Subject: Re: Second Season Failings
From: jblum@umd5.umd.edu (Jon Blum)
Date: 1991-07-21, 22:25
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

I know what you're saying about the wandering plotlines, but it seemed to
me that they started a lot earlier than the ones you mentioned.  For me
the show started going off the rails around episode four of the second
season, when Jean Renault and the Mysterious Asian Man became major plot
lines.

Which brings to mind...  I was thinking about editing down (for use to be
determined later, as the copyright gods permit) my off-air copies of some
of the second-season episodes.  Is anyone interested in pondering the
question of what stories Twin Peaks would have focused on if it had stayed
focused, and which plotlines I should consign to oblivion?  My early list
of edit-outs include:

Norma's mom the food critic
The Milford Brothers / Lana the human pheromone
Ernie Nyles
The escapee from "Problem Child"
Denise Bryson
the Pine Weasel Riot
as much of the Ben Horne Civil War plot as possible
Bobby and Audrey's non-fling
and every last reference to Jean Renault

Anyone else got candidates for plotlines that we can easily forget?