Subject: Re: AGH! 26 Jan episode (SPOILERS)
From: csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack)
Date: 1991-01-27, 21:45
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Jan28.014951.25456@Neon.Stanford.EDU> michaelg@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Michael Greenwald) writes:
> >bvickers@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers) writes:
> >
>> >>rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu (R o d Johnson) writes:
> >
>>> >>>Questions and thoughts:
> >
>>> >>>--I'm glad Dick is finally dead, though of *course* they had to
>>> >>>  mention that he had a twin brother.  Sheesh.
> >
>> >>I know what you mean.  I breathed a sigh of relief when little Nickie
>> >>finally offed Dick, but when his twin brother showed up, I almost
>> >>vomited.
> >
> >No! No! No! You were fooled.  The fact that the Mysterious Guy showed
> >up in the background just >after< Dick mumbles his dying message to be
> >sent to his twin brother, doesn't mean that the Mysterious Guy is his
> >twin brother.  It's Jonathon.  (I thought it was Pete at first, but
> >after freeze framing it's >clearly< Jonathon).

Jonathan, as I recall, was oriental. The "twin brother" didn't
look even vaguely oriental. He *did* look a lot like Dick. I
think it was his twin.

I'm still betting that Nicky isn't a BOB-vessel, though. Let's
face it, as a vehicle for pure evil, a child Nicky's age doesn't
have the options an adult has.

> >(Did anyone else notice that the one shot of Invitation to Love didn't
> >mirror or foreshadow the TP action very well?  Or, at least, not as
> >well as last season -- TP is definitely slipping)

I can deal with that. ITL is just window-dressing. The thing that
really bothers me is that, in the last scene in the sheriff's office,
Lucy was starting to show a noticeable bulge in the abdominal area.
Don't these people bother to keep track of how much time has passed
in TP? She's barely over three months pregnant; she can't possibly
be starting to show it yet.

Oh, one other thing. I thought the vials that Andrew was counting
were morphine, not insulin. I don't think insulin comes in the
vials with glass snap-off tops.

One final thought: the Donna/James reunion and escape was completely
asinine. I mean, what was the point of all that build up, the obvious
con that Evelyn and her "brother" were running on James, then this
incredible let-down ending to the thread? It's like they let an 
amateur writer finish off a part of the story they were tired of, 
and said amateur decided they needed another transvestite to complete
the usual TP duality.

It's really hard for me slam an episode that Lynch directed, but
this one wasn't very good. It goes to show that no director
can overcome such bad writing.

-- Dave Mack