Season 1, Episode 06: Realization Time — May 17–22, 1990

As a new watcher who can't quite figure out whats going on on this
show,

Would someone please mail me a summary of whats going on on this show
that has already happened?

Michael

For someone who has just started watching and can't quite figure out
whats going on on this show,

Would someone please mail me a summary of whats going on on this show?

Thanks.
Michael
michaelg@locus.com
michael@stb.info.com

In article <420@van-bc.UUCP> sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes:
> >Hope this gets through. Some idiot rmgrouped us. I've sent out a newgroup so
> >hopefully things are working again. If you want to send mail complaining
> >about the rmgroup you can try:
> >
> >convex!snorkelwhacker!milton!radcom!surfer

Save your mail.  The rmgroup was clearly a forgery.  The real news node
is named 'snorkelwacker', no 'h'.  Probably someone at a site feeding
convex news got cute.  Very hard to say.


-- If the human mind were simple enough to understand, =)) Tom Neff we'd be too simple to understand it. -- Emerson Pugh ((= tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET

Well, you fooled me too.  But isn't that the whole point of a good
hoax?  I'm still waiting for Pons and Fleischman to admit theirs.

Kudos.

Hammy.
______

In article <PEL.90May19131301@kls.UUCP> pel@kls.UUCP (Paul Leclerc) writes:
>> >>Does anyone have a copy of the relational database posted by
>> >>diane@ifs.umich.edu which actually unshar's properly?  Also, is there
>> >>a version of the database which is more up-to-date than 23-Apr?
> >
>> >>Thanks in advance.
> >Does someone have this at an FTP'able location?  (Even the old one)
> >
I've placed it in the TV archives (~ftp/public/guides/twinpeaks) here

milton.u.washington.edu
    internet address = 128.95.136.1

total 29 Kilobytes
-rw-r--r--  5920  Apr 26 15:10 facts.2.Z       part 2
-rw-r--r--  20474 Apr 26 15:10 facts.1.Z       part 1
-rw-r--r--  3029  Apr 26 15:09 tp-joinlines.Z  format correction


I don't follow this newsgroup, so let me know if something else
should be in there too.

Don't forget to set type to binary when retrieving files.  Most are
compressed in .Z form for consistency

Has anyone noticed, in the last six weeks, that their OWN small town
seems suspiciously Twin Peaks-like?  I spend a lot of time in a small
Connecticut seacoast town with a diner, a few cops, a couple of major
things like the Lodge and the Sawmill, etc, and I am starting to look
at people with *new eyes* when I walk around the town.

Maybe this is what TP has in common with its oddly paired
"other-new-show" buddy, the Simpsons: it makes you look at your own
surroundings and shudder.  :-)

PS the s**tbrain who forged that rmgroup should have the letters
"snorkelwhacker" shoved under his fingernails one at a time...
         ^

This is it, kids, the conclusion of the final episode of TP.

Ready?

OK...



Pete Martell wakes up to find himself in a dingy apartment in a monochromatic
post-post-industrial world, with a strange noisemaking baby, and says "So,
it was all a dream."  Laura Palmer sings a song about heaven, and Pete looks
around the room and finds Suzanne Pleshette sleeping next to him.

And oh, yeah:  Pete has a new haircut.  

Whadda ya think?
--
"In heaven, everything is fine..."Rich Rosenrlr@toccata.rutgers.edu
-- Memory fault -- core dumped

In article <107880003@hpcuhc.HP.COM>, taj@hpcuhc.HP.COM (Tom Jack) writes...

} I just got a call from someone who watched the "Donahue" show today.
} They told me that the cast of Twin Peaks and David Lynch were on
} "Donahue" today.

} Did anyone else catch this?

I caught it (and taped it). But it was Mark Frost, not David Lynch, who
was with the cast. For the record, the cast members present were:

Peggy Lipton (Norma)
Piper Laurie (Catherine)
Madchen Amick (Shelly)
Dana Ashbrook (Bobby)
Eric Da Re (Leo -- looking a might different than he does on the show)
Sheryl Lee (Laura & Madeleine)

-- "I never use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom." --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, "The Mill", Maynard, MA) UUCP: ...!decwrl!ruby.enet.dec.com!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%ruby.DEC@DECWRL.DEC.COM

In article <1990May22.091318.3160@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, elf@dgp.toronto.edu (Eugene Fiume) writes...

}} "Twin Peaks is the most innovative and interesting show since The
}} Singing Detective!". High praise indeed. 

} I share that critic's opinion.  The Singing Detective was a fascinating
} series [...] And before SD and TP, you might have to go all the way back
} to Brideshead Revisited for a show of comparable quality.

Well, I'd say it depends on what criteria one applies. If what you're
looking for is innovation, multi-level approach, and the like, then I
would agree. But if the criteria for "a show of quality" are drawn from
basic production aspects: cinematography, music, acting, direction,
costuming, set design and decoration, and the like, I would nominate
AVONLEA, on the Disney Channel (in the US, and commercial tv in Canada)
as being at the very least the equal of TWIN PEAKS. AVONLEA in most ways
is exactly what TWIN PEAKS is not -- it's something you expect to find
on television. But it's so *well done* you don't care.

