<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 4:18 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 7:41 PM John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>
> The first 10 or 12 episodes of the original Twin Peaks series was quite<br>
> good, but it went swiftly downhill after that; Lynch should've ended it<br>
> as soon it was revealed who murdered Laura Palmer. I didn't like the<br>
> most recent revamp of the series that was on cable.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The video below explains why that happened. </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
>From the beginning, I didn't love the Twin Peaks series, but I watched<br>
the first two seasons through and plan to watch the rest and the<br>
movies sometime soon. I'm kind of compleatist with these things. And<br>
it's kind of like film/TV knowledge I want to have just to talk about<br>
them with others.<br>
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By the way, I did see a difference in the episodes Lynch directs<br>
versus the ones he didn't, though, to be sure, that's right up in the<br>
credits. So I could be biased. He's episodes seemed better. But<br>
overall I didn't see the show as anything more than Lynch indulging<br>
himself. (The esthetic seems to come from his childhood rather than<br>
the time and place the series is actually set in.) I've heard that<br>
when the series aired it was quite the event. Maybe it's a matter that<br>
it changed TV in such a way that looking back on it now I'm missing<br>
just how innovative it was.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I liked it because it was weird, unpredictable, and had great characters. I didn't really understand it, though.</div><div><br></div><div>If you're interested in understanding Twin Peaks I highly recommend this 4.5 hour video:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AYnF5hOhuM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AYnF5hOhuM</a></div><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></div></div>