Subject: Re: Second Season Failings From: kevink@fugitive.soac.bellcore.com (Kevin Klinge) Date: 1991-07-22, 06:28 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article <9100@umd5.umd.edu>, jblum@umd5.umd.edu (Jon Blum) writes: |> 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? Sure! How about : 1. Nadine in the second season. How many times did we have to have her strength proved to us, OVER and OVER again. From flipping Mike, to hurling cheerleaders through the air, to stopping a speeding bullet, leaping tall buildings in a single bound... (you get the point) 2. Little Nickie. Did you refer to this in escapee from "Problem Child?" I didn't understand that reference. 3. James' brush with murderous wife and lover and Donna's excessive bawling scenes dealing with this story. 4. Gordon Cole's non-fling with Shelly. The story went nowhere, and I hardly see what it proved, and once Gordon left, I didn't see how it related to TP other than the fact that Lynch liked this one female co-star. 5. Leo's immediate state after shooting Hank. However amusing it was to hear him mutter "new shoes" and sit through him spitting out food, I felt that the writers were stretching his existence, and his re-awakening. I mean, how many people survive shots like the one he took (obviously bleeding profusely), become brain-damaged, and then magically wake up one day ready to retake your axe and get back to chopping up your spouse? Sure, his child-like fear with WE was amusing, but this one person should have been killed 3 attempts ago. And since when does WE kill his victims like they were Batman and Robin (ie - always leaving the possibility for escape)? Right, it COULD happen! Sure, these are nitpicks to some, however, I felt it was stories like these that took away from the other plots we were tuned in to see. -- Kevin H. Klinge Bellcore kevink@fugitive.soac.bellcore.com