Subject: Re: A Dissenting Opinion....
From: jym@remarque.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer)
Date: 1990-10-03, 12:26
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

> > much desperate scurrying about in an attempt to get the plot on
> > track again.  Sunday night, we saw several long-ago forgotten
> > clues/characters dragged back into the story . . .
.-.
|L|ong-ago forgotten?  With a memory like that, you could get a
| | job as a "top writer" for _TV_Guide_!  Who says they were
`-' forgotten?

> > The tie-ins to the "Secret Diary of Laura Palmer" were getting
> > obvious and tiresome. . . . All of a sudeen, for example, ideas
> > like Laura's dual personality thing, and the whole BOB question,
> > are being being pushed heard . . .
.-.
|W|ell, I'd expect the two to be consistent.  The dual personality
| | thing was picked up here on alt.tv.twin-peaks before the diary
| | came out.  And it only makes sense for there to be some more
`-' emphasis on BOB.

> > we also saw heavy-handed changes in Blackie's character in order
> > to bring it in line with the Diary (i.e. she needed to become a
> > heroin addict, and be interested in fooling around with her "girls").
.-.
|A|gain, here on alt.tv.twin-peaks there was pre-diary conjecture
| | that Blackie had the hots for Audrey.  And Blackie's emaciated
`-' appearance has always been consistent with heroin addiction.

      * * *
.-.
|I|t's clear to me that Twin Peaks' creators have a real artistic
| | bent to them; they're willing to follow their muses wherever
| | they meander to.  Jennifer Lynch was allowed to create a lot
| | of Laura's past.  According to the recent _Time_ article,
| | when David Lynch directs, the storyline has to scramble to
`-' keep up.
.-.
|T|o me, this isn't "making it up as they go along," it's keeping
| | true to one's creative source.  There may be an occasional
| | slip (the chain on the locket is one; Donna's other sister
| | certainly is not); but having this kind of creativity on TV
| | is so rare that one ought to appreciate it rather than trying
| | to nitpick it to death, or to ascribe negative motivations
| | ("sell those Diane tapes!" and "make it the Cooper and Audrey
`-' show") where nothing of the sort exists.
    <_Jym_>