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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 284519" data-attributes="member: 8">Annie are you walking, are you walking Annie?And that's the end of 90s Twin Peaks.[ATTACH=full]29078[/ATTACH]Well, technically, 26 years. However it's very possible that this episode aired in 1992 in overseas countries.I could do something funny and pretend it's still 1992 and then step into the future of Twin Peaks 2017.About season 2: the murder mystery was solved and apparently a lot of viewers tuned out after that. I suspect that those viewers didn't like it very much to begin with.After all, this was something that didn't compare to anything else previously shown on television. Perhaps this point in the story was the perfect excuse to abandon this most curious novelty.But season 1 wasn't about Laura's death, it was about her life. She was the main character of the show and we fell in love with her, and the more horrific the details of her life unraveled the more we loved her. It's a strange process but somehow you become one of them.I don't think the revelation of the killer was the game changer, it was the idea that in that moment Laura really died.Pressure from behind-the-scenes and a prima donna attitude from one of the actors had played a part in the change of the intended narrative (if we have to believe the various sources) and it's kinda funny that a story that parodies the soap genre falls into the trappings of said genre i.e. sub-plots that isolate the characters and a plethora of new characters just keep the story going.From that point of view I can understand the negative response to season 2.But the quality of the production and the excellent performances remained intact, and with the exception of John Justice Wheeler, all new characters added something peculiar or funny to the story (imho).[ATTACH=full]29079[/ATTACH]I loved the fashion show and all the mayhem caused by the pine weasel.Windom Earle is the overarching soap trope villain that reconnects the characters, just like Michael Tyrone and Sean Rowan had done before him. But he's very, very good.The mix of subtle parody, surrealism and some serious horror had become of a new genre of its own. The casting, lyrical scripts and breathtaking cinematography was the cherry on the cherry pie, it's almost unbelievable that this was made in 1990. Maybe it wasn't!As for finding explanations and meanings and connecting the dots - that doesn't interest me very much. Twin Peaks is often more about the experience than the narrative, and that's why season 2 still works for me. I never thought I was going to say this, but...poor Leo! What an ordeal!Andz..now..I'm..giong..to..hhh-watch..thez..mievo..Fire Walk With Me.</blockquote>

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