Subject: Nadine's memory
From: muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy)
Date: 1991-06-11, 20:53
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <544@wybbs.mi.org> meyers@wybbs.mi.org (John Meyers) writes:
> >My gripe list:
[...]
> >  Oh, surprise, surprise. Nadine gets her memory back by a blow to the head.
> >The cure-all for anybody with memory problems, used in every stupid sitcom
> >ever made. I suppose to could be argued that in using this method, the writers
> >were simply casting light on the stupidity for other shows using it. DON'T
> >BELIEVE THAT FOR A SECOND! :-)

I won't argue that, but I will argue that it was not simply a blow to
the head.  We first saw Nadine start to recover when she realized that
she could not see out of her right eye.  Then, she seemed very strange
when Ed told her that he and Norma were getting married.  I think that,
just as it was an emotional crisis (and pills) that made her imagine she
was younger (and, btw, this was not necessarily "amnesia," as I
understand it - she didn't forget so much as take on a different age and
life - note that she didn't have *any* trouble with "progress"), it was
the emotional strain of losing Ed that made her start to remember.

Muffy