Why would you be curious about Annie?

Her soul is guarded Bronkslanayswaynes, she's forever trapped but forever safe.

There was a fiish..iinn the percolatrr!

Yeah. Brain damage, coma, dead. Like Jerry said about Leo, how could you tell?

That made me laugh like a (wicked) witch.

Audrey Horne has a very good point. Who are these new fans anyway and what do they want? I've tried to be patient and wait it out but 10,000 posts a week dressing the same point ("LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!") in different outfits can be rather trying. Maybe they'd accept Buffy The Vampire Slayer as an out of court settlement? 

y'all know i ain't a new poster mo fo's.

right, calm down please

but i do agree that many topics that have been begun recently are rather bland, shallow and dull, usually with two word titles that are ambiguous, but not intriguing in the slightest, such as 'audrey's bum' ,,,,,, thread: 'just wached ep 14 for the 1st time, soo creepy, did yoo see audrey's bumm?'  replied to with "obligatory sarcastic, yet devoid of wit response", then "another comical reference to an obscure thing to dilute the humour even more"    then   "original poster bemoaning that they are sorry if it's been talked about before, but there is no search option (uh oh...there IZZ)"

and so on it goes.   

 How dare you disrespect me, you little tramp! I mean, the nerve... 

And there was i, poised to yield unto you actual love after reading your previous post and then i scrolled down and was confronted with THE HATE. 

The other David Lynch board would give its right arm to have me, and yet I devote myself selflessly to this board, never asking for anything in return, despite the incessant wails of "GAY BAD!!" and "FIRE WALK WITH ME ISN'T AS GOOD AS THE SERIES!!!". And so it's come to this... right then... well... 

I did like the post before it though, you know, the one that didn't be hatin' on The Face (slinks off in search of further mischief).  

sorry sorry, i should learn that

1: My sense of humour is pretty bad, pretty unfunny to anyone except for me

2: Tongue in cheek, playful, piss taking intonations etc CANNOT be conveyed on a message board

3: Combination of 1 and 2 with 'witty, playful remark' make me sound like a complete ass, instead of like a witty ass

4: Swearing in posts only serves to further the misconstruing of my 'witty' posts.

In short, sorry, I was trying to be witty with my 'b*tch' post,   but it didnt come off, didn't mean any offence, though it could be quite blatantly offensive.   Sorry Ms Leaves......

old fans are 'look at me's.

new fans dont give a fuck, really.

Fan message boards like are like a real world classroom.

New fans are like students. They have the benefit of new perspective. Sometimes they're idiots, the extent of whose writing abilities is text and Twitter.

Old fans have the wisdom of experience and years of context and research, or pretend they do, and believe we have all the answers and so have stopped exploring.

Let's work together, people, and be open to eachother's guidance.

There was a fiish..iinn the percolatrr!

There was a fiish..iinn the percolatrr!

Also- there might me new people to this board and not necessarily new to TP. I mean, it is 20 years old :)

After lurking for a long while I decided to join - knowing that years of ideas had already been eloquently stated. Anyway, I enjoy reading this board and that is what its all about so, whatevs. Fan boards will go through this type of deal.

 Do you really think that 'elitism preserves' art? Reasons?

It obviously depends on what you mean by art. But if that's true, then it doesn't seem you could include Twin Peaks as 'art'.

wow, this got heated.  I just meant before the internet allowed us to share thoughts, I never would have thought certain elements of Twin Peaks had such a strong following- whether they be old or new viewers.

I always took it for granted that Annie was hated; Windom Earle's storyline was beyond silly; Justice Wheeler is insufferable; Super Nadine was super dumb etc. 

The biggest surprise to me upon reading Wrapped in Plastic is how much Laura Palmer is idolized. Nothing against it, but I never expected it.  Most of the few fans I knew when we talked about Peaks in the 90s thought Laura only worked as a picture in a frame and a bizarre vision in Cooper's dreamworld. 

The original wave of fans did not have Fire Walk With Me at the ready, either. It was more of a postscript. Hell, there are still purists on this board who reject FWWM outright because it departs so much from the series.

When you look at FWWM as the foundation, the beginning, the soul behind the chain of events that is the series, Laura is the planet that all other characters are satellites orbiting.

DL wrote the Bravo Log Lady intros after FWWM, but the Pilot intro says it best:

Laura's story "encompasses the all... The one leading to the many [stories in Twin Peaks] is Laura Palmer. Laura is the one."

When we look back we see that once her mystery is solved, the other stories unravel into drivel and filler.