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It was unnecessary to consult a watch. The exquisite languor of the afternoon told her that this was the hour when people weary of humdrum activities tend to doze and dream as she was doing now.

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975) dir. Peter Weir

#picnic at hanging rock #happy valentines day

"I wanted so much to be like you, Laura."

A thing I love is how in all the Donna/Laura pics, there's always that underlying vibe of "yeah, I can tell Laura was the popular one". Because it's not about who's prettier. It's that undefinable THING that the popular girl in your school always had. The more natural smile, the more confident posture, the IT factor basically.

And it's especially interesting to me because Lara Flynn Boyle CLEARLY has an immense IT factor (that becomes bigger and bigger as the series progresses). But she really played up every bit of submissive awkwardness in S1, and it's so perfect.

#twin peaks #donna hayward #laura palmer

mulderscully

TWIN PEAKS | 1.04

#cooper's progression from 'what's the dead girl's name?'#to being willing to alter space and time to save her is just #mwah #twin peaks #soulmates in the very best and worst ways

"But why do people hate James?"

Thinking about how often I see this come up and I think what I've settled on is that the presentation and the text for James just don't align. We're told he's the pure-hearted, he's the only who REALLY loves Laura, he's the sincere one, he's the one who tried to save her.

And yet...our first introduction to him is him seemingly getting over all of that within HOURS of her brutal murder and hooking up with her BFF. We can justify that. We can say it's grief, neediness. I even think by the end of S2, that's actually born out. But that's after we've had 16 or so episodes going to great lengths to make Donna his REAL true love. He almost told Donna he loved her that day in the hallway! It's just that he couldn't let himself even think it while Laura was still alive!

A sympathetic reading of James Hurley almost requires you to refuse to take his A-plot at face value. James is either the sensitive boy who was the only one who REALLY loved Laura, or he was the guy falling in love with her best friend behind her back while she was in a death spiral. He can't really be both those things. But the show tries to convince us he is. And I think THAT'S why a lot of viewers are turned off. They're presented with two narratives, both of which paint James as a huge romantic hero, but they cancel each other out. If both can't be true, it feels like neither are true. And so what's left?

The more I've thought on this, I also think James is probably a victim of Laura becoming more than was ever intended. The S1 finale ends with James seemingly waking up to the fact that his relationship with Laura was never love. "I’m glad I heard her say it, I’m glad. I might have gone my whole life." he says, after hearing Laura calling him dumb while flaunting her other sexual partners to her psychiatrist. Donna's the real deal, Laura never was.

Except...well, S2 and FWWM storm in and kind of kill any idea of it being that clear-cut or simple. It almost feels like as Lynch himself becomes more and more enamored with Laura, he pulls James in with him. If Lynch doesn't get to escape her, neither does James. Sorry, buddy. No closure for you.

#twin peaks #james hurley #laura palmer #donna hayward #fire walk with me

sarahmichellesgellar

Outfit Appreciation ➝ Dirty Dancing

#oh to be wearing an off the shoulder floral blouse while ballroom dancing at a summer resort #dirty dancing #missing my fave though #baby's white jeans and white embroidered peasant top

asystolle

DIRTY DANCING (1987) + hands dir. Emile Ardolino

#i have SO many thoughts on that third gif #dirty dancing #baby fell in love with penny too #literally the whole plot is kicked into motion by baby's empathy and need to help penny

paceyjoeydaily

365 days of paceyjoey → day one hundred and sixty two

#at the risk of exaggeration #truly one of the most underrated ship moments ever #no one did the post-breakup angst better than S4 P/J #it's one of those moments most writers wouldn't even think to include #the 'forgot we're broken up now' instinctive kiss hello #so why do i suspect this was katie and josh and not anyone in the writers' room?#dawson's creek

you telling me that Pacey/Andie were separated in S3 for Pacey/Joey

me telling you that it was actually Pacey/Joey being separated in S2 for Pacey/Andie. Cause sorry, Pacey/Andie's whole pseudo-antagonistic vibe is just S1 Pacey/Joey minus the sexual chemistry.

because it's no coincidence that whenever the writing wants to push another ship to the forefront, the first thing they do is get Pacey and Joey away from each other. They did it in S2 for Dawson/Joey and Pacey/Andie, they did it in S5 for Dawson/Joey, they did it in S6 for Joey/Eddie.

