Subject: Re: Lynch's Touch
From: jerrett@iastate.edu (Gregory A Jerrett)
Date: 1992-06-28, 18:03
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1992Jun23.085131.1@cubldr.colorado.edu> crago_l@cubldr.colorado.edu writes:
> >I have to say I thought "On The Air" was really stupid. Most of the
> >sight gags were terribly corny, the heavy accent of the producer was
> >not particularly amusing, and on the whole the level of the humor
> >was about junior-high.
> >
> >But, Oh! You could spot it as Lynch's work just by the way the
> >shots were framed, the lighting, studied stupidity of the stupid
> >characters, etc. I guess what intriegues me so much is that Lynch's
> >special touch is composed of all these facets, but no one of them --
> >it's almost intangible.  
> >
> >Fascinating!

I agree.  I got over my everything David Lynch touches turns to gold
stage somewhere around episode 5, season 2 of Twin Peaks, as 90% of the show
turned to crap! If Cooper or Bob weren't in it, I didn't give a shit.
Who can really say that they cared about the whole James-on-the-road thread?
Or the Ben Horne-turns-environmentalist plot line?

We all knew that Lynch had a thing for the fifties, so On The Air wasn't
a great surprise to me, and the content was dull as dirt. The only thing
I liked about the pilot was when that guy had his suspenders caught in the 
cupboard and tried to run, etc. That was pretty funny, but not funny enough
to warrant wasting a Saturday night in front of the TV.

I think Lynch should stick to movies for a while and leave TV to the hacks.
Twin Peaks  was a phenomenon that ended rather dismally, but it made history
by jolting us out of our everyday-ness, and that was enough.

Why spoil it with more crap?