Subject: Re: David Lynch... Let me shake your hand!
From: lazlo@yenta.alb.nm.us (Lazlo Nibble)
Date: 1991-06-12, 10:08
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

meyers@wybbs.mi.org (John Meyers) writes:

> > First of all, will someone of authority conferm/deny that the final two
> > episodes were filmed long the final status of the show was known, so
> > these were actually just the last two shows of the season, and it was
> > assumed there would be more? I am acting under the assumption that this
> > were the case. 

A February interview with Harley Peyton that I've read mentions that they
were just about to start shooting the next-to-last episode, meaning the
finale was shot in late February/early March.  He also hints broadly at
the cliffhanger ending, and says that the idea for it was about three
months old . . . meaning that the "Coop/BOB" concept dates back to last
*November*.  I wouldn't call that a "last-minute cop-out".

One more time: this was written as the SEASON FINALE, not the end of
the series.  There are cliffhangers because when they wrote and shot
the episode, they didn't know that there weren't going to be any more.

Sheez.
                                                  Lazlo (lazlo@triton.unm.edu)
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