SDCC 2017: 10 Things We Learned From The Twin Peaks Panel

Although Twin Peaks creators David Lynch and Mark Frost were unable to attend the Comic-Con panel in San Diego, the director created a short film for fans to chew over (with that gum we’ve heard has come back in style), but describing that video is about as easy as describing Part 8 of the return.

Like a good portion of Lynch’s work, it was both a wonderful and strange piece that reportedly opened with the director seated amid the shadows of a darkened room, greeting the audience with a simple message: “Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.”

By this time, Lynch undoubtedly had the attention of the entire room, but unfortunately the same level of attentiveness was not returned, as he kept getting distracted by strange developments off-screen, but he always had the courtesy to fill in the gaps in our vision.

Firstly, we could hear what sounded like a man falling from a great height (presumably, to his death), immediately followed by Lynch holding up what looked like a corpse’s hand clinching a golf ball that he described as being, supposedly, “the last golf ball O.J. Simpson hit before going into prison.”

The film cut out again, but when the picture returned we were thrown into complete chaos, with a horse apparently entering the scene and a gung-ho rider seemingly firing several shots before the video abruptly reached its unresolved conclusion.

So that was that.