Subject: Re: Creamed Corn From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith) Date: 1991-08-15, 07:43 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks Reply-to: erics@infoserv.com In article <9292@umd5.umd.edu>, jblum@umd5.umd.edu (Jon Blum) writes: > > In article <8754@cactus.org> kate@cactus.org (Katherine M. Catmull) writes: >> > > >> > >The kid with the creamed corn. "J'ai une ame solitaire," with the >> > >'s' lisped so it sounded like "sholitaire." >> > > >> > >What the heck ever happened to that thread, anyway? Besides the quote >> > >being in that crazy guy's suicide note? > > > > ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! I had a feeling the kid would turn up in the finale > > (which, after all, his dad directed), but they've left him hanging. I have > > a feeling the producers decided to forget as much of the unexplained threads > > surrounding Laura Palmer as they could, and hope the viewers could do the > > same... :) Yes, the Creamed Corn Kid appeared back when you thought *everything* in the show was connected to the main storyline and part of a well thought out, intricate plot sequence. Later it became obvious that not only was this not true but that several sequences like this one just went nowhere and seemed to be placed in the show only for their weirdness value. ----- Eric Smith | "We must welcome the future, remembering that erics@sco.com | soon it will be the past; and we must respect erics@infoserv.com | the past, remembering that once it was all CI$: 70262,3610 | that was humanly possible." -- George Santayana