Subject: Re: *SNIFF* :( Why'd nobody tell me TP had a unhappy ending?
From: larryy@Apple.COM (Larry Yaeger)
Date: 1991-07-23, 19:17
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Jul23.160800.8273@odin.diku.dk> bims@diku.dk (Asger H|gsted) writes:
> >
> >But I guess I should have expected that knowing Lynch's somewhat bizarre
> >ideas...
> >
> >Nonetheless, I still was very disappointed to watch the last episode.
> >Coop running about in red curtains, ending up breaking a mirror with his
> >face, clearly possessed by BOB....
> >
> >Disappointing, IMHO.
> >
> >*sigh*

Asger, you're not alone.  That ending depressed me for several weeks.  Really.
Amazing that a television program could have that strong an affect on one.

That disappointment with the course of the plot and the fate of the
characters also, I believe, contributed to many folks' opinion of the
show itself.  A lot of people complained ratherly bitterly about many
aspects of the final couple of episodes; even though they may not admit
it (even to themselves), I suspect that that depressing ending weighed
so heavily on devotees of the show that their opinions of the entire
show, the entire series, even, suffered as a result.

Two things to remember, that can help:  First of all, the fact that the
show could affect you that strongly means that it was ultimately pretty well
written and powerfully presented; your original faith and pleasure in the
show really was warranted.  Secondly, and probably the greatest relief for
me, is to really understand that the ending we saw was never intended to be
the ultimate conclusion of the series; it was always intended to be a
cliff-hanger ending for the season, only, in the same way that the first
season ended with Coop being shot.  (I'd give my eye teeth for the
writers' bible for the first, second, and most especially the *third*
seasons.)
-- -larryy@apple.com "You wouldn't recognize a *subtle plan* if it painted itself purple, and danced naked upon a harpsichord, singing, 'Subtle Plans are Here Again'." - Edmund Blackadder