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Why didn't "Who Shot Cooper?" become a bigger deal?
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[QUOTE="OneMoreChapter, post: 382, member: 34"] Interesting - and great distinction too. Yeah, the show definitely lost interest in it, almost instantly - and by the time it finally revealed the shooter 23 episodes later it felt like a lot more time had passed and many had probably forgotten it had even happened. I'll change the thread title to remove "in the summer of 1990" as I was also wondering why it didn't become a bigger deal in general, even later on. Like you never hear the phrase the way you still hear "Who Shot JR?"/"Who Killed Laura Palmer?" And yet the reveal of Josie being the shooter does separate it later from the Palmer mystery. [ATTACH type="full" width="495px" height="365.962px" alt="TWIN PEAKS ARCHIVE: Twin Peaks Archive Presents..."]84[/ATTACH] The [I]Dallas[/I] - and even [I]The Simpsons [/I]parody - still remain popular as tv tropes, as does WKLP. Yet this doesn't seem to be remembered much as its own thing - I rarely hear it mentioned or threads discussing it, even within the fandom. It seems people lost interest in it as a plot point just like the show did when it was airing and in retrospect, though of course both the Episode 29 cliffhanger and the show being cancelled - not to mention being considered a possibly unsatisfactory conclusion by many (though I loved Episode 23 and the whole Josie/Bob scene, just felt Josie's reveal came a bit late) all probably overshadowed it. Perhaps it was also a little too dull as well, swallowed up by the other mysteries, and it wasn't actually a parod of the J.R. thing the way [I]The SImpsons[/I] was. At least the drawer pull sequence from the reveal is still popularly remembered and often referred to. Typical Lynch and TP - a drawer pull can overshadow a killer reveal! (Because it was so weird and great - loved it.) [ATTACH type="full" width="393px" height="218.115px" alt="10 Epic TV Moments Ruined By Awful Execution – Page 6"]85[/ATTACH][IMG width="324px" alt="Joan Chen wrote David Lynch a letter in character asking to be in Twin Peaks' return' return"]https://i.giphy.com/jfohCWovSJ3k4.gif[/IMG] (Might be the next thread.) [/QUOTE]
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