Subject: Re: SK's "Golden Years" gets strange?
From: freds@twinpeaks.TANDEM.COM (Fred Sabernick)
Date: 1991-08-09, 08:36
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <91221.082935SASTPH@vm.sas.com>, SASTPH@vm.sas.com (Tim
Hunter) writes:
|> Well, I guess Big Steve and his "Golden Years" colleagues have been noticing
|> that nobody's watching the show.  Last night's episode surely cranked up the
|> strangeness level, didn't it?  Our hero's eyes turn green and the sun rises
|> again!  He sets foot on ground only to cause an earthquake!  I would
say that
|> this kind of plotting would go head-to-head with anything Messrs. Lynch and
|> Frost ever came up with for "Twin Peaks."
|> 
|> Now the question is, will the producers wimp out?  Everytime I see a little
|> evidence that somebody in TV-land is bold enough to go for real fantasy, I
|> tune in to the next episode and they tell me it was all a dream or
something.
|> Remember how promising TP was, along about episode three, only to have it
|> degrade into cheap soap-opera a few weeks later?

Couldn`t agree with you more. I for one am sorry to see the plot go from nice
little government conspiracy versus average guy drama to a full blown S-F
epic. I was enjoying the little bit of S-F that was thrown in to complicate
the relationships of Harlan, Gina, and Terry. 

On the other hand, I sure was thrown for a loop when the sun *reversed*
itself. Remember they were driving *west* to Chicago and he (the truck
driver) sees the sun *rise* in front of him.

I just hope "Golden Years" ends this summer without any cliffhangers.

Fred Sabernick
fcs@everest.tandem.com