What I will say (without evidence) is that I think if the TV show didn't exist, no one would care about the books, and the only reason anyone cares about the books is the TV show. Sure, but there's plenty of things I never would have checked out had the TV show not alluded to them, for instance, a ...

Retcons such as these can also be chalked up to the fact that people lie. Frost's books have some new twists on fact in them that, also, can only be logically explained away as the characters, as we see them on screen, not being forthright with info in the public setting that is often the camera's a...

I'm okay with no more, because much as FWWM and The Return have shown, it's not going to resolve or answer remaining mysteries and questions, and it will just bring up a bunch of new mysteries and questions that will never get a resolution. I don't see the problem with that, especially given the or...

But ultimately I think it's lacking the humanity that made people fall in love with TP.... I think a lot of why people fell in love with TP is not having to do with humanity or realism, actually, but fantasy. There's a lot in the original show that is a kind of too eager to entertain wish fulfillme...

Haven't read Antkind yet (sitting in my pile!) but wow, 'i'm thinking of ending things' has been the first thing since TP S3 where I'm constantly gravitating back to thinking about it, sometimes without even knowing it. As someone who's totally clueless about theater, I didn't even realize that the ...

I mean, Lynch and Cruise have had time to fall out, patch things up (prior to her effusive Gold Box DVD interview), and then inexplicably fall out again over her screentime in TR? Cruise seems a little all over the place.. No kidding. In fact they're actually (last I checked) back on good terms, bu...

No idea, but it's been fascinating to see the subtle evolution of the structure of the reports. I love the little Lynchisms he does now between the current temp and later day forecast.

I can relate to the regret re the Palmer house ending scene, but then again, it certainly was a unique way to experience it. The realization of how little time was left and yet we still hadn't seen a short-hair common-clothes Laura was palpable, adding to the sense of time running out. Then when we ...

I'm in the same boat. In fact it's dawned on me over time that a lot of the humor in S3, to me, feels very in line with what On the Air should have been, re the execution of that style of humor. In S3 I find the extremely casual performative aspect of it (where puns fly under the radar to the point...

Yeah, I'm in the minority camp of "bitterly disappointed with Season 3." Those characters epitomized the boring, masturbatory nature of much of the season, and its bent for dumb, unfunny comedy. Even a grade-B Original Twin Peaks character like Hank Jennings was more entertaining. I'm con...

It's striking how the perspective changes with the setting. Not a single person I've watched season 3 with has had any reaction but love for those characters. Yeah, I'm in the minority camp of "bitterly disappointed with Season 3." Those characters epitomized the boring, masturbatory natu...

It's striking how the perspective changes with the setting. Not a single person I've watched season 3 with has had any reaction but love for those characters.

pinballmars wrote:Any director who releases 5+ hours of himself working behind the scenes is not conflicted at all when it comes to attention.

That might have been something Showtime wanted in order to sell home media releases. But absolutely, he clearly loves being on camera. I mean, he's on Youtube every day!

I noticed something kinda fun, sort of interesting in a totally unimportant way. Others have probably noticed it before, but I swear I hadn't and had to rewind a few times just to make sure I was hearing it right. We see Big Ed for the first time, and then Walter walks in and asks what his name is ...

Wow, interesting ideas here, in what has sort of turned into a psychoanalyzing Lynch through TP exercise. :) I'll add one thing, which is to challenge the kind of "old material" amnesia that I feel happens to me and that I feel I see in others, which is that when Lynch guest spotted on the...