Subject: Re: Audrey is Dead (Was: Re: Who is Donna's
From: kbays@bluemoon.rn.com (Ken Bays)
Date: 1992-06-01, 09:11
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

bvickers@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers) writes:

> > Well, given the fact that Pete was standing right in front of the
> > blast, and Audrey was several yards away from it, what makes you
> > think Pete survived while Audrey bit it?
> > 
> > Personally, I think that if the series continued, they'd both have
> > remained alive -- maybe crippled, maybe missing a limb or two.  But
> > who knows?
> > 
 
Reading this discussion made me think of something.  It doesn't answer 
whether or not Audrey is dead, though.  Remember that David Lynch directed 
the final episode (did he write it too?  Even if not, as director he has 
the power to change the script, right?)  It is a well-known fact that 
politically, Lynch is very right-wing.  Audrey was practicing civil 
disobedience, and doing it for the sake of the environment (the Pine 
Weasel and all that).  This is something that the stereotypical 
right-winger would probably not care for.  Maybe Lynch is saying that 
had Audrey not staged her protest, she wouldn't have been anywhere near 
the bank and would have survived.  I doubt he meant anything serious by 
it, but this may have some part in the inspiration for the bank scene.
 

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