So I decided because the gold edition box set came out that I needed to watch this show from beginning to end again. I can remember watching it when I was a kid, and not really getting it. Then Bravo had it on when I was in college so I'd throw Twin Peaks parties in my dorm room. I'd force everyone to bring coffee, doughnuts and pie.
This will last for a while because there are nine disks total. I may take a break toward the weekend, but we shall see. I will spoil the ending, but I'll make sure I post a spoiler alert just in case anyone hasn't seen it and wants to.
The Pilot:
We start with the traditional opening for Twin Peaks, a speech from The Log Lady. Now in any other circumstance a woman sitting in front of a fire place holding a log would be enough to turn to another channel and watch NightLine. Yet, Lynch pulls us in with her. She's just off beat enough to keep us watching. Then he throws us to the wolves. With in the first three minutes we are given the introduction to the most famous dead girl in TV history, the sweet Homecoming Queen Laura Palmer. To quote the show, "She's dead. Wrapped in plastic." Thus begins our little adventure.
Most TV pilots don't really do the rest of the show justice. They are viewed and re-viewed by a bunch of men at high studio levels, and edited according to their whims. For some reason David Lynch was given a pass when it came to that. This isn't an ordinary pilot. It's almost a mini-movie. We are given introductions to the vast cast, find out who is sleeping with who (and who isn't), and discover that the sweet Homecoming Queen isn't who she pretended to be.
Dale Cooper, the FBI agent, is our tour guide. He knows nothing about Twin Peaks, and is given the grand tour of it's local weirdos. He also has a thing for pie. Cherry to be specific. In most ways he's our comic relief, and our driving force.
Show #1
Laura's been dead for 48 hours, and the town has begun to calm down. We've discovered that Laura wasn't the "nice girl", and we've also discovered she was cheating on her boyfriend.
This is where the odd things start to happen. Laura's mother is taking her death very hard, and has a vision of a creepy man sitting at the end of her couch. We are given a quick terrifying glimpse of this man, but we think nothing of it. Grief does weird things to people, right?
Cooper is still going through the interview process, so mostly we think this is just any other murder mystery. However, The Log Lady shows up and says that her log will have something to say about this one day. No one takes her seriously. Why would you? I mean, she's a crazy lady that thinks her log can talk to her.
So that's it so far.
This will last for a while because there are nine disks total. I may take a break toward the weekend, but we shall see. I will spoil the ending, but I'll make sure I post a spoiler alert just in case anyone hasn't seen it and wants to.
The Pilot:
We start with the traditional opening for Twin Peaks, a speech from The Log Lady. Now in any other circumstance a woman sitting in front of a fire place holding a log would be enough to turn to another channel and watch NightLine. Yet, Lynch pulls us in with her. She's just off beat enough to keep us watching. Then he throws us to the wolves. With in the first three minutes we are given the introduction to the most famous dead girl in TV history, the sweet Homecoming Queen Laura Palmer. To quote the show, "She's dead. Wrapped in plastic." Thus begins our little adventure.
Most TV pilots don't really do the rest of the show justice. They are viewed and re-viewed by a bunch of men at high studio levels, and edited according to their whims. For some reason David Lynch was given a pass when it came to that. This isn't an ordinary pilot. It's almost a mini-movie. We are given introductions to the vast cast, find out who is sleeping with who (and who isn't), and discover that the sweet Homecoming Queen isn't who she pretended to be.
Dale Cooper, the FBI agent, is our tour guide. He knows nothing about Twin Peaks, and is given the grand tour of it's local weirdos. He also has a thing for pie. Cherry to be specific. In most ways he's our comic relief, and our driving force.
Show #1
Laura's been dead for 48 hours, and the town has begun to calm down. We've discovered that Laura wasn't the "nice girl", and we've also discovered she was cheating on her boyfriend.
This is where the odd things start to happen. Laura's mother is taking her death very hard, and has a vision of a creepy man sitting at the end of her couch. We are given a quick terrifying glimpse of this man, but we think nothing of it. Grief does weird things to people, right?
Cooper is still going through the interview process, so mostly we think this is just any other murder mystery. However, The Log Lady shows up and says that her log will have something to say about this one day. No one takes her seriously. Why would you? I mean, she's a crazy lady that thinks her log can talk to her.
So that's it so far.