Subject: Re: Ideas
From: keir@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Rick Keir, MACC)
Date: 1990-11-23, 09:20
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <57138@brunix.UUCP>, cs123078@cs.brown.edu (Mark Hessman) writes...

> >of TP, which was a two-hour movie in which BOB is revealed as the killer.
> >This has been public knowledge since midway through the first season, yet
> >at the time Lynch assured us all that the outcome of that version has no
> >relation whatsoever to the American series.  Yeah, right.  
In the European version, Bob is the killer.  The end.  In the 
American version, we are still debating who the killer is.  Lynch 
et al did not say that the two versions had no relation (which 
would obviously be stupid), they said that the killer was not the 
same.  And indeed, the answer in TP-American is substantially 
different.

> > Also the book of
> >the 'Secret Diary of Laura Palmer.'  The TP people said the diary (now on sale
> >at your local bookstore) had no relation to the events of the series, that
> >it was apocryphal.  Yet it has appeared in there, word for word.  What next?
I have no idea what you are referring to;  the publicity for it 
stated clearly that (1) Jennifer Lynch was told who the killer 
would be in the American version, and (2) that a careful reading 
of the diary would give you clues.  There are some continuity 
problems involving dates and 1989 vs. 1990 timelines, but this is 
hardly significant;  most literature of any complexity has these 
problems.  "Even Homer Nods" is an ancient literary truism, 
because even in the Iliad you can find continuity glitches.  Big 
deal --- before VCRs, people enjoyed tv without anal 
obsessiveness about continuity.