Subject: Re: Well, what did you all expect?
From: ingria@bbn.com (Bob Ingria)
Date: 1991-06-11, 09:22
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: ingria@BBN.COM

[Obviously, mundo spoilers in here for those who haven't seen the last
episode yet.]

In article <1991Jun11.041133.7411@ariel.unm.edu> blowfish@triton.unm.edu (rON.) writes:

   7) Some things were obvious that they were shot >after< the cancellation
      papers went out- the bank blowing up with pete and audrey (it wouldn't have
      done that, well, maybe not, if it was continuing), and bens death.....

Well, maybe and maybe not.  A friend pointed out to me that much of
the last episode sort of answered or reprised elements from last
season's finale:

Last season, Nadine tried to commit suicide, leaving us with the
question of whether she would live or die and with the possibility of
Ed and Norma having a non-clandestine relationship.  This season,
Nadine, the old Nadine, finally returns, seemingly torpedoing Ed and
Norma's plans to marry (not to mention Mike).

Last season, Pete rushed into a burning building to save one Packard
(Catherine) and we were left uncertain as to their fate; this year
Pete accompanied another Packard (Andrew) to what seems like certain
death.

Last season, Audrey was in danger of discovery by her father, this
season she is in danger of death.  (Given the L shape of the vault,
it's just possible that she was shielded from the full force of the
blast.  Maybe.)

Last year Leo was shot by Hank---an even bigger bully than Leo---and
his fate was uncertain; this season Leo was booby-trapped by Windom
Earle---perhaps the biggest bully on the earthly plane in TP, and
certainly in the same kind of domineering relation to Leo that Hank
was---and is left hanging on by his teeth, literally.

And, finally, last season ended with the climactic scene of Cooper
getting shot, with the fade to black, and the body thump, leaving us
wondering for his physical well-being; this season ends with the still
more disturbing image of Coop confronting his Bob-self in the mirror,
leaving us in deep worry about his psychic/spiritual well-being.

[There's also the tantalizing scene of Major Briggs in the diner,
receiving the message that Cooper is in the Black Lodge, which is a
throw-away in a true finale, but a hint that the Major may play a role
in Cooper's rescue (redemption?) in a continuing series.]

It's one hell of a season finale; if only it could have had the
patented TP ``...To Be Continued''.

-30-
Bob

P.S. As soon as Coop said that he had to brush his teeth, my heart
sank with the realization that they were going to do The Mirror
Scene.