Subject: Re: Why I give up
From: boyajian@ruby.dec.com (Cisco's Buddy)
Date: 1991-01-22, 01:56
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <5389@husc6.harvard.edu>, burns@sparkle.uucp (John Burns) writes...

} The more I watch Twin Peaks, the more I think that they really don't know
} what they're doing. Mark Frost's scripts have been the only really
} coherent ones. Every time Harley Peyton writes a script, the intellectual
} level of the show drops another notch.
} For example: There was no indication of concrete supernatural activity at
} the beginning of the show. [etc., etc.]

I assume that your using "concrete" to excuse Lynch & Frost's introduction
of Sarah's psychic visions (including the first we ever see of BOB), and
Coop's psychic dream, not to mention the later appearances of the Giant,
and the revelation of Leland's possession by BOB.

The fact that something isn't introduced at the beginning doesn't mean that
it wasn't planned to be introduced or that the introduction of it wasn't a
good thing. The original DARK SHADOWS was a simple, gothic soap opera with
no supernatural elements when it started. It only became supernatural with
the intro of Barnabas Collins sometime after it first appeared. That,
obviously, was a smart move on *their* part.

-- "My public will kill me for dying at a time like this." --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, "The Mill", Maynard, MA) UUCP: ...!decwrl!ruby.enet.dec.com!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%ruby.DEC@DECWRL.DEC.COM