Return to Twin Peaks: The Return

[Mirror Tuvix]

 

[JirinPanthosa]

It seemed to me to have two purposes.

1. Show that life went on in Twin Peaks whether or not cameras were recording it.

2. Troll fan expectations.

Keeping Coop as Dougie for so long. In a way Dougie is a parody of Cooper. He wanders around following vague supernatural cues, drinks coffee, and everything works out without him really doing anything.

Then at the end they cycle through all the different variants of fan service endings. The ending where all the good guys come together to kill Bob, the Cooper/Diane ship, the time travel to save Laura. Then bring Coop and Laura to real life Twin Peaks to end the fantasy.

It’s only a shame the characters who couldn’t appear either because the actors were dead or retired.

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

Dougie annoyed me to no end.
As out there as the original series and Fire Walk with Me was, nobody reacted the way everyone around Dougie did. Even his wife just went along with it, it was... I can somehow deal with talking "tea kettles", ladders leading to tiny boxes floating in space, and ghostly woodsmen shuffling around, but that is what bothered me.

 

[wayoung]

My ex wife came out to the living room while I was watching the episode with the nuclear explosion.
"What are you watching?"
"Twin Peaks"
"What's it about?"
"I don't know"
"Well, what's the story?"
"No idea"
"Tell me the plot"
"I would if I knew it"
"What's happening on screen at this very moment"
"I haven't a clue"
"Is it any good?"
"It's fucking fantastic"

 

[Anwar]

Dougie annoyed me to no end.
As out there as the original series and Fire Walk with Me was, nobody reacted the way everyone around Dougie did. Even his wife just went along with it, it was... I can somehow deal with talking "tea kettles", ladders leading to tiny boxes floating in space, and ghostly woodsmen shuffling around, but that is what bothered me.

Theory is that the Cooper Doppleganger put some kind of spell on Dougie so that folks wouldn't really be able to truly pay attention to him or anything he did. A kind of weirdness censor.

Me, I was waiting for the reveal that Janey and Sonny Jim weren't real either and they were the Druggie Lady who kept saying "One One Nine" and her kid.

 

[gweeps]

I need to watch this.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

My ex wife came out to the living room while I was watching the episode with the nuclear explosion.
"What are you watching?"
"Twin Peaks"
"What's it about?"
"I don't know"
"Well, what's the story?"
"No idea"
"Tell me the plot"
"I would if I knew it"
"What's happening on screen at this very moment"
"I haven't a clue"
"Is it any good?"
"It's fucking fantastic"

There’s a scene in Simpsons where Homer is watching Twin Peaks and says “Brilliant! I have no idea what’s going on.”

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Dougie annoyed me to no end.
As out there as the original series and Fire Walk with Me was, nobody reacted the way everyone around Dougie did. Even his wife just went along with it, it was... I can somehow deal with talking "tea kettles", ladders leading to tiny boxes floating in space, and ghostly woodsmen shuffling around, but that is what bothered me.

I dunno, people seemed to go along with Coop when he was tossing rocks at glass bottles to figure out who to talk to next.

And I also see people’s non reaction to Dougie as a comment on the cultural narcissism of the social media era. Nobody is paying attention to what you’re doing, they’re just writing you into their own story about themselves. And Dougie was the perfect blank slate to do that.

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

I dunno, people seemed to go along with Coop when he was tossing rocks at glass bottles to figure out who to talk to next.

And I also see people’s non reaction to Dougie as a comment on the cultural narcissism of the social media era. Nobody is paying attention to what you’re doing, they’re just writing you into their own story about themselves. And Dougie was the perfect blank slate to do that.

Being a bit strange like the rock thing is a bit different to me than an overnight change where you only know how to repeat what your wife says to you and her not immediately taking you to a hospital in fear of a stroke or something since she knows you well enough to know how crazy drastic the change is, even in a social media era.

Try acting like he did for 5 minutes to your significant other and see if you can even make it to that 5 minutes.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Being a bit strange like the rock thing is a bit different to me than an overnight change where you only know how to repeat what your wife says to you and her not immediately taking you to a hospital in fear of a stroke or something since she knows you well enough to know how crazy drastic the change is, even in a social media era.

Try acting like he did for 5 minutes to your significant other and see if you can even make it to that 5 minutes.

You're criticizing a metaphorical satire element on real world realism?

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

You're criticizing a metaphorical satire element on real world realism?

Yup!

 

[CaptainWacky]

"This is the water And this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within."

I don't know what this means, but it somehow speaks to a part of my mind that only Lynch can tap into. Like the best stuff in Twin Peaks it has a kind of dream logic that defies explanation but feels completely real. He's a genius.

 

[publiusr]

The Fireman did say the time of plain speaking was near. I hope Lynch returns to Twin Peaks.

A passing
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/14/us/piper-laurie-actress-dead-obituary/index.html