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Post by Capo on Apr 8, 2007 21:49:34 GMT
Watched the first season ages ago, and last night finished the entire thing.
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I love this show, it's fantastic. Like I said in his thread, the eighth episode of season two, in which Killer Bob strikes again, is one of the most powerful things Lynch has made, and he replicated its feeling again in Fire Walk With Me, which I can't wait to revisit.
It gets progressively more tedious and drawn-out, sometimes outright annoying, as the second season progresses after Laura Palmer's killer is revealed.
I thought a lot of things were ridiculous and really annoying: James in the town 2 hours west, fixing that girl's car; Nadine thinking she's a high school girl and fancying Mike; Benjamin Horne thinking he's a general in the Civil War; Josie Packard's moral ambiguity (get on with it!); Catherine Martell dressing as an Asian guy; Leo's paralysis and Bobby and Shelley exploiting his situation; the whole Windom Earle thing.
The last episode was amazing, with the Black Lodge scene. I liked the whole Black Lodge/White Lodge thing running throughout season two, and Major Briggs's suggestive hints at its existence, but I think it was wasted on the whole Windom Earle thing, which I didn't really care for.
The final fifteen minutes of the entire show were fucking terrifying, with Cooper trying to get out of the Black Lodge, chased by his darker shadow.
I'd like to say more, but don't want to waste too much effort on something nobody else has seen.
...Any fans?
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Post by RNL on Apr 8, 2007 22:04:55 GMT
Yeah, it definitely loses steam after the killer is revealed, and all Major Briggs's allusions to UFO activity or whatever and the stuff about the Black Lodge is never really given room to expand into a similarly compelling mystery, probably because the show was cut short. If there'd been a third season I think it would've picked up again with all those threads being spun into something fascinating.
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Post by Capo on Apr 8, 2007 22:11:58 GMT
I was reminded by Wikipedia earlier that, in Fire Walk With Me, Annie Blackburn tells Laura Palmer in one of her dreams to write in her diary that Dale Cooper is in the Black Lodge and can't escape, which would obviously be some sort of head-twisting time-warp, and a fascinating one, too.
Tragic, even, if Cooper's locked in there and is investigating in his own eventual absence.
The whole notion of being possessed by Killer Bob is terrifying, isn't it? Laura hinting that he was a friend of her father's, Leland claiming he knew him from the family home when he was young.
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Post by Capo on Apr 20, 2007 10:14:27 GMT
Looks like Lara Flynn Boyle got botox. How tragic. Image.
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Post by Capo on May 3, 2007 0:08:18 GMT
DO NOT CLICK IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN TWIN PEAKS SEASON 2 OR FIRE WALK WITH ME!But I think this is probably the most terrifying thing I've ever seen.
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Post by Michael on May 3, 2007 15:45:42 GMT
I had a horrible, horrible nightmare last night because of that video, Capo. I woke up crying.
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Post by bobbyreed on Jun 9, 2007 4:09:55 GMT
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Post by Capo on Jun 9, 2007 12:40:34 GMT
Haha at Wiggum's hair. I love the details in the first clip, how they conjure the Twin Peaks world: the white giant, the horse, the swinging traffic lights, half moon, and the circular spotlight on Homer.
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Post by Valenti on Jun 22, 2007 2:08:06 GMT
I just picked up the first season of this, and am now moving into the second.
It's very, very good, I've never been so entertained by soap opera storylines in my life. Funny, too.
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Post by Valenti on Jun 28, 2007 14:07:11 GMT
Just watched the last episode, numero 29.
WHAT A GYP.
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Post by Omar on Jun 28, 2008 19:17:52 GMT
I just watched the first season of this. Very entertaining and wonderfully balanced characters (not in the sane sense) and their storylines all colliding together.
Agent Cooper is one of my favorite television characters now, and Jack Nance is wonderful in a small but well featured role. His facial expressions are the greatest.
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Post by Capo on Jun 28, 2008 20:40:48 GMT
"There's fish in the percolator!"
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Post by Omar on Jul 3, 2008 20:08:03 GMT
DO NOT CLICK IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN TWIN PEAKS SEASON 2 OR FIRE WALK WITH ME!But I think this is probably the most terrifying thing I've ever seen. SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS That link doesn't work anymore, but I watched this video when you first posted it over a year ago, and all I could remember was the face changing in the mirror. I didn't remember who's face, or who the victim was, but just that instance. The series was great until after this episode. That scene, being among the very best things Lynch has done, was the peak of the show for me. The two episodes afterwards are alright, with Maddy's body being found and the whole thing actually wrapping itself up so it has nowhere else to go....... .....but I still have half of the season left to finish! I've watched the episode that opens with Leland's funeral (three days later) and it is starting to get ridiculous. Nadine back in high school, showing off her super human strength? What the hell is this? And just when Cooper was about to leave....BOOM, we found a reason to keep him here. Honestly, where did they expect to go with this? The only good thing about the episode was David Duchovny as a woman. It had me instantly. I plan on finishing the show and the "prequel" film at some point this weekend. I'm really only looking forward to the finale and the following film. "It is happening again."
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Post by Capo on Jul 6, 2008 17:07:24 GMT
Listen to "Transmission 3", the final track on Shadow's Endtroducing...
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Post by Omar on Jul 6, 2008 20:07:25 GMT
Listen to "Transmission 3", the final track on Shadow's Endtroducing... Just when I thought I couldn't appreciate that album enough...
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Post by Omar on Jul 6, 2008 21:26:08 GMT
OH MY FUCKING GOD....... Can't believe I didn't know that the guy in the picture is the evil Ben Horne!!!!!!!
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Post by Capo on Jul 6, 2008 22:10:30 GMT
Haha! I didn't know that either.
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Post by Omar on Jul 6, 2008 23:12:23 GMT
Russ Tamblyn, who played Dr. Jacoby, also had a significant role in "West Side Story". It must be one of Lynch's favorites, or one he is fond of.
They should have done a number together after signing the Civil War surrender.
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Post by Omar on Jul 7, 2008 22:01:19 GMT
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
I just watched episode #28, "The Path to the Black Lodge" (directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal), and liked it quite a bit. The show has picked up a little bit since the bizarre death of Josie. The Windom Earle subplot is finally getting gripping, with some mysteriously creepy elements to this episode, i.e., the almost out of place extremely slow zoom out from Cooper and Heather Graham at the counter of the Double R, followed by a dish breaking and a closeup of syrup dripping from a plate?!?! One of the best non-Lynch moments of the show. Also, the silent appearance of The Giant was frightening as well. Two more!
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Post by RNL on Jul 7, 2008 23:25:46 GMT
Must watch this again. It's been three years, I think.
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