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post #51 of 751
My on-topic vote goes to Deadwood, if only because I'm finally about to start watching it myself.
post #52 of 751
Column's in to Eileen. Should be showing up on the main page soonish.
post #53 of 751
Thread Starter 
post #54 of 751
I need a username and password to gain access to the control panel! GIMME! I gotta know which show won out!!! Hehehe.
post #55 of 751
Yes! Really looking forward to this.
post #56 of 751
Great news! I hope you include Fire Walk With Me at the end after covering all the regular episodes.
post #57 of 751
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Originally Posted by Parker View Post
Great news! I hope you include Fire Walk With Me at the end after covering all the regular episodes.
If you folks keep the show from cancellation, Fire Walk With Me will most definately be included at the end.

This is going to be a near-illicit amount of fun. Thanks again for voting, everyone.
post #58 of 751
Sweet. Really looking forward to it.
post #59 of 751
Very cool. I have no idea why, but I've never seen Twin Peaks. Guess I can buy the show at any of the normal places?
post #60 of 751
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Originally Posted by Teitr Styrr View Post
Very cool. I have no idea why, but I've never seen Twin Peaks. Guess I can buy the show at any of the normal places?
Or rent it. Netflix has both seasons.

I'm not sure if I'll be watching along, since I just rewatched Twin Peaks early this year, and there are so many other shows I should probably see for a first time, like Deadwood, before going back to the well. But I'll definitely be reading along.
post #61 of 751
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Or rent it. Netflix has both seasons.

I'm not sure if I'll be watching along, since I just rewatched Twin Peaks early this year, and there are so many other shows I should probably see for a first time, like Deadwood, before going back to the well. But I'll definitely be reading along.
Oh, man...I can't wait til we get to Deadwood.

Glad to know you'll read along, Dave. Very much looking forward to your thoughts and comments.
post #62 of 751
For anyone who doesn't want to buy or Netflix Twin Peaks it's available on Hulu also. Cool choice Jesse, especially because like you I never finished the show when I was watching it last summer.
post #63 of 751
Oh, that's good to know Steve. I love Hulu.
post #64 of 751
I'll definitely be reading along, but I can't imagine watching these episodes again. I just watched the whole series again last year for the first time since 1990 and was surprised how much I ended up fast-forwarding. That second season is brutally uneven.
post #65 of 751
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I'll definitely be reading along, but I can't imagine watching these episodes again. I just watched the whole series again last year for the first time since 1990 and was surprised how much I ended up fast-forwarding. That second season is brutally uneven.
While some of the subplots in the second season are pretty wretched, (James at the mansion, and anything with Dick Tremaine) I feel that the main story involving Cooper is just as strong/stronger than anything else that came before it.
post #66 of 751
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For anyone who doesn't want to buy or Netflix Twin Peaks it's available on Hulu also.
That's great news. Thanks!
I can't wait to dive into this. It's nice timing since I was just getting curious about looking into Lynch's work after watching Wild at Heart. And of course, your writing is a big draw here as well, Jesse!
post #67 of 751
Thanks, Nicholas!

I'll be watching the Pilot tonight after a false start on Monday night (last night was the absolutely incredible Gaslight Anthem album release show - if you haven't heard them before, pick up "American Slang"). I'm really looking forward to it. I'm also sort of nervous, if I'm honest. [Name redacted] continues to be a figure of real dread to me (although, to my recollection, he doesn't show up quite yet). Those of you who don't know what I'm talking about....well, I can't wait until you do.
post #68 of 751
If memory serves, (redacted element) doesn't become prominent until Season 2.
post #69 of 751
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If memory serves, (redacted element) doesn't become prominent until Season 2.
Prominent? Probably not. Present, though? Oh yes.
post #70 of 751
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Originally Posted by NoMoreMrNiceGaius View Post
While some of the subplots in the second season are pretty wretched, (James at the mansion, and anything with Dick Tremaine) I feel that the main story involving Cooper is just as strong/stronger than anything else that came before it.
Yeah, all the Cooper stuff is still great. It's EVERYTHING else that grinded my patience.
post #71 of 751
So I've been writing up the Pilot episode (and enjoying that process enormously), and I'm wondering whether you guys would like to tell me, in a sentence or two, what your impressions of it are.

Those of you who are watching for the first time, what is your impression of the show? You who are revisiting it, how does it strike you now?

