Subject: Re: Finale comments (spoilers)
From: ii7gjg0b@serss0.fiu.edu (Jim Stafford)
Date: 1991-06-13, 07:11
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

finale stuff follows:

Random comments on "The End":

I think this was a great season finale, and is probably better than any 
'series finale' that they may have come up with.  You want a sense of
closure, go read a harlequin romance.   Lynch has left us with an open
wound in our cerebral cortex (brain damage?).  I don't think it would be
possible to terminate all the major and minor plotlines in this series,
short of some sort of (choose one) mass murder/ alien invasion /nuclear
war / all of the above.  Besides, now we can make up our own episodes.

As with the series in general, you had to forget about what real humans
would do in some of the situations, epecially in regards to law enforce-
ment.  Like, they're not going to cancel the beauty pageant?  And the
lack of any effort to search for WE?  And assuming I did have visions
of giants on a regular basis, I would sure as hell listen to what they
were trying to tell me.

Geez, it took them this long to figure out that those are astrological
symbols?  Of course maybe the 4H club is behind it.

I loved the scenes with the old banker.  They were EXCRUCIATING to watch,
especially with the story in the WL/BL developing.  The fact that Lynch
used it before made it even more painful, because you knew it would take
_forever_.  

The beauty pageant scene worked pretty well (boy, that Lucy sure can
dance, but she has a poor sense of prenatal care!).  Bobby sure made
a quick recovery, seeing how he was clobbered with that log.  Not
even a bandaid.  Wonder if his personality has changed?.

The WL/BL scenes confused the hell out of me.  Haven't had time to 
watch them again, but I think there may be some cryptography going
on in the dialog.  The palindrome "wow, bob, wow" might indicate some
point of reference.  (Just another theory...)  

I think some of you may have been disappointed by the cheap set approach
to the lodges.  I think many were envisioning some kind of apocalyptic
struggle between the forces of good and evil, sort of a Tolkienesque
wizard/demon thing.  Lynch portrayed the struggle as more of an internal
one (Good Dale, Bad Dale), in which no one is completely white or black
(lodge).  You were expecting Cooper the Barbarian?

Well, I'll post again after I watch it again.  Until then...

jimbo