KnewItsPa wrote:
I'm not convinced by the theory that as the series progresses more of that mood will surface. It's not there in Lost Highway, Mullholland Drive, Inland Empire either, no reason it should be, but it's absence from the Twin Peaks series 3 opening 4 episodes is disappointing.
That the supernatural elements are now no longer ambiguous is a killer for me. BOB still might have just been a metaphor for psychosis or an evil spirit, or both or neither. The Red Room a kind of Jungian psycho- dream-space, not a sci-fi parallel dimension. Now we have garmonbozia being sent to an FBI lab, an gore-fest alien, and people actually coming out of electrical wall sockets. Not implied or mysterious. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the hokey surrealism, but it's a marked difference from the original and disappointing that they've taken a more concrete approach to showing the mechanics of the occult. I almost feel like I'm being talked down to in this regard, it's too easy to follow!
We'll never see a true return to the original show (it's just not possible, frankly) but given this is a long-form series ABOUT Twin Peaks I think it's safe to say many homely elements will return. Just maybe not to the degree you hope.
KnewItsPa wrote:That the supernatural elements are now no longer ambiguous is a killer for me. BOB still might have just been a metaphor for psychosis or an evil spirit, or both or neither. The Red Room a kind of Jungian psycho- dream-space, not a sci-fi parallel dimension. Now we have garmonbozia being sent to an FBI lab, an gore-fest alien, and people actually coming out of electrical wall sockets. Not implied or mysterious. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the hokey surrealism, but it's a marked difference from the original and disappointing that they've taken a more concrete approach to showing the mechanics of the occult. I almost feel like I'm being talked down to in this regard, it's too easy to follow!
I think it's possible for both to exist concurrently.