Twin Peaks

[mfunk9786]

I have a replacement coming from Amazon, fingers crossed for the glue on this one. But I'm thinking if the glue is bad on so many sets, the best case scenario will be that the digi panel will barely be glued into the box, and I'll constantly have to be concerned that it's going to pop out. Maybe swo was right all along.

[Joshuadel]

A couple more people have reported the audio glitch on blu-ray.com and on dugpa's forum, including some American users. If it's only Disc 9 with FWWM and the Missing Pieces then rather than making people send the entire set back, Paramount/CBS should only ask for that one disc to be sent back to them for replacement. Meanwhile, I'm hoping that my player will play nice with the new set from Amazon (getting it tomorrow).

I checked the Missing Pieces feature on a few different players with 24hz playback disabled -- that's been the primary fix discussed at this point -- and had decent luck. There's clearly some lag between audio and picture, but it's minimal enough that the material remains watchable. Still, if Paramount does a disc recall (a la TNG: Season One), I'll probably throw in just to get the extra quality control.

My set arrived from Amazon in pristine condition, so my condolences go out to mfunk and the others impacted by the glue / packaging tearing. It's such a beautiful set that I know I'd be pretty disappointed with any damage. Still, even those with wrecked boxes have to sing the praises of the transfers. My wife is a Peaks virgin, so we screened the pilot and first episode last night, and even without her wonderful first-timer reactions ("Did you see that guy?? In the mirror when she screamed??"), I still feel like I'm watching the program for the first time. It looks that good.

[mfunk9786]

If I can just guess, the factory likely was gluing the back of the digi piece and then inserting them into the boxes, but some were inserted after the glue had already dried. Thinking that's the most likely explanation for the variations in packaging quality, and it's probably a crap-shoot re: whether or not any given set will have the problem.

[Red Screamer]

bluray.com

[Finch]

The MP4 file of my alternative cut of Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me is rendering at the moment. The AVI file was over 900GB large (eek). For those who've seen Lynch's theatrical cut of the film and the Missing Pieces on the new Blu-Ray set, and are wondering what I've put back into the film: I've tried to stay true to the spirit of the theatrical cut and keep the focus on Laura Palmer so I've deliberately kept out the 3 post-Black Lodge scenes expanding on the series finale (episode 30). So what's in from the Missing Pieces? 1) The extended convenience store sequence and Philip Jeffries in Argentina, 2) Laura bumping into her mother Sarah after finding that pages have been missing from her diary, 3) the Palmer family trying to speak Norwegian together, 4) Laura under the fan (the scene with James Hurley was moved forward from the last 20 mins of the theatrical cut to match with its original position in the script), 5) extended scene of Laura at the Haywards, 6) Laura & Donna driving with the two men across the Canadian border to the Partyland bar, 7) Laura winding up Bobby at the school locker after the previous' night's shooting, 8) extended scene of Laura at the Briggs' house with a neat bit of Major Briggs reading from the Bible to Mrs Briggs, and finally 9) the Log Lady hearing Laura's and Ronette's screams in the nightwind. There was only one change I had to make to the theatrical cut: Lynch had used bits of the scene where Laura is under the fan for the segment in between the scene with Harold and the following scene of Cooper and Rosenfield at the FBI office. Since leaving that as it was would have meant you'd get to see the scene under the fan twice (sort of anyway), I replaced that part with new shots of the Red Room and nicked a shot of Laura looking up at her bedroom window. I think it works rather well. My alternative cut of the film is about 10 mins longer than the theatrical version and I'm curious to see how the chosen deleted scenes reintegrated affect the film as a whole. Seeing as Lynch had included 90 mins worth of deleted and extended scenes, it might feel to some like I've hardly added anything but throwing everything back in would make the film unwieldy and miss the point of what it was trying to achieve. Scenes 1) and 6) are the only ones where I've not added any cues but everything else has cues from either the series or the film, and again I've tried to find something that matches the mood of each scene without overwhelming it or distracting from it. If anyone wants to see my experimental cut of Fire Walk With Me, let me know. (I may upload to Youtube and/or Vimeo if either copes with the file size)

[flyonthewall2983]

Amazon.co.uk currently has the region-free set priced at 49.75 EUR which comes to 64.34 USD

[willoneill]

Amazon.co.uk currently has the region-free set priced at 49.75 EUR which comes to 64.34 USD

I think that's £49.75, which would make it closer to $72 USD after shipping (or $79 CDN).

[Paul Moran]

I want this set, and it's back down to £47.99 at zavvi.com, and they've sent me another 10% Off coupon, but all this talk of audio sync problems is inclining me to wait a bit longer.

