Subject: Re: Handling of the END!
From: gal502@csc.anu.edu.au
Date: 1991-09-20, 19:25
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <9560@umd5.umd.edu>, jblum@umd5.umd.edu (Jon Blum) writes:
> > In article <1991Sep10.195529.1@csc.anu.edu.au> gal502@csc.anu.edu.au writes:
>> >>be destroyed. I think what he had in mind was an interesting start to a third
>> >>series, without the problems that occured at the start of series 2, with Bob
>> >>dead and no reason for Cooper to remain.But no third series has eventuated as
>> >>yet.
> > 
> > Where exactly are you posting from?  In America the first series ended with
> > Cooper getting shot, and the BOB / Who Killed Laura Palmer plot ended
> > nine episodes into the second.  Maybe the break was different overseas.

  I am posting from Australia, where TP was shown as a single season. I 
have only recently discovered this newsgroup and thought that the second
season began after Leland's death. I stand, or sit corrected.

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>> >>        As for the rest of the final episode, I enjoyed it a lot, especially
>> >>with DL back in the directorial chair. I thought Kyle seemed to enjoy the role
>> >>of the evil Cooper, but I can't blame him, since Cooper has been such a zero
>> >>for so long! (This line is meant to provoke)
> > 
> > If you're looking for argument, you probably won't get it from me.  It's
> > been hashed out for a long time here that the brilliant deductive genius
> > from the early episodes completely lost it in the middle of season two.
> > All we can argue about is when the brain-rot set in -- my guess would
> > put it immediately after he got shot, when he stopped looking for hard
> > evidence and started relying on the drug-induced ramblings of the one-
> > armed man...
> > 
>> >> I hope this posts OK. This is my first attempt at contributing to news.
>> >>     Graeme Lindsell. 
> > 
> > Welcome aboard.

  I was shocked at Cooper's response to Windam Earl. An FBI agent, faced with a
serial killer of known appearance, who knows the killer is in the area, and
what does he do? Does he organise massive searches of the forest and the town?
Are there pictures of WE all over the town with "Have You Seen This Man"
written on them? Does he call in another 50 agents to help capture this
blot on the Bureau's copybook? No, he gets himself a new girlfriend! 
  I wonder if Cooper's mental degeneration may result from his association with 
the Giant? Senor Droolcup's idiocy may not be entirely accidental. Of course
the real reason is that the original Cooper would have solved all of TP's
mysteries in about 5 episodes. Still it doesn't excuse  the dissappearance of
the wonderfully interesting Coop of the pilot and his replacement by the FBI's
answer to Shirley Maclaine!

 But you're right - this has probably been thrashed to death: I just couldn't
help posting about it. This is the tragedy of the new news addict.

        Gal502@csc1.anu.edu.au    a.k.a Graeme Lindsell.