David Lynch, television and Twin Peaks
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- October
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David Lynch is a god.
I say a god, and not a God, as he’s more like a deity in the Greek or Roman sense of the word. A being superior to mortal man, but prone to mischief, occasionally fallible and, sometimes, just completely incomprehensible.
He came down from Mount Olympus this week to give an interview to Entertainment Weekly. The occasion? The release of Twin Peaks: The Definitive Gold Box Edition.
The set includes the pilot (not previously available in the same set as the first season, due to legal wrangling beyond my capacity to understand  or care, honestly), Season 1 and Season 2. It’s 10 discs and has the alternate ending to the pilot (which I saw on a DVD of the version of the pilot that was released as a feature film overseas and is totally, utterly creepy and great), deleted scenes, commentaries and documentaries.
Lynch tells EW that ABC basically killed the show by making him reveal who killed Laura Palmer far earlier than he’d planned. The original plan was to do it at the end of the series, even if that took 10 years.
Like I was saying before, the question of what happened to Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) was the goose that laid the golden egg. Then ABC asked us to snip the goose’s head off, and it killed the goose. And there went everything. It was never meant to be  there was so much more to the mystery….
Would he do TV again?
No. I’d go onto the Internet, because Internet is the new TV.
He doesn’t even watch any TV, though he was happy to hear that Laura Palmer’s dad, Ray Wise, had landed a role as the Devil, on Reaper.
Ray can play the very, very good side and the very, very bad side of people.
That, I’d say, is a perfect description of Wise’s depiction of Lucifer these days.
Now excuse me while I go out to the store to buy Twin Peaks. (The finale of the series finale had my college roommates and I huddled together on our sofa, screaming. It was just that good.)
October 1 Associated Press photo by Vincent Kessler.ÂÂ
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