Subject: Synchronicity of Invitation to Love
From: sandell@ferret.ils.nwu.edu (Greg Sandell)
Date: 1990-05-26, 12:24
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

> > Loved the comparison of Leo's reaction to being shot and that of
> > the TV show's actor being shot.
> > 
> > Can't wait til the fall show starts.
> > 
> > Sharon Blanton
> > 

It's obvious how ITL (Invitation to Love) has at many times
either forecasted or echoed events actually happening in TP.
In the penultimate TP episode we saw (just before a commercial)
a muted tv playing a scene where the cool-looking guy beats up
somebody and then laughs and laughs.  In the same episode
we see Hank beat up Leo.  At another time in ITL some meek-looking
character has a gun and says "I told you what I would do if, etc."
and fires it at a guy; sometime soon after (or before, I
can't remember) we see Shelly pulling the trigger on a disbelieving
Leo.

What's interesting is that in the season finale, we at last see
TP and ITL in synchrony, both tough guys dying at once.  So
what made the finale nice is not just that both happened at
once, but that it led up to it in a quasi-systematic way.

Greg Sandell

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* Greg Sandell (sandell@ils.nwu.edu)                           *
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