Subject: Re: Economist Mar0291 (WKLP spoiler)
From: jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer)
Date: 1991-03-06, 07:40
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <5882@husc6.harvard.edu> burns@endor.uucp (John Burns) writes:
> >Excerpt from the article "Sloping off" in the Economist (March 2, 1991):
> >
> >Making matters worse, the show took a marked turn towards the fantastic.
> >Mr Lynch and Mr Frost had previously done a brilliant job of parodying a
> >number of television and film genres--the soap-opera, the mystery, film
> >noir--without sacrificing the elements of each that gave them their
> >suspense.  Their flair for the surreal and the genuinely scary kept the
> >show's tone too ominous to be dismissed as camp.  But when the programme
> >shifted from the hyper-real to the super-natural--coded radio signals
>from space, Laura's killer turning out to have been an elusive spirit
> >who inhabited her father's body--it quickly became disappointingly
> >silly.

I disagree with the above.  (I bet by now everybody was expecting me to do
so, eh?)  I don't think just because a show dares to be rampantly
supernatural it is in any way silly.  Certainly it may cause some of the
more boring parts of the audience (namely, the ones who were watching it
purely as a soap opera) to go away, but to call it "silly" just because you
can't understand it, or it clashes with your belief system, or whatever, is
a pretty arrogant thing to do.(I could sit here all day and bash
economists if I wanted to, too, but that would be outside the purpose of
this newsgroup.)

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