Subject: Re: Last (?) Episode of TP: 2/16
From: tlynch@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Timothy W. Lynch)
Date: 1991-02-17, 12:54
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

bvickers@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers) writes:

> >This episode was EXCELLENT.  The best episode yet since Leland's death.

Leland's death, hell.  The best since Maddie's death, I think.

> >Some of the highlights:

> >o Ben deciding he'd run for Senate.  Man, he'd make a great
> >  politician!

Senator Horne the environmentalist--frightening, *frightening* concept.  :-)

> >o Josie fainting at the sight of Andrew.  I loved it.

Yep.

> >o The shot of Josie in front of her mirror, painting her lips --
> >  the exact same shot that the whole series opened with.  It was
> >  almost like coming full circle, connecting the last episode with
> >  the first.  Truly stunning.

Absolutely.  I was going wild during that sequence, but since none of the 
people I was watching with started watching before this season, they couldn't
understand it.  Sigh...

> >o The final scenes.  Josie dying mysteriously (heart attack?),
> >  BOB's return.  The LMFAP.  Josie in the nightstand knob.  Sort of
> >  reminds me of the Log Lady and her log.  Did anyone else get the
> >  impression that this whole sequence was added after hearing the
> >  suspension/cancellation news?

I did, yes.  I was saying through most of the show, "you know, I'm not sure
if this show was deliberately crafted to be last or not--it doesn't look like
they knew."  Then they hit the last five minutes--"okay, fine, so they knew."

Something else which I absolutely adored--Andrew's conversation with Eckhardt.
I've been waiting ages for Dan O'Herlihy and David Warner to play off each
other--"Look at me.  I'm ALIVE!"  

And a quote which in some ways truly sums up Twin Peaks:  "You'll have to 
excuse me...the chef just tried to stab Jerry."  :-)

> >I'll really be mad if they truly end it here.  I want to at LEAST see the
> >rest of the season.  Remember, write Bob Iger NOW:

> >Robert Iger, Entertainment President
> >ABC
> >2040 Avenue of the Stars
> >Century City, CA   90067

Agreed.  I'm about to write mine now.

Tim Lynch (Cornell's first Astronomy B.A.; one of many Caltech grad students)
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