#dawson's creek #and like not to be mean?#but it's genuinely funny to me to imagine the writers had to do ANYTHING to “push” Pacey/Joey #i'm sorry #they merely had to EXIST and they overshadowed every other plot on screen #there's a reason we call it “S5 amnesia”#because good old fashioned couple assassination in s4 did not work #s4 is one long exercise in making dawson a saint and pacey a mess #and no one cared #because even sad dysfunctional pacey/joey felt more real and intense than anything else on the show #and so s5 literally tried to just pretend they were never in love to see if THAT would make the audience give up #spoiler: it did not

fadeintoyou1993

QUINN FABRAY GLEE | 2.21

#glee #s2 fuinn fascinates me #I do think they genuinely care about each other #but quinn is trying to erase what happened last year #and finn is trying to punish her for what happened last year #just makes me hate what they did to them in s3 so much more #they should've been allowed to make peace and move on #but the writers had zero finchel juice and had to keep tossing quinn in there #whenever they ran out of teen marriages and virginity consolation prize storylines

audreycooperlaura

#twin peaks #that’s MY emotional support doomed first love ship

I bet it hit so hard for some of the Twin Peaks crew when Fire Walk With Me bombed initially. Imagine the sense of satisfaction, the validation that you were absolutely correct to refuse to be involved. The "I knew they couldn't pull it off without me" of it all.

Only to then have to see it re-evaluated and deemed a masterpiece years later and to know you willingly threw away your chance to be a part of it and to work with one of the greatest auteurs of our generation one more time. Welp.

#twin peaks #fire walk with me #this thought brought to you by me finally reading Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks #cause woo boy the smugness from some of these real time interviews

Somewhat ironic that despite nothing going according to plan, much of the audience hating the storyline, and even the actors being sick of it, Dawson/Joey are actually the most consistently written dynamic on the show.

Hear me out! The writers' clumsy attempts to set them up as endgame by never letting them stay together too long, inadvertently made them a couple of friends who kept TRYING to date and realizing they suck together. They are absolutely those two people whose friends/family push them together, just to realize they actually have no romantic chemistry. They're the BFFs who pine, then realize actually being together is just weird and off-putting. They're that couple who bail the second there is the least bit of inconvenience or effort required, because at heart, they don't actually want to be together.

This thought brought to you by the S5 finale, where they declare their love in dramatic, airport sprint film trope fashion...

...and then refuse to disrupt either of their pre-set plans (usually the goal of the airport declaration), spend months without talking, and then go on to date other people over the summer.

Pacey/Joey and their "let's leave on this boat together for the summer and figure out the pesky details like 'clothes' and 'food' later on" could NEVER.

#dawson's creek #joey potter #dawson leery

“She gave everything she had, she gave more”

A thing I feel like I constantly forget is that Sheryl Lee had to film the murders of TWO women in some of the most visceral and brutal death scenes imaginable. And shoot them more than once.

In my mind, I often think of Maddy as so separate from Laura, but Sheryl had to act out BOTH those murders. Multiple times.

She shot Maddy's death scene three times with three different actors.

And this was AFTER she had to film Laura's death scene for the tv show in Ronette's flashback.

Then, she had to film probably the most elaborate and extended, literally operatic, version of Laura's death for Fire Walk With Me. Acting out a murder she probably felt like she'd lived through a half dozen times, for literally years by then.

#laura palmer #sheryl lee #twin peaks #fire walk with me #twin peaks spoilers

all it took was seeing a random tweet about Bellamy Blake, and I'm back down the rabbit hole. and now i'm thinking about how in the end, Bellamy's story was about how conditional everyone's love for him was. as long as he could be strong, be their champion, their partner, he was loved. as soon as he failed or became an inconvenience, they each left him behind with minimal regret. Bellamy refused to ever give up on anyone and it tore him apart when he failed. People gave up on him and shrugged it off.

#bellamy blake #anti the 100 #i guess?#idk i've been out of this fandom for so long #idek if we're still all bitter or if people (not me) have found peace

cosmicsunday

A review from when Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me originally came out back in 1992. A film about a teenage girls incestual abuse and murder.

#male critics will literally describe how complex a female character is #and still insist there's no depth #sure she's self-destructive #misguided #aware of her own doom #and connected to other worlds #but consider that i personally cannot relate to years of sexual abuse and exploitation and societal expectations for young women #now what?#twin peaks #fire walk with me

I think I have more respect for people who just hate Bobby from beginning to end than I do for people who decide he's "redeemed" after his dad's vision or watching him in The Return.

Cause I just don't know, if you can't appreciate his character while he's crashing out at Laura's funeral, being a bumbling teenage dumbass while dealing with Leo, performing the most hilarious version of slouchy teenage rebellion, killing "Mike"? It feels unearned to decide he's a worthy character only when he's "nice". Kid was giving you banger scene after scene and you were too swayed by Cooper deciding to hate him before they even met. I'm not sure you should be allowed in the club now.

#twin peaks #bobby briggs #fire walk with me

musingsmedia

Kim Walker as Heather Chandler Heathers (1987) dir. Michael Lehmann

#more characterization in 10 seconds with no dialogue than in the entire musical #i said what i said #heathers

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