Comments on: David Lynch and the Fallacy of Answering http://cheekandbluster.com/2007/02/26/david-lynch-and-the-fallacy-of-answering/ Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:30:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: OutOfContext http://cheekandbluster.com/2007/02/26/david-lynch-and-the-fallacy-of-answering/comment-page-1/#comment-3855 OutOfContext Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:56:55 +0000 http://cheekandbluster.com/index.php/2007/02/26/david-lynch-and-the-fallacy-of-answering/#comment-3855 <i>Mark Frost and I had this idea. The way we pitched this thing was as a murder mystery but the murder mystery was to eventually become the background story. Then there would be the middle ground of all of the characters we stay with for the series. and the foreground would be the main characters that particular week: the ones we’d deal with in detail. We’re not going to solve the murder for a long time. This they did not like. They did not like that and they forced us to, you know, get to Laura’s killer. It wasn’t really all their fault. People just got the bug into them that they wanted to know who killed Laura Palmer. Calling out for it. And one thing led to another, and the pressure was just so great that the murder mystery couldn’t be just a background thing any more. The progress towards it, but never getting there, was what made us know all the people in Twin Peaks: how they all surrounded Laura and intermingled. All the mysteries. But it wasn’t meant to be. It just couldn’t happen that way. The yearning was too intense. But the mystery was the magical ingredient. It would have made Twin Peaks live longer.</i> Lynch on Lynch (p. 180) Mark Frost and I had this idea. The way we pitched this thing was as a murder mystery but the murder mystery was to eventually become the background story. Then there would be the middle ground of all of the characters we stay with for the series. and the foreground would be the main characters that particular week: the ones we’d deal with in detail. We’re not going to solve the murder for a long time.
This they did not like. They did not like that and they forced us to, you know, get to Laura’s killer. It wasn’t really all their fault. People just got the bug into them that they wanted to know who killed Laura Palmer. Calling out for it. And one thing led to another, and the pressure was just so great that the murder mystery couldn’t be just a background thing any more. The progress towards it, but never getting there, was what made us know all the people in Twin Peaks: how they all surrounded Laura and intermingled. All the mysteries. But it wasn’t meant to be. It just couldn’t happen that way. The yearning was too intense. But the mystery was the magical ingredient. It would have made Twin Peaks live longer.

Lynch on Lynch (p. 180)

]]> By: Derek http://cheekandbluster.com/2007/02/26/david-lynch-and-the-fallacy-of-answering/comment-page-1/#comment-3852 Derek Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:40:59 +0000 http://cheekandbluster.com/index.php/2007/02/26/david-lynch-and-the-fallacy-of-answering/#comment-3852 Exactly, and <em>Columbo</em> made no bones about sticking to that framework. With <em>Peaks</em>, on the other hand, ABC grafted an Answer onto it as the endpiece to a framework that the series never had. Still, both shows succeeded best because of their, ahem, "whydunnit" emphasis. Exactly, and Columbo made no bones about sticking to that framework. With Peaks, on the other hand, ABC grafted an Answer onto it as the endpiece to a framework that the series never had.

Still, both shows succeeded best because of their, ahem, “whydunnit” emphasis.

]]> By: OutOfContext http://cheekandbluster.com/2007/02/26/david-lynch-and-the-fallacy-of-answering/comment-page-1/#comment-3851 OutOfContext Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:43:59 +0000 http://cheekandbluster.com/index.php/2007/02/26/david-lynch-and-the-fallacy-of-answering/#comment-3851 Lynch most definitely did not want to solve the murder but was forced to by ABC. I'll drop by later and post a pertinent quote from a book of interviews I have of Lynch. He really wants the viewer to connect the dots, participate in the work, or play if you will. When I watch something by Lynch I treat it like music, which is an experience and not an equation. As Alan Watts said about life, it's a dance and you don't dance to arrive at a specific point at the end of the song. Having said that, my favorite mystery series on tv was Columbo and the solution to the murder is given at the beginning of the show and the fun is derived from watching Columbo solve the case and get the confession. Lynch most definitely did not want to solve the murder but was forced to by ABC. I’ll drop by later and post a pertinent quote from a book of interviews I have of Lynch. He really wants the viewer to connect the dots, participate in the work, or play if you will. When I watch something by Lynch I treat it like music, which is an experience and not an equation. As Alan Watts said about life, it’s a dance and you don’t dance to arrive at a specific point at the end of the song.
Having said that, my favorite mystery series on tv was Columbo and the solution to the murder is given at the beginning of the show and the fun is derived from watching Columbo solve the case and get the confession.

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