Subject: Re: Lynch's Touch
From: sstark@Ingres.COM (Scott Stark)
Date: 1992-06-29, 14:35
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <ed.709627798@odin> ed@odin.unomaha.edu (Ed Stastny) writes:
> >
>> >>I have to agree, though I still found the show worth watching.  There
>> >>is some nice imaginative energy there, though it's still burdened 
>> >>with what I see as the Lynch and Lynch-Frost cop-out maxim:  If you 
>> >>can't be creative, be weird.
> >
> >And that ISN'T being creative?  "Weird" is most definately in the eye of
> >the beholder...and personally, I like the "weird" tangents and
> >arbitrarity of Lynch/Frost.  I think it's creative....they made a show
> >out of it, didn't they?  

Well, I think "weird" can be creative, when it opens up into a rich
myriad of maybes, stimulates the imagination, adds interesting 
tangents, gives a new perspective, and that all happens a lot in
Lynch's work... but then sometimes I feel he's just being weird
because he's run out of ideas.

- Scott