-- "I never use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom." --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, "The Mill", Maynard, MA) UUCP: ...!decwrl!ruby.enet.dec.com!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%ruby.DEC@DECWRL.DEC.COM

In article <May.23.00.40.06.1990.9153@toccata.rutgers.edu> rlr@toccata.rutgers.edu (Rich Rosen) writes:
> >"In heaven, everything is fine..."

Who sang this song in Eraserhead?  Also, who wrote it?  
A friend commented that she thought it sounded sorta like 
Julee Cruise, but that doesn't seem quite right.

Afraid that I don't have the soundtrack or a video of 
Eraserhead to check.  All I remember is that it was
sung by "the lady in the radiator".

Anyone know?  If so, are you willing to tell? Please?
-- - Barry gingrich%tisl@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu OR bgingric@Intrepid.ECE.UKans.EDU

In article <1990May22.220837.15177@cs.umn.edu>, wytten@cs.umn.edu (Dale Wyttenbach) writes...

} If they "renew" TP, what kind of soap-opera plot gimmick will they use to
} keep Agent Cooper in town?

Well, it depends. Some time back, I asked about whether there could be an
FBI office in Spokane, my reasoning being that Spokane was relatively
close to where Twin Peaks is supposed to be located, and would account
for Cooper arriving on the scene so quickly. A follow-up claimed that
Spokane was certainly big enough that such was a possibility.

If there *is* an FBI office in Spokane (and even if there isn't in real
life, there could be in the TP universe), they could contrive a situation
where Cooper settles down in TP (he was considering buying property there)
and works out of the Spokane office).

The other thing to consider is if the show maintains its one episode equals
one day format, a season's worth of episode would encompass three weeks,
and there may well be enough plot threads left hanging around to keep
Coop around for at least that long.

My prediction: The murder of Laura Palmer will not be solved. I'm betting
that enough is presented to make it clear to us who the perp is, but that
it won't necessarily be clear to Coop and the boys. Thus, they can continue
to work on that case. It then becomes a COLUMBO-style story, in which we
know the perp and watch to see how the Authorities figure it out.

I also suspect that the Sawmill business will be left hanging as a plot
thread for next year.

-- "I never use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom." --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, "The Mill", Maynard, MA) UUCP: ...!decwrl!ruby.enet.dec.com!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%ruby.DEC@DECWRL.DEC.COM

In article <10456@spool.cs.wisc.edu> kademan@stat.wisc.edu (Ed Kademan) writes:
....
> >Malden has managed to hide his past and become sheriff.  The term "One
> >Eye'd Jacks" refers to hypocrites who act noble and good but are
> >really corrupt, and applies to Malden in the movie.

Welllll, I think that this probably applies to a lot of the characters 
of Twin Peaks.  Ben, for example.  Jacoby, sort of.  Laura, definitely.
Hank is doing this big time.  And One-Eyed Jack's itself is a front for
a bordello, so that fits, too.  I don't think it applies to Truman.
Josie's certainly hiding something, and I suspect that Donna is, too.
However, Cooper is completely what he seems, as is Leo.

The theme of "crawly bugs under the neatly trimmed lawn are battling"
seems to be a favorite of Lynch's.  Sadly, it also seems to be a 
favorite of the real world.

> >Can Truman be hiding something?  Could he be connected to
> >Hank somehow?  

I don't think Truman's hiding anything.  I *do* think that Josie's
hiding something from him.  I bet that he ends up looking quite gullible
and foolish in a future episode.  He's after Hank because he doesn't 
trust him.  He knows Hank's up to something, in an intuitive way that's 
less developed than Cooper's.  In other words, Hank's a bad 'un, and
Harry knows it.
-- - Barry gingrich%tisl@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu OR bgingric@Intrepid.ECE.UKans.EDU

In article <gribble.643408975@cica> gribble@cica.cica.indiana.edu (gribble) writes:


   Yes, on CNN at noon today, Lynch was quoted that it would be cut
   for the US market.  Too bad.  How much worse than Blue Velvet could
   it be?  BTW, was that movie ever released in a R version?

   -- 
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Well, I haven't personally seen the uncut version, but my old roommate
saw it in LA.  Many people just *walked out* because of the amount of
graphic blood and guts.  This is not to say I condem the film
(actually I am looking forward to it), but in the first five minutes
she saw, it went far beyond the realm of Blue Velvet!  I guess it is
more graphical violence then implied as in B.V.  I wish I could give
details, but I would rather people send me personal requests instead
of ruining any of the plot for the unsuspecting reader (which she did
for me, despite my complaints- roommates, gotta love 'em)
--

________________________________________________________________________
Chuck Monahan      aswelive@citron.ucsb.edu        kgb@bears.ucsb.edu
"...No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the
life-sensation of any given epoch of one's experience - that which
makes its truth, its meaning - its subtle and penetrating essance.  It
is impossible.  We live, as we dream-alone..." Conrad:Heart of Darkness