Vee
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I think Shelly had a lot more fun in Season 2. They knew Amick could do screwball comedy and they gave it to her, a lot of the stuff with Bobby and Zombie Leo early on, then Gordon Cole. She also has a great bit later on with Norma where she mocks the Miss Twin Peaks pageant. I think she became a much lighter character with Leo out of commission - granted, some of that was in place in Season 1 - but it worked for me. I also sometimes thought Shelly was too much woman for Bobby; when I was younger I thought she should have ended up with Gordon. I love Dana Ashbrook's performance today and I think Bobby definitely has his place, and it was clearly Lynch and Frost's intention to reunite them at the end of Season 2 (perhaps because they suspected they would be cancelled), and I think they're adorable in the finale. But I also kind of liked the Bobby/Audrey thing, which I am pretty sure Ashbrook and Sherilyn Fenn have both said they didn't get. (There's some about this in the Brad Dukes book, I think from both of them.) -
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My memory may be faulty but I remember Mädchen in a lot of press back then, not just the RS cover - lots of talk shows, lots of magazines, etc. I remember being mildly confounded by it as a little kid because while I liked her and Shelly a lot, my favorite back then was Maddy and I was frustrated that Sheryl Lee was not always featured with the others. On paper and often on the show, Shelly was a supporting character, especially in the second season, but Mädchen and her performance was what elevated her onscreen and in the media to more than that, and the scripts often went with it. Audrey clearly ended up becoming a lead before things went haywire and she got downgraded mid-Season 2. Catherine and Josie were more prestige and billing, plus I don't think Josie - a Lynchian female archetype - and her story worked out quite the way they had planned (Josie and Cooper was allegedly the original planned central romance, before they got Sherilyn Fenn and Kyle MacLachlan onscreen together). They were certainly into Audrey and SF by the end of Season 1 to begin planning ideas for the spinoff/telefilm for Audrey that ultimately became Mulholland Drive. Mädchen remains a favorite of Lynch, and I know he and Sherilyn Fenn patched it up long ago since FWWM. From what I have heard there's no love lost between Lara Flynn Boyle and TPTB.
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It was definitely her. The character's sort of cavalier take on life, I think, either came out of Mädchen's performance first or went hand in hand with the writing from the start. There's stuff like Shelly reenacting Leland's freakout at Laura's funeral in this hilariously perverse display for the diner patrons, or throwing a party with Bobby while the catatonic Leo sits in his chair, that sticks with me. She just doesn't give a !@#$%^&*]. She's not a bore like Donna became and she's sort of further along the moral scale than Audrey, a bit harder edged but still very plucky.
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I would hesitate to call anyone but maybe MacLachlan, Beymer and Wise confirmed so far. Even some of their statements can be read differently, as just fooling around on social media. Amick I think is a yes, as are Sheryl Lee and Catherine Coulson, but we just don't know. Ontkean is hearsay from Michael Horse. Welcome to Twin Peaks has all of the above listed as confirmed (sans Sheryl Lee) based on the info we have seen, but I need a little more to go on to be sure on them, even if I personally expect all the Palmers to be there. Including on Peggy Lipton, who I wasn't sure to expect back but who is apparently tight with Lynch to the point that most of the Dugpa folks seem to think she is a shoo-in. I personally also suspect Harry Goaz is back judging by Frost following him.
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Ray Wise appears to have confirmed the obvious on Twitter: Dugpa and various TP sites are, at least, taking that as confirmation. They appear to have MacLachlan, Amick, and Richard Beymer also down as confirmed, though that's still somewhat debatable IMO. Mark Frost appears to have followed Harry Goaz (Deputy Andy) on Twitter. Goaz is notoriously shy if not reclusive; he started out as David Lynch's driver before being cast on the show. Until now I hadn't heard a thing of him in years.
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I don't think Cooper was an !@#$%^&*]. He and Laura were the central axis of the show - he had so much of Lynch in him. In the age of today's relentlessly kooky male heroes, it's easy to look at him now and attempt to dissect him as we would some of those self-satisfied characters and see something else behind their behavior, but Cooper wasn't any of those. He isn't built like that. He had past demons, but overall he just was what he was and he had no guile about him, much like David Lynch himself. I didn't care for the Annie love story so much, but I never stopped loving Cooper. I love all the characters (okay, except James and Donna), but I think Cooper and Sheryl Lee (regardless of who she plays) are easily the two things the show would really need to come back.
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Forgive me if this has been posted: Andy Greenwald at Grantland on the return of TP and why it matters. He also reminds me that while I am 50/50 on whether Sherilyn Fenn, etc. may return, she is already doing Ray Donovan on Showtime and so would be close at hand for TP. I don't know the details but Fenn has reportedly had some rough years of late, and Lynch has apparently been a good friend to her with his transcendental meditation.
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Sheryl Lee narrates pieces of The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer - ghostwritten by Jennifer Lynch and an essential for any TP fan, a very dark, graphic piece of official ABC-licensed promotional material that was once sold up front at every major bookstore for impressionable young tots like me to read. This narration comes from, of all things, an ABC recap special hosted by Alan Thicke.
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I've begun to wonder if they may actually have Tyreese and Carol hook up on the show after all. As twisted as it is, they now seem closer to each other than almost anyone else (sans Darryl - but Darryl doesn't know the things about Carol that Ty and Rick do). I also keep thinking one or both of them have a target on their back this year, but I thought last year was Melissa McBride's last round-up too.
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They continue to hedge on Rick and Michonne in the press. Just do it!
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I believe Sonequa Martin-Green is still in the Also Starring category with Larry Gilliard (who they haven't done nearly enough with yet, so I'm hoping he's okay for now), but I may be wrong. Emily Kinney was there for years, though, as was Melissa McBride, and now they're both on the big board. Not that that means that much on TWD, but still. I am always happy to see Lennie James, but I question what it will mean. They can feel free to kill any of Abraham's people to free up space.
