The then-ABC president disagreed with co-creator David Lynch over whether to reveal the show's fundamental mystery.
The meddling studio executive has existed since the dawn of the moving image. Art vs. commerce has been and always will be an endless battle. One of the most known examples of a studio ruining a great thing because they need to make more money — or, even worse, because they seem to know better than the people who actually make TV and movies — is the battle David Lynch had over Twin Peaks.
Lynch, and his co-creator, Mark Frost, understood that. They never wanted to reveal Laura's killer, but at the very least wanted Twin Peaks to end with audiences finding it out. To be honest, any writer with a modicum of understanding of how stories work, and how they should be structured, understands that. The man who did not was Bob Iger. Iger has been in the studio business his entire adult life. Now CEO of Disney, he was named head of ABC Entertainment in 1989.
Unsurprisingly, this caused ratings to plummet. In The Ride of a Lifetime, Iger even said, "After that, the storytelling became a mess. There was no engine propelling the story after the mystery was resolved." The back half of Twin Peaks Season 2 is a mess, and even die-hard fans will admit that. It has no direction, because the show no longer had a reason to go on.
Twin Peaks would make a comeback with Twin Peaks: The Return in 2017, with Lynch and a returning Mark Frost once again dismantling and reassembling the idea of what television could be. It is an absolute masterpiece, and a testament to what can happen when you allow someone to have a vision and execute it.
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