Subject: Re: Lynch takes the easy road ...was: (and is) SPOILERS Galore
From: lazlo@yenta.alb.nm.us (Lazlo Nibble)
Date: 1991-06-11, 12:54
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

mccurdy@ucselx.sdsu.edu (mccurdy m) writes:

> > All this made-for-t.v.-movie was was a ploy by d. lynch to get t.p.
> > viewers to write the network demanding more episodes. Ha! The jokes on
> > us. 

What "made-for-TV-movie" ploy?  ABC had two first-run episodes left on a
series that they had canceled, and figured that they could make a little
bit more money by airing both together in a two-hour block.  The two
episodes were written and filmed as the last two episodes of the season,
not of the series.  Nobody promised that everything would be wrapped up
at the end of the last episode.

I can understand being annoyed at having TP end with a dozen unresolved
cliffhangers, but if you want to blame someone for that, blame all the
people who wimped out on the show early this season, not Mark Frost and
David Lynch.  I think they did a great job, especially considering the
medium they were working with -- series television.  If Lynch gets to do
the theatrical movie, you can bet that I'll be first in line, regardless
of how it ties in with the TV series . . . TWIN PEAKS with a motion-picture
budget and shot on a motion-picture schedule (as opposed to the episode-a-
week constraints that drained a lot of the life out of the series during
the second season) will be a wonder to behold.  Remember the pilot.

(ObFaveMoment from the last two episodes: the Anonymous Worker and his
Lovely Deer.)
                                                  Lazlo (lazlo@triton.unm.edu)
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