Well, I'm sure by now most of the world has heard that Twin Peaks is finally going to be revived in 2016 on Showtime. It seems that Laura Palmer was in fact telling the truth when she told Special Agent Dale Cooper (and the viewers) that she would see him again in 25 years way back in 1991. Was this all planned by creators David Lynch and Mark Frost all those years ago? Probably not. But, it certainly seems as though time, the Internet, the fans, and television itself has been kind to a show which was cancelled after only 30 episodes by ABC. Who could have predicted after the terrible response that Twin Peaks Fire Walk With me received from viewers and critics alike that this would ever happen? Well, there were people such as myself and other great fans out there who said that no matter what, we would do our best to fight for a return to that peculiar and secret-laden town in the Northwest which had become a part of our lives for whatever reason. We were told by many it would never happen. We were ridiculed for even broaching this idea. Some of the older generation of fans were even openly hostile towards us, basically making a return to Twin Peaks out to be some sort of sacrilegious crime against the show and its legacy. But we still continued to carry on and to hope. We hoped that somehow, someway, David Lynch and Mark Frost would get together again and create magic. We didn't know when or how it would happen. We just thought that if enough people wanted it, and if enough people cared, the creators would see just how much a new series meant to millions of people in the world, and they would fall back in love with their creation.
Well, it looks like our hope and combined synergy paid off. David Lynch and Mark Frost did get together again somehow, and they decided to give Twin Peaks another shot! It is almost insane to comprehend that it is actually going to happen, even weeks after the announcement blazed across the Internet. I guess it's still sinking in for most, including me.
But, new Twin Peaks is coming in 2016. It is going to be written by the creators and directed by David Lynch himself. It is exactly all that we fans hoped for and more!
This is for you! This is for all the fans around the world and the fans who have kept the faith since the beginning of the Bring Back Twin Peaks movement and stayed strong over the last few years!
2016 is the year for Revenge of the Peaks Geeks!
So, get out your damn hot coffee and cherry pie, start making reservations for your Peaks parties, and fill those office water coolers because there's going to be plenty of talk going around it the day following that first episode!
LET'S ROCK!!!
- Joe Powers
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I have an idea that Laura Palmer is based on Marilyn Monroe. Before Twin Peaks was born, Lynch and Frost were writing a screen adaptation of "Goddess" which is a Marilyn biography. After the project was dropped a script still existed about a mysterious death of a beautiful, popular, troubled woman who took drugs, was involved with powerful men, kept a diary and was under the care of a psychiatrist. Sound familiar?
ReplyDeleteNicolas - I think that's an excellent point and one which had covered in the background for me personally but didn't really take root until I read Michael Warren's post on "35 Years of David Lynch": http://entertainmentguidefilmtv.blogspot.com/2010/12/twin-peaks-0-pilot-part-ii-1990.html.
DeleteThe contrasts are interesting as well, because the Monroe connections might lead us to think Ben Horne is the murderer - after all, The Goddess supposedly suggested that Marilyn's involvement with the Kennedys led to her death. Here we have another mysterious girl whose hidden secrets seem to be intertwined with the secrets of the town in general. As we learn, of course, the root of her suffering is both closer to home and much more cosmic. It's a nice bait-and-switch in that sense.
Incidentally, I just touched on the Goddess connection in a video essay (which is up on my blog). It's really fascinating to tease out all these different influences and correspondences.
*hovered in the background
DeleteAnd that's the wrong link for Michael Warren's piece! My bad. I meant to provide this one:
http://entertainmentguidefilmtv.blogspot.com/2010/12/twin-peaks-0-pilot-1990.html