The Official Good Television Thread

[rms]

Best part about gray scale is that simply picking at it removes it completely from the body LOL. This dude has apparently never played an RPG before

 

[Phylactery]

So I finally got around to starting watching the original Twin Peaks. However, I think the pilot episode I saw had more in it than it should have because reading about it, it doesn't mention what I saw in the last 20 minutes.

Spoiler

Cooper gets a phone call from a mystery guy that turns out to be Mike and then they meet at a hospital and they find Bob in the basement who explains what thhe letters were for and then Mike kills him. Then it flashes forward 25 years with this weird scene with Cooper, a weird dwarf and someone that looks like Laura Palmer. Can someone explain if I was supposed to have seen this or not.

 

[rms]

Are you watching the new twin peaks?

 

[Phylactery]

No. The first season.

 

[rms]

Everything but Bob and the letters sounds right. That isn't familiar to me atm

 

[CiG]

So I finally got around to starting watching the original Twin Peaks. However, I think the pilot episode I saw had more in it than it should have because reading about it, it doesn't mention what I saw in the last 20 minutes.

Spoiler

Cooper gets a phone call from a mystery guy that turns out to be Mike and then they meet at a hospital and they find Bob in the basement who explains what thhe letters were for and then Mike kills him. Then it flashes forward 25 years with this weird scene with Cooper, a weird dwarf and someone that looks like Laura Palmer. Can someone explain if I was supposed to have seen this or not.

http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/twin-peaks-pilot-17022

Endings again: Frost and Lynch shot another 20 minutes winding it all up for foreign markets who wanted a standalone product. (And presumably for ABC, who probably wanted a TV movie to air if they didn’t pick up the expensive pilot.) Included in this DVD set, it’s a pretty lousy finale, if only because it breaks a cardinal rule of the mystery genre by introducing a killer we’ve never seen before. But in it lie the roots of the Bob/Mike characters and the whole backwoods mythology that would be so important for the show in episodes to come. Lynch also recycled the weird coda as the dream sequence in the series’ second episode.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

So I finally got around to starting watching the original Twin Peaks. However, I think the pilot episode I saw had more in it than it should have because reading about it, it doesn't mention what I saw in the last 20 minutes.

Spoiler

Cooper gets a phone call from a mystery guy that turns out to be Mike and then they meet at a hospital and they find Bob in the basement who explains what thhe letters were for and then Mike kills him. Then it flashes forward 25 years with this weird scene with Cooper, a weird dwarf and someone that looks like Laura Palmer. Can someone explain if I was supposed to have seen this or not.

That's the international version of the pilot.

 

[Phylactery]

Thanks, makes sense then. I've watched the first 4 episodes so far and I'm really enjoying it. I was just confused as fuck with the last 20 minutes of the pilot. The things that happen there don't get mentioned again for a while.

 

[Phylactery]

I finished the first season of Twin Peaks and thought it was pretty great. I was expecting it to be a bit more batshit crazy than it ended up being, but it's still quite bizarre. Lots of interesting characters, and of course I love the dark undertones of most of their storylines. I'm not really fond of Andy and Lucy, while most people probably find their social awkwardness and ineptness endearing, I just find them to be irritating. Then there's Audrey who's definitely one of the more interesting and bizarre characters, but I can't figure out how I feel about her yet. I hope season 2 develops her character further. That goes for Cooper as well, there's definitely more to find out about him, probably has some dark and troubled past.

Watched the first episode of season 2 as well, and what the fuck, that old man at the start

 

[CiG]

I know you.

The one character I fucking hated was Nadine.

 

[Phylactery]

I hate the way they pronounce her name. Nay-dine, I've never heard it said like that.

But yeah, she's fucking mental.

 

[CiG]

I actually have a cousin named Nadine and we pronounce it that way too, I never really considered an alternative, what would it be?

 

[Phylactery]

This is the only way I've ever heard it said.

 

[CiG]

Oh, I see. I think I have heard this pronunciation. Where it almost sounds like it should be written as N'Dine.

I always just assumed it was a product of different accents.

 

[Vilden]

I finished the first season of Twin Peaks and thought it was pretty great. I was expecting it to be a bit more batshit crazy than it ended up being, but it's still quite bizarre. Lots of interesting characters, and of course I love the dark undertones of most of their storylines. I'm not really fond of Andy and Lucy, while most people probably find their social awkwardness and ineptness endearing, I just find them to be irritating. Then there's Audrey who's definitely one of the more interesting and bizarre characters, but I can't figure out how I feel about her yet. I hope season 2 develops her character further. That goes for Cooper as well, there's definitely more to find out about him, probably has some dark and troubled past.

Watched the first episode of season 2 as well, and what the fuck, that old man at the start

The second season is abit more "out there" than the first, which you probably noticed when watching the first episode already.

I didn't really like Audrey when I started watching the series, but nowdays I think she is my favorite female character in the show (favorite male is Cooper obv). Definitely interesting and lots going on with her.

Nadine is probably the worst character alright, along with Donna, and Dick. Tbh alot of the side stories are mostly annoying and I sometimes which they skipped alot of it, but at the same time, they set the tone of the town and it's characters.

 

[rms]

After learning who the killer is I highly recommend skipping the episodes until you see Heather Grahams character appear. The middle of s2 is almost as bad as the reboot

 

[CiG]

I fucking love Bobby.

 

[Phylactery]

After learning who the killer is I highly recommend skipping the episodes until you see Heather Grahams character appear. The middle of s2 is almost as bad as the reboot

Yeah, but you're overly negative about everything ever . I can't just skip several episodes, I won't know what's happened. Suppose I could read about them but I'd prefer to watch.

 

[rms]

Haha you'll see how storyline means very little after the reveal

 

[CiG]

Yeah just watch it, don't skip anything.

@rms are you still watching the new series?