[ExI] Twin Peaks (was: Everything We Know About the Upcoming ‘Dune’ Film)

[Dave Sill]

On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 4:18 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 7:41 PM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The first 10 or 12 episodes of the original Twin Peaks series was quite
> > good, but it went swiftly downhill after that; Lynch should've ended it
> > as soon it was revealed who murdered Laura Palmer. I didn't like the
> > most recent revamp of the series that was on cable.
>

The video below explains why that happened.

>From the beginning, I didn't love the Twin Peaks series, but I watched
> the first two seasons through and plan to watch the rest and the
> movies sometime soon. I'm kind of compleatist with these things. And
> it's kind of like film/TV knowledge I want to have just to talk about
> them with others.
>
> By the way, I did see a difference in the episodes Lynch directs
> versus the ones he didn't, though, to be sure, that's right up in the
> credits. So I could be biased. He's episodes seemed better. But
> overall I didn't see the show as anything more than Lynch indulging
> himself. (The esthetic seems to come from his childhood rather than
> the time and place the series is actually set in.) I've heard that
> when the series aired it was quite the event. Maybe it's a matter that
> it changed TV in such a way that looking back on it now I'm missing
> just how innovative it was.
>

I liked it because it was weird, unpredictable, and had great characters. I
didn't really understand it, though.

If you're interested in understanding Twin Peaks I highly recommend this
4.5 hour video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AYnF5hOhuM

-Dave
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