Originally conceived as a television pilot, a large portion of the film was shot with Lynch's plan to keep it open-ended for a potential series.

影片起初准备拍成电视剧，所以根据导演林奇的计划，片中大部分的情节为将来的系列剧埋下伏笔。

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It's collecting information from all these dendrites under the right series of signals the cell body integrates all that information, says time for me to fire an action potential.

神经收集所有树突送来的,通过一系列正确信号传来的信息,细胞体整合所有信息之后,就到了发出动作电位的时候了

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