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(My rewatch of part 12, "Let's Rock", consists of this article as well as a short video that I made. The video comments on and relates to my writing on Part 12, and vice versa, so give it a look.) July 31, 2017. Around 3 am on a Monday morning. That's right – that is …
Continue reading "Sounds, Sons, and Smoked Turkey: Return Rewatch Part 12"
Here at 25YLSite, we handle a lot of heavy lifting. Analysis, interpretation, deep discussion, introspective interviews… you name it, we’ve got it. “Favorites” is our weekly series that takes a lighter approach to the material we normally cover. Each week, one of our writers will take you through their list of favorites – whether it’s …
When I write about Twin Peaks there is a lot of things going on inside. I'm a highly visual person – I need to "see" things in front of me – and I have a strong need to create visuals and images out of the more abstract qualities that thoughts, relations, and ideas have. Therefore, …
Fear and love open the doors, but all perceptions or conditions must begin with the self. A path is formed by laying one stone at a time but remember: Hiding from your fear doesn't make your fear go away. Not even the biggest fear of all – the possibility that love is not enough. In …
Symbols. Waterfalls. Basements. Mythology. The maps of Twin Peaks. The red curtains. Laura, Teresa and Maddy. The secretive work of Major Briggs. Alchemy. Rivers. Portals. Demons and entities. The sound at the Great Northern. Mountains. Caves. Visual analysis. The Black Lodge. Rivers. The palace of the Fireman and Señorita Dido. Mike. Time. And, maybe most …
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In the Twin Peaks universe, motels have been visited and revisited quite a few times over the years. Motels have been made locations of importance, huge and small, and places for happenings of strange, funny, mundane or even supernatural events. Some of the motels are only seen once or twice. Others, however, are fundamental to …
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Out of all the returning characters in Twin Peaks, The Return, Sarah Palmer might be the one whose life turned out to be the harshest and most cruel. Thinking about how her life was back in the original run of Twin Peaks, it really wasn't even close to good then, either. SARAH PALMER IN THE …
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Dear reader. Allow me to get a little personal here for just a moment. Twin Peaks is very special to me. It’s the type of fiction that has the ability to become more than just a TV series within my own mind. It creates so many thoughts, interest in new subjects and it truly works …
Continue reading "Like a street light in the dark – Twin Peaks saved my life"
When I write this, there are three parts left of The Return. Many storylines look dark – not only metaphorically, but literally as well. Twin Peaks isn’t the town it used to be 25 years ago when a row of murders revealed secrets from behind the white picket fence about incest, evil and the threatening …
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Glastonbury Grove, Twin Peaks. 2440 Sycamore Street, Buckhorn. Sycamore Street, Ranco Rosa, Las Vegas. Three places. One of them, of course, long known to all Twin Peaks fans: Glastonbury Grove and its 12 Sycamore trees in the Ghostwood forest outside of town. The other two are new ones seen in Twin Peaks: The Return. What's …
Continue reading "Lost in the Woods – The Connection Between Sycamores and Portals: Part 2"