Subject: Re: Farewell, Twin Peaks
From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Date: 1990-11-19, 16:58
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <114030029@hpcuhd.HP.COM> grega@hpcuhd.HP.COM (Number 6) writes:
> >Ok, I'm fed up.  The show has begun its inevitable deterioration.  Why do
> >I say this?  Think about these for a moment:

[ bunch of mostly good criticisms of recent plot points]\

No, the show has not BEGUN deteriorating... we have just been treated to
the latest of several deficient episodes by staff writers and directors.
There were a couple of them last season, too.  It'll probably get
terrific again momentarily.  Wait until the next Robert Engels/Lesli
Linka Glatter collaboration and see what I mean!

> >2.  Hank is one hell of slippery fellow.  Last time we saw him, Jean had
> >    a gun to his head.

Thinking he was the Daryl Lodwick.  Hank is INDEED a slippery fellow,
and once he explained the weird ID he may well have struck a deal with
Jean Renault.  (Remember his mysterious lateness at the diner.)  Ideally
they should have shown it to us, but as I said 11/17 was inferior.

> >3.  I wonder if Daryl will ever notice that his wallet's missing?  Maybe
> >    when he finally gets around to paying for the dinner he had at the RR
> >    two nights ago?

There's no reason to believe Lodwick hasn't already noticed his wallet
missing; it's hardly worth showing us.  We may hear about it later, or
we may not.

> >4.  Leland has been BOB for "nearly forty years."  In that time, to our
> >    knowledge, he has killed (at most) three people.  First was Teresa
> >    Banks, and then ALMOST ONE YEAR TO THE DAY came Laura Palmer.  The
> >    third was Maddy, of course.  So in forty years, BOB has killed three
> >    times, with the third comming only a few days after the second?
> >    Why?  And here's a bonus question to think about: where was Teresa's
> >    body found?

These are all excellent questions but the fact that they can be asked
doesn't mean the show is deteriorating.  (In fact for many of us they
are strong evidence that the show has legs.)  We don't actually know how
many people Leland/BOB might have killed in those forty years, or
whatever fraction thereof BOB was active.  Cooper only enters the
picture after he notices the Banks/Palmer pattern.  That doesn't prove
that Banks was the first.

Even if she was, the question of what could "activate" BOB's murderous
proclivities is entirely fair and interesting.  That's what we hope to
learn.  I don't agree that they've botched the issue.  Maddy and Jacques
don't fit the timeline, but neither are they like Laura/Teresa, so there
is some other dynamic at work there.

> >9.  So Pete just got back from the "second shift."  The second shift of
> >    what?  "GhostMill?"

It might take two shifts of work to clean up.

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