Twin Peaks - Wkp:

Twin Peaks started life as an offbeat project for David Lynch and Mark Frost. They filmed the pilot with an agreement with ABC that they would shoot an additional 'ending' to it so it could be sold directly to video in Europe as a feature if the TV show was not picked up. ah so that must be what I watched w rg (@ julia's house). I remember being confused ~ bcs it was the pilot but there was resolution I had never seen and how could it be in the pilot? to the Laura story, with ~ candles and a basement & Bob the long-haired tech guy who got in the shot earlier which I had seen (when watched season 1 dvds that david gave to jaime for xmas in seattle) but I had not seen Bob in a basement with candles.
so that must have been the additional ending. that made a feature movie out of it, for sale in Europe. (did it sell as a feature in Europe? no, since the tv show was picked up? I guess ABC wanted the feature possibility as a financial back-up -- it would have been theirs to sell.)

so Twin Peaks was on ABC. that does seem remarkable. I asked Jaime what the big deal was, she said it's so weird ~ creepy. and it is cool, but I can see that it would esp make an impression as television fare

The first season contained only eight episodes (including the pilot episode) and was considered technically and artistically revolutionary for television at the time, working hard as it did to reach the standards set by film. It has been said that Twin Peaks started the accomplished cinematography now commonplace in today's television dramas. cool...

I was thinking about Twin Peaks bcs thinking "Who killed Lily Kane?" recalling Laura Palmer.

During the first season it was the search for Laura Palmer's killer that drove the show and caught the public's imagination, although the creators admitted this was a macguffin designed to keep the audience coming back for more. Each episode was really about the townsfolk and the sinister underbelly of the seemingly idyllic town.