Subject: Re: Bobbing and Weaving
From: larry@csccat.cs.com (Larry Spence)
Date: 1990-11-28, 17:43
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: larry@csccat.UUCP (Larry Spence)

In article <16439@s.ms.uky.edu> fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeffrey Davis) writes:
> >
> >    During the current lull in TP activity it might be a good time
> >to ask a couple of non-plot related questions. First (and foremost),
> >what is TP about? Is it about owls, spirits, aliens, the murder
> >of a young girl, a spiritual miasma. 

At this point, I think it's a mistake to expect TP to be "about" a
particular "thing" or concept.  We've established that it's _not_
"about WKLP," although that was a plot element.  I don't expect to
get a TP "fix" that will satisfy my craving once-and-for-all.

> >  We need to know why the whole world isn't run by BOB and his elk...
> >er, ilk. Is BOB some animistic tree genii who's playing hookey?
> >When Mike says he saw God, how did he know? Whose GOD? (There
> >have been no churches in TP....have there even been any crucifixes?
> >any totems? any God's Eyes? ) Is God...well, the grey bearded, white,
> >Adam fingering, cloud swimmer? Or what? Lynch, methinks, has held
> >off for commercial, lets-not-offend-anyone reasons. 
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Are we watching the same series??  A lot of folks were offended by
Maddie's little headache... I think the easily-offended have left
for other entertainment by now.

> >Maybe he
> >hopes that the series will be cancelled before its called to
> >account.

When my wife and I saw the Bob/Maddie scene, our immediate reaction was,
"Ah, the series will get pulled, Lynch will never have to resolve all
this stuff."  There really hasn't been as much protest as I expected.
I thought it was fantastic, myself. %)

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