Compare Dallas with Twin Peakes season two

[steveOooo]

Hi, just wondering becasue i find Twin Peaks a facinating show to watch especially compare with the programmes from its time. - like dallas.

anyone into video editing and can compare differences between dallas and Twin peaks in terms of how they are edited?

What are the main differences between dallas and TP? I want to discuss in terms of a soap opera element - ie. the scene in the final episode of TP season 2 features a scene with nadine and ed where shes recoviring from amnesia this is obviousy a soap opera esqu scene - much different from the rest of TP.

:partytime (just had to use cool spot!)

[KillerBob]

I don't think we should give away spoilers from Twin Peaks season 2 since it hasn't been released yet! There are many people who has not seen it yet!

However, there are soooo many differences between the shows, in every aspect. I don't know where to start... :)

[Pamela Barnes]

Hi, just wondering becasue i find Twin Peaks a facinating show to watch especially compare with the programmes from its time. - like dallas.

anyone into video editing and can compare differences between dallas and Twin peaks in terms of how they are edited?

What are the main differences between dallas and TP? I want to discuss in terms of a soap opera element - ie. the scene in the final episode of TP season 2 features a scene with nadine and ed where shes recoviring from amnesia this is obviousy a soap opera esqu scene - much different from the rest of TP.

:partytime (just had to use cool spot!)

Welcome Steve with the many O's. I have to say I have never seen Twin Peaks - I recall a friend who was crazy about it but it was around the time I was 16 or 17 that it came out and well being 16 I was more interested in going out than watching TV.

But I would love to see it. I actually recall it had the same buzzy feel that Dallas had in terms of fans reaction - it was like Who shot JR but spread over an entire season. - both had dwarfs too ;)

But wouldnt it be difficult to compare the two shows, they were completely different.

[steveOooo]

well... thats what i thought.. but im actually doing a presentation on wed. and im comparing the most soap-opear like scene in TP with a scene featuring sue ellen and her tight-trouser wearing husband - dusty. Wasnt sue ellen married to JR? sorry - i was around 9-10 when i watched dallas!

[Pamela Barnes]

Sue Ellen was married to JR but had a fling with Dusty.

What is the presentation for ? :)

[steveOooo]

im doing a broadcast post production course (video editing) and were doing a group presentation on tv genre from a post production standpoint. its actually on twin peaks season two last epiode and imm going to be comparing a scene from dallas (sue ellen and dusty) with ed and nadine in TP. Im then going to talk about how TP is paced out compared with dallas - ie TP uses alot of wide shots whereas Dallas is more conventional with more cuts and more close ups for those meladramatic moments.

[steveOooo]

what is someone classed as if they are going out iwth someone who is already married? boyfreind?

[Pamela Barnes]

Bit on the side ? Their fling ? having an affair. The woman gets called the mistress but there isnt a word I guess for Dusty being a male. JR would refer to her flings as a gigilio.

[KillerBob]

im doing a broadcast post production course (video editing) and were doing a group presentation on tv genre from a post production standpoint. its actually on twin peaks season two last epiode and imm going to be comparing a scene from dallas (sue ellen and dusty) with ed and nadine in TP. Im then going to talk about how TP is paced out compared with dallas - ie TP uses alot of wide shots whereas Dallas is more conventional with more cuts and more close ups for those meladramatic moments.

Yeah, you're right. Twin Peaks had a completely different style, much thanks to David Lynch I guess who directed the pilot episode and the second episode that somehow marked the style and the direction the show would go.

[Dynastie c'est riche]

Sorry but I don't see anything that "Dallas" and "Twin Peaks" could have in common.
I can see some similarities with the last season of "Dynasty" or with some points of "Desperate Housewive", but not "Dallas" (or "Knots Landing"!)

[jen.n]

I don't know the exact scenes you are talking about, nor was I looking that closely at the editing styles when I watched both shows.

However, I am sure Twin Peaks was deliberately parodying soap operas such as Dallas, on several levels.

The show in the show "Invitation to Love". That is a direct parody.
There is one scene of "Invitation to Love" that is a copy of the scene of shooting JR.

When Coop wakes up in the hospital and asks what he missed, and Lucy reads off everything that's happened, and it is just like when she tells him what happened in "Invitation to Love".

The fire cliffhanger is a parody of the fire cliffhangers in Dallas and Dynasty.

There's a lot more, but I don't want to give too much away.

[jen.n]

I also recognized Ray Wise playing Blair Sullivan in season 5 of Dallas.
He played Leland Palmer in Twin Peaks.

Off topic trivia, lol but it was interesting to spot him unexpectedly in Dallas.