But of course the main focus of the series was who killed Laura Palmer. David Lynch made a lot of promises with that premise, and the quirky elements seemed like they were going somewhere, but he went over the edge adding in corny elements as well as supernatural ones, so that a lot of the clues to who murdered Laura Palmer lead nowhere and the final resolution was not satisfying at all.
And when the series was canceled, David Lynch took it out on the viewers by making a ridiculous cliff hanger, which wouldn't be resolved, because the series ended. It is this same childish actions that shows David Lynch's disrespect for fans of the show, and that carried over into this series.
This new series, while having many of the original cast members return, does not have any of the side stories of the original. The original stories are not taken up again, and any new stories that involve those characters are very short, and often completely disconnected from the overall story arch, and could easily have been thrown out. The whole story arch with Audrey, who was an important character in the original series, went nowhere. Very little time is spent in the town of Twin Peaks. While it's is interesting to see what "Bob" is doing, it seems like his story could have taken place during the 25 years while Cooper was in the black lodge. Even worse, for 15 episodes Cooper takes the role of Dougie, and can only say the last word anyone else has said to him. It is utterly ridiculous to waste viewers time with watching Dougie surrounded by people who don't recognize that he is severely mentally impared, and having situations unfold and get resolved around him, with Cooper/ Dougie taking no action to resolve those situations.
A common problem these days (perhaps started by Twin Peaks) is that the story teller makes promises, adds in bizarre elements, with no idea how to explain them later in the story, and often does no do so, often just ignoring them, thinking fans will forget them.
One such ridiculous event was in the new Battlestar Galatica, where Starbuck, who had died, suddenly reappeared. At the end of the series, she just disappeared again, implying she was a ghost, or something equally as stupid, because the writer had no idea how to explain her reappearance.
One other thing with the original Twin Peaks, was the music was really mesmerizing. It added to the show, but also could be enjoyed by itself. This new series has long sequences with a low hum, which is just fucking annoying.
It's obvious David Lynch only had enough ideas for about three episodes of this series, but stretched it out with filler into 18 episodes.
It would have been nice to revisited twin peaks, see how all the story lines had turned out, and has some closure on the whole Bob story line, but this wasn't it. They gave David Lynch the directors chair and he ran with it, making a bunch of nonsensical crap. He obviously gave no thought to this story over the last 25 years, and just threw together whatever to fill up as many episodes as possible.
The absolute epitome of this is episode 8 "Got a Light?". A large portion of the episode is just close up scenes of an explosion. There is no substance to it, there is no story progression. This episode can easily be skipped. and should be skipped, as David Lynch is just wasting your time.
David Lynch does well in his earlier work adding strange quirky and even spooky elements, but in this series, he lacked any ideas and just threw in a shit load of nonsensical crap, that he would ike you to think was deep, but it's just deep crap. He thinks he is adding spooky element, but it is just annoying and wasting the viewers time.
The whole situation with the Asian woman they found in the woods with no eyes was utterly stupid. First, no one seemed concerned that she had no eyes, and she kept making annoying noises which made her scenes unpleasant to watch. To compound the situation, there was a guy in the neighboring cell, with a string on his face, and constantly drooling, as though he needed medical attention. And to make matters worse, he would repeat everything that anyone said, just to maximize his annoyance factor. Anyhow, Sheriff Andy said that the woman with no eyes was "very important", but she didn't play any significant role in the series nor help resolve the whole Bob story line.
And as for the resolution, it is exceptionally dumb that they will able to shoot Bob with a single shot and kill him, and then have the kid with the green hand, who was a pretty cheap addition, to make him a unique character, who simply punched the floating ball of Bob to destroy it. Really dumb, considering this character was just added in two episodes earlier.
