Subject: Re: Laura EXPECTED to bite it?
From: ndanger@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (Norman Danner)
Date: 1990-08-08, 17:24
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: piper@plasma1.ssl.berkeley.edu (Al Tilley The Bum)

In article <19890.26bee507@merrimack.edu> rand@merrimack.edu (Bucky ate the cat!) writes:
> >Upon watching the pilot for the second time I became disturbed. After
> >the pilot everyone in A.t.t-p was raving about how Lynch's direction
> >approached cinema verite--everyone took Laura's death in a more 'real
> >world' way than most TV.
> >
> >I got the EEEEEEEEErie feeling that maybe the teacher, principal, and
> >a couple others were genuinely shocked but the vast majority of
> >characters seemed to be sad that she was gone but had EXPECTED it.

I completely agree.  Does anybody recall that Laura's mother and father both
broke down into hysterics when all they knew was that Laura was MISSING???  A
great deal of concern would certainly be appropriate, but this seemed to be
going a little too far...

Norman