Subject: Re: Laura's tape and why it's different
From: csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack)
Date: 1990-05-27, 10:39
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <22310@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> mdm@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Michael McDaniel) writes:
> >I just figured they wanted to save time and get on to the stuff we hadn't
> >heard.  I may be wrong, but I think a lot of people have a tendence to
> >overanalyze things.  There doesn't have to be a covert meaning to
> >everything that doesn't jibe with your version of reality.

I considered and rejected this possibility before I posted the
"Two Tapes" article. The changes (some of them, anyway) seemed
focussed on downplaying Laura's relationship to Jacoby. Others
seemed to be made because of the length of the tape.

What I failed to consider was the "duelling directors" problem 
on TP, which may be responsible for a lot of the discontinuities
people have pointed out.

If the director of Ep. 7 decided to change the script a bit
when they were doing the voice-over for that segment, he or
she should be shot. That tape appeared to be important evidence
when it came to light in Ep. 1 - twitting around with it this
way is very annoying, if that's what happened.

Now the problem is, we still don't know whether the ending of
the tape that we heard in Ep. 7 is the same thing that Jacoby
heard in Ep. 1. It will be both amusing and frustrating if,
when Cooper listens to the tape, we get a third version.

-- Dave Mack