Subject: Crybabies, MacLachlan & Audrey
From: alan@ikkyu.Eng.Sun.COM (Alan Marr, Animation)
Date: 1991-06-11, 15:57
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: alan@sun.UUCP (Alan Marr)

The crybabies who are moaning on the net that Lynch/Frost did not spoon
fed them a TV pablum finale tied up in a pretty bow are a bunch of
wimps!  Good art stimulates the mind and is not necessarily "pretty" or
"pat"!  I say that it is fine that there are many unanswered questions
left, especially a huge humdinger of a question.  All this discussion
shows just how much peoples minds have been stimulated!  Think of what
Cooper and Briggs faced!  The crybabies mental anguish is about as
significant as an pine weasel fart in a forest with noone to hear it.

The best part about the ending is the scope that it opens up for Kyle
MacLachlan.  His acting in "Blue Velvet", "The Hidden", and "Twin
Peaks" has been remarkable for its restraint and subtlety.  Given the
chance at the end of the 2nd season finale to cut loose, he cut loose!
There is bound to be a sequel be it another season somehow or, as seems
more likely at this point, a film.  Well, Kyle now has the chance to be
really expressive and I look forward to it.  I thought that the way he
laughed at the end was very short, but brilliant acting.  Lesser actors
would not be able to achieve such level of verisimilitude, the way he
cranked up the intensity in such a brief interval.

The ending is not nearly as obvious as many suppose.  Cooper could be
possesed by Bob, but I haven't seen anybody mention the possibility
that Agent Cooper in his infinite wisdom is stronger than Bob and is
running a master scam to defeat him.  In other words, he is allowing
Bob to think he is possesing Cooper.  Then, possibly, Bob will let his
guard down, materialize in order to kill Annie, and while Bob is
distracted, Cooper will get him in the nick of time.  Cooper hasn't
"lost" to Bob yet.  Remember he voluntarily took up Bob's offer (made
through Windam) of trading his soul for Annie's life.

Yet another possibility for the movie is that Agent Cooper may have to
be rescued from the Black Lodge and his doppelganger on earth
defeated.  If I were writing it, I'd have Annie, Garland Briggs and
Hawk pressed into service.  The first two have been to the Black
Lodge.  Annie and Cooper are in love, so the connection is obvious, but
what is interesting is that Annie has a dark background and so may have
weaknesses and/or hidden strengths just like Dale.  Briggs brings the
power of reason.  Hawk has been revealed to have spiritual
understandings.  One might write in Andy since he is so obviously pure
of heart and innocent.

One thing that I think is great about Lynch's art in creating Twin
Peaks is that he so often does the "obvious" and gets away with it by
investing it with a heavy load of mythmaking, whimsy, and heart, much
like George Lucas uses the same three elements.

Too bad we didn't see more of the singer.

Regarding Audrey and Pete:  Audrey was some distance away from the
blast which took place in a very large room.  Furthermore, the bomb
appeared to be simple explosive and not a pipe bomb or something more
deadly.  The blast was undoubtedly channeled by the shape of the safety
deposit box so that Packard got it full force in the head.  That would
have absorbed a lot of the energy and Pete off to the right was
probably well shielded by the door of the box.

Alan.