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In Reply to: Fire Walk with Me. posted by PdL on July 9, 2004 at 08:41:07:

I thought "Twin Peaks" could have been a great TV series. 2 things preventing that: Lynch split his time between the TV series and his movie "Lost Highway" (and this series needed as much Lynch as possible), and the fact that the show's writers could never come up with another great mystery like the one that kicked off the show. As a result, only here and there (the pilot, the third episode, the episode that ended the first storyline) did "Twin Peaks" really, uh, "peak". I suspect that Lynch was bored with the series long before the last episode aired.
"Fire Walk with Me" is really disturbing...the first time I saw it I was really unhappy that it wasn't a really great 2-hour "Twin Peaks" episode. The second time I caught it I realized that Lynch had taken the raw materials of a "prequel" and used what he wanted to craft a film exploring incest and rape and child abuse. The film is not like an episode of "Twin Peaks", it is something stronger and stranger, with very harsh or very strange sequences (the father and daughter in the car, the daughter and her best friend at the nightclub, and of course, the sequence that unites the strange and harsh: the father's final abusive acts against his daughter). Ultimately, I think that "Fire Walk with Me" can stand independent of the TV series and is better overall than even the best episodes of the series because of its intensity.

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