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After Carl's status update I expected Carol or the baby to get, like, shot in the face at the end or something. I was hoping maybe they'd take Rosita out too. Instead I almost fast-forwarded past the post-credits tag. Great show, but I continue to fear for my beautiful Sasha, who has yet to make the opening credits. This was also probably the best acting Denise Crosby has ever done, not that that's saying much (and I loved Tasha Yar).
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A hilarious and candid interview from 2012 with Julee Cruise, the voice of Twin Peaks (and Blue Velvet). Portions of this were reprinted in Brad Dukes' Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks. As per Cruise's potential involvement in the new show, I think Frost has heavily hinted that Angelo Badalamenti will return, and I personally suspect she will as well. She seems to still be friendly with Lynch - and we still have no idea what the project with him she mentions here is.
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All I know about her story there was what was mentioned in Brad Dukes' book - they mentioned that some of the stars came to the show after Season 1 and requested various changes to their characters or style or whatever. Sherilyn Fenn apparently wanted Audrey to be styled more like Katharine Hepburn versus the bobby-soxer look, and Lara Flynn Boyle allegedly was very keen on Donna becoming a more adult, sultry vixen type of heroine, a la Audrey - notable because Audrey was a) the most popular female character on the show and slated to be paired with Cooper. Donna did change in this way somewhat, particularly in the premiere where Laura's sunglasses seem to possess first her, then Maddy; she also becomes sort of darker and colder as James grows closer to Maddy and their romance fizzles out. But the sunglasses thing disappeared, and they stopped pushing with the "new" Donna almost immediately. The thing is that, IMO, Audrey was never very dark or overtly adult - everything about her character was the young girl's idea of womanhood and sexuality. She had an innocence to her even when she exuded sex, and she always had a sense of irreverence and fun. When they had Donna transition, it was not the same thing, and I always got the sense (however accurate or inaccurate) that they soured on the character too. They did try to give her the Donna/Ben subplot near the end. I think it's mentioned by someone in Dukes' book but I can't recall what. I was surprised to hear someone who would know claim on Dugpa recently that both James Marshall and Joan Chen were expected back for Season 3 (they were both filming movies). I thought the show had washed its hands of James by the end of the second year, especially after the Evelyn debacle.
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IMO nothing is ever just dropped on TP, it's just something that happens and may happen again. I don't recall if Lynch wrote the Tremonds stuff in early Season 2 - I don't believe so. He did pick it up later, and his son did play little Pierre in that episode (another child plays him in FWWM). IMDB claims Harley Peyton wrote that episode, but I vaguely recall hearing a story that that scene got tweaked a bit by Lynch or someone - maybe he added the infamous creamed corn. I think Laura's meals on wheels thing was just the Lodge spirits keeping an eye on her (as they did Teresa), but I have no clue. It also led to the Harold story. It's impossible to provide a definite explanation for most of these things - all we have is theory, and yours is as valid as anyone's. Personally I think BOB is just one of many questionable spirits in the Lodge, some good or evil or just neutral (as I suspect the dwarf is). I do think he was the renegade, but they all seemed to profit from the deaths of some other victims (like Teresa, or perhaps Josie).
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Some have theorized that that scene is the spirits talking about their coming into our world from their dimension with the ring ("intercourse between two worlds"), or something - the going theory for most people is that the ring allows them to harvest their precious "garmonbozia" (human pain and suffering) as a group from a specific person, or makes a certain soul their prey. Teresa wore it and was killed; Chet Desmond touched it and vanished, with the Man from Another Place leaving his message behind on the car windshield in the trailer park for Cooper to find ("Let's Rock"). Laura put it on and BOB was unable to claim her as his host - instead, the Lodge got her pain and suffering, and Laura hung out in the Lodge for however many decades until, one hopes, ascending at the end of FWWM when she sees the angel. Al Strobel, who played the One Armed Man, said he was told the ring was "evil". But it is, of course, all theory. And Lynch would hate for anyone to figure on one explanation (though that was often Mark Frost's job - he said in an old interview that he insisted they sit down and reason who the dwarf was when Lynch wrote him in, whereas Lynch is more about dreams, visions, impressions and his amazing ideas.) I do think BOB's line is there to indicate he was not willing to play by their rules - he tries to take Laura for himself. There is also a lot of cut, extremely cryptic Lynchian dialogue in that scene for the other characters that was in the script but evidently not filmed, including Mrs. Tremond asking why they should not be beings composed of atoms, or something. Jürgen Prochnow's few lines as the woodsman who slaps his knee were cut - some used to theorize he was the Log Lady's lost husband, sprited away to the Lodge. Calvin Lockhart, former Hammer horror star, gets one line in the final film as the Electrician ("Animal life"). And I think the dude who played the "Jumping Man" in the red suit and mask said he was told he was "some kind of talisman."
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All of those scenes from "The Missing Pieces" are from FWWM, so in the week or so before Laura's death. As for Josie, most of her persona at the mill - sweet, innocent, poor English, inept and kind - was a put-on. I haven't watched all the scenes yet, though they are online. I know Everett McGill talks on some of the special features about being very fond of his deleted scenes with Norma, where they get to just be together. And I think the longer version of the "convenience store" scene David Bowie's character Phillip Jeffries describes - with the spirits of the Lodge assembled - is fascinating and terrifying. (There is also a little more of Jeffries, including him warping in and out of Buenos Aires, where he was apparently involved with "Judy" and the Lodge as part of a past case.) I do think the bit with Laura and the fan should have stayed in. It is terrifying.
