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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. -
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.
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I finally got to see the "Between Two Worlds" skit tonight on the Blu-Ray - sadly, I know of nowhere to watch it online. It's a interview segment with David Lynch interviewing Sarah, Leland and Laura Palmer, then switches over to a discussion between him and their performers. It's beautifully done, and I have to wonder what bearing it may have on the new series. Grace Zabriskie is such a strange, interesting actress, and she can do so much with just a twitch of her lip. She's the most harrowing part of it for me. Sarah says she still lives in the same house, never remarried - "I'm alone" - and that the house is falling apart a little. She says she fills her days putting on "the happy face" for the grocery store or the hairdresser, and goes home and watched football, bowling, etc. It's all pretty sad. I had hoped that Cooper's wonderful speech to Sarah at Leland's wake might help her move on someday, but who knows. (And who knows if any of this segment is canon?) Leland denies that he did "those things" and reminisces about happy times with Sarah and Laura. Admits he was with many women, including some as young as Laura or younger. Ray Wise is perfect. Laura's answers are very elliptical; she says there are "many things still not known," or even half known, and says she used to love horses. She talks a little about being in a circus full of dark creatures and flickering lights during her life, about "knowing a man named BOB" and how she knew her life was over. She seems to allude (IMO, anyway) to the end of FWWM, when she was so happy she cried, and "saw what it was ... it was beautiful." But she says there are still "questions," and smiles and says "I meet many people with no names." Whether it ends up pertaining to the new show at all, or not, it's definitely worth a watch for any fan, especially those who love FWWM.
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I would expect MacLachlan and Catherine Coulson, and I expect to see all of the Palmers in some way, shape or form, even if it's smaller appearances. Lynch is obsessed with them. If nothing else, I expect Sheryl Lee to either appear as Laura or finally get to be that redhead. I don't think Lynch will be able to resist using Leland and Sarah, though. I would say expect everyone, but I just don't know. I would be very surprised if Mädchen Amick did not at least make an appearance (she is currently committed to her Lifetime series, along with another Lynch favorite, Julia Ormond), or Sherilyn Fenn. We just have no idea what the structure of the show will be - how much of it will be the originals, how much of a role they will or won't play along with new people. Mark Frost seems to indicate there will be a lot of involvement with the original characters and stories, but it's hard to say. And I know Lynch has always loved to bring people back, even the most obscure. But there will have to be a new mystery, and I expect (and welcome) new people. In terms of regular cast, beyond Cooper I have no clue. Maybe not even him.
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SON's own Ian Buchanan in one of my favorite moments with his character, ladies' gentleman Dick Tremayne. He always used to crack me up on TP, and I must be one of five people on Earth who loved the pine weasel subplot - possibly because I was a kid and I loved furry animals at the time, but I still was laughing 10, 15 years later. I wish Buchanan got to play more comedy on GH, and not just Duke dragging Lucy off somewhere. He could do snark and fun - dour drama is hardly helping shufflin' old Duke. And here are Dick, Andy and Lucy with future SNL star Molly Shannon. And Little Nicky, another subplot which annoyed everyone but me (and Kimmy Robertson) because I thought everyone in this story was hilarious.
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Gallifrey Base is my go-to for most of the fandom. AV Club, etc. also loved it, I believe. I have seen the abortion thesis elsewhere, I just don't agree with it and I don't see it in the story I watched. And the fury about Capaldi's Doctor being so mean amidst small but determined circles online - when he is no meaner than the First, Third, Fourth, Sixth or Seventh, etc. in certain stories - cracks me up. I do think, though, that this whole series of stories, and particularly his confrontation with Clara at the end of this story, has been leading him up to slowly becoming less crotchety, and learning to walk softly a bit more. (Hopefully not too much.) I was a bit lethargic about Series 7 to a point, but for me I think this is the best in some time. It rivals Series 6 for me so far, which is my high-water mark for the Moffat era and one of my top tiers for the revival.
