eyeboogers wrote:
I truly hope that many of you are able to return to the return in a few years with fresh eyes and open minds.
I think that's both quite nice and slightly condescending at the same time, which is an interesting combination.
It's really no different than heading to the "profoundly satisfied"-thread, posting "I really hope that many of you are able to return to the return in a few years, with a more logical, rational open mind, free of the closed off world limited by the heavy confirmation bias that trapped you in an 'emperors new clothes' mind set" this time around. Open your mind and eyes, and see this failure for what it really is".
After having listened to countless podcasts and YouTubers trying to figure out the meaning of every little thing, as well as the 'deeper meaning' behind it, we now have Lynch saying exactly what the detractors have been saying all along. It doesn't really mean much of anything.
As he keeps repeating, these are simply *ideas* that happened to occur to Lynch, and he thought they were cool, they felt good, he liked the images.
In the end he hopes that it all ties together somewhat, but that is not a requirement for him.
So unless the world presented in The Return FEELS appealing and the ideas strike you as really awesome, then this going to be a very boring , slow paced, uninspired series, and waiting another decade or two is unlikely to change that.
What went wrong in my view is that Lynch has simply lost his touch. After MANY years on the planet and in the business, with long periods of time between projects to boot. He has had a fantastic run.
The ability to tell a truly compelling idea from something that should immediately be labeled 'not good enough', as opposed to, as he puts it "any idea is a gift". That's where this director, now in his 70s, pales in comparison to his younger self. He can still get ideas, and he can be focused enough to tell his actors exactly what he wants. It's his judgement that is severely failing.
And now, as expected, you have Twin Peaks fans on youtube for instance, wondering why TPTR was snubbed at the Golden Globes, in all seriousness giving MAIN reasons such as "They didn't give as many fruit baskets as some of the other shows"....without a hint of irony incredibly!
It really wasn't very good. It wasn't a very inspired nor entertaining piece of work.
I hope we see a season 4, because I think just by chance, by simply a more fortunate roll of the "Lynch idea dice" we'd likely get a better TP if they gave it another shot.