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I'm watching it, but I can't really think of anything to say about it except that I wish Season 1 never happened. Season 2 is how it should have started and Herr Starr is wonderful.

Pacing is something that applies to the television format quite technically -- and it most certainly applies here. The original series even had it - there were proper story beats and character development with sprinkled oddities here and there in each. I could watch one episode of the original and feel I got one episode's worth of narrative traction and a better understanding of what I was watching. With this I get an episode where I spend 15 minutes watching a guy sweep the floor with a broom, or Dr. Jacoby spending just as much time painting shovels. That's not good television, and it's highly questionable as 'art' - however you want to quantify that. There are times where such things work and there are times where it feels like Lynch is taking the piss. But if you like waiting a week following something exciting in an episode only to get an episode where we linger on a guy drawing lines on documents forever then all the power to ya, I guess

A Ghost Story - 8/10 Beautifully shot movie marred by some issues in pacing and a monologue delivered by a hipster wearing overalls at a house party. Sensitive in the right places and conceptually interesting, otherwise.

Ben was on the good path by the end of Season 2, though he also suffered a blow to the head by Doc Hayward that we have yet seen addressed. I'm sure a lot of what happened there - and some notable others - won't be covered till we get The Final Dossier in October. I agree and disagree. I think the pacing here is disastrous in the TV format - obviously in account to the fact that it was shot as an 18-hour movie. As such, I don't understand why it wasn't released in full, as each episode feels like it's on the verge of meandering due to it not being tethered to the time slot. You get one bangin Part followed by a bridge Part that feels disappointing and frustrating due to the week long wait. Other than that, I like that it's this weird. I like that there's a trace DNA of the original without it being obvious.

As much as the ingredients are there for a great movie, the marketing so far has been awful. This shit looks like an action movie, and not only that, but an action movie in which the entire species is at stake -- something that is so obvious for big-budget sci-fi and also something that has been played to death. Blade Runner was never about saving humanity, it was about understanding it. The trailers so far are all about blowing it up, modernizing in such a way that I imagine was necessary to get it greenlit.

Probably not. I don't consider myself responsible for teaching them anything nor do I feel that I as an individual would be able to effectively do it -- but by the same token I feel if I just glossed over it for who they are as a person I would be enabling something that is a real issue that has an effect on the livelihoods of people, even if this person is not taking an active part in it. There's also just me not wanting to have that kind of thing in my personal life. I think for these people to change the decision has to come from themselves; they have to want to see the world/people as they actually are instead of some filtered phenomena of limited perception. And I, as a white guy who has had a very generous life, can't plant that honestly.

So genuinely good LGBT writing is just about showing erect dicks? Really? The show is great - I very much enjoy it - but if you're just checking it out because it has a hardcore gay sex scene in it then what the fuck are you doing?

BE GONE THOT - Naraku4656 sent 8:42 PM 7/23/2017

Maybe I just want you, Misaka. I want you missionary so I can get lost in those tiger eyes. Rawr lolz

I read somewhere that she signed on late so I wouldn't expect much of her. I wanna know where the fuck Big Ed is.

When you shoved me against a locker.

Well judging by your pic you're mighty enthralled with his book and I don't wanna disrupt that. Though I just might with a lil tug and run

Keep laughin, pal Won't be able to laugh when my lips got your lips entangled in a sloppy kiss

As a Texan I ask, can't it be both? That's how I done it for generations

Yes, daddy

As long as you tried, sweet baby o' mine

By that I mean make another thread on the boards where I just post music I've made [cloudset] [/cloudset]

Got my oil changed, walked outside and listened to a little over half of the album Tim by The Replacements, recorded some stuff, swiped on Tinder, thought about jerking off.

