Subject: Re: More impressions! From: csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack) Date: 1990-12-06, 21:48 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article <16095@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes: > >Haven't heard from the Andy-did-its in a while! How ya doing out there? :-) > > > > * * * > > > >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! > > heh. You mean, like the BOB-can't-leave-Leland theory? "When he was in me, I didn't know it, and when he was out of me I couldn't remember." -- Leland On the other hand, I was wrong about BOB first entering Leland after he killed Jacques. Call it a tie. > > > >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. > > Let's give a little credit to the writers, shall we? Or discredit, depending on how you feel about the episode. As a screenwriter wannabe, I get really annoyed with people giving the director all the credit for what winds up on the screen. Goddamn auteurists should all be shot - or forced to make a movie without a script. > > > >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 completely. Leland was one of the show's high points. Do you suppose he has an identical cousin (except for the hair) somewhere who'll come to help Sarah through her time of grief while making everyone in the Sheriff's department extremely nervous? > >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. > > I wouldn't count too much on Truman vanishing. Apparently Miguel Ferrer isn't going to be a regular on the show and Cooper has to have someone as a foil. There don't seem to be any other candidates. It has to be a law officer, and Andy doesn't quite fill the bill. Hawk isn't voluble or incredulous enough for the part. Unless Lynch/Frost wave a magic wand and make a whole new Sheriff appear, I don't see how they can get rid of Truman. > > > >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? > > What spinal cord injury? According to Doc Hayward (admittedly not the 1990 Nobel Prizewinner for Medicine) Leo lost too much blood before they got to him and suffered brain damage as a result. > > > >By the way, can't they *find* any of the blue drug Gerard needs to > >suppress MIKE and stop dehydrating to death? They apparently have some, since Doc Hayward was asking Cooper to let him give Gerard the injection when Cooper went to question MIKE. > > Or are they deliberately > >withholding it for some reason? Yup, so Cooper could talk to MIKE. > >Gerard didn't actually quite kick the bucket on 12/1, did he? I'm > >assuming not. He was still breathing when Coop left the room. If he'd died, we probably would have heard about it prior to the waltz in the Roadhouse. Of course, Doc Hayward may have some bad news for us on 12/8. > > > >Who shot Cooper? Does Cooper care? Do we just dump that one on Leland > >for grins, or is there someone else with a motive? I'd put my money on Wyndham/Windom Earle. How many people in TP have access to silenced weapons? Remember the Asian man in the room across the hall? Isn't WE supposed to be a master of disguise? > >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! Well, we do seem to have MIKE, the Giant and the Tremonds playing on the side of Light. (I assume the purpose of the Tremonds, since they seem to have been spirits, was to point Donna to the secret diary with the intent that it be gotten out of Harold Smith's hands and into Cooper's. Of course, Donna botched the job.) On the other hand, the next arc may be considerably more mundane. Sherlock Cooper tracks down his insane ex-partner, Moriarty Earle? -- Dave Mack