Subject: Re: Creamed Corn
From: jpb@calmasd.Prime.COM (Jan Bielawski)
Date: 1991-08-19, 15:19
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <D2150056.m5yif2@erics.infoserv.com> erics@infoserv.com writes:
<
<In article <9292@umd5.umd.edu>, jblum@umd5.umd.edu (Jon Blum) writes:
<> 
<> 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.

I don't know if this sort of discussion is meaningful.  Keep in mind
that we haven't seen TP as originally intended -- what we saw was just
an end of season cliff hanger.  The fact that no episodes followed has
nothing to do with the "weirdness", it was just the money problem.

Jan Bielawski
Computervision R&D, San Diego
jpb@calmasd.prime.com