The All Important Ending…
Has there ever been anything so contentious as the ending of all-time TV great Twin Peaks?
David Lynch has really got it in the neck over the years for his handling of film endings; not only that, of course—fans have united, split into separate factions and protested about the meaning of his films to the point where finding the meaning is virtually impossible. Would we have been truly happy if everything was cut and dry in Twin Peaks? I doubt it. Having the ending on a plate would be a bit like reading a book which included detailed pictures of those all-important moments: we’d loose the mystery, and in doing so would have entirely missed the point.
Then there’s this: should Twin Peaks be re-made?
Much as I love it, I don’t think it should be, however many people get behind the cause—we all know that just because a million people think something (shell-suits) it doesn’t mean a thing. Personally speaking I have fond memories which I’d rather were left untarnished; I don’t want to see new faces acting out the old, or new dialogue replacing magical moments. And the ending, really, isn’t that important, is it? Because if we had that then there’d be something else that we’d want changing: it’d just go on and on forever, becoming something new, changing constantly, until eventually becoming something unrecognizable. And that wouldn’t be David Lynch then, would it? It’d be David Lynch listening to exactly what everyone thought, and if he’d have done that with
then it might have ended up as predictable and rubbish as any C.G.I. nonsense we see at the box office every week.