Subject: Re: TWIN PEAKS VIDEOCASSETTES (W/ SPOILERS)
From: clements@bbn.com (Bob Clements)
Date: 1991-07-23, 10:07
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <2988@calmasd.Prime.COM> jpb@calmasd.Prime.COM (Jan Bielawski) writes:
> >
> >And in September, I think, the *European* version of the pilot
> >is coming out on video.  I can imagine the confusion now: the murderer
> >is revealed in the pilot and then the investigation proceeds anyway
> >in episodes 1-7!

> >Jan Bielawski
> >Computervision R&D, San Diego
> >jpb@calmasd.prime.com

I just rented the currently-available version of the Laserdisc
(with the Japanese subtitles) last weekend.  (Is it the same as
the European version? I dunno.  Same as the one that's about to
come out? I dunno.)

It sure was a shock to the system to see it all resolved in the
last 15 minutes:

Oh, yeah:  SPOILERS follow...


The first hour and three quarters (or so) was the same(*) as the
pilot.  Then in a couple of minutes it all concludes:

We get a scene of Andy and Lucy cozying up at Lucy's apartment.
Lucy is interrupted to handle a few phone calls, pointing
everyone to the final denouement.  Mike says "Bob's in the
basement".  Everybody bops down to the basement.  Sure enough,
Bob is lurking in the basement.  A little dialog ensues but is
interrupted by Mike bursting in and shooting Bob.  And Bob just
dies.

(*) I admit it, I didn't keep my tapes of the pilot, or most of
the series.  So I can't say for sure what, if any, minor
differences there were between the real pilot and the first part
of this version.

Bob Clements, K1BC, clements@bbn.com