enjoyed the deleted scenes

Um, Chris Isaak had his own show on Showtime after he was in this movie. And it wasn't a reality show, it was a scripted comedy. And even though I haven't seen the deleted scenes, since most people who were going to watch the movie were fans of the series, I think it's a shame the movie was butchered. I (and I'm sure most fans) WANTED to see favorites like Norma, Lucy, Josie and Harry in the movie. But I guess Lynch thought the audience wanted to see longer scenes of the one-armed man screaming at Laura and her dad while at a train crossing.

They did a great job with the relationship between Chris Isaak and the sheriff in Deer Meadow, it's exactly like Cooper/Truman in the show.

I think, like most of Lynch's stuff, you either go with it or you don't. I'm one of the fans who wishes that the entire Fire Walk With Me film was the Theresa Banks investigation. I though the story of Chet Desmond, Sam Stanley, Albert Rosenfeld, Dale Cooper, Gordon Cole and the long lost Philip Jeffries would have been a brilliant feature film and I especially wish they had done the satellite films exploring the Black Lodge. Seeing the last days of Laura Palmer really did nothing for the larger mythology- it gave us no answers and simply showed what we already knew- a troubled girl on a downward spiral. It was a story that didn't need to be told and it did sweet fa to clear up any of the greater mysteries.

Certain deleted scenes bother me- the ring on Annie's finger and the nurse who takes it, locking Dale in the Black Lodge- THAT was something I would have liked to know back in the day. The hints that tell us everything is cyclical and the Black Lodge events are unmoored in time makes things a hell of a lot more interesting in my book (and helps explain the last diner scene from the television show- you either know what I'm talking about or you don't)

As many fans have, I wish Lynch had revisited the world of Twin Peaks 25 years down the road as suggested in the show. I think audiences today are a lot more cerebral and a lot more open to wild ideas and fractured narratives. I hate to credit Lost for being anything other than a huge mess, but I think it showed that people are more willing to accept the wtf? moments. I think a bunch of shows about the Black Lodge would really catch on now.

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