Twin Peaks

[michael c]

I also don't see Michael Anderson either, so who's running (and dancing in)  the Black Lodge? And will there be any resolution to the Chris Isaak plot from Fire Walk With Me?

I know little about TP fandom...

how is FWWM treated??? is it considered "canon" or is it comparable to the way HODS and NODS are treated in the DS universe? an offshoot film "inspired by" the OS but not meant to work into series continuity and able to be viewed as a stand alone film?

[MagnusTrask]

Anything David Lynch made would have to be canon, unless he in his infinite whatever decided it wasn't, which for all we know he could.  I haven't seen FWWM though.  One thing DL made that wouldn't be canon: the European film of Twin Peaks where it was all wrapped up during that film, and differently than in the series.

[michael c]

no...

DC produced HODS and NODS and they are not considered series "canon". they cannot be worked into the framework of the series itself. the stories are too different.

I mean is FWWM "canon" in that it works within the series structure and ties up unresolved plots. or is it a stand alone movie?

[Uncle Roger]

I'm not as involved in Twin Peaks fandom as I was years ago but the general opinion at the time was that the movie was considered canon. But, while it fleshed out the character of Laura Palmer and chronicled the events leading up to and including her murder, it resolved none of the unresolved storylines. It actually created a few more.

[michael c]

Lee's inclusion in the cast is the biggest question mark for me...

I mean they don't get much deader than Laura Palmer. and even if she appears as a "ghost" in a "dream" or as a "vision" Palmer died a teenage girl and Lee is now a middle aged woman. 

[Uncle Roger]

True. But she isn't the only one whose character died in the original. Ray Wise is also returning. If ABC had renewed Twin Peaks for a third year, there were tentative plans for Sheryl Lee to return as a third character, this time as a redhead. I have no idea if Lee will be playing Laura, her cousin Maddie, a third character or all three. But I am intrigued.

[michael c]

Maddie's dead too. a third "lookalike" character feels like a stretch.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Apparently I wasn't the only one who was quite surprised by the casting of Grant Goodeve. In the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly they have a chart about who's been cast and Goodeve brings up the "HUH?!" section. But of course, we shouldn't judge before we see.    After all, he could be brilliant in whatever he's given to do.    My surprise really came from not having seen Goodeve in years and years. But a check of IMDb shows that he's been consistently appearing in things - just not things I (and apparently EW) have ever seen...

[Uncle Roger]

The last thing that I remember seeing Grant Goodeve in was One Life to Live, where he played a war buddy of Bo Buchanan named Woody and that was decades ago. But Lynch likes to cast people that the rest of us may have forgotten about. The original Twin Peaks gave actors like Richard Beymer, Piper Laurie, Michael Parks and Peggy Lipton (in scenes with her Mod Squad co-star Clarence Williams III, no less) their first mainstream exposure in eons. I wonder if he will have Goodeve sing.....

[Mysterious Benefactor]

TCA Awards 2016:

HERITAGE AWARD:
The Larry Sanders Show, HBO
The Mary Tyler Moore Show, CBS
Seinfeld, NBC
Star Trek, NBC
Twin Peaks, ABC