[domino harvey]

DVDPlanet has is for $56 right now with the 10% code

[Adam X]

I want this set, and it's back down to £47.99 at zavvi.com, and they've sent me another 10% Off coupon, but all this talk of audio sync problems is inclining me to wait a bit longer.

According to The Digital Bits, CBS are aware of the issue and are investigating. If I hadn't preordered the set, I'd be waiting too.

[Mr Sausage]

I've been making my way through the series after not having seen it for some time and I just rewatched episode 14...

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The last time I saw it was maybe five years ago and I had forgotten how brutal and savage Maddy's murder is, the sheer animality Lynch is able to evoke with the shuddering low frequency noise and Maddy and Bob's screams being distorted into those awful growls. And that moment when Leland picks her up and twirls her around, his once-funny dancing mania now horribly revolting and sad. What makes it all the more harrowing is how Lynch surrounds it with the achingly beautiful sounds of The World Spins--that technique of clashing two extreme emotional states against each other that he has mined so successfully. And he finds that perfect note to end on: the characters in the Road House feeling overcome with this unplaceable sadness and not knowing why. Maddy's murder is a psychic disturbance so powerful that it can be intuited (a very Lynchian thing).

The episodes Lynch directed for this series are among the most powerful works of his entire career, and the series itself is still one of the strangest and most unique things to ever air on television. I still can't believe what I saw aired on prime time.

[warren oates]

The episodes Lynch directed for this series are among the most powerful works of his entire career.

I'd agree with this, but add that the most satisfying and surprising thing to me about the series every time I revisit it is how thoroughly Lynchian in tone and affect so many more episodes and moments from the series are, including and especially ones where he takes no writing or directing credit at all. It's this kind of profound collaboration, truly filtering his personal vision through not just other actors and crew members but other directors that instantly puts him at the top of a very short list of TV creators/showrunners.

[colinr0380]

I'd just add to Mr Sausage's comments that the whole Maddy arc is one of the few relatively late on additions to the series that works out stunningly. It starts off feeling just like another strange, quirky for its own sake and off-kilter funny contrivance that Laura Palmer had an identical twin sister (though I like that for a couple of episodes she gets drawn into the teenager's serious minded semi-investigation of Laura's murder, in a post-Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive-prefiguring style!) and then just...well...

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It feels like it is history repeating itself, making it a kind of an eerie horrific bookend to the premonition of an inevitable death foretold of Fire Walk With Me.

[Roger Ryan]

...It starts off feeling just like another strange, quirky for its own sake and off-kilter funny contrivance that Laura Palmer had an identical twin sister...

Maddy is an identical twin cousin, actually!

[Forrest Taft]

And had the series continued, the plan was that Lee would appear as third cousin, with red hair this time, iirc!

[colinr0380]

My mistake

[Joe Buck]

I wonder if the similarities in Laura and Maddy's looks are meant to indicate

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that there is a history of incest and abuse in the family that extends beyond the Palmer household. While the TV show makes poor Leland look like an innocent pawn in Bob's cruel game, the film seems to indicate that Leland and Sarah are much more responsible for the abuse going on.

[sir_luke]

Twin Peaks to return?

Lynch's tweet

Same from Mark Frost

Seems like a pretty clear clue to me! Let's hope this pans out.

[warren oates]

There were rumors about this before. I've heard that it was going to be a network show, then that it had maybe gone to Netflix. That latter option would be entirely preferable, as they are still known to be super hands off, even with shows that have a lot less talent or rabid fandom behind them. And, of course, then we could binge watch the whole season, which is pretty much the way it always should have played. This would certainly be a coup for Netflix or any pay cable channel that snagged it. Here's a title that in and of itself would make me a subscriber.

[sir_luke]

There were rumors about this before. I've heard that it was going to be a network show, then that it had maybe gone to Netflix. That latter option would be entirely preferable, as they are still known to be super hands off, even with shows that have a lot less talent or rabid fandom behind them. And, of course, then we could binge watch the whole season, which is pretty much the way it always should have played. This would certainly be a coup for Netflix or any pay cable channel that snagged it. Here's a title that in and of itself would make me a subscriber.

Netflix has the entire show available to stream, and I'm sure they've seen the numbers and know about the show's strong following. I think it's very likely that Netflix will be involved. I agree that that would be ideal.

[rockysds]

Nine new episodes in 2016 according to Variety. David Lynch's twitter seems to confirm.

[EddieLarkin]

Wow, I feel like I'm in shock. Particularly happy that it's now a cable show.

[swo17]

Great, my "Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery" set is already obsolete.

[Robert de la Cheyniest]

According to Deadline Lynch is also set to direct every episode of the series \:D/

[warren oates]

And the only bad news is now we all have to subscribe to Showtime.