What makes David Lynch’s internet content exciting and differentiates it from aspects of his cinematic production is that the material that is surfacing is unknown : we have no idea what to expect, primarily because the material on Lynch’s website has not received wide exposure or coverage in various magazine articles or television programmes dedicated to reviewing cinematic releases. David Lynch can keep his cards close to his chest right up to the moment he posts his work into cyberspace. These necessary tactics keep his productions fresh and stimulating and returns the sense of awe and wonderment an audience must have felt when discovering Eraserhead for the first time 27 years ago.

Part of the pleasure derived from watching Rabbits is in trying to determine the trajectory the series will take in terms of its non linear narrative and plot devices. Perhaps we will see shifts of perspective from each individual character, or maybe an episode dedicated solely to the Red Rabbit. Maybe Lynch will take the viewer outside of the Rabbits living quarters to witness occurrences that may taper back into the storyline. There is a possibility that we may get to see who or what Jane is watching from the comfort of the sofa and so on. All of these questions remain hypothetical conjecture ; and we will have to wait and be patient to discover answers if Lynch provides them within this perplexing hall of mirrors. For the moment Lynch is certainly delivering the goods in terms of food for thought and entertainment.

Rabbits contains all the hallmarks of quality we have come to expect from Lynch : it has a beautiful sound design, a wonderful painterly composition of imagery, exquisite cinematography, playful dialogue, resonating motifs and purposeful nuanced direction. In all likelihood Rabbits will end like much of Lynch’s work with more questions than answers, but in trying to discover those answers, we take a journey into the deepest recesses of our souls and to Mr Lynch we should be very grateful for that. Cyberspace like the cinema can provide an audience with a pleasurable framework not only for entertainment but also a place to project and reflect deeper issues and concerns onto. Into this mix, we can only speculate on the ideas and techniques Lynch will employ to facilitate and push forwards his idiosyncratic visions on the relatively new medium of the Internet. This is an exciting time to jump onboard www.davidlynch.com but for the moment it looks like Rabbits will run and run.

1) Eric Bassett, the website’s managing consultant, has been positive and effusive in regard to the growing number of visitors to the site : "We get about 750,000 hits a day and the servers are doing great," said Bassett in an interview with 4d.com ( www.4d.com/community/davidlynch.html). In another interview with Forbes.com by G. Beato on the 10.07.02 he had this to say: "Right now we just want to fly under the radar […] Eventually, small guys like us are going to prove that you can make money doing this, and once that happens, the studios are going to come in here with all their talent and try to blow us away." (From www.forbes.com ) 2) This is the description that David Lynch gives of Dumbland : “It’s going to be very crude, but sophisticatedly crude. (…) It’s very dumb and it’s very bad quality.” (from http://www.dtheatre.com/read.php?sid=826) 3) In an interview with Wrapped In Plastic (issue # 58, page 14 and 15), Eric Bassett, the website’s managing consultant, did say "That is going to be when you’re really going to get a lot for your money. I read the script for Axxon N. , and it's incredible." 4) Scott Coffey is also a writer and a director. His 16 minute short Ellie Parker (2001) about a day in the life of an Australian actress (Naomi Watts in the title role) trying to survive in Hollywood features many people who are associated with David Lynch in one form or another : Gaye Pope(formally Lynch’s executive assistant and publicist, she is also Scott Coffey’s mother), Jennifer Syme (previously a receptionist at Lynch’s company Asymmetrical who died in April 2001 in a car crash - she also appeared as Teddie’s girlfriend in Lost Highway) and Johanna Ray (Lynch’s casting director).