Twin Peaks (ABC) TV Show • Page 40

Yeah The Return has just confirmed to me that I need more Lynch TV in my life, Twin Peaks or not

 

Given the gap between Inland Empire and the new Twin Peaks, we will be lucky if we get any new material in the immediate future. Without the Twin Peaks name it will be harder to get the budget he wants, and we already saw him walk away from Twin Peaks briefly when they wouldn't give him the money he wanted. His uncompromising nature is what makes his work so good, but it causes delays to the point where he had previously talked about never returning to film.

 

My hope is that, given the success of this season, more artists like Lynch will be able to express themselves unadulterated. I don't see this success trancending into film but it seems like almost anything is possible for TV after this.

 

Yeah, wild to think that Twin Peaks is changing television for a second time.

 

I just got this done

 

Cool tat, but that looks more like Coop than it does James

 

Does this season get any better because this dougy shit is fucking mind numbing

 

Well, that's all a matter of opinion I suppose. While initially frustrated, I now find Dougie Jones to be rather endearing. I don't think the show would be the same without him

Edit: I thought this article does a decent job of explaining Dougie

Agent Cooper in Twin Peaks is the audience: once delighted, now disintegrating

 

It's just obnoxiously slow and nothing happens with dougy. I just want Coop. I loved the first two seasons and really dig some of this, but there's soooo much that could be cut down. I'd hate to give up on it but I just feel like Lynch is just fucking with the audience to see how much they think is brilliant when in reality it's fucking nonsense.

Ive really enjoyed the other characters it's just Dougy that I'm hating more and more

 

Dougie is great

 

@BackyardHero11 How many episodes have you seen so far?

 

I agree, but when it's 5 minutes of him just staring it's too much.

 

Episode 6 is next

 

I really am enjoying the rest I just got really frustrated with the last episode.

 

I say stick wid it

 

I can understand the frustration with Dougie. It feels like it is going in the right direction now, but the show is testing patience. It is something that will only be easily judged when it is completed.

 

Yeah I mean the cool thing about places like Showtime, HBO, the streaming platforms, and even FX these days is that they're willing to take creative risks and give pretty much total creative freedom to these artists to do with what they please. I mean, FX basically gave Donald Glover a blank creative check and he produced Atlanta, by far the best new series of the last television season. I think that if Lynch wants the same kind of creative freedom he was given with Twin Peaks, TV is the way to go. Also Showtime has to be pleased with how much buzz and subscribers Twin Peaks has given them, I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted to let it ride if Lynch had any more ideas he wanted to try. The question, in my opinion, is does he have them and does he want to make them, I think; the question is not "Will there be any place that will give him the freedom he needs." I think the second question is pretty unnecessary to ask, obviously there are places for him to do whatever he wants at.

 

Lynch couldn't have won either way with the Dougie/Coop thing.

If he'd introduced the Coop we love early on, keyboard warriors would've done the whole "He's sticking to the old formula and not being original!" thing.

He hasn't given us the Coop we love to keep the series fresh, and people still complain. I think we'll get Coop back, but only for a couple of episodes if that. I want him back as much as the next guy, but we're 11 down, and I'm still loving the fuck out of this show without old-school Coop.

This is Twin Peaks in 2017. Unique. Different. A mix of everything we loved about the original series, while still keeping us on our toes, and changing what T.V can do in 2017.

Just ride it, cos' it fucking rules.

 

Could not agree more. If Lynch had given us Cherry Pie and Coffee Coop from the start there would have been an uproar over him "going through the motions" or whatever. Instead Lynch took a hard left turn and did something totally unexpected. And the show is still incredible. And people are still complaining. People, in the end, just like to complain. Anytime I see diatribes about how there's too much catatonic Coop my eyes kind of just glaze over at this point.

This shit does, indeed, fuckin' rule.

 

I would just love to have been there for the meeting with Showtime execs and David is like, "ok ok ok ok, here's the pitch...NO COOPER!"

 

But in Gordon Cole's voice.

 

"OK OK OK OK, HERE'S THE PITCH . . . NO COOPER!"

 

If you watch interviews with him, his real voice isn't too far off haha

 

It's almost weird to hear him talk in interviews and not be shouting the whole time. And then you remember that he has a bullhorn on set while he's directing and that's just the greatest thing ever.

 

Nailed it.