Twin Peaks thread

If you can track it down, read the Secret Diary of Laura Palmer. While it contradicts the show in some points, it's still a damn good read and a great insight into Laura's character.
 
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TremendousBoredom said:
If you can track it down, read the Secret Diary of Laura Palmer. While it contradicts the show in some points, it's still a damn good read and a great insight into Laura's character.
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Im thinking about giving it a read,I've also got the blue ray cut of Fire Walk With Me and i heard it adds a bit more on her story.
 
TremendousBoredom said:
If you can track it down, read the Secret Diary of Laura Palmer. While it contradicts the show in some points, it's still a damn good read and a great insight into Laura's character.
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It's on my Amazon Wishlist. I might buy it for myself after Christmas.
 
I started watching this show at the behest of my wife. And so far I really like it. I will finish watching season 1 at least.

But I have to say... well, with how much people go on and on about Twin Peaks... it's good. I guess I expected it to be better.
 
TheDarknessGrows said:
I started watching this show at the behest of my wife. And so far I really like it. I will finish watching season 1 at least.

But I have to say... well, with how much people go on and on about Twin Peaks... it's good. I guess I expected it to be better.
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It has a very devoted fanbase because of how revolutionary it was at the time,* and because David Lynch. If you grew up watching serialized mystery boxes and don't particularly care for Lynch, it's still a well-made entertaining show with some memorable characters and scenes, but it probably won't resonate as much.

It's also a pastiche of the prime time soap opera (with a parody of a soap opera within the show to drive the point home), so I guess that affects how you view it, too. But that only lasts up to a point, then it gets weird.

* The Simpsons parodied it at least twice, if that tells you how much of an impact it had.
 
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It has a very devoted fanbase because of how revolutionary it was at the time,* and because David Lynch.
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This was more or less my conclusion as well. I just need to remember that this show represents a lot of firsts. And then my other "issue" is that I know a bunch of David Lynch's other works already.

It is a very enjoyable show though. Better than most other junk out there.
 
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Calandrino said:
Still my favorite television show. Most shows are only good when they are good, but Twin Peaks is still good when it sucks.
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I felt it was great when it was good, but forgettable when it was not. I'm not going to mention the forgettable stuff because I barely remember it, and also because it's probably someone's favorite side plot and I don't want to start an internet slapfight over some tertiary character's abortive storyline. But (deleted because all of it would be a spoiler), that stuff is top tier TV.

I have a love-apathy relationship with Lynch; I love getting glimpses into his mind, I'm apathetic about the hours of filler and dream logic. Actually, I dislike the dream logic, but I respect its incorporation since almost no one else does it. And sometimes it does produce something that I really like in isolation.
 
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