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solemnbiscuit t1_itgonsj wrote

Reply to comment by zxakari in I watched Twin Peaks for the first time, feel like a fool by neuroflix

Hilarious and fitting that one could watch a bunch of contextless deleted scenes that make no narrative sense strung together and be like “yes classic David Lynch that makes sense”

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AmeliaMangan t1_itgtkw0 wrote

This was exactly, but exactly, my experience watching the international version of the pilot (which was, in Australia in the '90s, the only version available on VHS).

So, for those who don't know: the international pilot has a whole bunch of new scenes added to it, so that it could ostensibly be released as a standalone feature film in the event that the show didn't get picked up. So in this version, BOB is an actual flesh-and-blood guy who is living in the bowels of the hospital, and at the end of the pilot Dale, surrounded by the rest of the task force, shoots and kills him. Then we get a title card reading "25 YEARS LATER", and we get the Red Room scene from Ep 4, and then the end credits roll over the Little Man From Another Place doing his dance.

It makes no sense. At all. And I, with the confidence of being about 13 years old with no internet access to prove me wrong, just thought "Oh, okay. Well, that's just how David Lynch rolls". And I accepted it! Went on to watch the rest of the show, somehow mentally reconciling the fact that absolutely nobody seemed to recall BOB living in the bowels of the hospital, or ever mentioned or even alluded to the fact that they'd all seen Dale kill him! (In hindsight, I feel this actually prepared me quite well for the narrative style of The Return.)

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