The Entire Mystery

[GaijinPunch]

You young pups might not appreciate this, but for those of you that are up in my demographic check box, might find this interesting. I'm just now finding out about it, even though release is in a week.

The Entire Mystery

[DaneSaga]

with a bit of luck Lynch may have edited James out of existence for the Blu-ray.
Stupid notions aside, I can't wait for this. Plan on marathoning it over just a couple of nights.

[GaijinPunch]

I can't quite justify the cost ATM (lots of big things happening) but it's on my list!

[rapoon]

are those 90 minutes of extended/deleted scenes suppose to answer any questions the previous collection + "fire walk with me" didn't?

it's a bit pricey

[GaijinPunch]

Well, it's 3 seasons of TV plus a movie (with 90 minutes of deleted scenes)... the latter of which diehard fans have been dying to see for about 2 decades.

Here's the trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo1HadKt14s

And some spoilers about what some of the scenes contain.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jacelacob/twin- ... lk-with-me

[GaijinPunch]

I'm one of those weird guys that thought the movie was brilliant though. I didn't need a continuation of the show. What I got was a very visual (and audible) film. The soundtrack was fucking fantastic (I think most people here that have read my ravings know how important this is to me).

The show did feature two very underrated hotties: Madchen Amick and Sherilyn Fenn. Feen is now 49. Egads. Two Moon Junction = VHS spank bank.

[PAPER/ARTILLERY]

I've never watched Twin Peaks but I've been intrigued by it (and David Lynch) ever since I watched Mulholland Drive. I'm in between TV shows to marathon at the minute so maybe now is a good time to start. Anything I should know before I watch it GaijinPunch?

[CMoon]

with a bit of luck Lynch may have edited James out of existence for the Blu-ray.
Stupid notions aside, I can't wait for this. Plan on marathoning it over just a couple of nights.

Yeah, Twin Peaks is funny that way. Rather than more, there needs to be less of it. James and Donna serve absolutely no purpose than being annoying. I could lose Nadine as well, but she's OK until second season.

I've never watched Twin Peaks but I've been intrigued by it (and David Lynch) ever since I watched Mulholland Drive. I'm in between TV shows to marathon at the minute so maybe now is a good time to start. Anything I should know before I watch it GaijinPunch?

The big thing to know going into this is that Twin Peaks is basically faultless for the first season, and then after that Lynch goes to work on other projects and season 2 goes horribly, horribly wrong. I still think season 2 has some of the best parts of the series, but there are entire plot lines which were created just to give the cast work, and they are dreadful. With that caveat, it is still one of my favorite TV series.

[emphatic]

Yeah, James' second season arch is horrible.

[SharkSkin-Man]

I'm one of those weird guys that thought the movie was brilliant though. I didn't need a continuation of the show. What I got was a very visual (and audible) film. The soundtrack was fucking fantastic (I think most people here that have read my ravings know how important this is to me).

One of the best films of the 90's, and yeah, the score is wonderful.

[Sly Cherry Chunks]

Yeah, great film. I also preferred Lost Highway to Mullholland Drive.

[Limbrooke]

Oh, even the pilot is included. That's a damn fine box set.

[CMoon]

I always thought of the pilot as the first episode, so yeah it is weird to me that the original dvd box (not the gold box) didn't include the pilot.

It would be nice if the 'missing pieces' could be integrated into FWWM, perhaps via some seamless branching shenanigans, but it seems that isn't going to happen. I'm imagining it might be difficult to watch a 90 minute 'movie' of bits that don't fit together. Then again, that's about what Inland Empire was, only that fucker was 3 hours long.

[missingLink]

...and here i was thinking this thread might give away the answers to those mystery-of-existence-questions.

Just watched the first season a few weeks ago. Never watched it back in the days since i was too young ( i don't consider myself a pup though).
Gotta get myself this complete edition or the second season. Very surreal show. Want to know how it ends.

"She's deaaad... wraaaped in Plaaastic!"

Good show, good show.

[Fudoh]

I only made it through the full series twice so far (on the japanese laserdisc set and when the DVD "gold" set was released). The series certainly has it's lengths.

