Subject: Re: *SNIFF* : ( Why'd nobody tell me TP had a unhappy ending?
From: billm@jpradley.jpr.com (Bill Moss)
Date: 1991-07-30, 21:18
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <55287@apple.Apple.COM> larryy@Apple.COM (Larry Yaeger) writes:
> >
> >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.
> >
PPOSSIBLE SPOILERS IF YOU'VE NOT SEEN THE FINAL EPISODE

Absolutely True! I watched the final episode with a girl I had 
recently broken up with, (kind of a reunion?).  We figured we would
talk afterwards.

We sat for a while in stunned silence.  We talked alittle, but soon
said our good nights.  We each agreed later that we were shaken beyond
words.

I was strongly depressed all week.  I was mildly depressed for several.


> >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....

Also true!  I found myself hating Lynch after this episode.  But then
I hated him during "Eraserhead" as well.


> >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; ....

This may make you feel better, but I think it allows you to deny the
unsettling idea that the end of TP reminds us of:  YOU TOO can 
die, or loose it all, even your soul.  Even if you're one of the
good guys.  Being good, or nice, or even "right" gives you no
protection at all in and of itself. If you screw up, and the
stakes are high enough, you may not get a second shot.

Please, no flames about whether this idea is true or not, 
("tomorrow's always another day..." and all that) the
point is, there's not a man or woman on the planet who is not
afraid that it's true.  There's not a man or woman who doesn't
at least sometimes fear that he or she hasn't ALREADY blown it.

Even Agent Coop can blow it.  And he may not get another chance.  


> >-- 
> >-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

^^^^^^Write me down as another vote for the best quote! Who is this
Blackadder fellow?

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