Subject: restless natives
From: cate@m2.csc.ti.com (Darryl Cate)
Date: 1990-05-25, 08:23
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

First, a few disgruntled comments:

From: msmiller@gonzoville.Eng.Sun.COM (Mark Miller)

> >Frankly, I felt ripped off. With all the other things they left
> >hanging, it would at least have been nice to get closure on the murder.
> >Now Leo and Jacques are dead, which is cute in that Cooper has no way to
> >get any information to close this thing if they are to be the killers.
> >Cooper will have to start all over - once he picks the lead out of his vest.
> >Which I also thought was pretty tacky. They'd done so well up to the last
> >episode in avoiding the standard soap-opera devices. Then they blow it.

> >Well, now we have to wait all summer. I feel really cheated.


From: bart@alice.UUCP (Bart N. Locanthi)

> >jerking us around is what the entire last episode was about.  we learned
> >nearly nothing new, large fractions of the cast are in peril pending
> >the actors' contract renewals, and anyway the euro version pins the
> >blame on an as-yet-unseen character who could easily be the skulker
> >in the park.

> >excellence/creativity/quality in tv notwithstanding, this is an utterly
> >mundane and unoriginal way to end a season, straight from the people who
> >brought you dallas/dynasty/falcon crest/knots landing.


From: wrt@lzaz.ATT.COM (Rob Tymchyshyn)

> >Well, it looks like the Network Execs got to the show
> >before the new season.  The final episode was nothing more than a 
> >regurgitated Dallas episode dipped in pine oil.  It had none of the
> >character depth, subtle irony, intelligent dialogue, or Lynchian mood
> >of any of the previous episodes.  And please don't insult my intelligence
> >with a series of ridiculous cliffhangers to end the season.  That's not 
> >why I watch the show and is certainly not why I will continue to watch 
> >the show.

---

The TP segment on 'PrimeTime Live' last night followed the same theme for
fan reaction.  They showed people throwing things at the TV as the credits
rolled after Cooper was shot.

A NPR spot this morning echoed this.  A TV reviewer from Fort Worth said that
he felt that the producers had failed to live up to their bargain with the
viewers by not revealing Laura's killer, and by putting a pedestrian,
cliff-hanger, ending on the series.

I felt cheated also.  I think that the episode was a cop-out.  Some of
these plotlines, especially Laura's killer, could have been resolved
without making next season seem any less appealing.

The cynical side of me says that they didn't solve Laura's murder 
because they had put in *too* many artful touches that just wouldn't
allow any logical adding up of clues to find a murderer.

So, what does the net.world think ?  Feel cheated ?  Happy to be
puzzled all summer ?  Never watching again ?  Glad that Laura
bought it, and hoping everyone else does ?  

Darryl Cate

cate@csc.ti.com                    "You've got a thing in your mouth"