Subject: RE: The of Twin Peaks in NZ and more...
From: nick@tornado.welly.gen.nz (Nick Borrell)
Date: 1991-08-02, 00:37
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Hey, Peakie Dudes...

I see someone has already written to the a.t.tp to tell you that
the station playing TP has decided to drop it because of "poor
ratings". :-{

TP has (had) a larger following here than you might suspect.  At
Wellington University a large group of devout Lynch followers
have viewed every accessible movie, or publication, ever made by,
or associated, with Mark Frost or David Lych.  The Monty Python
Club, on campus, have assumed responsibility for debating TP
related matters.  My last holiday job was made especially
enjoyable, because a majority of us followed each episode
religously.
When the pilot was shown here, one the city's pubs had a special
TP evening and showed the pilot on big screen TV.  It was just
after the second episode that TV3 announced that TP's ratings had
dropped to a dismal 7% of the viewing audience (With a total
population of about 3.4 mil, possibly upto 238,000 people were
watching).  8/2/91 - I see the figure 94000 being bounced around
now.
 
TV ratings seem to be an american disease, that only really
recently have been adopted here.  With the advent of our THIRD
national TV station (30% owned by NBC) the networks (as they like
to call themselves) compete very aggresively for audience
attention.  Unfortunately for TV3, because it has the weakest
signal coverage (cable is only just arriving! (Yeah, yeah. I know
it sounds third world.)).  Its programmes have to be
exceptionally good.  Even more unfortunate for TV3, is the sad
fact that their programmers just don't seem to be able to buy
and/or air the programmes we Kiwis want to see (I think they
might all be NBC executives who would otherwise have been sent
to Siberia).  And when they do get the right progs, like TP, they
screw it up by canning them early.  Rather self-destructive, I
think.

Mais, c'est la gare.

Anyhow, I honestly didn't write just to moan at everyone and
everything, I promised my little sister that I'd mention
something on the newsgroup for her. 

The Doors movie with Kyle came out here not so long ago, I loved
it so much (the music I mean) that I went started to collect some
of their albums.  Now, I play their greatest hits every time the
computer goes on, (viz: all the time), and it wasn't long before
I found myseld thinking of TP everytime I heard songs like: The
End and Riders on the Storm (essentially all the tracks).  At
first, I thought that I was just associating Kyle with Ray
Mazerick.  BUT, one day I mentioned this fact to my little
sister, and she said that she also thought of TP everytime she
heard The Doors' songs.  The interesting thing is: She hasn't
seen the movie, so she hasn't had the opportunity to
subconciouslessly connect Kyle and Ray (oohhh, errr...sounds a
bit rude!) :-)

Wow man, freaky!

I think it may be the powerful imagery that they both have in
common.  I may be wrong. 

My sister wanted to draw your (and my) attention to their common
"use of sight and sound [that] revert us to a part of the mind
(possibly memory, esp. ex-tokers!) that we feel we would rather
be.  This is some sort of "dream land" we would find ideal to get
away to..."

She maybe wrong, too.


But, I would especially like to see someone else's opinion about
this.


While I'm here...

When TV3 was showing TP they aired the second season straight
after the first.  So down here, at least, noticed very distinct
differences in the characters, especially in Cooper, and
differences in direction/production, in at least the first few
episodes.  Anyone with all the episodes on tape notice that?


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Anyone, anywhere...

-Please, don't be shy about replying-, it doesn't cost anymore
to reply to NZ than it does to the US :-)


Nick Borrell, Wellington, New Zealand.