Subject: Re: Lynch - CRITICISM!!!
From: gln@cs.arizona.edu (Gary Newell)
Date: 1990-12-04, 18:30
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1990Dec4.130330@cs.yale.edu>, long-morrow@cs.yale.edu (H. Morrow Long) writes:
> > Does real life have a 'plot'?  Does 'Art' have to have a 'plot'?

So this seems to be the latest TP's defense that I've been seeing a lot
lately - TP's is art and art has no strict definition - pretty weak
stuff it seems to me - using the "logic" above, it becomes possible
to defend just about anything as being 'great' TV.

> > Aren't you tired of all of the formulaic sitcoms and soap operas on TV?

Don't happen to watch them - so I can't honestly say I am 'tired' of
them.

> > Real Art should upset you (not numb you like 99.99% of television today).

SO you have the definition of "real art" in your pocket? Funny - I've
never heard that being troublesome (and arguably weak in spots) is
a requisite of art...

> > Relax.  And keep an open mind.

Seems to me that it is you who does not have an open mind when it comes to
TP's - instead it seems that you would rather refuse to accept any criticism
of the show or God forbid criticize it yourself - I wouldn't call that
an open mind.


 As I said in the original post - the criticism I posted was not meant to
imply that the show had no merit - simply that there are people who find
what they feel are legitimate fault with TP's.