I'm with counterpaul on this. I for one would not welcome our new insect overlords! What is interesting though, is the anthropologist's view on alien abduction, which during the 20th C functioned as a mythology or narrative a lot like fairy-abduction did during preceding centuries. I'm a fan of thi...

Yes for sure we are dealing with aliens here... I agree. Once you accept that the story is an alien colonisation plot, it's quite interesting. Fascinating! I never in a million years would have thought that even one person would be interpreting TPTR as a story of alien colonization, but here you go...

On the alien debate: Yes for sure we are dealing with aliens here. I find Lynch and Frost s treatment of the subject very refreshing because they have a different take on how to present aliens to an audience. Aliens are too often depicted as being animal in nature. Grey beings, giant squid, arachni...

To give a comparison, it's the difference between true detective (A serial killer story with a slight occult twist), the occult themes are simple in this, with mostly linear plot and character developments...does the killer have dark forces on his side? The devil? The king in yellow? This was what ...

Fair, but I beg to differ (or to deny, if you prefer). I'll admit that the mythology is heavier and more present than it was in the original show...but I think that was true in FWWM as well. TP:TR feels like a natural progression from FWWM's approach to the mythology, to me. I still hold that the a...

2) There's definitely aliens in this thing. The alien denial camp seem to be those who bashed The Secret history as Frosts game, but then found that the same themes were very pressing in Lynch's take. Call them entities or whatever you want, but it's a hundred percent clear now that we are dealing ...

2) There's definitely aliens in this thing. The alien denial camp seem to be those who bashed The Secret history as Frosts game, but then found that the same themes were very pressing in Lynch's take. The "denial camp" read the whole book, in which it was explicitly revealed not to be ali...

In regards to your question about watching it. I was nine years old when twin peaks aired on television. I watched the series on VHS about five years after it aired. I don't have much sense of what TV was like before Twin Peaks except for Saturday morning cartoons. On the other hand, even ten years...

There's things i like about the return and things I don't. The things which intrigue me the most; Gordon Cole's blue rose Agents as a kind of 'men who stare at goats', occult loving spies who practice chiromancy on young agents. I'm fascinated where all that's going to lead. Becky and Stephen and s...

I feel like I am seeing something completely different to what your seeing though... I flat out didn't see it as natrative. A lot of the series hasn't read as narrative to me, it's read as statement. That scene to me was just Lynch saying; 'What do you want that nostalgic fifties diner feel? Here's...

remarkably prescient article - and very relevant to this thread- written before this TP series started: http://www.vulture.com/2017/05/twin-peaks-is-not-the-show-weve-convinced-ourselves-it-was.html That is a great article. Very prophetic In an above post you stated that "no one could have exp...

referendum wrote:remarkably prescient article - and very relevant to this thread- written before this TP series started: http://www.vulture.com/2017/05/twin-pea ... t-was.html

That is a great article. Very prophetic

I think you make some good points here, but your angle seems to be very much 'why we should be sympathetic with the artist', and my argument is very much 'why it's ok to be sympathetic with the audience' I'm totally sympathetic to both! Believe me, I would be grieving right now if TPTR hadn't been ...

I suppose the main feeling people may experience having expectations that are subverted is to feel that you are being 'cheated'... If say we had another famous work, which had known artistic merit already. Let's say...18 hours of Swamp thing with Alan Moore in his directorial debut. Now.... let's s...

No one is saying that you have to feel anything. I suppose the main feeling people may experience having expectations that are subverted is to feel that you are being 'cheated'. I don't know how comparable to a work of art or painting this is. An artwork is not really capable of quite the same leve...