From: georgen@pooky.cs.mun.ca (George Noel)
Subject: TP:FWWM and Euro version of pilot
Summary: let down?
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 06:04:29 GMT

 I just watched the Euro version of the Twin Peaks pilot tonight to get
 hyped up for the movie TP:FWWM being released on Friday.
  
   I liked the extra footage not seen in the original TV pilot but didn't
   like how it was clued up so fast in the movie. Bob didn't appear as
   "chilling" as he was during the series.

   I also re-watched the last episode of the second season and noticed how
   time plays an important role there, in the Euro pilot version and through
   the series overall.. its like at the end of the second season, once Cooper
   enters the Black Lodge time (some aspects of it) goes backwards - for
   instance we see the same dialogue and actions between Bobby, Shelly and
   the Swedish waitress like we did in the origional pilot (ie: "Jumpstarting
   the old man again" - reason why the waitress was late). Also the reference
   in the pilot (Euro) where they show Cooper's "Dream" (though in the Euro
   version it was supposed to be real) to being 25 years later.. Cooper is
   older etc. and how the midget says "The gum you once liked will be coming
   back in style" - like saying some how that the events will happen again or
   that things will reverse.
    
    Another thing, the midget in the Euro pilot introduces the girl as his
    "cousin" whom looks like Laura Palmer. The only other cousin in the
    series was Maddy and it was noted in the series how they used to trade
    places to play tricks on their friends (Laura and Maddy) - wouldn't it
    have been wild if we found out in the movie coming out that it was
    actually Maddy killed and not Laura? But Maddy gets killed in the series
    anyways even if that was Laura. (Maybe it was Laura's Doppleganger that
    got killed and Laura will be released from the Black Lodge in 25 years,
    along with Cooper? Hmm..
     
      One other final note was that the midget in the 25 years later scene
      said where he and the girl (Laura) was from the birds sang and their
      is always music in the air.. Heaven? -> The White Lodge? (Seeing as how
      in the final episode of the second season he says himself and the Giant
      are "One in the same" and I assumed the Giant has been like the "keeper"
      of the White Lodge.
       
	I can't wait to see TP:FWWM on Friday, I say it should do good over
	the first weekend (Honeymoon in Vegas will give it good competition).
	I'm sorry to read that the Laura Palmer death scene is obviously
	toned down.. that was supposed to be the climax of the movie, what
	I would be looking forward to seeing the most and now its cut down? I
	hope they release the whole version when it comes out on video!
	 
	 -=*George*=-
	  
	  P.S. I also got the words to the Fire, walk with me verse..

	   
	   "Through the darkness of future past
	   The magician longs to see
	   One chance out between two worlds,
	   Fire, walk with me!"

From: brian@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Brian Wood)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:40:18 GMT
Subject: Thank you Jim!
Organization: HP Mfg. Test Div., Loveland, CO