Any chance Annie was written out? I assumed also Donna Hayward is dead since Moira and Lara Flynn not in the cast, and no word of recast.
More guesses: Amanda Seyfried playing Lucy and Andy’s daughter.
Annie was probably written out-- she wasn’t that important. No one is in the cast list on IMDb as Donna, and Lara Flynn Boyle isn’t even making a one-episode appearance, so who knows? Alicia Witt is reappearing as Donna’s youngest sister, though a role she actually played when she was just a child.
I thought about it off and on and figured I know it well enough and decided not to. Then, I realized that they may, and probably will, bring up post reveal stuff which I don’t remember very well since I sometimes don’t watch the last few episodes.
I watched it about 2 years ago and I don’t remember if I watched the entire thing. A few years before that I did watch it all. I haven’t seen FWWM in probably 15+ years and honestly don’t remember it at all. In fact, the few snippets of it that I do remember, I usually just assume were from the show until I realize that they’re not.
Depending on what tonight’s episode(s) look like, I may rewatch it all between now and next week.
Which brings me to something I’d like to suggest:
The title suggests this is going to be one thread per episode, which is fine, I always prefer that, but it also says ‘open spoilers after it airs’. Since Season 1, Season 2 and Fire Walk With Me have already aired could we work on the assumption that everyone has seen them, is familiar with them and just have them be ‘open’ as well. I’d hate to have to put half the discussion in spoilers because someone doesn’t know who killed Laura or what the deal with BOB is.
If they want to participate, great, but I don’t think we should hold back because their netflix queue has let a 26 year old TV show go in and out of it like 5 times now. The show is currently available to anyone that can watch the new season and it’s easy to binge in a short time.
I am so freaking excited for this. Cherry pie and coffee all around!
ETA: I hope it starts with “Previously on Twin Peaks”…
I agree. I don’t even think we need spoilers for the diary because someone didn’t read it.
I haven’t seen FWWM since it was in the theaters, so I just went back and read the Wikipedia plot summary. I was surprised how much I’d confabulated it with the show: you’d think Laura alive = FWWM, but I confused a lot of flashbacks with the movie.
I’m just going to be done with 2:5 when the new one starts, but I think I’m OK. I haven’t seen it since its first run, so I quickly read episode recaps on IMDb, and I’m pretty sure I remember the ending pretty well, because it’s been discussed to death in many places over the years.
Got cherry pie! Unlike in 1990, though, I have to get up tomorrow morning, so, no coffee. Boychik is in bed. DH is going to watch too.
Okay then. Opinions?
Weird, but thats expected.
Well, it didn’t creep me out like the original did. The original had me checking my closets for Killer Bob, double-checking all my locks and windows, &c., and I lived on a third-floor walk-up, with a downstairs security door, and security fire escapes.
I feel perfectly safe now (of course, I don’t live alone), but I didn’t get the heebie-jeebies from it, which I was kinda looking forward to. I haven’t had a good scare since the original Japanese Ringu.
I don’t know if it’s because I’m not 23, or if it’s because the show was weaker-- or just different-- though. Maybe at 50, I just don’t scare as easily.
BTW, Sheryl Lee was born the same year I was, so if she’s not 50, she’s close. Damn! She’s like, 5 years younger than Jean Stapleton when All in the Family premiered in 1968.
The one thing that I think everyone pretty much expected was that Cooper was still in the red room and evil-Cooper has been running around raising hell.
It looks like it may be taking a sci-fi turn but there was some of that in the original.
And what happened to poor James?
I’m now watching the second run…
Seeing Catherine Coulson was depressing. She died during filming and it’s pretty obvious that she’s not well during that scene.
Sure enough, Cooper’s doppelganger has become a master criminal. Interesting that he had access to the FBI’s database. I wonder who he was talking to, if it wasn’t Philip Jeffries.
Good to see Al Strobel again. Always liked his speech from Season 1.
Wait a minute. I see four episodes available, not two. It’s going to be a long night…
The second two hours are a repeat.
I just had a thought. Maybe it was obvious to everyone else but I just realized something.
Before killing Darya, evil-Cooper told her that he had a plan to keep from having to return to the Black Lodge. He must be the reclusive billionaire who’s funding the project in NYC.
He’s spent 25 years coming up with a plan to stay out of the lodge and gathering the resources to carry out that plan.
Correction. Showtime showed the 2 premier episodes twice on their regular channel, but On Demand lists 4 episodes. Time for some damn fine coffee (or whatever shit I have in the kitchen).
And that, kids, is How I Met Your Mother.
In my area, it’s on three times in a row, they’re running it from 8pm Central to 2 am. Same with next Sunday, 3 2-hour (double) episodes. That’s as far out as my guide data takes me (WRT to Sunday nights).
Pretty decent. A lot of mystery so far, not much story, but they seem to be willing to take the time to get to where they’re going. I’m not disappointed, but it does seem like it’s probably better to expect a strong season rather than strong episodes.
Minor reactions:
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[li]Interesting to see who has aged 25 years and who hasn’t.[/li][li]Andy looks like he’s pregnant, but surprisingly he doesn’t seem to have balded any more in 25 years than he already was? I didn’t think that’s how baldness worked?[/li][li]Michael Cera’s casting is brilliant, and he was hillarious. Though, I have no idea what he’s supposed to be.[/li][li]Agent Rawr is Rawr. I hope she survives through the series.[/li][li]Even including all the sci-fi and magic, the idea that Dougie ends up married to Naomi Watts is spectacularly unbelievable. I’m hoping that they have some form of explanation.[/li][li]I’m curious about the 90’s TV quality special effects. I’m not certain if they were just trying to keep with the style of the original show, or if part of the deal with David Lynch, to give him full freedom, was a tiny SFX budget? I was able to adjust my expectations to match, by the time they got to the flying box, but it’s sort of a let-down that we’re getting budget Twin Peaks instead of full-scale Twin Peaks.[/li][/ul]
I’ve seen the first 4 episodes now (I won’t discuss 3 & 4 in this thread) and I have to say that I’m more than pleased and, for me at least, the plot doesn’t seem near as hard to follow as many people on the web seem to think.
It…appears an error has been made and 4 episodes are available? Is this intentional?
Just watched episodes 3 and 4 and I’m loving every moment. It’s as if Lynch is leaving his audience one gigantic 18-hour movie before he dies, no punches pulled, pure Lynchian hard-on insanity that makes Inland Empire look totally understandable. It’s his legacy to the world and this time there are no concessions to networks or studios.
I think this will be very hard if not impossible for the average viewer to get into. And I don’t think David Lynch gives a shit about that nor should he.
I noticed this as well, but assumed it was an intentional stylistic choice. I have no problem with it at all; I think it lends an air of “other-worldliness” that’s entirely appropriate.