Fair enough. Even if the mystery of Laura's killer wouldn't have been resolved when it was, I still say the show would be better off going in numerous other directions - I mean, why create that vast landscape of bizarre characters and that underlying mythology somehow connecting them all if you don't mean to explore it thoroughly beyond that initial cataclysmic event. We already had this discussion once before and I specifically told you then that I get Lynch's original plan to use what happened to Laura as the soil from which other mysteries will grow (ie. I know that what he meant by "continuing the story" was not beginning, dealing with and concluding one "case", so to speak, and then proceeding to another and so on and so on, in some mechanic, Murder, She Wrote-kind of fashion). And what I'm suggesting now with the possibility of further seasons is not that all that went on before (with Laura and Cooper) should simply be discarded and forgotten just so we can have "the next sensation of the month" to gloat over - why can't its past concerns still be very relevant, "hovering in the background", as you aptly put it, while the show is taking us down new avenues with some of the same and some different characters?LostInTheMovies wrote: Depends what you mean by "expanding the initial premise." Lynch has been quite explicit, over and over again, about Laura's ongoing mystery being necessary to sustain the story, even if it was hovering in the background.
My argument's really not that hard to understand: I'm simply saying that, YES, Lynch didn't like the show's latter direction, but he still WANTED TO PROCEED WITH IT.Because his show had been cancelled. Of course he was embittered. Why does this preclude him ALSO being bitter about the post-Laura direction of the show? Is it not at all significant to you that he blamed "it croak[ing] when it did" specifically ON "where the show went after the Palmer thing was resolved"?
I'm having trouble following your train of thought here, frankly. It's 100% established fact that Lynch does not like the direction the show took after the mystery ended. Do I really have to dig up the dozens of quotes to that effect to prove my point? C'mon.
That, btw, brings us to a couple of interesting questions/matters/points of discussion, so I'll allow myself a digression: 1) I don't remember ever being satisfyingly explained once and for all what was it that drove Lynch out of the TP orbit when it was alive and spinning, when he still had some power to take the series in the direction he felt was right, even if the suits have forced the killer's revelation out of him? People keep saying he was "off filming Wild at Heart", but the chronology really doesn't add up, 'cause Wild at Heart premiered after the S 1 had concluded and before S 2 had even begun. So there had to be other reasons for his fallout in that crucial time when the show he helped to create needed him the most. 2) Lynch's wishes for the show to continue past S 2 imply that he was feeling strongly that the story needs to go on, even with its major mystery basically done and over with and even in that time's decidedly auteur-inhospitable TV landscape. That means he was (once again?) willing to engage in the show's day-to-day logistics even if "his" show was botched and the suits have dragged his creative vision through the mud. How he'll salvage the wreck that the majority of fans seems to think the show became in its latter stages I guess we'll get to see, but what will forever remain a mystery is just how Lynch was planning to handle that day's network limitations that damaged the show once before - and they were still in full swing when S 3 would originally air.
Yeah. And so was the show's continuation basically a "wishful thinking" of some of us isolated fan nutcases for friggin' decades prior to 2014 - I could find you a number of quotes even on this message board of diehards saying TP is better off "finished" as it is and not risking its reputation as this one-off wonder being tarnished. And look where we are now ... And I'm really not seeing any fan petitions demanding of Lynch and Frost to leave well alone, so that fans could have their perfect bubble of a show preserved as it is for all eternity.What's clear is that it's incredibly important to Lynch to have direct control and direct involvement with Twin Peaks, and that it's very important to both Lynch and Frost to stick to a specific narrative trajectory without committing themselves to an ongoing show beyond that trajectory. If they can come up with material for new seasons that fits into those concerns, then perhaps we'll see more. If they can't, then we won't. Everything else is basically wishful thinking.
