Subject: Re: Albert, and Nighttime Soaps.
From: bcp1@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Bruce Christian Paul)
Date: 1990-08-29, 09:28
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <108662@tiger.oxy.edu> eclipse@oxy.edu (Lynn Alyn Tanner) writes:
> >
> >AND GUYS!!  How *can* you relate TP to shit like Dallas and Dynasty in the genre
> >of Night Time Soaps!  Jeez, there is no comparison, in storyline,in character-
> >ization, in cinematography, in directing, in any aspect *whatsoever*!!!
> >
> >I could never see the question "Who killed JR?" Coming close to the question,
> >"Who killed Laura Palmer?"

You are taking TP too seriously.  I think Lynch/Frost want us to see
the correlation between TP and soaps.  _Invitation to Love_ is
inviting us to make the connection, especially with all the
similarities between the plot of TP and the action in IL.
bcp

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