opinions on Twin Peaks?

[Kirkman1987]

basically, what are your thoughts and would you reccomend it?

I've never seen the show, but have been reading up on it lately and think it sounds interesting. I like shows with supernatural elements and general weirdness (the prisoner for example). on the other hand, I understand the show has soap opera elements, which doesn't particulary interest me.

so what's your opinion of the show?

 

[A beaker full of death]

Dumb, pretentious, boring.

 

[Kryton]

Having seen the entire series about 5 or 6 times all the way through, you would be best off to consider stacking episodes up several at a time because ONE of the reasons it eventually failed was, an episode would air, then a week or several weeks later when another episode would come on you'd lose track of one or more plot threads and it would come off as very confusing.

And considering the wilder and more fantastic elements of the show (David Lynch can be relentless, yet his work is often still rather satisfying to watch if you're willing to suspend the disbelief), watching it can be befuddling at first.

Look for Sam Raimi's brother Ted as a stoner in one ep (you may remember him as Joxer from "Xena") and one of the best episodes of season 2 was directed by Dianne Keaton (!).

The show does not end as the very same show it begins as...and the movie "Fire Walk With Me" showed that co-producer Mark Frost kept some of Lynch's crazier shit out of the TV show because Lynch went kinda nuts in the movie (and I would STILL love to see the rumored 5-hour cut of it with characters on the show that didn't make it into the final cut of the film), but word is Lynch won't ever release it.

"She's dead...wrapped in PLASTIC!"

 

[Kirkman1987]

Having seen the entire series about 5 or 6 times all the way through, you would be best off to consider stacking episodes up several at a time because ONE of the reasons it eventually failed was, an episode would air, then a week or several weeks later when another episode would come on you'd lose track of one or more plot threads and it would come off as very confusing.

Look for Sam Raimi's brother Ted as a stoner in one ep (you may remember him as Joxer from "Xena") and one of the best episodes of season 2 was directed by Dianne Keaton (!).

stacking should not be a problem as if I go for it, I'll likely blind buy the series. It's on cbs.com, but they don't have the pilot, and I currently have terrible internet connection anyway.
as for Ted Raimi, no problem remembering him. I'm a big Bruce Campbell fan so I'm quite familiar with him. look forward to seeing him in My Name is Bruce

 

[Captain Dago]

it's bloody brilliant. it manages to both satirize and take to a new level soap opera, horror series and detective series all at the same time. deeply weird and deeply satisfying.

 

[Kryton]

I bought my pilot DVD in a Region 0 version from a company in Hong Kong via eBay a couple years back. I did some research and apparently the ownership rights were perfectly legit (hence one reason the pilot's not in the set), though the 5.1 audio mix is a little funky.

Doesn't suck or anything...just sounds slightly off from the later episodes by comparison.

 

[Roshi]

Whether you like it or not, a lot of today's shows owe a lot to Twin Peaks.

 

[the Dagman]

A fantastic series that was off the wall at times, in a good way. Also good for it's first appearances in any mainstream television or movies of David Duchovny (as Denise!) and Heather Graham, and a reunion of 2/3rds of the original Mod Squad.

Another point of interest: we are now about 8 years real time away from the "25 years later" scenes set up in the series. I'd be real interested to seeing the series revived, or at least revisited, in 2016 and resolving some closure for the characters left needing it.

 

[Dale]

I hated this show so very, very much.

I was an entertainment editor at a local newspaper back in the day and spoilered who killed Laura Palmer in my column way before the reveal. I was proud of that. Had the 'net been big back then I might've gotten national coverage.

Spoiler: Who Killed Laura Palmer?

My wife worked in a veterinarian's office and spotted Ray Wise there with white hair, and I put two and two together.

 

[Philo]

Twin Peaks is an interesting show. I loved watching it, personally, and I think you'll like it Kirkman. The soap opera elements are there but they're satirical and just as weird and subversive as the rest of the show. Lots of fun.

 

[Roshi]

I hated this show so very, very much.

I was an entertainment editor at a local newspaper back in the day and spoilered who killed Laura Palmer in my column way before the reveal. I was proud of that. Had the 'net been big back then I might've gotten national coverage.

Spoiler: Who Killed Laura Palmer?

My wife worked in a veterinarian's office and spotted Ray Wise there with white hair, and I put two and two together.

You missed the point. He did not kill Laura.
Bob did.

 

[Jack Bauer]

Whether you like it or not, a lot of today's shows owe a lot to Twin Peaks.

X-Files and Lost come to mind.

 

[Aragorn]

I was just a kid when it aired, so I don't remember much from it even though I saw every episode. Did the random clues and puzzles actually mean anything or add up to something?

Also, season two post-Laura Palmer mystery sucked. I guess they really didn't have anything else to push the show after the original hook.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

The first season was great...

 

[Ethros]

Dumb, pretentious, boring.

Haven't got much time to spend online tonight, so I ain't got time to fully give my thoughts on this show. But basically I would concur with the above

 

[Goliath]

Twin Peaks was very good, overall, but highly uneven in quality.

The first season, and the first part of the second season, were brilliant.

But then, once the identity of Laura Palmer's killer was revealed, and the show's central mystery was resolved, the show went into a tailspin.

Some of those second-season episodes are just plain bad.

The show started to recover its quality close to the end of the second season, and the finale, in particular, was outstanding. But it was too late.

If you're thinking of buying the recent DVD Gold Box, I would say that it's worth it, overall. The good outweighs the bad.

 

[Kryton]

Didn't I hear that the Gold Box release includes the pilot, which is NOT in the stripped down set?

The owls are not what they seem...and she sleeps in a smiling bag, indeed!

One chants out between two worlds, fire walk with me.

Damn...I may need to do another revisit.

BTW, how's Annie? How's Annie?!?

 

[Goliath]

Didn't I hear that the Gold Box release includes the pilot, which is NOT in the stripped down set?

Yes, indeed. The Gold Box is the one to buy.

BTW, how's Annie? How's Annie?!?

Sadly...we'll never know.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I hated this show so very, very much.

I was an entertainment editor at a local newspaper back in the day and spoilered who killed Laura Palmer in my column way before the reveal. I was proud of that. Had the 'net been big back then I might've gotten national coverage.

Spoiler: Who Killed Laura Palmer?

My wife worked in a veterinarian's office and spotted Ray Wise there with white hair, and I put two and two together.

You missed the point. He did not kill Laura.
Bob did.

it's more ambiguous than that, isn't it? Doesn't the "host" bear some responsibility for what happened? Especially in the movie.

 

[Dane_Whitman]

it's more ambiguous than that, isn't it? Doesn't the "host" bear some responsibility for what happened? Especially in the movie.

It's made clear that Leland was powerless to stop Bob, just before Leland dies at the police station and Bob leaves him. It is at that moment that he realises what he has been forced to do, it's a very tragic scene.