Subject: "One Last Cup of Joe" (final ep spoilers)
From: malcom@ridley.coyote.trw.com (Michael Malcom)
Date: 1991-06-11, 11:46
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

A show of hands... how many paused at the bathroom door after watching the
finale?  "Mmmm... I don't think I need to brush my teeth tonight, nope,
definitely not tonight...."  Eeeek! 

I, too, suddenly turned upside-down during the closing credits to catch LP's
last appearance.

"My, Windom looks awfully pale this morning.... AAAAA!!!!"  -Me

Lana's lame excuse for a 7 veils dance deserved to go down in flames.  No
wonder Dick switched his vote to Annie.  Lana should have watched the "Temple
Dance in Praise of Eros" from "History of the World, Part 1"!  :-)  ("He is a
eunuch.  _He_ is a _eunuch_!  He's *DEAD*!")

I think it would have been funny, while Annie was rapid-firing Scripture, to
insert the Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear.  

Bobby got clobbered by the ersatz Log, and _Mike_ had the head wound and said
he got hit by "a tree", and Bobby was mooning over Shelly with no wounds at
all?   I am confused.

I disagree that the Major has never been to the White Lodge.  We know that his
memories of his trips into the Lodges have been blacked out, but his sub-
conscious memories leak out in dreams & intuitions.  And, he told Bobby of his
'vision' of a brilliantly lighted white marble mansion.  Then again, maybe it
really was a vision of the future, like Coop's '25 years later' dream.

I also don't think the Major was underused in the finale.  He had 3 scenes:
his escape and random walk through the woods, his oracular mumblings in the
sheriff's station (transcription, anyone?), and his smooching with the Mrs. 
in the Double R.  I sure hope he signs on for any TP movie.

How could anyone think that Catherine blew up her own brother?  Yes, she doesn't
_trust_ him, but sure as rain in Oregon it was Eckhardt who planted the
"Got you" surprise for Andrew.  After attacking the box with a rolling pin and
a pistol, I enjoyed his comeuppance, until realizing its full significance!

Loved Dell the bank manager.  There's nothing like a dead stop to make you
appreciate breakneck speeds.

A cool effect:  when the camera was pointed downwards (Dale's-eye view) at the
LMFAP or at the bloody Dale/Carolyn-Annie, wasn't the zigzag floor pattern
BIGGER?  Thus making the figures look undersized?  Or was I imagining things?

I haven't decided what to make of the Red Room scenes, but I loved them!  Did
anyone else connect the Pseudo-coffee with the viscous goo dripping from the 
coffee cup in the Dale/Annie Double-R scene last episode?  Perhaps Dale & 
Annie's love opened up enough of a 'doorway' to bring in some Waiting Room
Sludge!

I was also confused by the Giant's appearance in the Waiting Room.  He wasn't
very helpful.  Perhaps the Black Lodge's power has grown so great he is no
longer permitted to help Coop?

"I have to brush my teeth."  This is when everyone figured out the ending,
right?  But what about when Coop was in the sheriff's office, repeating,
"Fire, walk with me"?  A little subtle foreshadowing, maybe.

You have to hand it to Lynch.  The man does it his way.  

How about a letter-writing campaign to Lynch-Frost for more TP?
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Mike Malcom
"What exactly are we celebrating, bending over like this?" -Lucy