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Sun Sep 17, 2017 6:01 am
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: Season 3 structures and mechanisms [SPOILERS]
Replies: 9
Views: 9806

Re: Season 3 structures and mechanisms [SPOILERS]

There are some other rambling thoughts about the way this thing is structured that i put on the '' just a thought...about the entire extent of our enjoyment'' thread, which properly belong here, so i will repost them for consideration. ( the ' Frostian' mythology backstory material).... fits in with...
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Sun Sep 17, 2017 3:58 am
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: The evolution of David Lynch and Twin Peaks (Spoilers)
Replies: 9
Views: 10141

Re: The evolution of David Lynch and Twin Peaks (Spoilers)

To get back to the start, though, I think basically what Lynch is doing with shots like that of the door is aiming for the pure Sublime... Zen, Nirvana, whatever you call it. A blissful emptiness. I see it in a slightly different way. The french writer George Perec had a notion of the '' infra-ordi...
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Sat Sep 16, 2017 9:25 pm
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: Calling all who think the original timeline is still intact
Replies: 33
Views: 32197

Re: Calling all who think the original timeline is still intact

@wonderful and strange What we do see is Laura being stolen away from Cooper as they approach the white lodge. The question is who did the stealing? being stolen away is one way of looking at it. Another that has been proposed by several people in different threads here is that it is an ''Orpheus an...
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Sat Sep 16, 2017 3:04 pm
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: Twin Peaks Return: The Profoundly Disappointed Support Group
Replies: 5620
Views: 3446040

Re: Twin Peaks Return: The Profoundly Disappointed Support Group (SPOILERS)

In it's quieter moments it demonstrated a ' true understanding of people, what they fear and where they hurt'' But did it? well, it had it's moments. There was a lot of guff surrounding them, but they were there, yeah, like a regular tick. They weren't noisy, and tended to be asides to what else wa...
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Sat Sep 16, 2017 2:21 pm
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: Twin Peaks Return: The Profoundly Disappointed Support Group
Replies: 5620
Views: 3446040

Re: Twin Peaks Return: The Profoundly Disappointed Support Group (SPOILERS)

There's a tendency to believe that something difficult to watch, must be difficult to create. It's quite the opposite. Shows/films that attempt to pull the heartstrings are ten a penny. Those that actually get people where they live are rare, and take true talent. The funniest comedy is far harder ...
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Sat Sep 16, 2017 7:53 am
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: Mark Frost's Contributions to TP:TR (Speculation)
Replies: 113
Views: 106856

Re: Mark Frost's Contributions to TP:TR (Speculation)

Proving once and for all you don't have to have written a superhero movie in order to conceive of a quirky vaguely-spoofish superhero character backstory.
or an absurdist generic quote
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Sat Sep 16, 2017 7:08 am
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: Just a thought...about the entire extent of our enjoyment
Replies: 29
Views: 23837

Re: Just a thought...about the entire extent of our enjoyment

although I'm not as bothered by it as you are i'm not that bothered by it really, that is the trouble with spelling things out, it draws more attention to details than they might warrant. In the end this kind of ( as you say, Frost) material fits in with the ' twilight zone ' side of the series, so...
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Sat Sep 16, 2017 3:36 am
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: Just a thought...about the entire extent of our enjoyment
Replies: 29
Views: 23837

Re: Just a thought...about the entire extent of our enjoyment

FWIW, isn't Tammy the only one who ever uses the word "tulpa"? You can still read it as a vaguer thought-form concept, and Tammy is just defining it for herself using a buzzword she knows. Like Hastings calls the other dimension "the Zone," but L/F clearly don't expect us to act...
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Fri Sep 15, 2017 8:04 pm
Forum: General
Topic: RIP Harry Dean Stanton
Replies: 25
Views: 27155

R.I.P. Harry Dean Stanton.

goodbye and thanks to a great actor and a great human being.

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/in ... otes-0109/
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Fri Sep 15, 2017 2:57 pm
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: Just a thought...about the entire extent of our enjoyment
Replies: 29
Views: 23837

Re: Just a thought...about the entire extent of our enjoyment

if you're sensitive to "contrived" dialogue. i love contrived dialogue. I just felt the tulpa thing was shoehorned in from another (L.A. new age waffle) more prosaic dimension, and limited the concept slightly. in terms of what it was actually doing in the series. If they had been more ex...
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Fri Sep 15, 2017 11:47 am
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: Just a thought...about the entire extent of our enjoyment
Replies: 29
Views: 23837

Re: Just a thought...about the entire extent of our enjoyment

On the "tulpa overdose": Would it have helped if the tulpa-concept didn't exist in "our world" but was just something Lynch thought up for Twin Peaks? no it wouldn't. I didn't like the way it was dropped in ( like an airbus concept bombing word parcels onto the verbally starving...
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Fri Sep 15, 2017 8:19 am
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: Just a thought...about the entire extent of our enjoyment
Replies: 29
Views: 23837

Re: Just a thought...about the entire extent of our enjoyment

If you really feel monads to be a shortcut, you must be a very very experienced Haskell-programmer!!! i'm not, i know nothing about that at all, that is my point: i dislike it because it is an inside nerd loop and i want to read this series - or any film - without all that special privilege bollock...
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Fri Sep 15, 2017 5:55 am
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: Twin Peaks: Season 3 on Blu-ray 12/5/17
Replies: 415
Views: 374444

Re: Twin Peaks: Season 3 on Blu-ray 12/5/17

I'm going to be disappointed with the extras. I know it. You think? Charles Lauzirika (who produced the extras for the Gold Box and The Entire Mystery) was spotted on set. I'd say we're in good hands, I think he did a bang-up job on those. I'd also assume DKL will be heavily involved, and no DVD/Bl...
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Fri Sep 15, 2017 5:52 am
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: Just a thought...about the entire extent of our enjoyment
Replies: 29
Views: 23837

Re: Just a thought...about the entire extent of our enjoyment

@novalis
i have alot of sympathy with yr posts but i don't like the word monads, it feels like a lazy short cut, like tulpas, it's a feed.
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Fri Sep 15, 2017 5:32 am
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: So is there anyone else who prefers The Return to the original?
Replies: 91
Views: 81705

Re: So is there anyone else who prefers The Return to the original?

It made me see the Evelyn scenes in a whole new light, one of intentional badness, of nightmarish soap opera glamour that was designed to stupefy with its overbearing and empty lust shrouded in maudlin haze. I'm sure we're not the only ones who have found our own ways of adapting these sequences. m...