Twin Peaks, Damn fine show Options

[Jessopjessopjess...]

Okay, I'm currently rewatching Season 1 (all that is currently availible on DVD, for shame), and I'm reminded of its greatness all over again.

BTW, I want to keep this spoiler-free for those who haven't seen it, including the biggest spoiler of all.

Aside from that - what or who were your favourite characters, quotes, scenes etc?

I love the obsession with food that is both quirky and mundane at the same time, especially when contrasted with the metaphysical elements of the show. The dialogue is superb too - each character having very distinctive ways of speaking, like no other show I've seen. Just compare Major Briggs' staid and awkward dialogues with his son to Josie Packard's pigeon-English sprinkled with muddled colloquialisms.

Oh, and Agent Cooper is one of the TV best creations of all time.

[dandan]

diane, i'm holding in my hand a small box of chocolate bunnies.

it's the best tv program i know.



albert (and his team) would have to be one of my favouites.

have you read the obsessive faqs at http://twinpeaks.org/ - there's also a shooting script for 'fire walk with me' that has all of the missing scenes included.

[Jessopjessopjess...]

it's the best tv program i know.
albert (and his team) would have to be one of my favouites.

Well, good, I may just agree with you.

I love Albert too:
Look, it's trying to think.

RE: www.TwinPeaks.Org - Yeah, I like the fact that site is not at all flashy, but just packed with info.

They can't answer why Season 2 hasn't been released on DVD though!

This post has been edited by Jessopjessopjessop: Sep 19 2005, 02:21 PM

[Sostie]

I watched all but the last few episodes, intended to catch up when I bought all the videos, but then sold them when I heard a vicious rumour of a complete series DVD release. Damn them.

To be honest, I need my memory jogged...recall the obvious - cherry pies, log Lady, more babes per square mile than any other logging town etc. Oh, and that it was a great show (but then I was a bit of a Lynch obsessive at the time)

I remember having a soft spot for the deputy (Andy?)...did he have a weird condition or something...or he couldn't get it up!

Fantastic show, probably only surpassed at the time by Northern Exposure.

[Jessopjessopjess...]

To be honest, I need my memory jogged...recall the obvious - cherry pies, log Lady, more babes per square mile than any other logging town etc.  Oh, and that it was a great show (but then I was a bit of a Lynch obsessive at  the time)

Looks like you recall it pretty well! As I say, I don't want to include too many spoilers in this thread, so it's difficult to know what to say to jog your memory.

[Sostie]

Looks like you recall it pretty well! As I say, I don't want to include too many spoilers in this thread, so it's difficult to know what to say to jog your memory. 

No need for specific "jogging". I'm sure as the thread progresses, more and more will come to me.

But wasit "ANdy"..and did he have a "problem"?

[Jessopjessopjess...]

But wasit "ANdy"..and did he have a "problem"?

Hmm, I can't remember anything like you describe, apart from the fact that he was slightly 'simple'. He also cries at every murder scene, and fires his gun accidentally on a stake-out...

This post has been edited by Jessopjessopjessop: Sep 19 2005, 02:29 PM

[Zoe]

I was nine when it first aired in this country, so my memory is a little fuzzy too!

I enjoyed its black comedy and Hitchcockian tone and its influence has certainly been far reaching, setting the standard for modern, intelligent TV drama.

Lynch is a bit like marmite though and I know a lot of people who found it prententious and deliberately obtuse.

I'd love to watch it again.

[dandan]

i'm a whole damn town!

does that jog any memories?

had a low sperm count, but he recovered - all to do with when lucy was pregnant...

[Sostie]

Hmm, I can't remember anything like you describe, apart from the fact that he was slightly 'simple'. He also cries at every murder scene, and fires his gun accidentally on a stake-out...

That may well be it...I remember him providing a few laughs. I recall for some reason a scene when the FBI/Police meet in the forest with a flip chart and piles of doughnuts!

Wasn't Lynch another comic releif in the show too...Cooper's deaf FBI boss?

[Jessopjessopjess...]

I recall for some reason a scene when the FBI/Police meet in the forest with a flip chart and piles of doughnuts!

Wasn't Lynch another comic releif in the show too...Cooper's deaf FBI boss?

Yeah, the scene in the woods was Cooper demonstrating his intuition/logic methods which came from a dream and his interest in Tibet.

Lynch appeared as Gordon Cole - hilarity ensued! He's another favourite character of mine...

[Zoe]

I've just added the pilot to my DVD rental queue. Quite looking forward to that little televisual treat.

[dandan]

i still have the videos, i used to watch them once every year from around 1991/2 onwards. i haven't watched them since the summer before last, so they're due another viewing...

[Chapman Baxter]

Yeah, the scene in the woods was Cooper demonstrating his intuition/logic methods which came from a dream and his interest in Tibet.

I remember that scene very clearly - I thought it was the most exciting bit of television I'd ever seen when it was first broadcast. I haven't seen any of the TV epsiodes for many, many years, but I occasionally rewatch Fire Walk with Me, which I still find a very creepy film.

While everyone's right to emphasise the 'Lynchness' of Twin Peaks, I'd also point out it was co-written by Mark Frost of Hill Street Blues fame, who tempered some of the Lynch weirdness with his ear for dialogue and sharpness of characterisation.

[Jessopjessopjess...]

While everyone's right to emphasise the 'Lynchness' of Twin Peaks, I'd also point out it was co-written by Mark Frost of Hill Street Blues fame, who tempered some of the Lynch weirdness with his ear for dialogue and sharpness of characterisation.

Absolutely, and it's that fusion of realistic (and sometimes melodramatic) soap sensibilities with Lynch-type wierdness that makes it so fascinating and entertaining. You will literally be chuckling at some light-hearted character scene one minute, and being disturbed by dark violence the next.