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Tue Sep 12, 2017 6:30 pm
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: Annie and Dale
Replies: 60
Views: 49878

Re: Annie and Dale

I realise this is lowering the tone somewhat, but has anyone else in the UK noticed that Heather Graham is the woman in the bath in the new '' Foxybingo.com '' advert? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRI6wKpjaUQ
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Tue Sep 12, 2017 9:10 am
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: So is there anyone else who prefers The Return to the original?
Replies: 91
Views: 81703

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

@cipher '@novalis...''has the nature of a fantasy. When I wrote this I was not being cynical but pointing to it as a foundational fantasy -- a fantasy that is robust and sincere enough that it can sustain a more temporal reality '' It seems to me like wish-fulfilment has been a big theme in this ser...
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Tue Sep 12, 2017 7:04 am
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: Mark Frost's Contributions to TP:TR (Speculation)
Replies: 113
Views: 106854

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

It's weird, I always believed DIane to be a real person during the original series [....] Diane's character is just about the most complex character in Twin Peaks. Interesting interview with Laura Dern here about how she sees Diane... http://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/laura-dern-twin-peaks-finale-se...
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Tue Sep 12, 2017 4:09 am
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: So is there anyone else who prefers The Return to the original?
Replies: 91
Views: 81703

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

It doesn't answer the thread question at all, but since a few have taken this position, and I agree with it, I will take it too: Nothing beats FWWM. i tried over the weekend watching FWWM and then carrying on to the first 3 parts of TP TR. They are recognisably parts of the same thing. Of course I ...
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Tue Sep 12, 2017 1:47 am
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

The original timeline is toast. Cooper never came to investigate Laura's death. He never met Audrey. He never met Annie. i genuinely don't understand how anyone can draw this conclusion. The story from 25 years ago is unaffected. What we have here is a different story told alot later from a differe...
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Tue Sep 12, 2017 1:27 am
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: Poll: Criticism of The Return
Replies: 49
Views: 41103

Re: Poll: Criticism of The Return

In a nutshell: Bad writing. Characters were severely underdeveloped, infodump dialogues, and many random storylines that either went nowhere or were lazily resolved. Poor direction. Shoddy mise-en-scene, cheesy special effects that jarred, weirdness for weirdness' sake. It felt like a David Lynch s...
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Tue Sep 12, 2017 12:58 am
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: So is there anyone else who prefers The Return to the original?
Replies: 91
Views: 81703

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

sylvia north : '' it just means it's conforming to the demand for titties, heads getting exploded, and more sci-fi twists- you know, cool shit for the terminally jaded. '' ha, Lynch has had the 'cool shit for the terminally jaded' badge pinned on his lapel since blue velvet. Maybe even eraserhead c...
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Mon Sep 11, 2017 3:13 pm
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: Twin Peaks Return: The Profoundly Disappointed Support Group
Replies: 5620
Views: 3445990

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

Would the "something else" be a surrealist parlor game? (I know that Lynch recommends the cut-up technique for inspiration http://isabellastreffen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Surrealist-Games.pdf Can't deny there's something fascinating about some of the crude end products of universal...
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Mon Sep 11, 2017 1:49 pm
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: Poll: Would you like to see a 4th season happen? (SPOILERS PERMITTED)
Replies: 142
Views: 115961

Re: Poll: Would you like to see a 4th season happen? (SPOILERS PERMITTED)

I think Season 4 should be allowed to go back to being a straight crime with the Twin Peaks characters instead going all in with the mythology. i don't understand this point of view. If you want ''straight crime with characters going all in for the mythology'', why not watch one of the many other c...
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Mon Sep 11, 2017 8:53 am
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: Twin Peaks Return: The Profoundly Disappointed Support Group
Replies: 5620
Views: 3445990

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

Frost writing 2 books after what was to be the last word on the Twin Peaks universe took definitive shape speaks for itself. What artistic reason is for him to do something like that if he was truly satisfied with The Return. Not that what he'll come up with will necessarily be better. i don't thin...
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Mon Sep 11, 2017 7:32 am
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: So is there anyone else who prefers The Return to the original?
Replies: 91
Views: 81703

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

the original show and the "trapped in amber" quality of it
great way of putting it, thanks :)
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Sun Sep 10, 2017 11:40 am
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: Lynch or Frost interviews re Season 3?
Replies: 11
Views: 11271

Re: Lynch or Frost interviews re Season 3?

I don't disagree but the alternate timeline trope feels intuitively cheap and even slightly insulting in that it disregards the time viewers/readers spent with the material, most likely trusting it to at least maintain internal consistency i don't see why. It is pretty clear from the last couple of...
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Sat Sep 09, 2017 2:42 pm
Forum: Season 3 (2017) The Return
Topic: Twin Peaks Return: The Profoundly Disappointed Support Group
Replies: 5620
Views: 3445990

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

this is the thing that has confused me about this group. there is a sensible conversation going on then suddenly someone mentions star wars. Is the point here that the first three star wars films were great then the re - run was a total pile of shit which only fans would have any interest in? Is thi...