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I fully confess - as i watch the next episode of TP, it will probably be while eating dinner from Wendy's.

Gotta light?

The delivery boy? Was funny how the credits left out the Starring Kyle Maclachlan at the beginning - he was still in the episode for one super short scene, and Sheryl Lee gets credited each week even if it's nothing more than for her face on the opening credits. There were a couple points where i totally could tell what the payoff would be - that baseball scene with Dougie and Sonny ended exactly how i knew it would within the first seconds of the scene starting. And Albert asking "What kind is it?" i KNEW was going to elicit a time-check from Gordon. Did get a little nervous when i saw the guy sweeping up in the background of Diane's bar wondering if we'd get another floor-cleaning extended sequence; thankfully that was not to be. I didn't set up any expectations of this ep based on an actor's Tweet since none of them seem to know what's coming up til it airs unlike ep 8 where the hype came from Showtime folks. (But at least we got an unintended early spoiler from it?)

Just as how David Lynch has been playing around with expectations all over the place with TP:TR, just watch this line ending up having nothing to do with the Red Room, Lodges, Arm/Tree, but rather coming from the band playing the Roadhouse.

If Kyle doesn't score an Emmy or Golden Globe or other similar accolade for TW:TR, i'll be sadly drowning my sorrows in a cherry pie/doughnut binge. And if he does, i'll be happily celebrating with a cherry pie/doughnut binge.

Cooper never really did eat his cherry pie a la mode though that we've seen, did he?

Thanks for clearing that up - i would have gone on thinking, "Wow, she's REALLY let herself go!!!" Just imagine if that actually DID end up being the case. In context, it would be epic to the viewers and leave Sherilyn Fenn disappointed in the amount of screentime she got.

Ah, Shelly... thrown off a car hood and thrown under a bus all in one episode!

I literally applauded that scene. I remember how KR used to give interviews saying she felt Lucy was the one in TP Sheriff's station who had a true pulse on everything that was going on. The lady who thought to type what Bobby/Mike were talking about in the hall in the pilot. Lucy in TP:TR has been so dumbed down for comedic effect that i couldn't help but speculate they might actually be going somewhere with her havinh mental problems. But THIS was more in keeping with how she should be! Can't they be both? :) I'll be disappointed if THIS isn't on any of the soundtrack albums!

Couldn't help but wonder if that was a wardrobe dept decision...or if RDR just figured "Hey, i get to be on Twin Peaks - here's what i should wear!"

I signed up for that just to take the aforementioned survey and it was gone before i had a chance to take it so i was really bummed about that - but at least today i took a survey where i got to comment about how Disney's recent decision to fire Steve Whitmire from The Muppets might just cause me to boycott everything Disney-owned-and-related including watching anything on Freeform so am reaaaally happy i signed up earlier to take surveys to tell them this.

Yes indeedy doody - you win the fluffy doll

Ah, i LOVED them in the comics...though truth be told i actually prefer the Josie comics BEFORE the formation of Josie & The Pussycats.

Show of hands: During the Lucy/Andy scene, how many people were just waiting for one of them to say "This is the chair."

Many interviews over the years have talked about Lynch's casting process. Instead of having actors do a traditional audition or reading, he sits down and talks with them and if he "sees something there", he'll cast them. Not actually getting more of a practical idea of their acting ability can at times then lead to some odd results once they actually end up filming and we see the end results. I was so excited about this page and thought it would provide hours of intriguing reading but really there isn't much behind that first page - want to see the older articles and read his thoughts/experiences? Bzzt - sorry, thanks for playing. Instead it's primarily just a promotion for the upcoming soundtracks,

Inside intel from those of us actively involved in the Save OLTL movement. It should also be noted that a partnership with an online streaming service wouldn't just be net only. Getting the shows back in production is phase one; getting them on tv screens/venues where most people can see them/won't be left out is phase two. After the string of failures ABC tried to replace OLTL with, they ended up giving that hour over to the affiliates so as far as ABC Daytime goes, they just have The View, The Chew, and GH - and there are no plans to axe any of them at this time. But many affiliates would be happy to use that hour for a reboot of AMC/OLTL. Don't get too hung up on the words "online reboot" - one way or another these would see television airings as well.

That was one of my favorite moments in an outstanding episode (perhaps the best one yet?) overall. Albert meets his soulmate! Loved it (and i used to be an Albert/Truman shipper even!)

