Agent Earle wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:35 amBeautifully stated. It also says a lot about why it failed to connect with some of us. I don't want my Twin Peaks to be
a vehicle for anything. I want it to be... well, Twin Peaks. Pure and simple.
This is another case of something I feel happens a lot, which is that a criticism is levied against S3 that can totally then be levied just as well to old TP, but isn't. And to me, every time this happens it shows how consistent TP can be, despite all the differences in style and angle of old vs. new.
Old TP absolutely
was a vehicle in many instances. The Tibet stuff was because Lynch recently took an interest (and I think actually met the Dalai Lama) and I recall in interviews the use of the phrase "spread awareness," the civil war plotline was because that PBS documentary was airing (and everyone was suddenly doing civil war references, Simpsons & Seinfeld for example), Frost added more & more occult references as time went on, everyone was loading it up with pop culture references, emulating noir, James Bond, slapstick, etc. etc. Even the central pastiche wasn't ex nihilo, a lot of the character of the small town setting was them riffing on Peyton Place and using it as counter-inspiration, and along with it Lynch's brand of "darkness beneath the surface," but also some social commentary I don't doubt comes from Frost. Even the typical statement of S3 being "a vehicle for old unfinished projects" can be levied against old TP because so much of the Monroe project (where Lynch & Frost met) feels like it got folded into the Laura plotline.
TP was always a patchwork of nostalgic and obscure interests and counter-statements.
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