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Raxivace posted:I'd argue that at least some season 2 filler only ended up more relevant with The Return. Or James‘ sidestory foreshadowing the brain damage he'll receive upon attempting to return to Twin Peaks. Also, if you think your friends would sit through the entire Twin Peaks movie with you, I don‘t give a gently caress how much of the second season you skip. And More fucked around with this message at 09:57 on Apr 6, 2019 |
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It's totally fine for someone to skip parts, it's stupid to skip them FOR someone you're showing the show to. Let them just watch the show and decide for themselves. Maybe they'll think Super Nadine rules.
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Sep 7, 2018 21:20
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I agree they may not be true Peaks fans if they aren't totally enraptured by the pilot - I'd probably give up on them at that point if they can't get into it. My problem is that I legitimately feel like sections of Season legitimately *are* just over-the-top silly, and that certainly while I was watching them I found myself rolling my eyes... These guys, if they actually DO wind up getting "into" the show will probably insist on skipping nothing and *I'll* be the one insisting we fast forward through James Hurley's adventures with an exceptionally uninteresting married woman. Anyway, who knows...
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When I watched the second season with a friend, I told him there was a rough patch coming up, and we could skip some stuff if he wanted to. When we got to James’ sidestory’s second scene he went: “Yeah, I’m not watching that.” Everything else was fine including the Missing Pieces. Regarding the attention span thing: Personally, I put my phone away when I’m watching stuff. Some people just need it, though. Like, my mom has a near encyclopedic knowledge of movies, and she’s watched most of them while doing something else in the other room. No idea how it works. 
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Sep 7, 2018 21:35
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Skipping anything in media/entertainment/whatever seems insane to me but it is what it is. Thanks for hyping me on Wild at Heart & Dune my friends. Watching both soon!
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Sep 7, 2018 21:46
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Season 2 isn’t even that bad. I expected way worse going through it last year by how people talk about it. The James plot with the woman is definitely the low point.
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SeANMcBAY posted:Season 2 isn’t even that bad. I expected way worse going through it last year by how people talk about it. The James plot with the woman is definitely the low point. I watched it for the first time last year before season 3 dropped and genuinely liked it. There were very dumb parts but they were worth it.
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Sep 7, 2018 22:14
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Season 2 is worse if you're a Lynch fan watching it holistically as a Lynch project than if you're just in it for an entertaining TV show. Twin Peaks was the first Lynch thing I ever watched so back then I had no idea late Season 2 was supposed to be worse than the rest and I didn't really notice a marked change at a particular point. But going back to the show with appreciation for his other work, it kind of loses steam around that point. Twin Peaks after Laura Palmer is like The Office after Michael Scott: the show didn't get bad, but without the one major thing that defined it in its heyday, the show starts to feel like an imitation of itself. I do wonder how the Windom Earle plotline would have gone if Lynch had stayed on post-Laura, or if it would have existed at all. Earle is mentioned in an episode that Lynch directs, but it's near the end of Laura's plot so I dunno if he had anything to do with setting up future story hooks at that point.
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:It's totally fine for someone to skip parts, it's stupid to skip them FOR someone you're showing the show to. Let them just watch the show and decide for themselves. Maybe they'll think Super Nadine rules. super nadine DOES rule
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romanowski posted:super nadine DOES rule 
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Sep 8, 2018 00:09
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Super Nadine is part of Lynch's original characterization of her anyway. Remember that she bends the poo poo out of her rowing machine in one of the first Lynch episodes of Season 1.
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Sep 8, 2018 00:24
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Second half of the second season is the worst when it was pretty much the last word on the story told in the show. With season three around there is a lot to look forward too, and post reveal pre-s2 finale takes up a lot less of the overall narrative now than it used to.
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I didn't dislike General Ben Horne in concept, but it seemed that it never wrapped up satisfactorily. Nor did that beauty pageant thing.
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Halloween Jack posted:I didn't dislike General Ben Horne in concept, but it seemed that it never wrapped up satisfactorily. Nor did that beauty pageant thing. That's really the biggest issue with the s2 plot lines. They didn't really seem to have any kind of real arc in mind. They just sort of happen without meaning anything.
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Sounds like season 3
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpmE6XTGGrU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dVejxHVqnM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT8bEOKFAyo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78M7f6dk3Bg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mutLslRHZuw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--XfpngHdCw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqCZ03OfgTA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9uuGCVZI5A There's an enormous amount of music in the Twin Peaks Archive collection; about $10 for as many hours. http://www.spinshop.com/store/david...black&wId=67903
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Alan_Shore posted:Yo, I want my friends to read Lord of the Rings. Which chapters can they skip? They get bored and start looking at sparkly things
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The first time I watched season 2 I spent half the time laughing at how silly it was and the other half very confused until the last episode or two when David Lynch goes back to directing and fixing the series. It helped that I watched season 2 with a friend and it's a lot more fun if you have people you can laugh with. On a rewatch I would cut out a bunch of episodes from season 2 though because I couldn't watch some of those alone. My vote for the worst one of the series is the episode where James goes to live with a rich woman outside of twin peaks as a mechanic. This could have been from any soap opera and had nothing to do with twin peaks and it wasn't even in twin peaks! That one I would delete from the series because it isn't even funny bad and the entire episode stays focused on that bad soap opera plot.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:The Straight Story is the single most depressing G-rated movie I've ever seen. This film will embed itself in you and a multitude of things the rest of your life will remind you of it. Volte posted:Season 2 is worse if you're a Lynch fan watching it holistically as a Lynch project than if you're just in it for an entertaining TV show. Twin Peaks was the first Lynch thing I ever watched so back then I had no idea late Season 2 was supposed to be worse than the rest and I didn't really notice a marked change at a particular point. But going back to the show with appreciation for his other work, it kind of loses steam around that point. Twin Peaks after Laura Palmer is like The Office after Michael Scott: the show didn't get bad, but without the one major thing that defined it in its heyday, the show starts to feel like an imitation of itself. If you want to launder some season 2 poo poo into something more enjoyable, read The Secret History of Twin Peaks. grilldos fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Sep 10, 2018 |
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grilldos posted:This film will embed itself in you and a multitude of things the rest of your life will remind you of it. I;m thinking about thos Grabbers
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DropsySufferer posted:My vote for the worst one of the series is the episode where James goes to live with a rich woman outside of twin peaks as a mechanic. This could have been from any soap opera and had nothing to do with twin peaks and it wasn't even in twin peaks! That one I would delete from the series because it isn't even funny bad and the entire episode stays focused on that bad soap opera plot. Yea that one I think is almost universally reviled, much moreso than even Super Nadine or General Ben Horne. I think mostly everyone agrees that storyline was a total snoozer in every way.
