It's In the Editing
Posted: 07 August 2017, 03:16
This has floored me. Last episode I couldn't understand why the scene with Audrey and Charlie was so cheaply done. There was basically one front shot of Audrey and two shots of Charlie that were cut together for the scene. There's a repeat of that with Nadine and Jacoby. This time, it's so badly edited that everything becomes obvious. Followed up by Audrey not knowing who she is, and the return of James singing the same song.... and the RR branding, the repeating scene on Sarah's tv.
So much of The Return has focused on monitors and people watching things on monitors. This episode has the gang watching Mr. C on a huge screen. I do believe Lynch is really pulling up the ideas of television, the unreality of television, and Twin Peaks is being shown as a badly made tv show, at least with some of the characters (Norma, Shelly, Nadine, Jacoby, and James). What about The Roadhouse and all the nonsensical drama the people have there? Are the Renaults actually producers, booking musical acts for each episode? The idea of tv shows is reinforced with Janey-E, the typical tv housewife. Her character, her motivations are only in reaction to her husband. She has nothing outside of him, much like the tv wives in old shows. Actually, almost all the Vegas characters are pushing tv stereotypes. Look at the Mitchum Brothers and the cops.
Dale Cooper is caught in a television show. Mr. C is a television show. He is always scrutinized on monitors.
So where is this heading? How is Lynch going to resolve his ode to television?
I know I'm rambling here, but from all this set up, all the bad editing, all the hyperreal scenarios, where is this heading? Is this the Lodges' view of the world, as a television program?
My brain won't stop processing...
So much of The Return has focused on monitors and people watching things on monitors. This episode has the gang watching Mr. C on a huge screen. I do believe Lynch is really pulling up the ideas of television, the unreality of television, and Twin Peaks is being shown as a badly made tv show, at least with some of the characters (Norma, Shelly, Nadine, Jacoby, and James). What about The Roadhouse and all the nonsensical drama the people have there? Are the Renaults actually producers, booking musical acts for each episode? The idea of tv shows is reinforced with Janey-E, the typical tv housewife. Her character, her motivations are only in reaction to her husband. She has nothing outside of him, much like the tv wives in old shows. Actually, almost all the Vegas characters are pushing tv stereotypes. Look at the Mitchum Brothers and the cops.
Dale Cooper is caught in a television show. Mr. C is a television show. He is always scrutinized on monitors.
So where is this heading? How is Lynch going to resolve his ode to television?
I know I'm rambling here, but from all this set up, all the bad editing, all the hyperreal scenarios, where is this heading? Is this the Lodges' view of the world, as a television program?
My brain won't stop processing...