Subject: Re: UK Broadcasting Standards Council critical of TP
From: brian@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Brian Wood)
Date: 1991-05-02, 18:03
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

My first encounter with TP was the last 15 minutes of this episode.
I tuned in to see what all the fuss was about.  I was rather shocked,
and vowed never to watch the show if it had that kind of violence
in it.  Since then, a friend encouraged me (make that _made me_) sit
down and watch the first episode of the series. The rest, as they say,
is history.  I got hooked, and watched all the rest of the episodes
in 6 days, 4 hours at a time, until I was caught up. Taken in
context, it was a powerful episode, and I understood that the show
had much more to it.  But I still kept my 9 year old out of the room
when it was on.

I wonder if TP didn't lose its mass audience with that episode. Ratings
were great until then. The combination of the resolution of the
WKLP thread (which really hasn't even YET occurred, as we all know)
and the male-against-helpless-female violence may have turned the tide.
What a shame.

BMW     Picard: "Mr. Data - Who killed Laura Palmer?"
        Data:   "Analysis of the blood points to ... Barnabus Collins!"