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Well, they would be the outliers, then (not that I find them to ever not be, frankly). Most of the response both in the general press, online and offline, and in the fandom has been wildly positive. I actually think it was very good but even I don't think it was as good as most of the fandom.
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I could swear there was also a Lucy recap that I remember from back then, this hilarious longwinded ramble about everything that's happened, I think it was intro'ing Season 2. But I can't find it. I did also find Season 1 promos, which I should've posted first. I really hope David Bowie returns as Jeffries, but I am not holding my breath. He can be elusive, for one thing; for another, Mark Frost was not involved in FWWM and was rumored to not be a huge fan (although he has made it clear in the new interviews about the revival that FWWM will be honored and its mythos acknowledged).
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Kill the Moon is getting hosannas and raves from just about every corner of fandom I can see for its story, as well as the press - I think it's quite good, I dunno if it's the top tier for me but it's very close, a bit of a bottle show with a profound moral dilemma up there with any the Doctor has ever faced. And very female-centric, with probably Jenna Coleman's best work on the show (especially her final scene with the Doctor, which makes me question where she will end up), along with Ellis George as Courtney and Hermione Norris, who I dug on Spooks, as the female astronaut. And an incredible performance by Peter Capaldi, who just stands back and makes it clear what he will and will not do. He's redefined the role very, very quickly and dramatically set himself apart from anyone to occupy the role since 2005, if not longer. I don't think he's better than Matt Smith so much as very different, and very, very good.
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It was about Tim Gibbs. Laura Bonariggo (Cassie) was very upset about JFP mandating the Kevin recast with one of her top AW stars, and Jill felt she did not have adequate chemistry with Gibbs, so she was fired while on maternity leave. Jill moved Kevin on to Susan Misner's Grace; when that character failed, the talented Misner was fired and killed off. A couple months after Grace died, Kevin and Kelly - Grace's "best friend" from boarding school - bonded in grief and quickly began making out. It was all a series of attempts to make Tim Gibbs happen on the show with leading lady after leading lady. They also gave him a lot of airtime with Jill's other favorite, Robin Christopher, as Kevin and Skye bonded over their issues with alcohol. I was so happy to see him go. He was so disliked that he did not get an onscreen exit - Kevin argued with Kelly on a roof one day, flipped a coin in the air and walked offscreen. A few weeks later we were told he had moved back to Texas with Kelly soon to join him.
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I can't be the only one who thinks Gerald Gordon was heavily channeling John Cassavetes. I'm sure that was a major part of his appeal. I was under the impression the Pollocks were the most renowned writers here? This is a few years prior, unless I miss my guess, but Rita Lakin's(?) work is very strong. The show seems full of pretty frank, blunt, often brusque, ambitious or selfish people. Not typical of the time (or even today). Even the tentpole leading man, Jim Pritchett, is much more full of piss and vinegar than, say, John Beradino on GH. He really goes in on his staff, he's great fun. I could've seen him on any number of other soaps (who knows, maybe he did a few).
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I'll take the links, please.
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Say what you will about Prospect Park, it didn't die mid-broadcast. (Just after, though.)
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Loras is back on the job in Dubrovnik/King's Landing. Also, Winterfell rises again. Sophie Turner is modeling. Also, discussing GOT and her new horror flick, Another Me, with Vulture at the link. Re: Season 4's developments with Sansa: I'm not sure if I linked the Another Me trailer, so voila. And yes, somehow there is more Isaac Hempstead-Wright as he continues the endless Boxtrolls press tour and demonstrates warging and the whole eyes thing for Screen Junkies, which he apparently learned from pro wrestling.
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Many have likely heard about this, but Charles Dance hints that he will appear in Season 5. Also, the Nerdist has a Comic-Con piece up with Isaac Hempstead-Wright, who seems to clearly indicate he will be featured, but who knows.
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If it's the same Lori Cardille I think it is, from George Romero's Day of the Dead, she had a very, very troubled youth and home life. Ah, yes, it is - and she left the role on EON because of her past trauma.
