Subject: Re: David Lynch... Let me shake your hand!
From: jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
Date: 1991-06-11, 18:11
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <544@wybbs.mi.org> meyers@wybbs.mi.org (John Meyers) writes:
> >   Okay, the ending. If this were a cliffhanger, it would be great ending.
> >We would be spellbound all summer, waiting to find out what happens. But
> >assuming Lynch knew that the show was over by this time...

He didn't, dammit!  What we saw last night was filmed months ago, and
reports I've read say that it was not altered, not one iota, after
ABC cancelled the show.  It's true that the filming was completed after
ABC put the show on hiatus the first time, but at that point, Lynch and
Frost were still lobbying for a continuation, a renewal.  They'd have
sabotaged themselves if they completed everything, then there'd be
nothing to renew.

I am amused by the people posting contradictory (to each other) notes
saying that it was "obvious" that one thing or another was added later.
It seems clear to me that, if ratings and cancellation weren't an issue,
they probably would have done it this way.

It's the season-ending cliffhanger episode.  As such, it was SUPPOSED to
leave unanswered questions for the next season.  In any case, Lynch and
gang seem to be attempting to get a movie together, so it's STILL not the
end.


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