The REAL Goobusters posted:

Oh poo poo so spirits and poo poo really do teleport through electrical currents.

romanowski posted:

is there like no music in this show? there have been several scenes that feel like there's supposed to be music but they're silent aside from dialogue and sound effects and it feels like there's supposed to be music but it's not playing. am i crazy??

FauxLeather posted:

This is so loving awesome. I don't think they could've done a better job so far, everything's coming together beautifully and the season has its own unique tone, humour and identity to it. The sound design is amazing, too. It really gets into your bones.

From Episode 4 I'm not too sold on the Michael Cera scene though? Seemed a little bit weird and stilted in a way that makes me think I'll need to rewatch it a few times just to get what they were going for. Hell, it's Lynch. I'll learn to love it like I learned to like the weird James Hurley romance side-story in S2.

glasses-idiot posted:

that brando impression though

bobkatt013 posted:

It's a connection with the lodge. his wearing it made it seem like he belonged there.

eSporks posted:

That was kinda my understanding too. One armed man definately throws it at her intended to help her. It doesn't exactly help dougie though, so i dunno.

Rageaholic Monkey posted:

Speaking of things being carried over from other Lynch shows, am I crazy or was the nightmare demon lady from Mulholland Drive also in the start of episode 2?




Or are those different characters? They just looked really similar to me. I was thinking "Wow, does all Lynch's stuff actually exist in the same universe or something?" when I saw that.

Section 9 posted:

Michael Anderson: "I want nothing to do with this and I am crazy now!"
Twin Peaks: "We are replacing you with a weird tree."

spudsbuckley posted:

Yeah, think I might be done after 2 and a bit episodes. It's nigh on unwatchable.

It feels like Lynch managed to scam a bunch of money off of execs, high on nostalgia, to produce the show and spent it all on coke and hookers and then got a bunch of second year film students that are really into his style to produce a show as cheaply as humanly possible.

spudsbuckley posted:

Hey, I'm with you on that.

I enjoyed the other two seasons but this is in the FWWM vein of film school wankery. I'm glad y'all are enjoying it because this type of thing doesn't come around very often but I'm finding it utterly loving terrible.

Ginette Reno posted:

I wouldn't say I loved it but I didn't hate it either. It's so much more like FWWM than the show, so if you came expecting more Twin Peaks you're probably gonna be largely disappointed. Lynch wasn't joking when he said the movie would be important. What he meant by that was the show would be a lot more like the movie than the old show.

My main critique with the first two episodes is there was way too much crazy poo poo. The lodge stuff kinda bores me when they spend too long on it. The original Twin Peaks worked well because they had crazy poo poo happening a lot but they also sandwiched that between some level of groundedness and normality. These first two episodes were just a crazy train ride 24/7 more in the vein of Mulholland Drive or Lost Highway. I feel like Lynch's crazy/surreal stuff works more when he reigns it in a bit and doesn't constantly bombard you with it.

But there's 18 hours of this so we'll see how long he stays in crazy town or if he brings it in a bit ever.

Gazpacho posted:

The ring and garmonbozia were not in the TV show but the owl symbol on the ring appeared in the last few (post-hiatus) episodes

Magic Hate Ball posted:

It's weird that people are getting hung up on the purpose of the glass box.

business hammocks posted:

The obscured nudity in front of the glass box struck me as weird given that Lynch fired tv Donna for suggesting that they could do the bar scene in Fire Walk With Me without her getting her boobs out. I guess he is mercurial about boobs.

fromsinkingsands posted:

I thoroughly enjoyed the original Twin Peaks but this new season isn't doing it for me. I have a feeling there was no one around that had the balls to tell David Lynch "No".

fromsinkingsands posted:

I know, right? We could totally use two more episodes of Cooper trying to function in society.

precision posted:

Some David Lynch fans seem to have this weird obsession with eating each other alive over which of his projects are "good" and which are "bad", and even project that onto others by implying that most fans of Lynch are fans of everything he's done, to some degree or other. Like, it's possible to be down with both The Straight Story and Inland Empire, it really is.

That said my favorite thing of his, ever, are the LA weather updates he posted every day on YouTube for like 2 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDAhO4RE_A4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9EmiQc6Fr0

Shoehead posted:

Didn't Miike make a live action Phoenix Wright?

bornbytheriver posted:

vivisectvnv posted:

i was wondering about that as well, but there is another clearer shot later in the episode, and it's like a little tieback hair pin thingy

saints gambit posted:

I think the genius part of it is that while all the really odd Lynchian stuff is going on the key thematically is in the more conventional throwaway standard TV parts. Lucy is so concerned about what is going on with the thermostat when they're not there. Lucy doesn't understand mobile phones. What happens when they're not there for 25 years is you don't get to experience or understand mobile phones. I never really thought about what makes Lynch's directorial style so menacing. It's just the patience. Longer than average set up shots or long shots of a hallway with a single figure walking towards the camera. The impression that absent the director that shot goes on indefinitely. It's the totality of the empty space when it's not being observed. On a long enough timeline something is going to happen everywhere so the entirety of the direction is exhausting because while there may never be a jump scare, you're always braced for it. Similarly, if you watched the same public space long enough there would be comedy, tragedy, romance, etc. It's incredibly voyeuristic and goes some way to explaining the tonal shift in the original series. In the same way Lucy wants to know what happens to the thermostat when she's not experiencing it directly, the audience wants to know what happened to all the characters regardless of the tone of that part of the narrative. Paralleling that with the constantly recorded glass box, where the observers are only punished when they look away.

precision posted:

So when people like you type things like this, what exactly do you think you're accomplishing? Do you think I'm going to go "wait he's right, i've tricked myself until liking something"? Or are you just such an intellectual tryhard that you sincerely believe your subjective lack of enjoyment is objective truth? Or are you just an idiot?

Krinkle posted:

Why did they do this. I'm so confused. This was awful.

1000 umbrellas posted:

Not hearing/reading anyone react to the deplorable CG and green screening except for some "that's so Lynch!" here and there. I disagree. Lynch's capacity for the surreal and even the exaggerated has always been upheld by strong, believable special effects, starting with the baby in Eraserhead and extending through some of the most violent scenes in his oeuvre. When Cooper is climbing the ladder to stand on that gray box, I couldn't not turn to my partner and ask "what are we watching?" Some of the visuals are like senior film school project level of bad, and I have a hard time believing between Showtime and Lynch that every green screened scene couldn't have been done better with more traditional effects.

And if it really is "so Lynch," I guess I don't like Lynch anymore?

Slammy posted:

I love the series. Love it.

Spoilers for ep 4.


The blue filter on that last scene is distracting and beautiful. It's the most arresting scene of the episode.

Inadequate Areolas posted:

I'm with you on that. I think everything that needs to be explained is or will be as necessary.

I enjoy the absurd, abstract and spooky parts for what they are, like a weird-rear end dream... and it's not as enjoyable if I sit there and try to pick everything apart and try to rearrange it. I don't think there's a code to crack here. It's David loving Lynch.