Subject: Re: Conjectures and Questions (Twin Peaks)
From: bgingric@Intrepid.ECE.UKans.EDU (Barry Gingrich)
Date: 1990-05-24, 08:00
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks,rec.arts.tv

In article <0aKyOly00WBLI0voUc@andrew.cmu.edu> bl0r+@andrew.cmu.edu (Barton Lipman) writes:
> >1.  Agent Cooper is alive.  It's not obvious which cheap trick will be
> >used to justify this -- probably a bullet proof vest.  Reasoning:  The
> >show is a goner without him.

Why is this a cheap trick?  Sheesh...if I thought I might catch
some bullets while working undercover, I'd sure as heck want a
flak jacket.  Cooper is always well prepared...though he *did*
leave the earplugs behind.  

> >2.  Jacques is probably dead.  Reasoning:  Why keep him around?  He was
> >always a minor character.  This way, they don't have anyone to tell them
> >more information.  Also, it seems too silly to have him live after
> >the monitor seems to indicate he's dead.

Agreed.  First Waldo, then Jacques, now Leo.  And, before that,
Laura and Ronette.  I think that means that everybody in the cabin
that night has been injured or killed.  Except maybe that "third man".
 
> >4.  Nadine could well be dead.  Reasoning:  She wasn't that interesting
> >a character to begin with.  With her out of the way, the interaction
> >between Ed, Hank, and Norma becomes more interesting.

No, I think Nadine lives.  Ed's dilemma is that he still feels something
for Nadine, even if it is mostly obligation.  The interaction between
Ed, Hank, and Norma becomes more interesting, maybe, but the characterizations
would narrow.  Plus, for all her odd behavior, Nadine's actually one
of the "purely good" characters.  We need her to balance out the evil ones.

> >4.  A wild shot:  When Ben finds Audrey at One-Eyed Jack's, he reveals
> >that the same thing happened to Leland (i.e., he found Laura there in
> >a similar way).

Perhaps not such a wild shot after all.  This is a pretty good hypothesis.
Guess we'll have to wait and see.
-- "Shut your eyes and you'll burst into flames" - Barry gingrich%tisl@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu OR bgingric@Intrepid.ECE.UKans.EDU