Great discussion everybody! I'm just glad that we got 18 hours and not the alleged 8-9 hour plan. I feel the editing and pacing of The Return was perfect (no filler as well), and couldn't be happier with the amount we got. To answer your original question, I have always been of the mind that a new ...

It was only in editing that Lynch decided on 18 as the magic number. I don't believe this to be correct. At least the number 18 was being thrown around a lot, even before production started. https://collider.com/twin-peaks-season-3-gets-expanded-18-episode-order/ I do recall that, but I thought Lyn...

His first appearance onscreen hints at how he could have played it. Embedding seems to be disabled for this video, but here's the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3lDx8vsVDQ And also when Lynch reclaimed/righted him in episode 29. Another glimpse of what might have been. Isn't it also noted s...

I don't think that type of meta narrative is anything David Lynch does with his works. Twin Peaks has always had a meta-aspect about it, beginning with Lynch as director of the film and Cole as director of the FBI, and The Return is a very playful piece of cinema in that way. There's Rancho Rosa an...

I always took that in that way, yeah. The maddeningly long scenes of him doing what we perceive at the time as nonsensical doodling then turning out to contain deeper meaning feels like some kind of near-satire of himself, even. Yeah, and Bushnell's "you've really given me a lot to think about...

I don't think that type of meta narrative is anything David Lynch does with his works. Twin Peaks has always had a meta-aspect about it, beginning with Lynch as director of the film and Cole as director of the FBI, and The Return is a very playful piece of cinema in that way. There's Rancho Rosa an...

There's also the option that, purely from a narrative perspective, this is what they saw as compelling material that justified itself thematically. I don't really see either of them as preoccupied with what critics think or audiences expect, and from what I've seen of how Frost phrases things (eg h...

I'm not sure they accomplished their goal of being revolutionary TV again, only because so many prestige shows over the past 10-15 years were already heavily influenced by TP and the mystery box aspect with maybe different timelines, maybe different universes, flash backs you don't know if they are...

The all digital, all bright, even lighting makes it look cheap and sterile. The few flashbacks to FWWM or the original series highlight how much warmer and lived in the world of Twin Peaks seemed. It all feels like a set in The Return. Of course the dodgy green screening, intentional or not (and I ...

I mentioned it in a season 2 ep thread, but I really enjoy the Andy/Dick rivalry that turns into a genuine friendship that basically doesn't even factor Lucy into the equation. It's probably the most charming subplot of the down stretch of season 2. I also wish Windom Earle was a serious villain in...

I will say, Sarah smashing that photo would have made for a uniquely haunting, visceral conclusion to Part 17 - albeit one similar in intensity to the conclusions of the screaming girl in 15 and the Audrey smash cut in 16 - but it was apparently important for Lynch to add Laura's disappearance righ...

You are correct! I completely missed those few blurry frames of the gun in Cowboy 2’s hand. Hrrm. Also note that in the “Behind the Curtain” material, Kyle rehearses the scene (in a T shirt) and picks up two guns (or mimes picking up two guns; it’s not clear from the angle if the guns are actually ...

I never specifically logged the white horse, or made the Billy connection, but I have mentioned the two guns thing, and have wondered the same thing regarding the breakdown of multiple realities. I could be wrong, but I thought we could trace where both the 2nd and 3rd cowboys' guns are on the floo...

Finished my weekly, Sunday rewatch, replicating the original airing. I know this must have been semi-said before in discussions of Cole's info-dump at the very beginning of Part 17, but this time it really struck me that the plan that he was concealing from Albert for 25 years - which Lynch is hilar...

On a positive note, Paul Thomas Anderson is currently directing a film with an ensemble cast set in the seventies that isn't being shot primarily on studio lots. Apparently everyone not in the shot wears a mask, including Anderson himself, and everyone gets tested weekly. Another positive developme...