Comments on: Debating the Return of Twin Peaks http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2014/10/11/debating-the-return-of-twin-peaks/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: A Few More October Links | The Hyperarchival Parallax http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2014/10/11/debating-the-return-of-twin-peaks/comment-page-1/#comment-437448 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:10:00 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=24723#comment-437448 […] And my colleauge at Pitt, Dana Och, and others debate the return of Twin Peaks. […]

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]]> By: Derek Kompare http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2014/10/11/debating-the-return-of-twin-peaks/comment-page-1/#comment-437275 Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:49:47 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=24723#comment-437275 Great discussion, on exactly the terms I’d imagine. All the way through I was thinking of how so much of this fits what has transpired over the past decade with Doctor Who. While there are huge differences between DW and TP (the former a sprawling hyperdiegesis, the latter a flash-in-the-pan cult nugget), this debate went down in similar terms, particularly between the September 2003 announcement of the show’s return, and the revival’s premiere in March 2005. The next year-plus will be largely the same in regards to TP: lots of speculation (who’s returning? who’s not?, etc.) and anticipation. The imprimatur of authorship does point to Lucas, Hurwitz, Thomas, and Whedon, though for DW, both Davies and Moffat (and many of the show’s writers and even lead actors) have fan credentials that have functioned as a facet of their authorship. I’d imagine along the way there will be many “new” people associated with TP season 3 who publicly declare themselves “major fans” of the original, in a similar manner.

All three of you locate TP firmly in particular nostalgic circumstances (though most strongly with Amanda), something impossible to strip away from any significant revival or adaptation. It’s not fair, but it’s perfectly understandable. If there were no nostalgia, there’d be no new Twin Peaks (or Doctor Who, or Star Wars/Trek, or Veronica Mars, etc.). For those of us who “were there” originally, this will be a very different experience vs those who are just discovering the show, especially since the intensity was so focused on a particular time (1990-91) vs. being dispersed over many years. Lynch and Frost and Showtime and everyone involved in the production will do what they will with the show, with their own nostalgic baggage to navigate. The rest of us need to do that as well, take a step or two back from what it was and who we were in the spring of 1990, and enjoy the resulting harmony and dissonance.

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