I'd love to read your long-form thoughts, but for the purposes of the column I'm hoping you can also give me a sentence or two that encapsulates your impressions of it.

Thanks in advance!
post #72 of 751
I started rewatching, but from the middle of season 2, because that's when I stumbled upon the reruns. They should be cycling back to season one soon enough.

This was posted today in the Twin Peaks thread and it cracked me the hell up:


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Ok inspired by this forum I have decided to give the whole thing a re-watch. Up to Episode 7 now and something hit me.

If Cooper ever caught a suspect in the first few episodes, the case would be thrown out of court in a matter of days. Basing your investigation on dreams? Going across the border undercover to speak to a suspect with a local 'society' as your back up? Seriously none of this would hold up in a trial situation, but maybe the early 90's was a different time and we have all been spoiled by The Wire.
post #73 of 751
Hum, i kinda lost track of this thread. I haven't watched Twin Peaks.
I might need to pick it up and follow Jesse.
post #74 of 751
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Originally Posted by Phil View Post
I started rewatching, but from the middle of season 2, because that's when I stumbled upon the reruns. They should be cycling back to season one soon enough.

This was posted today in the Twin Peaks thread and it cracked me the hell up:
Too funny. Maybe it's me, but that more or less misses the point spectacularly.
post #75 of 751
That's why it was hysterical.
post #76 of 751
Random Twin Peaks trivia:

Benjamin and Jerry Horne were named after Ben & Jerry, the eponymous Vermont ice cream-makers.
post #77 of 751
I've been a good little reader and just watched the Pilot to the show. I've seen the show through twice. Once when the show was aired in the UK in the mid 90s when I was either 9 or 10, and once when it hit DVD a few years back. Really looking forward to Jesse's write ups.

The hilarious thing is that due to my associations with the show from my youth, even the little things in the show tend to put me on edge. Like the discordant horn when they discover Palmer's corpse.

Also, because we got the Twin Peaks movie in the UK, which was essentially the Pilot but extended to Feature length and with a dream resolution, the Pilot always seems bizarrely truncuated to me. I'm so used to Bob showing up in the Basement in the first episode that when it just ends it seems odd.
post #78 of 751
Edited because someone is quick on the ball and awesome.
post #79 of 751
I never got around to voting, but after seeing who the winner was, all I can say is: YES!!!!

As I said previously, Twin Peaks was my Lost before Lost. I don't know if I can rewatch along with you, but I will certainly be reading along with your column!

Reading your intro and stating that you first saw it in 8th grade (yikes!) made me feel terribly old as I was already out of college when the show premiered!

I hope to comment as you go along and try to remember to stick with only info on the episodes so far covered. Odds are I don't remember everything, mainly the major things like who killed Laura Palmer and the Black Lodge stuff. Don't want to spoil anything!

Those of you who are seeing the show for the first time and have a taste for the weird are in for a treat!
post #80 of 751
Well hell, I just watched the first episode. I really don't know what to post. The FBI guy was kind of wierd/cool. I liked the daughter of the guy that was sleeping with the milf. The native american deputy was pretty cool. The sheriff first seemed dimwitted and then recognized he was "Watson". I don't like the trucker guy, but that's no surprise. I guess I did know what to post, but I hve no idea what to think!

ETA: Ah hell, I forgot to mention how I liked that I was thrown into this mystery from the get go. Geeze, I hoped I watched the first episode...
post #81 of 751
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Originally Posted by Teitr Styrr View Post
Geeze, I hoped I watched the first episode...
If you're watching on DVD, it depends which box set you've got. In the original release, the two-hour pilot was omitted and the so-called 'first episode' was actually the second.
post #82 of 751
Watching it on Hulu/CBS actually. It said it was the first episode...
post #83 of 751
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Originally Posted by Teitr Styrr View Post
Well hell, I just watched the first episode. I really don't know what to post. The FBI guy was kind of wierd/cool. I liked the daughter of the guy that was sleeping with the milf. The native american deputy was pretty cool. The sheriff first seemed dimwitted and then recognized he was "Watson". I don't like the trucker guy, but that's no surprise. I guess I did know what to post, but I hve no idea what to think!

