that's the question i'm asking here. i'd say yes. especially a young leland from way before fwwm, where everything is still flowing smoothly and gently the direction he wants it to. with all that "intellectual" and "dark mystery" and "art" tags floating around the show. pondering that question has also given me a new approach on the origin of hurley-bashing. when watching the show and thinking about young leland's view, everything regarding hurley becomes really a boring blank spot.

btw, i had once the thought that kafka wanted to have his stuff burned / not reprinted because he would have answered the question with yes, too. that's where my question comes from originally, but yesterday, i thought, that question could fit lynch's stuff, too, since in my opinion both like to depict illusionary states of consciousness. well, many do that, but with both, kafka and lynch, the rate at which someone enters the stuff and says "btw, what we have here seems to be sort of an illusionary state of consciousness" is pretty low (though perhaps kafka and lynch don't have a common reason for this low rate).

 twin peaks, illusionary state of consciousness? i think that the twin peaks universe pretty much tries to resemble the insides of a head that's trying to draw the big picture, which i guess is common to youth / young adults (and they may grow older, not having finished their thoughts, so i account them to youths / young adults here, even if they are older), lelands and coopers which haven't entered the white lodge yet. and trying to draw the big picture, in a way, is like an illusionary state of consciousness.

and one could transpose that thought on/to (?) the reception of inland empire, too. the phantom is the centre of attention for only two or three minutes, that was it then; and it is portrayed as an animalic, base and coward fraud, far from sophisticated. he's ugly and cheap, his clothes aren't fancy. also his intentions are narrowed down to "find an opening", desperately trying to find a way into life. that's a big difference to frank booth, lmfap, that bunch from wah with their coin-deals, mystery man and dick laurent and michael j. anderson in his sterile office (md). and the phantom gets killed by a woman (be it in a dream, be it whatever), there's a happy end (at least on the surface). that must be somewhat annoying to a leland, where's that dark secret dwelling ruler of the world?

and my new approach on james hurley-bashing ... it would solve the evelyn-bashing as well, but ... of course, hurley is rather boring as well if you just regard every character of tp as a normal person (i mean those human beings you can meet if for instance you leave your rooms) and not as "types". that hurley rarely does anything. yup.

in case you forgot: would leland palmer get hooked on a tv-series about ...? that's the question i'm asking here. well, but i'm just a bird. need to find some fruit, mainly.