Subject: Re: Frost/Lynch completely wimped out this time From: alternat@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Ann Hodgins) Date: 1990-12-02, 18:25 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks,alt.recovery In article joe [Joe Zitt] writes: > >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. I was disappointed too. I know a number of people who believe in demons. And once people get that idea, all other explanations for bad behavior are discarded. People stop thinking. They stop using their imaginationsand they stop facing facts about themselves and others. To come so close to confronting family abuse and to opt for a supernatural explanation, that's a cop out to me. However, if there needs to be some rapport between Bob and the person he choses as a host then perhaps the psychological and spiritual explanations can co-exist, at least for a while. a.h.