ETA: Ah hell, I forgot to mention how I liked that I was thrown into this mystery from the get go. Geeze, I hoped I watched the first episode...
You need to see the pilot really. Which sort of shows Cooper arriving in town, and Palmer's body being found.
post #84 of 751
Yes, Teitr, Traces To Nowhere is the first regular ep. You missed the pilot.
post #85 of 751
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Yes, Teitr, Traces To Nowhere is the first regular ep. You missed the pilot.
Dagnabit! Okay I'll watch that one tomorrow.
post #86 of 751
Column's in to Eileen! Hope its enjoyed.
post #87 of 751
Get this man a login!
post #88 of 751
Thread Starter 
TWIN PEAKS - Northwest Passage (S1, Ep. 1)

http://chud.com/articles/articles/24...E-1/Page1.html
post #89 of 751
Just looking at the still image of Leland on the phone gives me chills. That scene, probably more than any other scene in film or TV history, wrecks me.

EDIT: Also, if I remember my Lynch-lore correctly, this scene:

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The attendant on duty during Cooper’s examination of Laura’s body tells them that he thinks there’s something wrong with the transformer, making the lights in the morgue flicker like strobes. It’s a funny, weird detail and it adds to the overall spookiness, but this is also a detail that’s worth remembering.
...was 100% accidental. There really was something wrong with the transformer, and the attendant extra truly did mis-hear Cooper's question, his nonsequiter answer being completely ad-libbed.
post #90 of 751
I secured the set! I'll be watching with all of you starting Tuesday or Wednesday!

When will this column run?
post #91 of 751
What's weird is at the SRO premiere of the pilot for the Museum of Television & Radio, that scene when Leland is on the phone with Sarah got huge laughs. Truman's truck abruptly entering frame got a laugh. The swell in Badalamenti's music got a laugh. Sarah's meltdown got a laugh. In person, seeing the pilot with a packed house of PEAKS virgins was a surprisingly comedic experience. Perhaps people were so nervous and fucking scared out of their minds that this was a TV show, they had no other emotional response other than laughter.

Great column and analysis, by the way.
post #92 of 751
Fridays. Welcome aboard, Tati!

Apparently I don't know how to spell Kyle MacLachlan. Whoops.
post #93 of 751
I'm glad I wasn't at that screening. I would have gone stabbing folk.

Added observation on President Harry S Truman: He's the guy who dropped the bomb.
post #94 of 751
As scary and disturbing as much of the pilot is the image of Ronette Pulaski walking on that bridge gives me the worst case of the chills.

Loved the write up. I'd only seen Blue Velvet when I started Twin Peaks and if Blue got me interested in David Lynch Peaks cemented my fandom forever. Really looking forward to looking back on the series.
post #95 of 751
I just finished Season 1 a few months ago but I will gladly watch it again to follow along with the column. Looking forward to the next installment.
post #96 of 751
Well this is gonna be a lot of fun. Nice writeup, Jesse. This is just what I needed to come down off the Lost high I've been on for the past several months.
post #97 of 751
Loved your point about how young certain characters look. Leo, for me as well, has definitely changed from a towering 'grown up' to someone who is practically a kid, and it kind of changed a little of my reading of the character.
post #98 of 751
Lynch does have an uncanny ability to tap into the dark corners of the psyche without making the viewer aware.
I've seen season 1 too many times (the patchier season 2 is another matter), but I'll be reading along. Are we going to be including Fire Walk With Me at the finish?
post #99 of 751
I will be watching FWWM at the end of the run, unless you folks decide to cancel this version of the column before then.

ETA to Litmus:

Yeah, Lynch's stuff tends to make people laugh in wildly-inappropriate places, for what I think are exactly the reasons you suggest. There's something voyeuristic and uncomfortably "real" about the emotional content of this episode. Laughter is one natural reaction to that realness, and its one that I think being in a crowd and/or feeling observed encourages.
post #100 of 751
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Originally Posted by Jesse Custer View Post
I will be watching FWWM at the end of the run, unless you folks decide to cancel this version of the column before then.
Whilst I love the format of Lost and Found I'm going to be genuinely aggrieved if I don't get to read your thoughts on the finale. That's a piece of TV which has haunted me for about fifteen years, I can still think back on certain elements of that finale and be reverted to a terrified eight year old, WAY OUT OF HIS DEPTH.

Xagrath, did you pick up the Gold box edition of Twin Peaks? Was wondering if it was worth fully upgrading the Season 1 boxset I got a few years back.
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