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Hahaha I forgot that the season two finale has one goofy cutaway to Leo still trapped. Amazing.

Wow this is rad. I dont think there there is a ceiling - it seems to just be curtains up into the darkness, as suggested in this thread.

I guess you shouldn't believe that other guy's either after all.

Laura's writing in general - and her Twin Peaks roundups for Vulture specifically - are great and highly recommended.

Yeah coffee definitely gets the jazz soundtrack fired up, after last week's Take Five and the elevator scene this week.

Tinted windows on what? The camera cut around to reverse shots and point of view shots and all sorts of things. I'm not trying to be snarky; I don't understand what you mean.

Things move slowly within each episode but the amount of plot they manage to cover each week is surprising, so it's really hard for me to predict how long anything will take.

Yeah it's kind of ridiculous.

Oh, well then.

Guhh nice. The previous 9 slice stuff seemed to stretch the middle areas not tile them, or has it always been able to behave this way and I just never knew?

Does this work in the UI system as well?

I'm glad you brought up the idea of a journey through motion picture tech and aesthetics. It's something that was on my mind in 3 and 4 a lot, going from the stuttering silent film in the start of 3, to the sitcom aesthetic at the end of 4. I don't think Lynch is a tech grandpa at all for what it's worth. I think his aesthetic is sometimes fun to chuckle at because he sometimes makes things that are culturally coded as "badly done" and they're shocking to see amidst everything else going on, but I hope we've given plenty of time in the discussion to our beliefs that they're deliberate effects and Lynch very clearly knows what he's doing with every choice including wacky motion blurred characters leaping out of frame in 2D. Twin Peaks season 3 has shown seamless CG effects (Laura taking off her face in tw red room) within seconds of crazy 2D photo manipulation style copositing (Laura disappearing from the red room). It'd be hard to argue Lynch is somehow confused or out of his depth technologically when these things take place in the same scene. I think his unorthodox choices combined with his complete lack of desire to publicly discuss process make it really easy to dismiss a lot of what he does as cheesy or accidental or cheaping out, so I'm glad to see you heaping even more examples onto the fire of "this is on purpose and done with a lot of awareness, just different."

Oh man that gobbler (... dat gobbler)

I am hoping that yes. Im happy to be wrong if they show Dianne and she's a great character, though. Transcending the novelty of her past as the unseen person Cooper talks to on his tape recorder, blowing past that to the point that she feels like a fully realized character who "has always been a part of the show," for lack of a better way of phrasing it, will be super duper tough, if they try to go that route.

A lot of the Internet thinks that. Hopefully she is playing the new Montana on the new Invation to Love.

The lead credited editor is Duwayne Dunham, who was editor of the Twin Peaks pilot as well as many of Lynch's feature films (and Return of the Jedi!). Maybe it was something he massaged deliberately? Maybe he and Lynch talked about these scenes being echoes of each other and the editing team decided to make it literal? It's all so hard to know, because for as opaque as Lynch is about the story and character motivation side of his work, he's even more cagey about the craft side, how things actually got made and what specific techniques he used and that sort of thing. If he legitimately said to his editors "I want these two scenes to time out so that this happens at two minutes and this happens at two minutes forty five seconds" he'd never tell someone that after the fact.

I was kind of waiting until we were farther in to the season and could see more of the whole picture before getting into it, but I agree. Combining what you said about the four murdered women, with the letcherous creeping on agent Preston and Lucy being turned into a one note ditz and it's very frustrating. Janey-E Jones is one of the few women who has had any screen time this season who has been shown to have any agency or inferiority and hasn't been killed or flattened into a single dimension or object, and that's bleak considering she's only been in one episode so far.

I actually like most of the weird science stuff we talk about in the show, but it's such good fodder to get ridiculous about.

It is that Travis! He and Justin are both Twin Peaks Rewatch listeners, it turns out.

Oops yes. I remember that as well. Must have totally tricked ourselves on the cast. I'll rewatch the end of episode 4 before episode 5 to make sure I have it all straight in my head.

Something True 1: The President's Dog Our debut episode brings you the story of a good boy. A very good boy. Laddie Boy, the First Dog of the United States. A wonderful, charming terrier whom Americans loved even more than they hated his owner: Warren G. Harding, one of the worst presidents the country has ever known. Read a full transcript of this episode on the Something True website. Follow Something true on Twitter @atruepodcast. (Or just follow Duncan and Alex.) Music on this week’s episode: The U.S. Marine Corps Band – Stars and Stripes Forever* Jason Shaw – Jenny’s Theme* Latché Swing – Rythme Gitan* U.S. Army Band – America the Beautiful* Dave Depper – Heartstrings* *modified for the podcast. Listen on the Episode Page Listen on Soundcloud Listen in iTunes

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Episode 4 of Rewatch is up btw!

Twin Peaks Rewatch 34: Catching Up Twin Peaks is coming back and so are we! Join us as we kick the rust off this podcast, in anticipation of following all of Twin Peaks season three in real time, starting next week. This week, we're warming up by sharing our own expectations for what the new Twin Peaks might hold, discussing Showtime's marketing of the series' return to television, and scratching the surface of Mark Frost's novel, The Secret History of Twin Peaks. We'll be recording a podcast for every episode of the new season and we'd love to hear from you! If you have a question for us or thoughts to share on the Twin Peaks season premiere, write us at twinpeaks@idlethumbs.net. Some notes on upcoming scheduling: Showtime is airing the first four new episodes of Twin Peaks two at a time. During the next two weeks, we will be putting out two episodes a week, to keep pace! So look for the podcast covering the premiere on Monday, May 22, and the podcast covering episode two sometime mid-week. Listen on the Episode Page Listen on Soundcloud Listen in iTunes

Oh man the floating head tied to the body! I mentioned "is the John Doe actually major Briggs" in the episode four rewatch episode (coming soon) but didn't tie it to the head.