Just in time for my birthday!
Looks to be the entire season as well, with 6 DVDs in the set. There was talk that the season would be released in two sets, one up to the resolution of the Laura Palmer mystery and the second for the remainder.
Any word on special features?
I just remember Bob, crawling over the couch toward the camera. Bob in the corner of the bedroom. Agh! Bob! They could not have designed that guy to be more upsetting.
I didn’t find that scene the most disturbing at all.
But then I had already guessed who Bob was by reading Laura Palmer’s Secret Diary.
God how I loved Twin Peaks. The second series is quite disappointing though - way too many subplots and hardly any loose ends get tied up by the time it finishes. But that’s David Lynch for you.
I need to see a pic of the guy - I haven’t seen him since I saw the show - I want to know if he is as disturbing as I remember.
Yes, he’s freaky.
By the way, my wife and I just started watching this for the first time since it was on TV. What a well-timed thread!
Have they worked out the copyright issues with the pilot? I seem to recall reading that you could only get it on an import CD, and the sound quality was terrible.
But THE BEST thing about season two:
Transgender David Duchovney, and Cooper taking it completely in stride on reunion
I have the import DVD of the pilot and I have never noticed any sound issues with it. Per the Wikipedia article the rights to the pilot are still snarled.
So no word on any extras? Are the Log Lady introductions included?
Paraphrased:
[spoiler]Bryson: “I still put my pantyhose on one leg at a time, if you know what I mean.”
Cooper: “Not really.”[/spoiler]
And Albert Rosenfield is one of the best characters ever. Not much screen time but still tremendously realized.
The scene that Otto and others have praised is probably the most powerful scene I’ve ever witnessed on television – it’s the solution to [Beauty + Horror = ?]. No one should live in this age without having seen it (in my brazen opinion).
A few weeks ago I was in a bookstore and I heard the beginning of the scene play over the store’s soundsystem(the ambient sounds, the Giant speaking while on stage, etc). Freaked me the hell OUT. Literally froze me in my tracks. The scene played out for a while (and stopped before the events got hairy) and then the usual unobtrusive electronic music returned. It was a surreal experience.
I Netflixed season one last year and it definitely was interesting. It would have been better if I had seen the pilot.
I really liked Fire Walk With Me, although the tone is a lot darker than the show and it was a little surprising.
Random piece of trivia; my wife and I walked down the aisle to a string quartet playing the theme from “Twin Peaks.” To say that we’re “big fans” is an understatement.
I agree that Season 2 is kind of a mess, and that it drops a lot of what I love about Season 1 - the humor, the “invitation to love” soap opera subplot, and so on - and it definitely loses steam after the Laura Palmer mystery is solved. But I differ from most fans and the prevailing opinion that I think it gets GREAT again when the whole White Lodge/Black Lodge subplot comes to the forefront, and that the latter half of Season 2 is probably my favorite chunk of the show’s existence. I think that if it had just been given a full third season to play out and then resolve the whole doppleganger Cooper plot, it would have been legendary.
And all of that aside, Season 2 has my absolute favorite scene from the entire series.
Has anyone seen the weird movie-length episode 1, the one that ties everything up in one neat package (ie, solves who killed Laura, etc, but not the way the series did)? Or did I imagine that?
Twin Peaks is one of my favorite tv shows of all time.
Okay, so let me make sure I understand everything here.
To watch the pilot episode, I must have it imported from abroad. Will I be able to play it on my DVD player?
I can’t imagine starting the series without watching the pilot. Are there arguments to be made against this attitude?
Season one is out now, season two is out this spring.
Season two ends on an unresolved cliffhanger.
There is a movie, Firewalk With Me, that is supposed to serve to end the series. But do people like it or not?
-FrL-
Wait, you’re referring to Maddy’s vision after the song, right? Right? 
I don’t think I’ve ever listened to that song in its entirety – I just cringe with embarrassment at James’ falsetto and all the yearning glances and Donna’s desperation and…oooooh, it hurts. But that’s just me.
However, it must be said that that scene is a great miniature for the series – from sugar to terror in under three minutes. One moment someone’s offering you candy, and the next moment someone’s grabbing you in the dark. Love it.
Here’s the clip of Maddy’s vision after the song.
You should definitely see the pilot first, and that is a bit of a problem in the States, due to copyright issues.
I think the Pilot version I bought was region free, so it should work on most, if not all, DVD players.
Season 2 does wrap up the series quite nicely. (I know, I am one of the few who thinks so).
It is sort of an open ending.
Fire Walk With Me is actually more or less a prequel, in which you get to see the last days of Laura Palmer’s life.
Don’t watch this before you have seen the entire series (or if you have a weak nervous system as it is much more disturbing then the series).
I just got the Amazon notification this morning and was going to announce it. Too slow.
I agree completely. The second season seemed to drag a bit, for the reasons you mentioned. But the last half was great. There should ahve been one more season.
You should see the last episodes of Season 1 and Season 2 of Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom. 
If for some reason one can’t obtain the import with the original pilot, then the US-released pilot movie (which was broadcast in Europe) is identical up until about the last 10-15 minutes. Better than nothing.