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It also makes James look like less of an innocent at heart and more like just an utter dope.
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I think James was always supposed to be kind of a dope. One of Jacoby's tapes of Laura even has her talking about how she can't believe how dumb he is.
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DropsySufferer posted:The first time I watched season 2 I spent half the time laughing at how silly it was and the other half very confused until the last episode or two when David Lynch goes back to directing and fixing the series. It helped that I watched season 2 with a friend and it's a lot more fun if you have people you can laugh with. For sure. That whole plot is annoying, uninteresting and unrelated to anything else Supernadine and General Ben at least were funny
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That whole James Hurly adventure reminded me of a Red Shoe Diaries episode minus anything genuinely erotic or perhaps an incredibly limp TV riff on Wild at Heart. Just a really terrible slab of bad Americana.
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SuperNadine gave us one of the single funniest moments in the entire series: when Mike explains to Bobby "what the combination of [Nadine's] maturity and physical strength can result in" General Ben had some great scenes too, especially when Bobby and Audrey got roped into participating Jame's Sexy Road Adventures were straight up soap opera trash that Twin Peaks used to parody and I always skip these scenes on a rewatch unless it's with someone who's never seen it before Skipping the 'bad' chunk of season 2 would also mean missing out on Denise, which is unforgiveable, and Josie becoming even more wooden than she was before Quote-Unquote fucked around with this message at 11:50 on Sep 11, 2018 |
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Raxivace posted:I think James was always supposed to be kind of a dope. One of Jacoby's tapes of Laura even has her talking about how she can't believe how dumb he is. I've always thought that Laura was only with James because she hoped his innocence/goodness might be contagious.
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That Super Nadine poo poo sucked. Twin Peaks Season 2 sucks. BUT... I still wouldn't tell anyone to skip it. Gotta see it all.
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I watched Twin Peaks for the first time shortly before The Return, and the part where Nadine throws the guy and he does a corkscrew flip is one of the funniest things I've seen in years tbh.
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I am currently struggling to get through season 2 on my rewatch right now. Only a few episodes to go though. The episode where Josie is trapped in the night stand and Bob shows up just screams someone imitating Lynch, but having no real talent for it. I guess there's a reason it's never brought up again.
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Bird in a Blender posted:I am currently struggling to get through season 2 on my rewatch right now. Only a few episodes to go though. The episode where Josie is trapped in the night stand and Bob shows up just screams someone imitating Lynch, but having no real talent for it. I guess there's a reason it's never brought up again. That would be Lynch imitating Lynch, because knob-Josie was his idea. That episode marks his return to the production end of the series, generally.
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Rocco posted:That Super Nadine poo poo sucked. I wouldn't say it sucks. The episodes leading up to the Leyland/Bob reveal are pretty good. After that it goes downhill a bit though.
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I said as much a while ago: Season 2 is basically three regular-length seasons. You get season 2.1 which is the straightforward continuation of the Laura Palmer murder mystery and lasts until the obvious point. Then you get season 2.2 where the show loses the plot; quite literally, in fact, because the murder mystery was the reason all these characters existed, and once it's out of the show, they're all just aimlessly milling around resorting to ludicrous C-plots to justify their existence. This ends with Diane Keaton's episode where all those plots are wrapped up (and I'll gladly say it as many times as I need to, it's a great wrapup). And then you get season 2.3 which I'm gonna call the Secret History season: things get somewhat back on track with Black Lodge stuff, but by that time it's become a very different kind of show and it's a "for better or worse" thing.
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I like to imagine the executive who forced them to solve Laura's murder looks like Tom Cruise at the end of tropic thunder.
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I've probably said this here before but the conclusion of Laura's murder and her parts of Fire Walk With Me are my favorite pieces of Twin Peaks and I'm glad it was resolved.
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People who waddle up to me leaking their broken hearted thoughts about how they love Twin Peaks except for most-of-the-episodes need to address their inability to accept that life is about taking the good with the bad and appreciating both.
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Capntastic posted:People who waddle up to me leaking their broken hearted thoughts about how they love Twin Peaks except for most-of-the-episodes need to address their inability to accept that life is about taking the good with the bad and appreciating both. This.
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Twin Peaks is a fictional television show
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Improbable Lobster posted:Twin Peaks is a fictional television show You take that back!
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