140 - Laura

 I suppose there's really only the one thing to even think about talking about today and that's how wonderful Twin Peaks was. Because it was. Wonderful. 

'Cos I was thinking the other day about how over the years there had been a number of abortive attempts to bring Twin Peaks back, and how there were meant to be more movies, and how at the time each missed opportunity made me feel sad. 

But then the stars aligned, and we got the 18 part third season that Lynch described as a movie in 18 parts.

And all of a sudden I was glad these earlier attempts were not successful. 

'Cos if they were, they wouldn't have been the third season as we got it. They would have been different. And the third season of Twin Peaks is the greatest television ever made. Heck, I would go so far as to say it's the greatest work of fiction in any medium, ever. 

Yes. Even better than that thing you're thinking of right now. 

It's like a dream. When you're watching it, everything makes perfect sense. You feel it intuitively. You allow yourself to fall in to this world and immerse yourself in it. But if you try too hard to explain exactly what it is you've seen... you can't. I've read all sorts of theories as to exactly what's going on... and you know what? It doesn't matter if any of them are true. 

You experience these 18 hours. You feel them. You don't need Basil Expostion telling you what everything is. That would have destroyed it. 

It's more than fiction, it's more than a story. It just is. 

It doesn't matter that we're clearly not being shown everything in the right order (I still maintain the very first scene we see is actually set after the very last scene we see). It doesn't matter if there are multiple time lines. Things flow and seem to make sense. But don't make sense. 

And there's such heartbreak in there. The few scenes with the Log Lady really get to you - especially when you know that Catherine Coulson was dying of cancer when she filmed them, and never got to see the finished show - and when Hawk announces she's died... 

...which is counterpointed with such joyous scenes as Ed and Norma getting together, at long last. They get their happy ending. 

It defies normal narrative storytelling and does its own thing. It's David Lynch turned up to 11. 

It is an experience. It is a feeling. 

It's like a dream...