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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
Another fans-only endeavour, but if you're not a fan at this point then I'm not sure how you got this far.
I said in another review I'd say whether Twin Peaks as a whole is worth doing, so I'll write briefly on that. It's not often that I get a new favourite TV show in my life, and TP is straight in there. There are flaws - much of the second season, some of the tie-in material - and if you're not compelled to continue watching it, you probably shouldn't. For myself, the original run is a great "genre" soap opera, the movie is harrowing but perhaps necessarily so, and the revival series makes good on the idea that we're in a golden age of television. It's a beautiful, beguiling, horrifying, funny artwork, it's thoroughly messed with my head and my perceptions, and I can't wait to go through it all again. Any more would be a miracle, but what we have is a revelation.
I said in another review I'd say whether Twin Peaks as a whole is worth doing, so I'll write briefly on that. It's not often that I get a new favourite TV show in my life, and TP is straight in there. There are flaws - much of the second season, some of the tie-in material - and if you're not compelled to continue watching it, you probably shouldn't. For myself, the original run is a great "genre" soap opera, the movie is harrowing but perhaps necessarily so, and the revival series makes good on the idea that we're in a golden age of television. It's a beautiful, beguiling, horrifying, funny artwork, it's thoroughly messed with my head and my perceptions, and I can't wait to go through it all again. Any more would be a miracle, but what we have is a revelation.
Well, if you had lingering questions after watching The Return (and of course you did), this answers a lot of them in a rather dry, unsatisfactory way. Although it still doesn't clear up what's going on with Audrey What a shitty thing to do to Annie Blackburn! I was interested in a re-watch someday to see if things started to make more sense the second time around, but this has sapped my enthusiasm somewhat - but bonus points for this line:
"Not long afterwards, after being taken in by a predatory older woman outside Portland, Oregon, James stumbled into the role of hapless patsy in a murder scheme straight out of noted noir novelist James M. Cain (I won't bore you with the details)."
"Not long afterwards, after being taken in by a predatory older woman outside Portland, Oregon, James stumbled into the role of hapless patsy in a murder scheme straight out of noted noir novelist James M. Cain (I won't bore you with the details)."
Asked about this book, Lynch said it was Frost’s interpretation of what happened during the special event and during these 25 years, and it is. This is the best a fan can get to an actual meaning of all that happened on the craziest and most sublime season of Twin Peaks. It’s a book made for the fans, not absolutely needed to enjoy the season but a fine wrap-up of it.
Uno se ha quedado huérfano después de la tercera temporada de Twin Peaks. Asombrado y huérfano. Porque lo que hizo Lynch, con su regreso triunfal a la televisión, ha sido único: contando una historia exactamente donde el mito de aquel pueblo surreal decía que iba a continuar, con los mismos actores, con nuevos personajes, con el tiempo, real, cárnico, presente más allá de la pantalla, visible en cada uno de sus aspectos. Lynch volvió a contar la historia de Twin Peaks para decirnos que debíamos madurar. Que a veces no hay finales felices sino la continuidad de un círculo, una cinta de moebius magistral y enigmática y que siempre hay un espacio nuevo para el misterio.
Frost continúa con el asombro que nos deja este pueblo fantástico pero echando luz a ciertos detalles de la vida de sus habitantes en la forma de un dossier escrito por la agente Tammy Preston para el personaje de Lynch en la serie, el director de la CIA con problemas de audición, el icónico Gordon Cole. Y en cierta forma, trae ciertos aires de las dos primeras temporadas, lo kitch, lo inocente, el regreso del aroma de las tartas del Double R, pero en más de una circunstancia, se mete en la oscuridad Lyncheana, mostrándonos que Lynch es sólo una parte de la moneda, y que Twin Peaks le debe mucho a Mark Frost.
Divertido y enigmático, con Albert Rosenthal, el personaje del queridísimo Miguel Ferrer describiendo con su estilo ácido las causas de la muerte de Leo Johnson, echando luz sobre el destino de personajes como Harry Truman y las horas que sucedieron al desenlace de la segunda temporada con el Dale Cooper y Annie Blackburn emergiendo de la Logia Negra entre los sicomoros, lo que aconteció con Audrey Horne, la relación entre Nadine y el Dr. Jacoby, su transformación en Dr. Amp. Un montón de detalles que exploran a pasos de bebé el misterio de Cooper más allá de la tercera temporada, pero que, cómo hizo esta misma, indagan en enigmas que eran parte del mito de la serie cómo los personajes del Mayor Briggs, Phillip Jeffries y Windom Earle. Y con un apartado para Margaret Coulson, la Señora del Tronco, que me llevó a las lágrimas, escrito de forma magistral.
