It is happening again.

[heidi]

They showed no commercials in the last 20 minutes, and those 20 minutes were the scariest that I had ever seen on television up to that point.

Did you see it then?

Have you seen it since?

Will you see it now?

One of my favorite summaries of Twin Peaks, ever.
[Poll #1793776]

Comments

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

When it aired, I thought Twin Peaks was about the smartest show ever and I still have a hard time believing it was on network TV. It's a little odd now and a little dated, but at the time it pretty much redefined the concept of cutting edge. I like it as a piece in progression looking at David Lynch's portfolio of work as a whole, and to me it's still wickedly funny and ridiculous in all the right ways even if I found it ultimately unsatisfying. Time to rewatch.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

It is dated, but in a lot of ways the show existed outside of time, so the clothing and some of the styles and moods aren't really date-able to the early 90s which I think was brilliant of David. God, I hope nobody ever reboots it.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine a reboot, end of story. It's one of those shows that is what it is, and even the movie afterward couldn't capture the feel of the show with anywhere near the same degree of finesse and its out-there atmosphere.

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

YES! THIS!

[eibbil-libbie.livejournal.com]

* ticky box - I was one of the few people on the planet that wasn't watching it. And I've still never seen one episode.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

I'd be curious as to what you'd think of it, especially this far out of time from where it aired. Let me know if you ever want the first episode.

[moonlight69]

Ditto.

[caffienekitty]

I didn't watch it directly (parents *eyeroll*), but when I took psych class in high school, they used scenes from it as examples for stuff we were covering in class. I don't remember much about it or what aspects of psychology they were using it for.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Wow and huh! Let me know if you remember - I'd be very curious.

There was a vaguely quacky psychyatrist on the show - actually given all the attention paid to Glee's West Side Story this month I feel I should mention that Russ Tamblyn and Richard Beymer from TP were also in West Side Story - so did you see any clips of his scenes?

[caffienekitty]

I don't recall the specifics off-hand. There were a few shows they used scenes from in class, so in what's left of my memory of high school they kind of blend together. They also used bits from The Wonder Years, thirtysomething and a Bill Cosby comedy routine that I can recall.

Mostly it was scenes of family interaction and fighting, stuff that demonstrated different varieties of stress and psychological issues. I know we watched a dream sequence though, and I'm pretty sure that was when we were doing a bit on dream analysis.

[angelamermaid.livejournal.com]

I couldn't watch the video once I realized it's when Leland/BOB killed Maddy. I once had Laura's Diary book.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can understand that.

And I still have my Laura's Diary book. I don't have the audiotape of Cooper's book of tapes anymore, though. Wonder if it's on itunes?

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

The debates/snark we had in the back of the room during my biology class's lab period were epic. Imagine what that would've been like, if everyone everywhere had been online and flailing and trading theories!

Four words: David Duchovny in drag.

And one more word: pie.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

YES TO ALL THIS.

The FuckYeahPie and FuckYeahCherryStems tumblrs! The hashtags about owls trending! The shipping!

If I had the capability to write a novel, that's what it would be about.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Now THAT is an alternate history I would love to read. The ripple effects would be EPIC. Think of all the global events that never would've happened, because everyone was online talking Twin Peaks! The world would be a totally different place!

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

We used to gather every Thursday night with coffee and donuts and watch!

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

No pie?

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

Nope.

[viola-dreamwalk.livejournal.com]

Ha! How funny! Laura's diary was a 'banned' book at my middle school, so my entire cheerleading squad shared a single copy that we hid in our lockers and passed from person to person between classes. It was so scandalous!

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

I must have been a very sheltered 19 year old, because some of the content in the book shocked me when I read it, in the back of I think a history class. I can't imagine reading it at 13.

OH! And Laura's Diary is going to be on ibooks and kindle next month! #AppropriateXmasGift

21 years?

[katepwa.livejournal.com]

21 years? Really? God, I'm old.

Re: 21 years?

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

More than half my lifetime ago. I'm having issues.

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

I was too young to watch it when it first aired in Denmark, but I saw it when it was rerun 5 or so years ago. Very freaky but brilliant, even if I did hate the red room and how it ended.

Oh, and I couldn't handle the music for the opening credits AT ALL. I had to have Lars mute it or fast forward past it, or I'd end up depressed for the rest of the day. *shudder* Hate music like that.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

I hated how it ended too. And I have never watched all of Fire Walk With Me all the way through. But I do love the music, and Falling was on my birthday party mix tape the following year.

[nu-breed.livejournal.com]

My favourite show of all-time. Hands-down. I watched it recently and it is still as awesome as ever: like you said above, the fact that the town seems so timeless makes the show feel timeless too.

All the hearts for Cooper, too. ALL OF THEM. I will never love a fictional character more.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Twin Peaks is my perpetual Ask and Request in Yuletide although I may not Nominate it this year as someone already is (with Audrey and Cooper on her list). Still, I think I need to do a full rewatch of S1.

[sophie10.livejournal.com]

I was too young to watch it when it aired but my dad had a load of the episodes and the film, and I watched those as a teenager. I enjoyed it but I think a lot of it went over my head. The film scared me a lot. I watched most of that from behind a pillow.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

It is an extremely fucked up show, and the books are even more so. Brilliant, but terrifying.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Somehow I never watched the show (still haven't). It wasn't before my time, I just never did...

[if0x.livejournal.com]

I never watched Twin Peaks when it first aired, although I remember my mum being obsessed with it (and she's not normally a TV person at all). So a little while back I bought S1 and S2 as a boxed set... but haven't got beyond the first couple of episodes yet. When I find some time, it's on the list to catch up on.