Subject: Politics=Cancellation?
From: alternat@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Ann Hodgins)
Date: 1991-02-22, 08:00
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks,rec.arts.tv

The Gulf war has reached a turning point. The US seems determined
to achieve a win over Iraq even at the cost of lives.
The US wants its people 100% behind them in a ground war. The do not
want the peace movement to gain any momentum at this time.
 
Twin Peaks is now featuring a showdown between good and evil involving
the military (Major Briggs) and mirrored in a war game, chess, which is
a game that reflects military and political tactics.
 
Sooner or later people will draw parallels between the tv show that
prompts so much discussion and the events in the gulf.
 
The moral hero of Twin Peaks, agent Cooper, is seeking a stalemate in his
conflict on the chess board and in real life. Cooper does not want to kill
or utterly defeat his opponent. Instead, Cooper wants to stop his opponent with 
a minimum of blood shed. Cooper isn't going for a win. He just wants the
war game to stop.
 
Is it possible that the abrupt elimination of this show, featuring this
particular moral philosophy at this particular time could be political?
Could the american network have received orders to pull the show until the
Gulf war is over?
 
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