There's a great fan-edit called Northwest Passage (in 720p from the iTunes versions), cut down to about 6 hours total runtime. It really makes the whole adventure much more enjoyable. Watched it twice already since it's released in 2011.

[Jonathan Ingram]

The big thing to know going into this is that Twin Peaks is basically faultless for the first season, and then after that Lynch goes to work on other projects and season 2 goes horribly, horribly wrong.

It's still mostly brilliant for a good half of the second season all the way to the episode where the murderer is finally apprehended. It's only after the murder mystery is solved that the show truly turns into nonsensical drivel.

Mandatory:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knaVDrV5AZo

[SharkSkin-Man]

The last episode is pretty great though.

[antron]

The last episode is pretty great though.

I wish he would pick it up from there though.

Spoiler

(so I can see Dale's body kill James)

[Jonathan Ingram]

^
SPOILERZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[antron]

sorry, fixed

[Vexorg]

Twin Peaks is one of those shows I've never gotten around to wartching, but probably need to do at some point. The town where the show was filmed is about 30 miles outside of Seattle, and the cafe used for filming remains a popular tourist trap.

http://www.twedescafe.com/

[emphatic]

There's a great fan-edit called Northwest Passage (in 720p from the iTunes versions), cut down to about 6 hours total runtime. It really makes the whole adventure much more enjoyable. Watched it twice already since it's released in 2011.

You can thank me that it's in 720p, the editor didn't know about the high res iTunes release when he started to plan the edit until I told him. It's pretty well cropped to 16:9 too!

A review of the theater screening of The Missing Pieces: http://www.nerdist.com/2014/07/review-t ... ng-pieces/

[chempop]

I watch the entire series roughly every other year. I may need to buy a blue ray player for this.

[dan76]

Wow, might be time to rewatch. Haven't seen it since I was staying in Seattle - we took a drive out to where it was filmed, had a coffee in the cafe (which looked absolutely nothing like it did in the tv show because it had a fire at some point) though I did get a souvenir pack of matches.

Yes, James was dreadful, some of season 2 was a chore and the film is brilliant. And don't forget Peggy Lipton...

[CMoon]

Fuck you guys; guess I'm gonna have to cave in and pre-order it. I'm blaming all of you.

[brentsg]

It's to show up on my porch soon.

Any of you DVD paupers interested in a box set?

[Ed Oscuro]

Jezus. Yep, that price is about what I expected. Sadly I'll have to pass for now - but I look forward to finally getting this when the price is right!

[GaijinPunch]

It's to show up on my porch soon.

Should I bring over a bean bag and pop corn? And PJs?

I've never watched Twin Peaks but I've been intrigued by it (and David Lynch) ever since I watched Mulholland Drive. I'm in between TV shows to marathon at the minute so maybe now is a good time to start. Anything I should know before I watch it GaijinPunch?

Not much, just go in with an open mind. It is definitely a character piece. In Lynch fashion, there's tons of stuff that seemingly doesn't make sense (and yes, it lost it's way mid-season of season 2) but tended to get back on track for the truncated season 3.

The movie is a prequel but of course, watch it after. It's awesome. Very dark.

[Obiwanshinobi]

Haven't finished watching the show, but I tend to think Twin Peaks is - much like Evangelion (original TV series) - must see if you care to know where it was at in their decade. Won't matter if you like neither - simply must see.

My favourite character was Denise, if only because "she" gave me a vague idea what I'd look like in drag, my physique being perhaps even less lady-like than Duchovny's.

What makes at least some episodes a real special thing is that you can tell everybody was into it. No exploitation or anyone's ego-tripping left as much as a dent on the surface.

[CMoon]

In Lynch fashion, there's tons of stuff that seemingly doesn't make sense (and yes, it lost it's way mid-season of season 2) but tended to get back on track for the truncated season 3.

This is the second time you've mentioned 'season 3', but there is no season 3. Season 2 has 22 episodes which of course is far more than normal.

Following this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tw ... s_episodes

I would have cut season 2 at the 9th episode in season two (arbitrary law). That still leaves 13 more episodes!