Subject: Plotlines they could have left out
From: swsh@ellis.uchicago.edu (Janet M. Swisher)
Date: 1991-07-22, 08:08
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <9100@umd5.umd.edu> jblum@umd5.umd.edu (Jon Blum) writes:
> >
> > 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

Oh, please don't get rid of Denise. S/he's one of my favorites. :-(

> >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

You have to leave in at least some of the JR/OEJ business, if your
viewers are to understand why Coop gets suspended from the FBI and
stays in TP.

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

I'd get rid of the whole Dick vs. Andy paternity thing.  And just
about anything involving Dick.  Leave in that early scene with Dick
and Lucy in the diner, but junk anything after that.
-- Janet Swisher Internet: swsh@midway.uchicago.eduUniversity of Chicago Phone: (312) 702-7608 Academic and Public Computing P-mail: 1155 E. 60th St. Chicago IL 60637, USA