Subject: Re: Politics=Cancellation?
From: streeter@athena.cs.uga.edu (Tom Streeter)
Date: 1991-02-22, 18:28
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks,rec.arts.tv

In article <1991Feb22.160050.19230@watserv1.waterloo.edu> alternat@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Ann Hodgins) writes:
> > 
> >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?
> >

ummmmmmmm.............I love a good conspiracy as much as the next person, but
this is a bit too much.  If anyone was trying to get a message across, they'd
put it on a show that people actually watched.  I suppose it's comforting
to believe that there is enough order in the world that someone could actually
"order" a network to pull a show (something affiliates weren't able to do in thecase of "Cop Rock"), but I feel fairly safe in thinking that any similarities
between "Twin Peaks" (a show I like very much) and real life is accidental.
And not very much appreciated at that........

-- _______________________________________________________________________________ Tom Streeter streeter@athena.cs.uga.edu