True, Lynch directed it but (after a check) Frost co-wrote it. I dunno, I always get the urge to defend his contributions to the show cos they seem to get eclipsed by Lynch, since he tends to be the more highly regarded of the pair.
I dunno about the resolving of the mystery; creatively it doesn't make any sense to push into it, but I guess I can understand why it would make executives/marketers nervous. It's interesting to think about how much we take longform/serial television for granted at this point (see for reference: Lost), but back then wasn't it a lot less common outside of soap operas? Add that to stuff like the irregular airings and stuff and you can see why/how too many people got lost in the extended plot. I guess pushing for the resolution was pushing for a more episodic/stand-alone structure, even though it didn't really work out that way.
I have the box but I haven't really combed through a lot of the extras. I watched the whole series in less than a week and kinda got burned out on it and I haven't reinvestigated it yet.
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