Subject: Re: TWIN PEAKS: Season 2 episode 0
From: rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu (R o d Johnson)
Date: 1990-10-02, 15:15
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <8481@milton.u.washington.edu> vampire@blake.u.washington.edu (Eric Howard) writes:
> >Has anyone else thought that owls may be important because there
> >is a rare species of owl that is threatening the whole logging
> >industry  in the pacific NW old growth forests?

Funny, I would have put this exactly the other way around--there's a
rare species of owl that IS BEING THREATENED BY the logging industry.

But no, I didn't think of it.  (Hasn't Lynch in many places talked
about growing up spending lots of time in the woods?  Much of the
emotional "resonance" of the owls, the trees, and so on seems to stem
from Young David's experiences with them.)  (By the way, my brother
pointed out to me that TP has a few scenes in the woods that are
really like being in the woods.  TV usually depicts night in the woods
as mysteriously light enough to see--but in the scene where Mike and
Bobby meet Leo and ? in the woods, it's DARK, as woods really are.
And, as woods really can be at night, it's scary as hell.  TP, as
bizarre as it can be, is (at its best) rooted in real experience, not
some scriptwriters guess about what things are like.  That's what
gives it its solidity, for me.)

-- Rod Johnson * rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu * (313) 650 2315 "Dogs bark at strangers" -- Heraclitus