Subject: Re: Give me plot or give me death! (was Re: Lynch - CRITICISM!!!)
From: c2h5oh@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Idealistic Bibliomystic)
Date: 1990-12-06, 14:21
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <49284@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v22964qs@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
 
> >I also find these criticisms of the "plotlessness" of David Lynch to be 
> >interesting.  To me, Twin Peaks has one of the most involved and convoluted
> >plots of any TV show around.  To most people, THIS has been the ultimate
> >reason people have left the show.  Thus, I think Lynch/Frost's strange
> >"indulgences" (if you insist) are quite forgivable.  

There's a sense in which too-much-plot = no-plot. Read a P.G.
Wodehouse book, for example - the most twisty, convoluted, complicated
plots you'd ever want to see but nothing actually happens, really.

However, I think the criticism of Lynch, apropos TP, is not that he
doesn't use plot but that he doesn't *care about it*. This is
certainly true, but not necessarily a Bad Thing. Lynch's episodes are
surely the most interesting and engrossing. On the other hand, if
other people weren't involved, to actually push the plot forward, it
might get *too* disjointed and hard to follow. (Not really my opinion,
since I think most of the actual plot of TP is boring anyway.)
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