At this point, it looks like they would be partnering with either Hulu, Amazon, or Netflix. They seem to be very close to striking a deal with one of them. ABC's starting having casting discussions and reaching out to some of the actors.

I'd love to host a Twin Peaks-themed July 4th gathering...if for no other reason than for the invitations to say "FireWorks With Me"

I actually Tweeted Marlene voicing my disgust at how big a waste the last 7 years have been getting involved with stories and characters with far too many open mysteries left unanswered. (Plus i do in all sincerity WANT to see an actual official episode guide book "PLL: All the Answers" - IMK actually said at one point she might consider doing one.) Here's the address for those who'd like to support it by Liking/Retweeting it:

Now i really want to see The U2 play the Roadhouse - or how about The The The?

Now that i've had time to process and gather my thoughts, here's why i consider the finale (heck, the whole last season) a Massive Fail. Throughout the show's history, there's been countless open mysteries, unanswered questions, unexplained occurrences, and sketchy red-herring characters. Viewers of the show get invested in these. We expect them to have a payoff. The finale ignored just about all of them. PLL wasn't ultimately about never firing the Chekhov's Gun, it made a whole firearms factory and kept them all under lock and key. This was my biggest fear about the timejump from 6A to 6B - there were all these open mysteries, and by jumping forward five years, they were all mostly doomed to become irrelevant. And that's EXACTLY what happened. The show's writing staff just didn't care at all about revisiting any open threads. But these were the elements that people who cared about the show kept tuning in for - they wanted those answers, those wrap-ups. Just as important as answering the questions you introduce in the story, you need to have satisfying resolution to the characters. All those sketchy characters may have been red herrings in the end, but the viewers were still invested in and care about the characters. Just because they're herrings doesn't mean they're disposable; they need to have their own epilogues as to WHY they were the way they were - what were their motivations for such actions? How much did so-and-so know about this-and-that? Show dIdn't care about any of this so any viewers who did care about this stuff had all that time just wasted. Then they couldn't even use what they did give us to its full potential. How much more satisfying would it have been if during alex's backstory exposition, she could have talked about "Even though that was the last time I physically last saw Charlotte. we kept very closely in touch and she let me have a taste of what playing the game was like. When one of her dolls was taking off to spend some time in another country beyond her reach, she called in a favor to her London Correspondent to keep things in play - I was the one who put that blood in your bag. What an intoxicating thrill that was and I totally understood what Charlotte meant about how you didn't want to stop playing once you got a taste of it!" That would have taken care of one loose thread and expanded the backstory/motivations of this "new" character. This had the potential to be such an incredible show - true to the show's title, the concept of the Unreliable Narrator could have been a major central theme. When we got "answers", we had a hard time trusting how much of them were actually true? When Ali and later Charlotte had their huge exposition episodes, we knew there must be things they were both lying about and leaving out - and we waited patiently to find out just what secrets they were still keeping and was was the "real" story behind their stories? Those never came. What exactly was Ali's relationship with Cyrus; why was Sara helping and so seemingly devoted to Charlotte; just how much did Jenna and Melissa know about the various A teams and what were their specific roles regarding each? None of those will ever be touched upon now. So much wasted opportunities. All those wasted years. IMK does not know how to run a show and i will never make the mistake of watching anything she's attached to ever again.

Here's the exact quote: What i gather that she's saying is she originally wanted it to be Wren but was too afraid that when it came time to finally shoot the series' end, the possibility that they wouldn't have been able to get Julian Morris available for them was too real and they would have been completely screwed. (Even though they did get Wren in the finale, they still didn't have him available long enough to tape all the things they wanted for him including an on-screen death scene). What she means by "has to be a series regular" is an actor that is a contract player on the show as opposed to one that appears as a guest/recurring status because those actors you know you'll have with no other commitments in the way; they signed a contract guaranteeing their availability to tape episodes of the show.

And then one of those regular phones finally burned...

Yeah, but when fas devote years to a show that has so many loose ends and unanswered questions central to the storyline (and the creators are forced to admit in interviews "we didn't plan ahead when we did this", "we didn't have a specific person in mind", "we realized we forgot about this so had to force it in as a dream"), then they won't follow a massive fail of a showrunner to new projects and those ratings will tank. The name I. Marlene King now officially = "poison"