Of course it's really hard to do that. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen - we are seeing it constantly in the last five years. We are in an age of nostalgic reboots. The X-Files put out a rocky at best brief revival and was promised another season when they wanted it within days. Fuller House has overtaken The Walking Dead in numbers and was renewed by Netflix practically on the day of its launch. These may not be TP-level quality but they are indicative of a larger trend which is only continuing. And TP isn't just a product of its time, it's timeless more than many other shows out there, which is why it's captured generations of audiences on a variety of platforms.Major Briggs wrote:What i'm trying to say is that it's really hard, almost impossible to recapture the zeitgeist. Twin Peaks was very much a product of its time.
There's a big difference between showing younger people something (I'm not 18, for the record, but I'm in my early 30s) and letting them discover it themselves. The latter is what has kept giving TP a larger audience, first on video and now streaming. They find it and they talk about it together.My younger brother is 18, I tried showing him, and the Horne's dinner scene bored him to death.
Of course it is. It always was, which is why it was a hit and why it's continued to be popular with a mainstram audience. Was it always popular? No. Did it fall on hard times over the years? Yes. But it came back from that, and it came back to a larger general audience that is not tapped by this forum, that is not made up of cinephiles, that is not interested in deep dives into theory or Lynch and Frost's collective oeuvres, and so on.I think we, as fans, must accept that it is just NOT MEANT for a mainstream audience.
Whether or not we find these people 'cultured' or intelligent enough to be watching the show or discerning what we do from it is beside the point, not just to us but to the networks - they exist and they love the show for the more cozy touchstones: Cooper, coffee, pie, Audrey, the diner, the backwards-talking dwarf, the irrepressible sense of cool, you name it. Will they accept it as wholeheartedly as they did in 1990? I'm not sure, I doubt it. But going into the premiere and the beginning of the run? Yes, it will be huge based on anticipation and curiosity alone.
I understand you mean no offense by your remarks and I appreciate you saying so. But I would suggest you take that line of argument with the dozens upon dozens of popcult sites up which have run endless TP headlines since 2014. They're the ones making that narrative, because they clearly see and are attempting to feed and monetize a demand for it. If it's not all astroturfing - and it's not, IMO - then it comes from somewhere genuine. Certainly not from Dugpa.com or alt.tv.twin-peaks. It comes from Out There. And I think that's what makes some people uncomfortable. They'd rather it stay In Here for fear of it getting ravaged again.That's why it bothers me so much when people here treat this revival like something that new audiences are climbing up the walls in anticipation, Maybe a few, but definitely not enough to make it "the TV event of the decade"
I personally don't care. I think TP can bi-locate. Whatever happens, it will do what it wants to do and will not care about anything else. That's all I ask for.