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| 1. Tuesday, July 6, 2010 1:55 PM |
| GoldenBuddha12345 |
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With the failure of several recent Twin Peaks rip-offs (Harper's Island, Happy Town) and the outrage over LOST. Could Twin Peaks have survived if it came out today? Or would it have suffered the same fate of cancellation.
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| 2. Tuesday, July 6, 2010 8:57 PM |
| Blackout0189 |
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I don't think it could have. For the time, it was great, but in today's age, people would see it as really slow-paced and boring (just what I think)
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| 3. Wednesday, July 7, 2010 7:25 AM |
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QUOTE:I don't think it could have. For the time, it was great, but in today's age, people would see it as really slow-paced and boring (just what I think)
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Actually, I think you'll find it's the 'people' you speak of that have become slow and boring. Fortunately the world is positively overflowing with disposable corporate crap to keep them happy.
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| 4. Wednesday, July 7, 2010 12:36 PM |
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I think a big problem is that too many audiences want all the mysteries solved as quickly as possible. They don't seem to grasp the concept that it's the journey not the destination that's important.
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| 5. Wednesday, July 7, 2010 6:14 PM |
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TP today would be on cable & could flourish as it pleased. As Alan Ball said, "Without Twin Peaks there would've been no Six Feet Under or True Blood".
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| 6. Wednesday, July 7, 2010 11:19 PM |
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Say it however you like, but there just wouldn't be the same audience that there once was for such a program. If TP were to be released today, it wouldn't survive. Today's audience suffers from ADHD in ways we never imagined, thank reality-based tv for for that. Instant gratification is an integral part of most 'successful' programming today, and that just isn't TP. And thank God for that.
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| 7. Thursday, July 8, 2010 7:43 AM |
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| QUOTE:TP today would be on cable & could flourish as it pleased. As Alan Ball said, "Without Twin Peaks there would've been no Six Feet Under or True Blood". |
I agree that HBO is the place for TP, but even the Sopranos suffered a backlash when plotlines didn't get resolved. Sopranos survived because of it was a mafia show. I don;t know if Twin Peaks would have suffered as well.
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| 8. Thursday, July 8, 2010 8:51 AM |
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Twin Peaks certainly would have benefitted from the sort of freedom that comes with airing on a channel like HBO. And with DVRs and online episodes, the plotlines would be much easier to follow now than they were in 1990 when if you missed it (and forgot to set the damned VCR), you missed it. Though I love the slow pace of the show, I'm sure that there would still be some whining about things not being revealed quickly. However, since we never got a third season, we don't know what could have developed to keep an audience hooked. Overall, I think that if Peaks were airing now on HBO, it would have had a fighting chance for a few more seasons. But I have to say I'm glad it all happened when it did, because watching it as a kid has had quite an influence on the kinds of things I'm drawn to as an adult.
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| 9. Saturday, July 10, 2010 6:06 PM |
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I don't think TP would survive on network, or basic cable for that matter. I do agree it would stand a chance on HBO. TP came out at the right time, without it there would be no X Files, Lost, etc. It captured a moment in time that we will never have again. Before it came out, there was NOTHING even close to it on television. I agree that the pace is way too slow for most viewers...but then again, it was too slow for most people when it did air!
Ben: "We've laid in a gala reception for your fair-haired boys tonight. All of Twin Peaks' best and brightest." Jerry: "We're holding it in a phone booth?"
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| 10. Monday, July 12, 2010 4:44 AM |
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If Twin Peaks was never done until now it would be quite different than it was 20 years ago. Assuming Lynch and Frost were doing it, yes it would be as groundbreaking now as it was then. TV would not be like it is today if there was no Twin Peaks 20 years ago.
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| 11. Tuesday, July 13, 2010 1:15 PM |
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I don't think it could last today, but I do think that the first five episodes would have people fixed for a while. TP was there at that time and enjoys its place in history, but would of, could of, should of on the part of Lynch is something we will never know. If he didn't cheat his own genius, TP could have been much more intoxicating. I have mentioned this before here that the second season episodes had already been tainted with the pressure to reveal LP's death. Its like twisting Salvador Dali's fingers and breaking his wrists and then expecting him to continue to produce masterpieces. Lynch gave in and lost his "golden goose" as he himself acknowledges. I still get chills after watching some of the episodes. It survives in a way that doesn't fit the mainstream through people like us.
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| 12. Tuesday, July 13, 2010 1:15 PM |
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I don't think it could last today, but I do think that the first five episodes would have people fixed for a while. TP was there at that time and enjoys its place in history, but would of, could of, should of on the part of Lynch is something we will never know. If he didn't cheat his own genius, TP could have been much more intoxicating. I have mentioned this before here that the second season episodes had already been tainted with the pressure to reveal LP's death. Its like twisting Salvador Dali's fingers and breaking his wrists and then expecting him to continue to produce masterpieces. Lynch gave in and lost his "golden goose" as he himself acknowledges. I still get chills after watching some of the episodes. It survives in a way that doesn't fit the mainstream through people like us.
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