Subject: Re: Second Season Failings
From: exuhag@exurchn1.ericsson.se (James Hague)
Date: 1991-07-23, 12:08
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Jul22.132847.5910@bellcore.bellcore.com> kevink@fugitive.soac.bellcore.com (Kevin Klinge) writes:
> >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?

Yup.

ALL of the Windom Earle crap.  Ever notice how some people just didn't
seem to fit into the show?  That fat guy card dealer at Jack's in the
first season (sorry, his name escapes me) and Windom Earle come to
mind...

The entire "Catherine and the secret box" nonsense.  In general,
anything relating to Josie after her death...

I agree with everyone:  everything involving James after Maddie's death
and the whole Nadine bit...

Audrey's little love affair...

Enough for now.  I agree that the show "ended" when Leland died, but I
think things were on the decline before that.  I felt that Bob was
shown too much at the beginning of season number two--it ruined the
suspense when you knew exactly where he was.  I also thought that
people were being killed off too often and too easily.  Tons of TV
shows and movies are filled with death, so much so that it becomes
expected.  But Lynch succeeded in making Laura Palmer's death seem
shocking and horrible, quite an achievement.  This was all undone in
the second season...
 

--
James Hague
exuhag@exurchn1.ericsson.se
Yes, my address ends with ".se," but I'm in Texas, not Sweden.