Bisexuals can get married.

Yeah, I hit my limit for “what the fuck is Francis Ford Coppola thinking” a couple decades ago.

I can have my periods now but at some point I won’t anymore. Still I would be a woman.

I just find it very interesting that nobody seems to actually threaten the men who send death threats to trans women.

It made complete thematic sense but narratively didn’t add much for what amounted to a side character, and it seems like “tragic death caused by underestimating an animal on a set in front of an audience” is a backstory that could have easily been included with the main characters being a family of horse trainers.

I was only mentioning stuff from before Fire Walk With Me. The Straight Story is definitely Lynch’s most “normal” film, but it came out after Fire Walk With Me and Lost Highway so by that point people were more surprised that he made a straightforward movie than they were when he went back to mindfucks.

I don’t entirely disagree, but I think it’s important to note that pretty much the entire back half of season 2 outside of the finale was done without Lynch’s involvement, and the events of said finale still amount to “Cooper enters hell, faces off with the show’s primary demon, loses, and is possessed like Leland…

It establishes that he’s there 25 years later, but says nothing about how much time he spends there. It could be that he was intended to return to the Black Lodge after 25 years rather than being stuck in it for the duration, it could be (as you noted) that time passes differently in the Lodge and he ages faster when…

Laura Palmer tells Cooper she’ll see him again in 25 years, but that never required that he be trapped in the Black Lodge for 25 years. There were all sorts of ways to go while still remaining true to that one cryptic line.

Mulholland Drive got all the attention that Lost Highway deserved.

Or the initial disappointment of getting a prequel after a cliffhanger conclusion as the final word in the series has faded after 30 years and a genuine follow-up series, while Lynch’s later movies prepared people better for his stylistic choices here than the Twin Peaks series had.

Yeah, for all the supposed weirdness of Twin Peaks, most of it is a fairly standard soap opera and the supernatural stuff amounts to demons versus angels with flourishes. Fire Walk With Me and The Return complicated things a bit beyond that, but it still gave comprehensible in-universe explanations for things far more…

Fire Walk With Me was the beginning of his dream logic period. Prior to that you had stuff that was either explicitly allegorical (Eraserhead, Wild at Heart) or just plain straightforward in narrative (The Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks). He certainly had dream sequences before this, but they were always…

wouldn’t it have been in WB’s interests to intervene in all this Miller business in like June?

I don’t necessarily watch it for the story, but I appreciate that the story is as solid as it is. The best mystery/comedy hybrids are the ones that take both aspects seriously.

Between this and “is Hellraiser actually good?” from a few days ago you seem to have a thing for insisting that people actually agree with your hot takes and are just refusing to admit it to themselves.

Yeah, the 80s had a lot of absolute stone-cold classics, and Hellraiser doesn’t sit with the best of them. It’s no Alien or The Thing.

Yeah, Zaslav is used to killing stuff the general public doesn’t specifically give a shit about. You hear a whole lot of “man, TLC used to be good” but never any specific programming.

Zaslav knows how to turn educational on-in-the-background TV into hyper-profitable trashy on-in-the-background TV, but it seems increasingly clear he doesn’t know how to handle projects and IPs that people actively care about and engage with.

So maybe I’m too much of an old gay to fully get this, but uh... what’s wrong with straight dudes painting their nails? That they’re doing it for “the wrong reasons”? I don’t see why they should have to justify their fashion choices any more than anyone else.