Subject: great final
From: pouncy@campus.swarthmore.edu
Date: 1991-06-11, 08:37
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Comments about the last show:

1.  Why does Lynch let Senor Droolcup and the bank teller walk so
s-l-o--w-l-y?  I think Lynch noticed the same thing that Kubrick 
discovered in 2001.  You can control an audience with 
speed.  Fast speed a la Star Wars gets you there, but so does
slow speed. Remember Kubrick's slow, stately space ship to 
Jupitar.  Lynch's version of that slow space ship
are these old, senile men in crucial situations.  Of course,
when it doesn't work, it irritates us.  Senor Droolcup, last September, 
did not work me, but I liked the bank teller.  I was on the floor
laughing.  

2.  Is it just a coincidence that Audrey dies just after we find
out that Donna is another daughter of Ben?  Sounds good to me.
In the forthcoming Twin Peaks movie Donna will get to do neat
stuff that Audrey used to do. She will stop being such a wimp.  
She's been on a roll since James left.  

3.  Why are they calling the Black Lodge/White Lodge Glastonbury?
It's not an Indian name and it's certainly not a Tibetan name.
It's Avalon.  It's where King Authur, the once and future king,
is buried. There really is a Glastonbury Isle and it's the legendary
site of Avalon - just down the road from Camelot.  Funny thing is
that Glastonbury (and the King Authur tale itself) is a 
disguised story about a mythical fight for the soul of a
Celtic people between Christianity and paganism 
(Marion Bradley, The Mists of Avalon).  Not quite
the same thing as good vs evil, but close.  In the King Arthur tale,
Arthur himself chooses neither Christianity nor paganism, he is
neutral.  When he is re-born (hence the title - the once and the future king)
perhaps he will choose one or the other.  (Witches, of course, hope
he will choose paganism.)  Glastonbury, in short, is
paradise, a location for death and rebirth, reincarnation.  
Obviously, Lynch has a bad case of symbol diarrhea, but
it's fun.

4.  Why the twelve trees and twelve rainbow trout?  Why
are the trees Sycamores?  Lynch's dad worked for the Interior
Department (a forest ranger (?)) and once did a thesis on 
Pine Trees (or some such species). I think this is one of 
Lynch's running jokes at his father's
expense to do his own artistic theses about trees.
Notice he wrote the song in the show about Sycamores - `Under 
the Sycamores(?).'   In witchcraft (celtic version) twelve is
a magic number.  Twelve witches usually form a coven and
at ceremonies they stand in a circle of twelve to host the devil
inside.  Twelve trout? Well, wouldn't they be the
antidote?

5.  So, I still don't know what the owls are, if they are not
what they seem.