the 'nowhere' scenes are the best scenes. honestly, I would pay to see a version of this season with all the plot-advancing scenes removed.
Then you can pay me a subscription fee to watch as I sweep the floor, drink on the couch, get high in the woods and order stuff off the internet.
I only take cash though...no credit cards.
I'm pretty sure that you spent way more than 18 hours posting on a series that you didn't get based upon how often you pop up in this forum. Maybe you should ask for those back to, but those hours are your own doing and Lynch never asked you to spend them. As for GOT I too am a fan, but there's nothing even to discuss about it, it's simple TV porn and entertaining, there's nothing to interpret, and definitely not something that tests one's "negative capability" like the Return did. I'm still convinced that we will see more, this show was the first stage of changing what TV could be, like what the original series did 25 years ago.
I know. Sure is a mystery, huh? As much as I try to keep away from this site, I still come back.
When I started to complain loudly about The Return, wise folks on this Forum told me to wait until the end with all my complaints. And so I did. I sat through it all, discussing it all, hoping that I would see things in a different way, and that it all would become better. And in some ways, it did get better. Episode 16 was by far the best episode, in my opinion. But in the end, there was so much left unresolved and so much that felt slow paced and boring, and so many plots that went nowhere, I feel it wasn't worth it.
Maybe that's the difference between the old and the new Twin Peaks. The old show was more "simple", just like GoT is. It was made in a more soap opera style, given that that was the mainstream style at the time.
But, back to the topic: I do believe that The Return could have been just 9 episodes if they had speeded up tempo, skipped all the Roadhouse performances and focused on the main plotlines. Having said that, I'm not sure I would have felt the same way when Cooper woke up in episode 16 if we only had gotten 7 or 8 episodes with him as a vegetable.
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