As promised, Twin Peaks turned Comic-Con’s Hall H into the Black Lodge this afternoon with a panel moderated by The Leftovers’ Damon Lindelof, who opened by saying, “I owe my entire career to this show.” As described by Deadline, the panel itself was largely the sort of “it’s an honor to work with such fine actors” back-patting you hear at all these sorts of things, albeit with a lot more David Lynch impressions. Naomi Watts may have let slip a minor spoiler by saying, “Whenever David calls, we take the call. Even if he asks you to wear a bunny suit,” and Matthew Lillard called his onscreen breakdown in “The Return: Part 9” “the scariest scariest thing I ever read as an actor.”
But there was one thing about the panel that was wonderful and strange, and that was a video director David Lynch made in lieu of an in-person appearance. (Come on, you didn’t really expect David Lynch to show up at Comic-Con, did you?) The video is unfortunately not online at the moment, but from what we’ve heard about it, it sounds delightfully weird, with Lynch’s greeting to the crowd being continually interrupted by Looney Tunes-worthy sound effects as Angelo Badalamenti’s Twin Peaks theme played in the background. Here’s how Mashable describes it:
The screen starts as static.
The static fades and David Lynch is looking into the camera, and appears to be crouching in a dark room. He holds up a golf ball.
“This is the golf ball that O.J. hit before going to prison …” as the screen turns back to static fuzz. But then the signal comes back in! And Lynch once again addresses the camera:
“I wanted to thank you all for joining us here and spending some time with us,” he said, in his most flat and deliberate way. “Today you’re going to meet some great actresses and great actors, and I hope you have a very enjoyable … “
(The screen begins to fuzz again. Lynch looks alarmed at something behind the camera)