Subject: antlers
From: mschiano@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU (Michael Jude Schiano)
Date: 1990-05-24, 11:17
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Diane, I waited until after lunch thursday afternoon and now I'm
250 messages behind on the ^twin-peaks^ postings!  

But before I dive in any further, I think I'll have some cowless
Joe and a donut.

But before that, let me say:

(1) Hope you caught that great piece of blocking where
    Hank is having his long talk to Josie and it looks
    like he has antlers growing out of his head!  Ah,
    to be reminded of that marvelous safe-deposit box scene!

(2) On Donahue, Donahue said "you can't tease an audience 
    forever," or something like that.  I've already read 
    one posting from a viewer who is a bit tired of the
    teasing.  

    I sort of agree --- I think it REALLY would have been
    first class if they managed to tell us who killed Laura
    Palmer, but still kept us interested.  After all, the
    story is much more interesting than simply WKLP.  I don't
    think it'd been too much to have a story that gave you that
    but still left enough hanging for the summer.

Now, I don't mean, have Jacques CONFESS or something, and then we'd all
say, "Is that all?" and be pretty disappointed.  I mean something more
like finding out who did it as part of virtually unpredicted set of
circumstances, in some way related, say, to the Josie-Hank-Leo mess,
and have, who knows, another unsolved murder to play with?

Point is:  Of course, I don't just want a: "OK, Jacoby did it. Happy?".

But to be given the identity and motive etc of the killer, at the same
time shedding even newer light on the other affairs, AND having it 
reinterpret things such that a new mystery (with a new murder) comes up
would, to me, have been the best way to do it.

One could argue that we have indeed been shown new light on so many
affairs that it is indeed a different story than what we were led to
believe, say, 2 weeks ago.  And that I'd agree with!  Don't get me 
wrong.  I just think working a WKLP solution into the MYSTERY would
put ^tp^ in an even higher league than it is now.

(My field is music theory and analysis -- and so I am generally
surrounded by works of art that amazingly leave NOTHING to be desired!
Perhaps people in this or any field that continuously deals with the
highest artistic standards tend to feel funny if WE can think of a
an alternative that we'd prefer.  (I.e., one never can think of an
alternative solution to a musical problem that's better than Beethoven's
solution.))

------------------------^-^--------------------michael jude