Subject: What is "Twin Peaks-ish" and why the 2nd season wasn't From: hafken@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (David Hafken) Date: 1991-07-23, 12:48 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article <23JUL91.18412171@skycat.usask.ca> friesenda@skycat.usask.ca writes: > > > >Personally, I liked Gordon, or should I say I LIKED GORDON. I found his I really liked Gordon too, and I'm surprised more people didn't. Gordon was wierd. And his thing with Shelly was even wierder. And it fit right in to the feel of the first season. I think what qualifies something as "Twin-Peaks-ish" is something very strange or wierd or out of the ordinary, yet still connecting somehow with reality, causing us to gain a new perspective on reality. This, in my opinion, was what Twin Peaks was all about. For example, Cooper is a perfect "Twin-Peaksish representative. He is certainly quirky, yet he sees everything in a new and fresh way, allowing us to do the same. The second season failed to capture this "magic," because most of the plots were wierd just to be wierd, it seems, and as we have all seen, that is not enough. What was the point to the super-human and amnesiac Nadine going out with Mike? Or the Little Nicky/Andy/Lucy/paternity mess? Or any one of the previously mentioned wierd episodes that filled time in the second season? Now, in the case of the Gordon/Shelly thing, I liked it alot because by being so strange and improbable, it was also very romantic in a very unconventional way. And I thought that was cool. Dave