Gabriel wrote:Actually, I wonder if this represents a fresh start for Mr Lynch, rather than a swansong. Inland Empire, perhaps, was a kind of 'creative closet cleaning exercise' a few years before making an 18-hour Twin Peaks film. I suspect Lynch will continue to find a welcoming home in the modern world of subscription cable TV and VOD. Lynch's old VOD website was a great idea, but was ahead of its time by about a decade. The only way I could watch his website stuff was at work – I didn't even know have dial-up in my flat at the time.
I can well imagine Netflix or Amazon Prime jumping attempt the chance to make a David Lynch movie or TV show. And, face it, if Twin Peaks impresses the network and audience enough, they'll want more, be it a continuation or spin-off. At that point, it boils down to whether Lynch would want to become an overseer or continue co-writing and directing them all.
I know I'm being redundant (since there was a whole other thread devoted to this haha) but I just gotta reiterate how difficult it is for me to envision any scenario in which Lynch accepts an overseer role of a continuing Twin Peaks. Whenever he talks about the first experience going south, he also emphasizes two things above all else: the forced killer's reveal, obviously, and second only to that his inability to control the final product (can't find the exact quote on the other directors at the moment but something to the effect of "they were really good, but still it isn't the way you'd do it.") Unless Lynch completely lacks self-awareness, and I don't think he does, he has to realize that the showrunner role doesn't suit him and that he's pretty much an all-or-nothing type of artist. A Twin Peaks that he didn't take direct responsibility for as a writer/director of every episode would quickly get away from him just as the other one did.
If I'm wrong about that I think I'd be ok with the idea of a continuing Twin Peaks in which Lynch didn't direct every episode (after all the first series is only 20% Lynch-directed and it's probably my favorite TV show) BUT I would really hope that a) the seasons are much shorter than the ABC s2 episode order of 22 (as I'm sure they would be in this day and age), b) that they are written and shot like this season apparently has been, not delivered before the end is in sight and most importantly c) he directs the finale of each season, which could serve as an effective conclusion if the series doesn't continue after said season.
My biggest fear, honestly? That after this new season - which I fully expect to be the most brilliant, consistent part of Twin Peaks we've yet experienced (normally I wouldn't want to set myself up for disappointment, but I feel pretty confident in that assessment) - the show drifts out of Lynch's control and keeps going for years and (God forbid) he is eventually unable to direct the final episodes and so the saga ends on an anticlimactic, undeserving, very un-Lynchian note. A whimper rather than a bang.
Endings are important to me. They aren't dealbreakers, l but I like the way Twin Peaks ends now and am nervous about the prospect of a strong, powerful, cathartic ending being taken away. And aside from everything else that's the #1 reason I kinda think I don't want more Twin Peaks after this new season and definitely don't want more Twin Peaks that Lynch can't control.