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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Last thread is full.
We are halfway through The Return.
No spoilers please out of respect for those who are watching Series 1 and/or 2 or aren't quite in top of The Return episodes. Cryptic Lynchian referencing allowed...  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Last thread is full.
We are halfway through The Return.
No spoilers please out of respect for those who are watching Series 1 and/or 2 or aren't quite in top of The Return episodes. Cryptic Lynchian referencing allowed... "
175 doesn't normally stop you  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Oh that's a shame, Dan. I wonder if it's an element of loving the characters and just wanting to see what happened next, versus an embracing of all that is Lynch...a continuation merely of the story as was, would never have been Lynch's approach, and as I didn't expect that I've not found myself disappointed. I can imagine I would have been if I'd expected that though...
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It's not so much I was expecting a natural continuation of the story as, of course, 25 years have passed and things move on. Let's be honest even in S2 the story jumped the shark a bit and went off the rails for a while after the killer was finally revealed mid-series.
It's just I can't properly get into the characters or engage in the story in this new incarnation. And I'm trying SO hard to like it. I WANT to really like it.
The Dougie character is now beginning to wear on me. Without offering spoilers it's all a bit frustrating (which I know is what Lynch is often about).
Even 'evil Dale' is not engaging enough. And the new characters aren't making the impact that the original ones did and those that have been brought back from the original series I'm struggling to see what they're adding in their fleeting appearances other than being shoe-horned in as a little bit of continuity to the original series....
Annnnyway.. hopefully it'll all pull together over the next few weeks and bring some adequate closure to all those unanswered questions over the last 25 years ...  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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Oh that's a shame, Dan. I wonder if it's an element of loving the characters and just wanting to see what happened next, versus an embracing of all that is Lynch...a continuation merely of the story as was, would never have been Lynch's approach, and as I didn't expect that I've not found myself disappointed. I can imagine I would have been if I'd expected that though...
It's not so much I was expecting a natural continuation of the story as, of course, 25 years have passed and things move on. Let's be honest even in S2 the story jumped the shark a bit and went off the rails for a while after the killer was finally revealed mid-series.
It's just I can't properly get into the characters or engage in the story in this new incarnation. And I'm trying SO hard to like it. I WANT to really like it.
The Dougie character is now beginning to wear on me. Without offering spoilers it's all a bit frustrating (which I know is what Lynch is often about).
Even 'evil Dale' is not engaging enough. And the new characters aren't making the impact that the original ones did and those that have been brought back from the original series I'm struggling to see what they're adding in their fleeting appearances other than being shoe-horned in as a little bit of continuity to the original series....
Annnnyway.. hopefully it'll all pull together over the next few weeks and bring some adequate closure to all those unanswered questions over the last 25 years ... "
I can see what you're saying. I'm just so engrossed in the whole thing that I'm as happy as Larry!! As you say, let's see how we feel at the end.
Episode 8, genius!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Very unsettling in places this week"
I thought it was a lot better this week. Not many episodes left now (is it 8? I've lost count what episode we're at - 10 isn't it?) |
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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago
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"Very unsettling in places this week
I thought it was a lot better this week. Not many episodes left now (is it 8? I've lost count what episode we're at - 10 isn't it?) "
It feels like we're getting sooooo close and then not quite. It's frustrating me too but I am letting it roll over me and enjoying it immensely despite (or maybe because of) that. And all those plot threads that seemed to be going nowhere have started to have their relevance tied into other plot devices. Which is nice. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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If we don't get full Coop back soon I'm going to cry 
Although, I have enjoyed the season, as a whole. It's unlike anything I've seen before - I didn't expect a conventional follow-up, but? I also didn't expect... whatever this has become.
Moments of proper transcendence mixed in with head-thumpingly awful Lynchian humour.
And I haven't been able to get that Rebekeh Del Rio song out of my mind for days. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"If we don't get full Coop back soon I'm going to cry
Although, I have enjoyed the season, as a whole. It's unlike anything I've seen before - I didn't expect a conventional follow-up, but? I also didn't expect... whatever this has become.
Moments of proper transcendence mixed in with head-thumpingly awful Lynchian humour.
And I haven't been able to get that Rebekeh Del Rio song out of my mind for days."
 sums up my feelings exactly!
I knew it would be different, of course it would things have moved on in 25 years. But it's not how I expected. Some moments of utter brilliance. Some moments of 'meh'. As I said above I'm not sure I'm enjoying it as much as I so desperately wanted to. And I do miss the 'old' Coop. This whole Dougie thing is a slow burn isn't it? I was kinda hoping he'd have snapped out of it by now.
BUT! I've only watched each episode once. I'm pretty damn sure I'll get the box set or watch them all again and I'm sure on a second watch I'll pick up little things I missed first time around and get more out of the whole experience.
David Lynch has said this is a one-off project (although he's said similar before) so I hope we're not left with *too* many loose ends at the end of episode 18! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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sums up my feelings exactly!
I knew it would be different, of course it would things have moved on in 25 years. But it's not how I expected. Some moments of utter brilliance. Some moments of 'meh'. As I said above I'm not sure I'm enjoying it as much as I so desperately wanted to. And I do miss the 'old' Coop. This whole Dougie thing is a slow burn isn't it? I was kinda hoping he'd have snapped out of it by now.
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It's funny - so many of the (terrible!) things from season 2 I always tended to put down to Lynch moving away from the series, but there's plenty in the new season to remind me he sometimes just has a terrible sense of humour |
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By *anny77Man
over a year ago
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Well maybe the Rebekha Del rio song has the same significance her Mulholland Drive tune had - an awakening.
I said to a friend Coop would come back before the end of episode 12 and now I feel I am sailing close to the wind... |
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By *anny77Man
over a year ago
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I like it when they sometimes throw you by having scenes after the roadhouse... but yeah, completely agree.
I love that they've managed to really only have about one episode that ended on a bit of a cliffhanger but it's never stopped me wanting the next episode!
It has been glorious. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I think many of the threads are now coming together. I'm expecting many things to be left unanswered though, or at least addressed in Mark Frost's Twin Peaks Dossier book, as Lynch has said that this WILL be the end of Twin Peaks on Television.
This has been the best bit of TV, With the exception of the Prisoner re-boot: Wentworth, and Line of Duty to air for years. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"This is the water and this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes, dark within."
Fuck, I love this show! I have two episodes to catch up on when I get a minute. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Next episode is a double. And the finale. I may put redbheels and a sweater on, crank up Audrey's theme and do a little dance in my kitchen to mark the occasion."
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Next episode is a double. And the finale. I may put redbheels and a sweater on, crank up Audrey's theme and do a little dance in my kitchen to mark the occasion."
Please record this. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Omg end of season 1 to beginning of season 2 (the next day), they comment about Leland's hair turning white overnight but not about Dana's hair growing about six inches  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I'm getting the humour now. It's nice to know that the terrible acting, clothes, music score and script is purposeful 
I'm sensing you're not a fan x "
I'm willing to give it longer before i condemn it lol.
The music score (not inc theme tune) really is naff though. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Exciting, monotonous and ultimately fucking futile. There's no hero, we aren't going to be saved. You don't always get an answer, peace of mind. Life, and Twin Peaks.
That was spellbinding, terrifying and deliciously frustrating. I love it. |
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