Subject: How I Feel on 5/24...
From: rhyne@qaddafi.cad.mcc.com (Tom Rhyne)
Date: 1990-05-24, 11:13
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

I've been amazed at the collective insight expressed re TP's plot
lines within this group during its short past history.  Now, having
seen the 5/23 show, I'm convinced we have been over-estimating the
capabilities (or intent) of the TP writing/directing staff with regard
to their plot.  I'm not looking for flames, here.  I just have the
same feeling with regard to TP that I get when someone searches for
significant themes in the Shakesperean plays (e.g., light and dark).
I believe Will Shakespeare was largely writing good, entertaining,
marketable pieces for his audience.  That's also what I believe Lynch,
Frost, et. al., are doing with TP.  I couldn't imagine them sitting
around working out all the minutiae we've been trying to discern in
their plot before last night, and after the rather lame work-outs (or
partial work-outs) in the 5/23 episode, I'm even more convinced that
hasn't been the case.  Don't read me wrong, here.  I still find the
show very, very entertaining, and I'm still a major Lynch fan.  It's
just that the plot lines in the show are, IMHO, less complete and
innovative than most of the ideas put forward in a.t.t-p.

As a side observation: it seems that the TP cast may already being
thinned for next year's run.  We've had eight or so characters simply
disappear, and six or seven are in the twilight death/no-death of most
on-going TV series.  I can see the contract negotiations over the
summer...  "OK, Piper, if you won't settle for $50k/week, we'll just
let you fry in that lumberyard." (;-)




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