Subject: TP - 4/4/91 - My Thoughts/?'s From: perkins@neptune.iex.com (Bill Perkins) Date: 1991-04-04, 23:04 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks Okay...I just watched tonight's episode...and I dunno... Some stuff I liked, a lot of other stuff I really did NOT like (well, with a grain of salt: I love TP, I just didn't like the show "succumbing" to regular TV at points (peaks)). (Oh, yeah, flame me...yeah, go ahead! ;-}) 1) Did Harry *know* who T. Eckhardt's assistant was? (From before...) He kind of acted like he did/did not when he woke up -- maybe just the shock of it all made him act "bewildered" (he had this look on his face like "You?!" -- but maybe it was all just surprise..? 2) I thought this was funny: H.S. Truman hung-over as hell - and Gordon shows up yelling at the top of his (normal) (?) voice... 3) This was funny, too: Truman's still dealing with the hang-over -- and Cooper makes a deliberate point re what's "best" for a hang-over -- of course, Truman: exit stage left (I'D THROW UP after *that* "cure"!) Equally funny: (later on) Gordon doing pretty much the same thing ("Raw beef..!)_, with the same reaction from Truman... ;-) 4) What was 'John' (new char, Billy Zane) fooling with when Audrey entered the room (room service)? Looked like a big hot-dog steamer :-) Anyone know?/Why?/Care? 5) Doc Hayward is hiding something!!! We all kind of wondered when he was going to become "more important"/"critical to plot development", huh? (Oh, YEAH, we did!) All his denying/making up excuses on-the-fly w/ Donna pretty much show that there's more here.... It wouldn't surprise me at all if, as many others have suggested, Ben is, in fact, Donna's dad. But why (as far as plot goes???)? 6) Why IS Donna's mom in a wheelchair? (I know this has been asked earlier, esp. after last week, but I have not been able to read all the responses, so sorry if this old...!) 7) Something new: GORDON CAN HEAR SHELLEY! HE DOES NOT HAVE TO YELL ABOUT EVERYTHING! (Though it was sort of amusing in the coffee-shop -- everyone heard him saying how much he liked her ;-}) So why does he hear Shelley, and no one else? And, HE SEEMS TO BE VERY MUCH ATTRACTED TO HER! MAYBE THAT WILL FIGURE IN TO SOMETHING (SOONER OR LATER!) 8) Frankly, I really did not see much "chemistry" at ALL between Coop and Annie at first (even most of tonight); maybe it's possible, but I still dunno... Feels rather "forced" on us to me...? 9) As much as I Love D. Lynch (the Director, Author, Song-Writer, et al) I really do not like this "Gordon" personae... No, I like "Gordon" fine, I just think Lynch is too ... "flat" (?) as an actor... Amusing for a while; bugs me after it's going on... 10) Hmmm... W. Earle was on Project Blue Book... (as was/is Mjr. Briggs...) 11) Coop putting the two "symbols" together... give me a break. Hardly the configuration I'd settle on (in fact, I already had my whole theory of what these symbols meant, and I just *knew* it was gonna come true.. well, I'll tell ya 'bout 'em if you want...). Did it look "rational/feasible/ what-have-you" yo you??? He added symbols (we have never seen), and it sure wasn't a "logical" (IMHO) assimilation of two images, anyway... Such is life on TV... => On a similar point (same scenes), I did think that the cave Annie recognized ("Owl Cave") was a little too convenient.. I thought she was supposed to have been gone a long time -- how did she know about it? => Anyone notice that when Annie first comes up to Coop/Truman that Coop says he would like some coffee, he looks down at his cup, and it is upside-down? He then *looks* at his cup, even moves away from it and crosses his arms, then we get a quick shot of Annie pouring his coffee into a right-side up cup... In that *very* quick time between Coop looking at the cup, and Annie filling it, we can *hear* what (must be) a cup being turned over -- but I think that that sound was "put in" at edit time -- 'cause the characters were right back to where they were before/after all this (you following this?)... Just something I noticed.... But Annie DID turn Truman's over... (his CUP!) => I figured W. Earle would take Annie into account re Coop (since he was in the RR when Coop first met/fell in love with her), and use her in his "fight" against Coop. => One of the funniest things: Coop's *stupid* "penguin" joke -- it was not funny -- but Truman's reaction to the whole thing was ("When did you first fall in love with her..."): "The Defense Rests...." 12) This entire "cave exploration" thing -- my, that was easy, huh? A little *too* much so for me...and "campy". I like TP b/c it is so weird, but actually "feasible*, 'cause the world IS weird! But to go for this "Indiana Jones and ..." BS, with "magically moving stones, et al", uh, I'm annoyed.... 13) Why did Gordon go on so much about the gun he gave Cooper? 14) What's the point of the whole "james sends a postcard" thing? Who the hell cares? 15) When Wyndam (?) Earle is in the cave (at the end of the show), he approaches the "symbol" location from an entirely different direction from the one Coop, Truman, et al, took. Makes ya think he was hiding out all the while, while the others were there, but his reaction to the "symbol"'s new "movement" was rather "surprised"... He acted more like he stumbled across something (and that he, too, sought), and was eager/delighted to make it work in/for his purposes.... BTW, I thought (again... I gotta quit doing that!) it was just *too* convenient that W.E. just happened to turn around, his flashlight just happened to land exactly on the "other" ("upside-down" owl (?)) symbol, so he just "knew" to turn the ("original") "rod"-thing from the 1st symbol-thing around..... WHY would he do this??? (Except for the fact that it made a pretty decent "Oh, shit, NOW What?" ending to the show... My point being: W.E. did not act (to me) like he knew *the answer(s)" either, he was searching 'em out, too.... Yet, he MUST have known that Coop, et al, would be back, so turning the "Owl" rod thingy would tip 'em off that someone else knew, too.... 16) Who was shooting the arrows at the neon-colored buffaloe cut-outs? I really think it was Bobby (but WHY?!). I'm outta here... -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bill Perkins | "The sheriff didn't mean anything." 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