Twin peaks: Nostalgia

This edit plays out like a dream, heightening the nostalgia in Twin Peaks The Return, successfully matching this version's subtitle.

The music is the strongest point, elevating innumerous scenes and helping them match the humor, melodrama, and tension akin in the original 90s program. Overall, this shift is aesthetic is also shaped by the editing, following a tighter narrative that better celebrates original cast. This concludes in a cleverly serviceable, gloveless climax that I will not spoil here.

Making cuts to The Return's narrative does sacrifice some powerful elements, namely Richard Horne's depiction as a tragic sociopath, along with other side characters that help to shape the modern world of Twin Peaks. Otherwise, the choice of using The Pink Room track in the place of Sharp Dressed Man, in addition to cutting the scene to remove Freddy's glove antics, makes for an awkward conclusion to the scene's end.

My only other nit is that warming the color tone can cause some scenes to appear burnt out, almost sepia, but I can justify this with the heightened, dreamlike atmosphere that ReddinoX successfully captures in this edit.

I finally got around to watching TP Nostalgia.

I am gonna rattle of a few points that i remember from binging this edit. Memo for the future.: . i must start writing notes for a more organized review.

The scenes are really enhanced by the new/old music and the edit is 95% on point.. a few mild snips and scene replacements would have made it perfect but i know these things are subjective and my review is just that.

I personally wouldn't have used The Pink Room tune to rescore any of the scenes as to me this is an epic hypnotic masterpiece native only to the back room of  the Power & The Glory bar and shouldn't be used anywhere but. 

We should have seen Richard Horne take the drugs before he runs over the little boy.

I would have also substituted the Viva Las Vegas tune when Dougie meets the Mitchum Brothers in the desert  with something different...not sure what but something.

Although a  beautiful song i would have cut the Eddie Vedder appearance  totally and started the scene with Audrey Horne walking into the bar...maybe add some new sound FX to cover the music.

I would have tried to replace the music during  Norma and Ed's reconciliation scene in the Double R...I know I know how dare you scrap the great Otis Redding but this song seems to be forced into the scene, David Lynch is on record saying he loves the Monterey Pop festival this live version is taken from. 

It would be interesting to know the editors thoughts on why the green glove man needed to be exorcised...yes it was a bit silly but i quite like the references to the Fireman...i do wish they would have set this character up a little better after all he had a big part to play in the demise of BOB. I think they missed a trick by having him appear so late in the series...The removal of Freddie Sykes, led to the biggest editing problem ...the fight at the Roadhouse with Renee's husband Chuck. First we have the host announcing ZZ Top's Sharp Dressed Man ...only for The Pink Room to kick in...it just didn't work and the audio  dialogue levels were very low. As a solution i would have used subtitles in reference to The Pink Room scene in FWWM 

The original episode 8 - Gotta Light...is an absolute thing of beauty and i would have kept the whole episode in tact. Do you think the teenage girl in this episode is Sarah Palmer? Maybe - who knows.

Although i love all of the bands at the Bang Bang Bar the music interludes just seemed so forced and am overjoyed you managed to cut most of them. The new colouring is gorgeous - so warm and reminiscent of seasons 1&2 - so top marks for that...i also would have preferred you to make some end credits but i understand its a labourious task.

Overall - this edit is a winner and the rescoring really does heightened the Twin Peaksiness of The Return.

Sorry this review is more of series of memories than a structured review but thank you i had sense of Nostalgia rewatching your edit. Highly recommend with a few TwinPeaks..i mean Tweaks.

The 8 for Audio editing is purely for the fight scene mentioned above - the incorporation of the new music is a a solid 9 - a subjective point deducted for the use of the Pink Room track :)

Damn good fan edit and hot……

Finding myself back in the black lodge and watching another Twin Peaks: The Return fan edit. What a blast.

ReddinoX did not only cut the whole season to a tighter pace but he did also an incredible job regrading season 3 to the original first 2 seasons.

The Return almost looks like a direct continuation of the first 2 seasons shot on film. No more digital plastic effect, we were back in the 90s and the golden film era.

Twin Peaks Nostalgia not only looks and feels like the original series but also sounds like it. I could not name all the reused music from the past Twin Peaks entries. But combining the visual and the soundtrack from the original entries was a brilliant idea.

Last but not least I really liked how the whole edit is cut together. There are no head-scratching subplots and nonsense characters anymore. Nostalgia is more focused on the original Twin Peaks characters and their adventures.

The final confrontation between Cooper and Bob/Mister C has been trimmed down. No more "hulk glove" attack and convoluted cutting. The weird digital effects have been trimmed down to the necessary as well.

This edit floats in the same realm as Q2 S3 edit and I enjoyed each episode as if it was the first time.

Well done ReddinoX.