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Twin Peaks Revival Thread
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Yeah, so. As announced earlier today, limited series on showtime.
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Which is how Twin Peaks usually makes me, in hindsight.
I feel like I started at just about the right time.
What.
What?
This isn't real right? My current gut rot is more than I thought it was and I'm in some kind of super Ebola fuelled fever delusion now right?
Some shows need a quarter century to simmer.
It's sort of hard to overstate how influential twin peaks is/was, though. I mean, really. It showed that Lovecraft country could be the bizarre pine-covered American northwest. And how. Between this and Stephen King, horror of the 90s and 2000s has been its own strange, wonderful brand of things.
Would we have True Detective without it? Maybe, but.. no. No way.
that being said, pretty much the only way I'm going to watch this is if Dale Cooper is in fact Dale Cooper and not fucking Bob or i swear to god I'm turning that shit right off
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The most exciting thing about this is that Lynch is going to be directing all 9 episodes (along with co-writing every episode with Mark Frost). Just to get Lynch back to directing again after so many years quiet is fantastic, regardless of it being Twin Peaks.
'Diane, I have in my hand a small box of chocolate bunnies.'
I am terrified that this can't live up to the expectations it needs to. But to find out what happened to Dale Cooper? To be able to introduce it to my daughters (currently 1 and 3 so maybe a few years away yet) without the qualifier that this fantastic experience will end on the worst unresolved cliff hanger you can imagine?
Man.
Man.
Barring any official announcement otherwise, I assume Kyle Maclachlan won't come within miles of this project.
His falling-out with David Lynch is legendary, and his absence from the Psych tribute episode was highly conspicuous.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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I really hope there's no expectation to spoiler-tag a 25 year old TV show that has been released on VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, and Netflix streaming.
But just in case there's any question, since we're still on the front page...
IF ANYBODY READING THIS HAS NOT SEEN TWIN PEAKS, GO WATCH TWIN PEAKS RIGHT FUCKING NOW.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
On the other hand, he did just tweet this:
I went into it knowing next to nothing, though, and couldn't help but think that the pilot was a wonderful trick played on people expecting nothing supernatural about it (like myself).
Also, don't worry about spoilers on my behalf, I already came across the fact that
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the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I'm so excited for this. I've been hoping for a new David Lynch film so much, and this is just the best news.
If you don't want to get the blu-ray or obtain the deleted scenes by other means, you can read synopses here:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jacelacob/twin-peaks-the-missing-pieces-fire-walk-with-me#2sfe9hg
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I just sort of worry that given the shark jumpy nature of season one, and the rather constant downward trend of the show that this will be less than true detective.
Yay increased possibilities of pleant surprises!
While it shares some themes, True Detective is a very different show stylistically and tonally. Absolutely do not expect it to be Twin Peaks 1.5.
However, it is an excellent show and yes you should seek it out.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
They are both detective stories with weird fucked up plots and themes and amazing cinematography.
Other than that, and their quality, they are completely different.
The True Detective comparisons are way off. While season 1 of True Detective is fantastic, the only similarities to Twin Peaks I can think of are that occasionally there are trees, and it's rural at times.
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Nobody's really comparing it to True Detective. The influences are thematic, not stylistic.
Another video game that draws from Twin Peaks, although obviously not to the extent of the fantastic DEADLY PREMONITIONS is Alan Wake. At least early in the game. I'm struggling to think of any others.
I am so there.
There's many others, too. That game wears its influence on its sleeve and I love it.
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The elevator pitch is superficially the same. Fish-out-of-water detective comes to a small rural town, teams up with a local to investigate the murder of a young girl, brings his unusual methods and unusual philosophy on life with him. The murder has some bizarre, possibly supernatural implications. Meanwhile, secondary plotlines expose the seedy underbelly of small town life to the viewer.
There is no doubt in my mind that True Detective would not exist without Twin Peaks.
But otherwise they're diametrically opposed. True Detective strives for psychological and procedural verisimilitude; Twin Peaks has weirdness for the sake of weirdness. Every tiny detail in True Detective is deliberately placed. In Twin Peaks, David Lynch made things up on the fly and the main villain was added in after a filming accident. In Twin Peaks, you have Log Lady; in True Detective, craziness is never cute or endearing, it is always menacing at best or pathetic at worst.
And of course the main characters couldn't get much different. Cooper is endlessly optimistic, cheerful, and gentle. True Detective's Cohle is endlessly pessimistic, brooding, and misanthropic.
True Detective is intense, tightly-wound, and harrowing. It's also fucking amazing. Watch it.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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I swear to god if David Lynch is messing with me my heart can't take it.
On more Twin Peaks, though... It could go horribly wrong. It could be something very different and therefore not meet our expectations. But I'm excited for the potential in this - and even bad Twin Peaks still had a lot going for it. For every scene of James Hurley being sad on his motorbike, there's Lynchian gold in them hills.
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At least it's clear where James' surname comes from...
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods