Subject: RS - Why ABC is determined to kill Twin Peaks
From: c2h5oh@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Idealistic Bibliomystic)
Date: 1991-05-02, 13:12
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Forgive me if this has been suggested before, I don't get to read this
group that often.

I think ABC has deliberately planned to kill off Twin Peaks because
Twin Peaks is dangerous to the television industry. A show that makes
people *think* about what they've watching? That is *deadly*. There
are very few shows that can stand up to serious thought.

Since TP started, I've noticed I've become far more analytical about
what I watch. I question things much more, I want to figure out
motiviations. I am also much less easily moved...I've gotten used to
building up to caring about characters over time.

Twin Peaks got me thinking and feeling in ways which other shows just
can't compete with. (Twin Peaks itself can't really compete, since the
creative talents lost interest, but that's another story.) The
television industry cannot afford to do that to it viewers. They need
to keep us unthinking and easily stimulated. The campaign Peakers have
waged may have just made things worse - showing how much the show
means to us just shows how dangerous it is. All these people who have
become resistent to the usual tv crap! It's just too big a threat.
-- c2h5oh@ucscb.ucsc.edu - making the world safe for children's literature "Everybody bet lots of money on the eggplant, thinking that if a vegetable challenges a live animal with four legs to a race, then it must be that the vegetable knows something."