Subject: Re: My observations on Twin Peaks
From: dan@GNU.AI.MIT.EDU
Date: 1990-09-18, 11:22
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <36642@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v101pyrw@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu writes:

> >The size of the Twin Peaks population bothers me.  Obviously it has to be large
> >enough to include such amenities as an excellent hotel, hospital, a good sized
> >sheriff's department, tv station, 24hr diner, upscale department store, etc. And
> >yet, Cooper sees this place as an ideal Norman Rockwell Eden.  I don't think
> >the pop. size can be a joke.  Small towns do not have the features that Twin 
> >Peaks does.

Ah, you've obviously never been to Amherst Ma.  It has about 50,000 people
and it is in many ways,an ideal Norman Rockwell town (in fact Norm lived 
in the area, in nearby Stockbridge).  Granted, half of its population is 
students, but perhaps Twin Peaks has some college campus we've never seen
before, or something like that.  Western Massachusetts in general fits
that bill quite nicely, with some fairly sizable towns population-wise that
nonetheless look like the quintessential New England towns, plus hospitals,
department stores, etc.

Heck, it even has a sort of surreal ambience - the picture of rural
post-modernism.  Malls and cow pastures coexist with trendy black-clad
bohemians and overall-clad tobacco farmers.

- Dan



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