History of Twin Peaks. Reminded me a lot in style of the Autobiography of Dale Cooper. Both of those are definitely deeper world building than something more core like The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer. Totally in for the Sheryl Lee audiobook version - bring on the blood curdling screams!
Anyways - bring on more Twin Peaks!
Twin Peaks was a pretty seminal creative influence on me. I used to tape episodes on my old ass Betamax player when I'd work late nights, then sit up watching the latest creepy and wacky Peaks in a daze at 3am. Then rewatch the next day. Rewatched every bunch of years - most recently on bluray.
Season 1 thru S2 ep7/8 is of course magnificent. Whilst that mid stretch of S2 is definitely patchy, there is still lots to enjoy. I like the goofy in the Nadine & Ben plots while James & Little Nicky I could live without. Mostly that comes down to liking certain characters enough to gloss over dumb stories that drag out. Like a few others said, if S2 was half the length and some of these plots were minor sidelines it would have dragged much less. Personally I loved all the more overt weirdness around Coop & Briggs & Windom in the second half of S2, even if it's not as meticulously constructed as season 1. Finale is gold and Fire Walk With Me is different but has a lot of awesome. The Missing Pieces was, while fairly inconsequential, like revisiting old, lost friends.
I really enjoyed the Secret History of Twin Peaks. Reminded me a lot in style of the Autobiography of Dale Cooper. Both of those are definitely deeper world building than something more core like The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer. Totally in for the Sheryl Lee audiobook version - bring on the blood curdling screams!
Anyways - bring on more Twin Peaks!
Nah, James is great. He's a severely underrated, but often misused character.
Consider this: James is the only character whose life was affected by
Maddy's death
"That scene" is also great and it establishes James as the most interesting of the show's living teenage characters - he's the only kid whose interests go beyond boning and being terrible towards everyone.
His musical tastes may be really, REALLY weird, but that only makes him more interesting. He's a sensitive teenage biker who enjoys writing bizarre '50s-style falsetto love songs. What could be Twin Peaksier than that?
It's too bad most Season 2 writers/directors didn't know what to do with him (and only Lynch seemed to know how to explain to James Marshall how to do that whole "acting" thing) because the character falls apart whenever a writer/director tried portray James as some kind of tough guy. He's just a fragile kid who wanted nothing more than to help Laura run away from that cursed town.
Bobby is just an asshole who literally got away with murder. He's an asshole who's a lot of fun to watch, but I hope karma will catch up with him at least a little in the new season.
wanderingprostheyltite
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Theres also a rare "chase" Giant
Nice!
I think I checked it out from a library way back when I first started going gaga over anything TP but don't think I finished it. Got a kick out of this though:
If leaks are to be believed (possible S3 spoiler here):
Shelly is banging whoever Balthazar Getty is playing behind his back, and Bobby is a lawman now xD
So I started watching this, but I committed the mistake of watching the "pilot version" of episode one right after watching the legit episode one and... OMG what an absolutely piece of hot garbage that ending was. It was seriously on the level of those 70s superhero movies.
Did this piece of shit rushed ending ruined the legit ending of the series? I'm afraid because those guys just appeared on episode 2.
Did this piece of shit rushed ending ruined the legit ending of the series? I'm afraid because those guys just appeared on episode 2.
Wait, before I start too, how am I supposed to watch it? Only the legit pilot, and then forget about the "pilot version"?
Garmonbozia
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You're talking about the European pilot version, I believe? It was aired as a standalone TV movie in Europe. It really hasn't any bearing on the rest of the series.
I thought so too at first but nope. You will see in episode 3.
Don't watch the "international/European" pilot. You still want to watch the regular pilot (not "episode 1").
If you have the blu-rays, just press "play all" and you're safe, the other version is a menu option.
Manny Calavera
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Twin Peaks is my all time favorite TV show , but I'm still a bit skeptical about this. I thought the last episode and the ending was just too perfect to mess up. But Lynch is among my favorite directors so I do have some faith and I hope the new season lives up to the old. And in any case it's damn exciting to see something new by Lynch after all these years and I hope he hasn't lost his touch.
Damn and I just finished reading it the other night. :/
Incidentally this book was unknowingly my introduction to Twin Peaks. My older sister bought it from our local library when I was around 8 years old. She loved the book but wouldn't let me near it because of how graphic it was. We had no idea what Twin Peaks was though and didn't find out till almost a decade later. Took another decade for me to actually read the book myself.
Finished reading The Secret Story of Twin Peaks earlier today, very enjoyable book and the prose + dossier-style format was done well. I liked how each separate voice in the book felt distinctive (only wish there was more from Hawk. His writing was hilarious). Surprising amount of real life information and trivia too, I ended up learning quite a bit about some colorful characters from American history related to UFOs, pagan religions and other types of weird shit.
