Subject: Re: Conjectures and Questions (Twin Peaks)
From: csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack)
Date: 1990-05-24, 10:49
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks,rec.arts.tv

In article <877@Intrepid.ECE.UKans.EDU> bgingric@Intrepid.ECE.UKans.EDU (Barry Gingrich) writes:
> >In article <0aKyOly00WBLI0voUc@andrew.cmu.edu> bl0r+@andrew.cmu.edu (Barton Lipman) writes:
>> >>4.  Nadine could well be dead.  Reasoning:  She wasn't that interesting
>> >>a character to begin with.  With her out of the way, the interaction
>> >>between Ed, Hank, and Norma becomes more interesting.
> >
> >No, I think Nadine lives.  Ed's dilemma is that he still feels something
> >for Nadine, even if it is mostly obligation.  The interaction between
> >Ed, Hank, and Norma becomes more interesting, maybe, but the characterizations
> >would narrow.  Plus, for all her odd behavior, Nadine's actually one
> >of the "purely good" characters.  We need her to balance out the evil ones.

Nadine's character has been converted from the curtain-hanging monster
who keeps Ed from his true love to a frightened little girl who can't
win for losing.

While Ed may have a dilemma, the writers don't. Ed can't be one of the
"good guys" and still go after Norma. If they want to have a subplot
involving Hank, Ed, and Norma, Nadine has to go, and killing her off
this way is really the only clean way to do it - although if they'd
had Norma bump her off, it might have added an interesting twist to
things.

-- Dave Mack