--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > > wrote: > > > > <snip> > > > > > How they'll end everything and explain it all > > > > > away is still a mystery. My hope is that they'll > > > > > be cool enough not to bow to pressure from the > > > > > rationalists in the audience and NEVER explain > > > > > it. That would enable the show to go down in TV > > > > > history, as opposed to being just a curiosity. > > > > > > > > "Twin Peaks" was there first, actually. > > > > > > Yup, and only 23 years after "The Prisoner." :-) > > > > "The Prisoner" was canceled after only a dozen or so > > episodes. "Twin Peaks" ran for three years. > > And was a ghastly exercise in self indulgence > for all three of them.
No, not the first season. It did deteriorate in the second and third seasons. Whereas "The Prisoner" > had wit and style and some semblance of coherence. So did "Twin Peaks," at least in the first season, plus it had an extraordinary degree of emotional honesty from the actors, which couldn't have been easy given the over-the-top nuttiness of the characters. If you can't appreciate over-the-top when it's done well, though, I can see why you wouldn't have liked it. > But that's all just opinion and preference. I tend > to prefer good writing and acting and plotting and > for you the fact that a TMer was associated with > a film or TV series seems to be enough. :-) Uh, no, sorry. "Twin Peaks" (at least in the first season) had good writing and acting and plotting and superb direction. But I don't think I even knew Lynch was a TMer back then. In any case, when a TMer does something neat, I'm pleased, but an artist just being a TMer isn't enough to *make* something neat, as far as I'm concerned. I mean, "Bridges of Madison County"?? > By the way, did you actually *watch* "Twin Peaks," > or are you doing another "Apocalypto" number? :-) First season regularly, second and third seasons, when it ceased to be satisfying, not so regularly. (And note that I'm actually *reviewing* "Twin Peaks." I wasn't reviewing "Apocalypto," as you know.) > > In any case, "Lost" isn't unique in leaving the > > mystery/ies unsolved. > > Uh...you seem to have forgotten how to read as well. > It is not even clear that "Lost" WILL leave things > unexplained. In my post I was only expressing my > hope that it will. Won't be unique it if doesn't.
