Subject: More impressions!
From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Date: 1990-12-03, 12:44
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Haven't heard from the Andy-did-its in a while!  How ya doing out there?  :-)

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I felt disappointed at the breakneck, so-the-butler-knew-all-along kind
of 'wrapup' shoveled at us.  Maybe it's a consequence of reading so much
detailed speculation here, but at times Saturday night I felt like I
should have a clipboard to check off lists of broken theories!

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Given the big lapful of loose ends he was charged with tying up, I
thought Tim Hunter did a creditable job of drawing us emotionally into
the picture.  If you've seen RIVER'S EDGE you know he has his own knack
for establishing a creepy feeling.  I don't think it works quite the
same on the boob tube, but I was definitely 'with the program' during
the Donna-dance and jail cell death scenes.

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But let's give Ray Wise a standing O for his work these two seasons!  He
had a tough job and turned in one of the more memorable sustained
performances in years.  I agree with the person who wished him an Emmy
nomination, somewhat to my own surprise.  Doubt he'll get it though;
it's tough when you leave early in the season.

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The moment that really made me smile: Major Briggs arriving on cue with
the Room Service Waiter.  I love the character of the Major and I get a
tremendous kick out of the strength Don Davis brings to him.  On some
level the Log Lady doesn't make much sense, but the Major is perfect at
all levels.  His utterly mysterious high-tech assignment ("Dad... what
do you DO?" yields, with perfectly gentle equanimity, "Son, that's
classified") somehow leaves him wide open to the world of spirit and
fate.  And he has visibly grown in two seasons, rather than merely
flopping around like some of the younger people.

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Maybe the problem with hiring these stylist wunderkind directors into
series work is, indeed, finding a consistent tone.  You'd love to see
someone like Hunter direct more TV, but who do you team him with?
It's a good thing anthologies and mini-series are there.

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If that spoiler about Cooper and Truman saying goodbye is true, and if
we sensibly assume MacLachlan outlasts Ontkean, then I'm not too
shocked.  Truman's importance in TWIN PEAKS has seldom been much more
than symbolic from the word go; lately he has dwindled to near
invisibility.  Guess they've been writing him out gracefully.  It's kind
of a shame; I'll miss his face.  He was wasted as a foil for Cooper's
stoic Aquarianisms; I hope he gets lots of good work now.

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If BOB moves into Leo, I don't know how he's going to spook his way
around a spinal cord injury, but this isn't ST ELSEWHERE is it!  :-) It
sounds like a great hideout though: who would suspect a vegetable in a
wheelchair?

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By the way, can't they *find* any of the blue drug Gerard needs to
suppress MIKE and stop dehydrating to death?  Or are they deliberately
withholding it for some reason?  Will Bill Bennett do a guest shot? :-)
Gerard didn't actually quite kick the bucket on 12/1, did he?  I'm
assuming not.  On the other hand if he stays around, Cooper knows he has
a weathervane for finding BOB's new host.  (Unless, of course... nahhh)

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Who shot Cooper?  Does Cooper care?  Do we just dump that one on Leland
for grins, or is there someone else with a motive?

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If BOB escapes into someone else and starts to kill again, won't someone
have to do something stronger than arresting his latest human host?  Seems
like some serious exorcism is called for.  We could get more mystical
than any of us dreamed!
-- "Just when we finally got good at this, we \_i_/ Tom Neff run out of planets." - a Voyager scientist --[o]-- tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM