Subject: Re: Frost/Lynch completely wimped out this time
From: joe [Joe Zitt]
Date: 1990-12-02, 12:42
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks,alt.recovery

jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes:

> > They had the *perfect* chance to examine the horrible world of
> > child abuse.  It seemed to me that here we were going to have an
> > indepth (if not Lynchian-quirky) examination of the sort of thing
> > that goes on with families of abuse -- Leland/Maddie, Ben/Audrie,
> > etc etc. Here was the sort of thing that never happens to "good
> > people" -- child molestation, murder, drug abuse -- but that statistics
> > show happens across the board, regardless of social class or location.
> > This would be L/F's chance to show why it is that sooo many people
> > are sooo fucked up.*
Well, gee, J. Eric is upset because Twin Peaks turns out to be a 
supernatural thriller, rather than a show about a particular social 
problem. Sounds like tunnel vision to me... Once someone gets the idea 
that a thing is should be about his/her pet problem, everything gets 
viewed like from that view.

Next thing you know, we'll get posting that ST:TNG is crap becuase it 
hasn't covered AIDS, The Simpsons are a waste because they don't have any 
minority children in the family, and Finnegans Wake is a Bad Thing 
because it attacks our Mother Tongue.

Don't worry, there's probably a nice alternate universe out there 
somewhere where TP follows your dictates, rather than those of 
Lynch/Frost.

Remember...
        IT'S ONLY A TV SHOW
        IT'S ONLY A TV SHOW
        IT'S ONLY A TV SHOW...
                                ...not a social service docudrama.
/a

Joe Zitt...cs.utexas.edu!kvue!zitt!joe (512)450-1916