Door opens slowly, then opens and closes quickly, smoke appears suddenly inside and exits, then they appear. I don't think that's mere haunting. That's an introduction. And I mean if they didn't create Laura as an orb and sent her to Washington then like wtf else could it have been? And I'd argue that even though it may not explicitly explain BOB, it does recontextualize him in a way that is less mysterious. It can generate more questions but it's also generating a lot of answers. The jury's still out on whether or not Part 8 will make sense by the time it's all over, but by itself it does tell a narrative and it's very much designed like an origin story.

Not constructing the store, but constructing the Lodge within the store. The strobe lights are inside the store as well as the smoke. But after re-watching it, it looks more like they're exiting the store. It's more likely to be the area's portal like Glastonberry Grove or the glass box. Also I believe they mention giant human-owl sightings in Secret History going back to Lewis & Clark. Not for sure on that, but there's also the matter of the cave drawings depicting The Giant and The Man From Another Place.

I mentioned the Lodge's Native origin in my initial post on the subject. What do you think the convenience store scene is if not a construction?

What points to the Woodsman existing before the bomb? I assumed the whole point of them being covered in ash was due to the bomb. I also thought it was apparent that the convenience store scene was them constructing The Black Lodge. Of course it's up in the air as to what it means exactly but that's what it looked like. BOB is definitely the only spirit shown in Twin Peaks to be truly malicious -- at least to the point to where he can leave the Lodge at will. The only other is spirit is MIKE, but he was never as powerful as BOB. BOB is his own thing. Edit: Though I suppose it's possible that the ash people were once good spirits only covered in ash after the bomb dropped making them evil and effectively turning the White Lodge into Black. whut ::spin::

I liked this Part -- it's obviously very visually arresting and wonderfully cold. But I'm not sold on how it aims to explain BOB and The Black Lodge. BOB was/is a force made even more powerful by being a mystery; he was beyond comprehension, and the only thing that could describe him was that he was "the evil that men do." One of my favorite lines is the one in which he declares, "I have the fury of my own momentum." It was a terrifying declaration because we didn't know what he was. He was as dangerous as the void. He was chaos. And you can't comprehend that, not fully. Besides defanging BOB as vomit from a burping demon, there's also the creation of The Lodge -- a place that was intriguing because we didn't know why it was, only that it ran concurrently within our reality in a different space. There's The Black Lodge and The White Lodge, and as Hawk recalls in Season 2, it's a place that was referenced by his people long ago with the Owl Cave featuring ancient markings of Lodge symbology, and the Owl Ring going as far back as the colonial era (this being explored in The Secret History of Twin Peaks). This conflicts with what we're shown in Part 8, that The Black Lodge broke through the atom bomb in the 50's and that BOB came about because of it, birthed from a mother. The mystery and intrigue of the nature of these worlds built with subtle mythology explained... and explained with an event that's quite obvious. The Native spirituality aspect of The Lodge gave it more character. It felt ancient and old with an otherworldy wisdom in its existence. If revealing Laura's killer was killing the goose laying the golden eggs then I wonder how explaining BOB/The Lodge didn't kill the other goose in Lynch's mind. Besides this, I didn't care much for Laura being a golden orb sent down specifically to counteract BOB in some universal battle. It takes the bite out of what was so endearing about the original series in that it was a small town caught up in something beyond the limits, and that someone precious to them was taken away by it without reason - the way it is in reality. TP gave us a visualization of it, it was subtle and simple but understandable. We knew it was evil. It was here before us. Now it feels like Laura is Neo taking on Agent Smith. It's charmless and basic. I also feel like they're leaning towards retconing the ending of FWWM in Laura finding peace. Looks like she's still in it in some form, reincarnated or not. It's a bummer because that ending is so wonderful that it should be preserved. The ripples of her death should obviously still exist in TP but with her actually being in the town once again.... fuck. Otherwise I loved it. I loved the Woodsman, even though the ash people only now showing up and being so important in this universe feels a little out of place. The scene where they appear and 'heal' Mr. C was delightfully creepy. The synth plucking of Moonlight Sonata felt grotesque.

I believe it was the exact same except the smile and GIF format. Good stuff either way.

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