Qubism wrote:Arrrrghhhh Mateys, I be finding it now! (get that bloody Parrot off me shoulfer!) Its just that in the UK some Broadband providers block Maritime websites and think we're all daft enough to sit back and accept that.... Little do they know that as Detroit's Underground Resistance said "Your failed systems will be overcome electronically"
So I found a Maritime Inlet Proxy Site, thanks everyone, DLing DL's FWWM fan edit by Q2 now and yes of course I have the blu ray boxset so this is surely like a backup (in a different order!)
I may comment when I've got it and watched it......Anyone watched that North West Passage Fan Edit? Comments, thoughts?
It was a fascinating experiment. I watched it about a year ago (before several rewatches of the series, so it's kind of been buried in my memory) and enjoyed it though I'm not sure I would say it "worked" as a standalone experience. The most interesting part to me was seeing certain aesthetic decisions, where it wasn't just a clear case of cutting stuff out but actually reshaping it - for example, showing only flashes of Bob attacking Maddy instead of the whole sequence (the idea being that we don't realize who the killer is until Cooper finds out).
Q2 also replaced the flashback to the dream with a bit of the final episode. I'm really not sure what the justification of this was but it worked kind of nicely. And ending with Cooper saying "Into the light" was very effective as a closing moment.
In fact, writing this right now makes me want to watch it again and write it up. I feel like it casts an interesting light on some things. For example, does Cooper's investigation actually work as an investigation? The way it's structured I'm not really sure one thing leads to another - it's more like a series of red herrings that offer a picture of what Laura was involved with but not necessarily who kills her.
Also, Audrey is reduced to a cameo - one irrelevant to the investigation, at that! - which is fairly misleading as to the role she played in the investigation (even if ultimately she provided a false lead).
Personally, I'm not really not keen on changing aspect ratios (it drives me kind of nuts when video essays do this just because but I'll admit it wasn't terribly distracting in this case for whatever reason. It makes you feel you are watching a different entity from the series, smoothing over the transition between episodes. One thing I remember noticing is that the various directors' episodes blended/blurred together much more than they did when I was watching the series...but Lynch's scenes stood out all the more.
Incidentally, when I saw Northwest Passage it had somehow made it to YouTube (a couple months earlier it wasn't on there). Looks like it's gone again now.