Ready for the new season!
Ready for the new season!
The Salt Life
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So I tried watching this show several times, kept starting from the beginning over and over but that music just took me out of it. For some reason I started again this weekend, just picking up where I left off (episode 3)
The acting is so bad at some points I couldn't stop watching, 3 days in and I've been binging. I made up to binge at this moment The dive onto was so hysterical and then this
Was just amazing television.
Then I saw more amazing stuff like this
Started season 2 last night, that first 20 minutes was weird as fuck with the room service and I heard on a podcast today that they lost half their viewership at that one scene. Anyway get to the end of episode 9/S2E01
And this crazy dude......this crazy scary dude with long hair is screaming and crying and killing someone and it was the biggest holy shit moment I had watching TV ever, I couldn't imagine them showing something so raw and violent on regular tv today, let alone back in the 90's
Up to episode 4 now, show is getting weirder and weirder. Someone's grandson is nuts
Would have made this a LTTP but I don't have thread making privileged yet. I am real amped for season 3, sure am glad I didn't have to wait 25 years to see it.
The acting is so bad at some points I couldn't stop watching, 3 days in and I've been binging. I made up to binge at this moment The dive onto was so hysterical and then this
Was just amazing television.
Then I saw more amazing stuff like this
Started season 2 last night, that first 20 minutes was weird as fuck with the room service and I heard on a podcast today that they lost half their viewership at that one scene. Anyway get to the end of episode 9/S2E01
And this crazy dude......this crazy scary dude with long hair is screaming and crying and killing someone and it was the biggest holy shit moment I had watching TV ever, I couldn't imagine them showing something so raw and violent on regular tv today, let alone back in the 90's
Up to episode 4 now, show is getting weirder and weirder. Someone's grandson is nuts
Would have made this a LTTP but I don't have thread making privileged yet. I am real amped for season 3, sure am glad I didn't have to wait 25 years to see it.
this gif demands the accompanying audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B62P6Gm9jpE
Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?
Yes! Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?
If the words sound queer and funny to your ear, a little bit jumbled and jivey
Sing "Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy"
God I love that scene so much
The Salt Life
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Like I don't even know why all started dancing but it was like a totally different show I was watching. The only thing that saddens me is, half the cast has to be dead no? I didn't finish the series so I don't know if the other FBI agent lives but I know the actor that plays him was one of the first celebrity deaths of 2017.
Netflix doesn't show the log lady intros (apparently that's a thing) are they canon?
Airola
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The ending of the legit pilot is referred to in a later episode.
The European Pilot gives an alternative "reason" to the ending scene of the legit pilot and then continues for about 20? minutes of extra material, some of which is cut in shorter form in one of the earlier episodes of season 1. However, the next episode after that refers to things cut from the shorter version and only seen in the European Pilot version.
Also, the "alternative reason" for the ending scene of the legit pilot also appears again in a later episode but in different context.
So basically you'd be fine with sticking to either of them, but you kinda have to see both of them if you want to understand what some people are referring to at a couple of points.
Continuitywise I'd suggest you to watch the legit pilot as it goes more in line with what happens in the first few episodes. But if you want to see what the main character explains at one of the episodes but what you haven't seen happening you might want to check out the last 20-30 minutes of the European Pilot. It doesn't spoil anything at that point.
The Salt Life
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GAF........how has this never been made into a GIF until now
It could be used for so many instances on a message board.
My main Harry must have had the greatest fight choreographer ever. First we had that one punch he delivered back in season 1, ya know the punch, the one that took 5 seconds to deliver.
But this? This right here?
Hands down greatest moment in Twin Peaks history
(Dont mind the quality, taped it off my tv and ran it through a app on my phone
It could be used for so many instances on a message board.
My main Harry must have had the greatest fight choreographer ever. First we had that one punch he delivered back in season 1, ya know the punch, the one that took 5 seconds to deliver.
But this? This right here?
Hands down greatest moment in Twin Peaks history
(Dont mind the quality, taped it off my tv and ran it through a app on my phone
Man, for the longest time, the Euro pilot was the only way to get the original episode on video.
Airola
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Yeah, I remember reading that for some reason the pilot wasn't included in Twin Peaks box sets in the US. That's insane!
Was it released in the Gold Box for the first time or was it released in some earlier box set?
RareFantasy64
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Are we not not going to get a proper trailer for this?
Nah, it got made available before then, but the VHS releases back in the day were a mess. The old Twin Peaks FAQ has an overview of the mess of releases from 20 years ago. Also has my very old phone number as it happens, lol.
Wait, there's a "Twin Peaks FAQ" book cashing in on the nostalgia? ...
As much as I'm looking forward to really out-there scenes (whether horrific or comedic), I hope we get quiet and profound moments like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjeCNnbVYAQ
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