Subject: Re: More impressions!
From: alternat@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Ann Hodgins)
Date: 1990-12-04, 08:22
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <16095@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
> >
> >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.
 
I agree, his confession as BOB was so well done and then in the same
episode he regresses to an innocent child totally believably. Good work!
> >
> >               *  *  *
> >
> >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.
> >
I'm afraid the Major will die soon - his dream seemed to be a forshadowing
of his own death. Hope not, I really like him, pompous and banal as he
is. He has warmth and I think he truly has wisdom too. For instance he
considered himself *privileged* to give the old waiter a ride, he
seemed to see it as a honour done to him by the old man, not vice versa.
> >
> >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?
> >

So far, Twin Peaks writers have respected the laws of nature.
I think they will continue to do so. BOb would not chose a broken
human to occupy any more than he would try to drive a wrecked car.
 

> >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? :-)
> >
they are deliberately withholding it.
> >               *  *  *
> >
a.h.