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Welcome back to Listening Post Alpha! For this round of Superstitions and Folklore, I’ve decided to focus on elements that are seemingly exclusive to the Return, or which figure less heavily in the Original Series. DON’T LET YOUR LUCK RUN OUT As far as I can tell, there is one and only one distinct horseshoe …
Season 3 held several little gems of scenes that showed us the progression of many of our old favourite characters from the original run. Ed and Norma are together, Jacoby and Nadine are eccentric entrepreneurs, Bobby and Mike are straight-laced and (probably) law-abiding, and Ben Horne managed to retain his goodness throughout everything (let’s face …
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In the long, empty, crashing weeks since the finale there have been a million words written about season 3. We are still in a weird limbo of mourning what is over, and of hoping for more clarification and understanding of what we actually just went through. Putting the baffling, jumbled elements of the finale itself …
Welcome back to "The Waiting Room", my weekly Monday night column. There's been a bit of a hiatus for this column - I posted my instant finale reactions on Sunday the 3rd instead of my traditional Monday night piece and then last week I posted The Community Speaks: A Tribute to John Thorne in place of "The …
One character from The Return I would love to find out more about is Red. For someone with very little screen time, he didn’t exactly go unnoticed, mainly because his scenes were so well-placed and so well done (and partly, I’m sure, because he’s Balthazar Getty). Red is only in 3 scenes out of the …
Continue reading "Heads I Win, Tails You Lose – The Enigma of Red"
Yes its true; we are only days away Parts 17 and 18, the two hour conclusion of Twin Peaks: The Return. While Sunday will surely be a day filled with coffee, pie, doughnuts and tissues, lets have some fun today and borrow Charlie's crystal ball and see what we come up with. Bragging rights for any …
By Scott Prendergast & Lindsay Stamhuis The Roadhouse in Twin Peaks has always acted as a kind of way station for the characters. It's never the final destination but the place you stop at on the path to something bigger just on the horizon. It's the place where James and Donna meet on the night …
Continue reading "Conversations in Liminal Spaces: What is Going On at the Roadhouse?"
Strap yourselves in tight because there's just two weeks left and the action just accelerated into high gear! This episode had a little something for everyone. Romance, sci-fi surrealism, violence, and whatever the hell is going on with Audrey. Let's get started! THE CONVENIENCE STORE AT THE END OF THE WORLD: Is this taking place …
Continue reading "We Are Still Not Really Going To Talk About Judy: Twin Peaks Part 15 Review"