Una lectura indispensable para aquellos que quieran volver a Twin Peaks y oler el delicioso café de Norma, para viajar a través del poblado más acogedor del mundo, hogar de los personajes más entrañables y los secretos más abominables. Para volver, una vez más, y otra vez y otra vez, a donde empezó todo, y volverá a empezar y...
Frost continúa con el asombro que nos deja este pueblo fantástico pero echando luz a ciertos detalles de la vida de sus habitantes en la forma de un dossier escrito por la agente Tammy Preston para el personaje de Lynch en la serie, el director de la CIA con problemas de audición, el icónico Gordon Cole. Y en cierta forma, trae ciertos aires de las dos primeras temporadas, lo kitch, lo inocente, el regreso del aroma de las tartas del Double R, pero en más de una circunstancia, se mete en la oscuridad Lyncheana, mostrándonos que Lynch es sólo una parte de la moneda, y que Twin Peaks le debe mucho a Mark Frost.
Divertido y enigmático, con Albert Rosenthal, el personaje del queridísimo Miguel Ferrer describiendo con su estilo ácido las causas de la muerte de Leo Johnson, echando luz sobre el destino de personajes como Harry Truman y las horas que sucedieron al desenlace de la segunda temporada con el Dale Cooper y Annie Blackburn emergiendo de la Logia Negra entre los sicomoros, lo que aconteció con Audrey Horne, la relación entre Nadine y el Dr. Jacoby, su transformación en Dr. Amp. Un montón de detalles que exploran a pasos de bebé el misterio de Cooper más allá de la tercera temporada, pero que, cómo hizo esta misma, indagan en enigmas que eran parte del mito de la serie cómo los personajes del Mayor Briggs, Phillip Jeffries y Windom Earle. Y con un apartado para Margaret Coulson, la Señora del Tronco, que me llevó a las lágrimas, escrito de forma magistral.
Una lectura indispensable para aquellos que quieran volver a Twin Peaks y oler el delicioso café de Norma, para viajar a través del poblado más acogedor del mundo, hogar de los personajes más entrañables y los secretos más abominables. Para volver, una vez más, y otra vez y otra vez, a donde empezó todo, y volverá a empezar y...
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medium-paced
Wonderful. Simply wonderful.
As I expected, any talk of "errors" in the previous volume is knocked on the head by this one - which was mostly, if not entirely, as a part of 'The Secret History of Twin Peaks' and held back so as to not spoil the surprises of 'The Return' - as the Archivist actually makes mention of the differences between events mentioned in the original archive and those mentioned in Agent Cooper's notes and tapes from the time of the Laura Palmer case. The biggest points - Norma's family history and Annie Blackburn's place in Twin Peaks history - are dealt with elegantly and, for this reader, satisfyingly.
As I expected, any talk of "errors" in the previous volume is knocked on the head by this one - which was mostly, if not entirely, as a part of 'The Secret History of Twin Peaks' and held back so as to not spoil the surprises of 'The Return' - as the Archivist actually makes mention of the differences between events mentioned in the original archive and those mentioned in Agent Cooper's notes and tapes from the time of the Laura Palmer case. The biggest points - Norma's family history and Annie Blackburn's place in Twin Peaks history - are dealt with elegantly and, for this reader, satisfyingly.
I probably should have watched the recent series before reading this
The perfect dessert following the discombobulating and wonderful main course that was season three of Twin Peaks. Don't expect this book to explain precisely just what the hell happened, particularly in the show's stunning final episode, but it certainly helps crystallize certain ideas and confirms some suspicions. What's more, it's a great read in its own right, and the character of Tamara Preston makes for a great narrative companion. In fact, I'd love Mark Frost to write a whole series of Tamara Preston 'Blue Rose' adventures.
The only downside for me was that the book throws a bucket of cold water all over my theory that Cooper never, in fact, leaves the Black Lodge, and everything we see in season three is a cruel and crazy variation on the Cartesian malicious demon concept. But you can't have everything.
The only downside for me was that the book throws a bucket of cold water all over my theory that Cooper never, in fact, leaves the Black Lodge, and everything we see in season three is a cruel and crazy variation on the Cartesian malicious demon concept. But you can't have everything.
Between three and four stars. Although I still wish this would have been a richer telling of the events in Twin Peaks, it filled in a lot of gaps and helped me be okay with the bothersome moments in the new series. Regardless of explanation, I will forever be pissy about how vile they made Audrey in the reboot, but at least I have a bridge to what led her there.