So I am rewatching Twin Peaks

[XemaSab]

Now that I've seen more Lynch movies, it's fascinating to go back and look at some of the themes of his other stuff in TP... the heavy focus on light and sound, the focus on time, the ominous foreshadowing...

I'm also watching it with an eye for people trading places and turning into other people.

I've heard before the theory that Donna and Audrey "switch places," where Donna turns bad and Audrey turns good. Maddy and Laura are obviously (?) supposed to be similar. The BOB/Mike story is a theme of body switching.

The first time I saw it, lo these many years ago, I had trouble telling a lot of the men apart. Truman, Leland, Ed, Hank, Ben, and about three other male leads are all tall and thin with curly/wavy dark hair. None of the other men look anything alike, but it's like Lynch set out to cast actors that could all be brothers.

For that matter, Lynch is known for having strong women and weak men in his movies, and I'd argue that the story of Twin Peaks is mostly a women's story.

Any thoughts, ideas, feelings, visions, premonitions? :shrug:

[stuntcat]

1. I got feelings

Like I wish I'd watched it :( I never really did though.
They've played them all lately on the Chiller Channel and I totally meant to get into it but I forgot. I have attention span issues anyway but I bet if I watched dvd's of it I could follow it, from what I've heard I'd love it, the ominous foreshadowing bits would be enough for me!

My best friend was crazy about the show.. it was about the same time he finally came out of the closet. Whatever this means, I don't know :shrug:

[XemaSab]

2. They've got the whole thing out on DVD

It lags a bit in the second season, but it's still some good TV. :)

[ghostsofgiants]

3. My only thoughts...

I need that damn box set.

[XemaSab]

5. Do you think my theory makes sense

or do you think it's too wacky? :shrug:

[ghostsofgiants]

6. Sounds reasonable to me.

[bridgit]

4. Twin Peaks was for me a bit of a mess, it happens to even brilliant people...

like David = started out wonderful; but they get that protracted project/contract (David actually thought imo he was going to revolutionize TV like that's ever going to happen which seems forever the job of they such as David E. Kelly :eyes:), and fill in with many of what could be construed as 'dropped pieces', or the evermore ethereal fluff...catch Elephant Man, or Blue Velvet for my time & money; others too but they'll come around maybe even in this thread


edited for the 't'

[AZBlue]

7. Now I really need to re-watch it.

I was too young the first time around to catch anything like that.

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. What Dale Cooper coaches Leland Palmer to do as he dies, is out of classic spiritual literature.

The Clear Light. Some spiritual literature describing what happens upon death tells one to choose one of the various colors, and to move into it. These are the elements and are not the right direction...

You didn't mention Lynch's fascination with innocence, innocence lost, evil, and in TP, the first time in his work that I can recall, an examination of the potential other-worldly source of purest evil (and good; the angel scene at the end of Fire Walk With Me was spine-tingling), and how it effects and manipulates us.

[XemaSab]

11. I recently saw Inland Empire

which has a similar scene of "going towards the light."

Everyone in TP is on the spectrum between good and evil, and maybe part of the larger narrative is movement along that path? :shrug:

[CreekDog]

9. I can't do that

Since I never watched it in the first place. :rofl:

It was on when I started college so I turned on the show to see what it was all about and I was like, "what the hell am I watching?"

that show was form over function, i swear.

[Duer 157099]

10. Watch "Carnivale" when you're done

You'll be amazed at how Lynchian it is!

I loved TP the first time around -- haven't seen it since then though.