Just purchased new gold edition series 1 & 2 and can't wait to relive best tv series ever - ok series 1 that is. My favourite memory of this was trying to work out what the midget dream sequence meant for a week, unably assisted by lots of university mates and endless late night debates. Weeks later you realise it was just Lynch screwing with your head. Any other favourite memories of this from anyone - or is it just me that cherishes growing up with this?

No, not just you. Twin Peaks is awesome and I'm also reliving it through the new box set.

Is that Gold Box set available in Blu Ray? Damn shame if it isn't . . .

I've only seen the first series once when the dvd first came out - main memory for me was the sudden shot of Bob crouching down by the bed - scared the shit out of me in a way that only David Lynch can I'll have to give it a second viewing before I finally make it into series 2 . . .

My wife treated me a couple of years ago to the region 1 release of this box set (much to her chagrin as she was stumped with some nasty tax charges when it arrived in Blighty from the States).

It's a fantastic box set with awesome extras. I mean the whole thing is wonderful anyway, but the interviews in the cafe are funny and insightful.

I remember owning both series on VHS (the boxes were well cool with a different character on the spine of each case) and doing marathon sessions whereby me and some mates would watch the whole thing (approximately a whole days worth of viewing) eating and drinking nothing but cherry pie, donuts and coffee as black as a moonless night. Highly recommended.

It's also worth pointing out that Fire Walk With Me is very underrated film that received a lot of harsh criticism, but managed to plunge the depths of darkness that the TV friendly series couldn't achieve sometimes.

Oh I totally forgot they finally released this! I've had the Season 1 set for, what, over five years now?

I think I'll be heading out to buy it later today: Not seen it all the way through since it aired on the Sci-Fi channel in 2000-ish!

I really liked the Twin Peaks series, but i only watched it once everyone else had and the hype had died down. Never seen the film largely because people kept saying it was crap. Will go rectify that soon.

When I watched Twin Peaks for the 1st time on DVD I presumed there was only 1 series as that was all I saw available in the UK at the time. I love the show and am looking forward to rewatching it as well as the 2nd series on TV soon as part of the David Lynch season on the Horror Channel. The gold box set sounds good too, will have to invest in it sometime.

Nothing comes close, absolute gold. Everything about it just blows my mind everytime I watch it. Can't wait for the festival in London.

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I just picked up the 'gold' DVD box set (on ebay, for like $40).......

Anyway, I was a huge TP fan from day one, but I'm finding it hard to describe what I've been currently experiencing re-watching the pilot for the first time in like 17 years...........all I can say is that it's a COMPLETELY different experience now. Almost disturbingly so.....

Some of the moments that I remember being 'moved' by struck me as being almost farce-like. The music, that I loved at the time (I purchased the soundtrack then too) almost makes me want to claw my eyes out at some particular moments now!

This has just been my experience re-watching the pilot the other day; i have no idea if it will be the same watching the entire series again. I know there were moments in later episodes that made me cry (without really knowing why I was crying; another reason i love Lynch) and I only hope that they stand the test of time.......

I wasn't the expecting the experience to be quite so different this time around

Does anyone else know/understand what Im talking about??

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I completely agree!

There are things/moments/atmospheres in FWWM that get more full expression than they could on a network tv show circa 1990 ~ and one thing that hasn't changed for me: I think that Sheryl Lee was superb as central character Laura Palmer.

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Yeh, totally know what you're talking about. My wife and I currently re-watching them (me for the nth time her for the second).

There's a big element of cheesiness which is very noticeable in the pilot, but as the season progresses it either fades, or you simply get used to it.

For me it's not problematic as Lynch often has weirdly pitched melodramatic moments in his works that make you go 'er, should I really being liking this? Is he serious?', but this is the beauty of Lynch juxtaposing 50s TV series-like naivety with dark, sinister nightmarish moments.

As for the music I simply and utterly hands down love it - no matter what the context. Cngelo Badalamenti can do no wrong in my eyes.

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Thanks for the input phurious :) Yeah, I think I'm more fascinated by this very different viewing experience than anything else ~ I've never experienced anything quite like this before (ie other instances of watching something i loved decades ago, for the first time). It's just very......interesting.

And I still (and will always) love Badalamenti's music (I even loved it in "Cabin Fever":) ~ but there were a few moments where I felt/realized that there was a little 'over-saturation' of the theme music at times.........where you almost subconsciously feel that there NEEDS to be a 'break' somwhere, because without it, it loses its effectiveness. I seriously wondered if there was perhaps some 'tinkering' afterwards and some tech 'interloper' just decided to play the music in a loop for a bit!

For me, it'll be really interesting when I re-watch some of those later episodes that really affected me emotionally the first time around (ie the old-guy waiter who comes up to Cooper and says, out of the blue, "i'm so sorry" as something horrible happens elsewhere)

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There is a David Lynch season on the Horror Channel (UK) at the moment.
Twin Peaks weekdays 9pm starting November 8th.
Eraserhead 10.55pm November 13th.
Lost Highway 10.55pm November 20th.
I'm looking forward to this.

The Pilot of Twin Peaks takes place on Feb 24th and each episode consists of one days activities (more or less) from there on out. I'm wondering if anyone in this forum is watching along day by day. I did two years back and it was great fun, going to try to catch up and do it again this year.