Subject: Re: Twin Peaks - Season Finale - Everybody dies and we all go home.
From: bobg+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Steven Glickstein)
Date: 1990-05-24, 06:08
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks,rec.arts.tv

boyajian@ruby.dec.com (Cisco's Buddy) writes:
> > I'm not convinced the Heavy Breather is Leland. It's not clear to me that
> > Leland would have any reason to attack Jacoby.

Who else *would* have a reason to attack Jacoby?  I can't think of
anyone at all, unless the Leland-as-outraged-father-of-exploited-girl
theory is correct, and Leland believes that Jacoby is the exploiter (a
conclusion he may have jumped to when he thought Jacoby was
clandestinely meeting Madeleine).

> > HB *may* have just been a
> > random skulker in the park waiting to beat up someone, and Jacoby was handy.
> > But maybe not.

Uh huh.  Yeah.  Right.  Give the screenwriters some credit for not
jerking around millions of fans.

> > The problem I had with that shot (so to speak) is that there was *no*
> > visible impact force from the bullets throwing Cooper back. This would,
> > of course, happen whether Coop had a flak jacket or not. I'm willing to
> > give them artistic license for this, though.

Actually, when in a movie you see someone get shot and consequently
get thrown backwards from the force of impact, *that's* the artistic
license.  From what I understand (this is *not* firsthand experience),
a shooting victim generally collapses in place or even falls *forward*
rather than getting thrown backwards.  (I'll let you all know for sure
about this when I shoot David Lynch :-).

Anyway, think about it.  You've got a tiny slug of metal penetrating a
small area of the victim's body.  Granted, it's traveling at extremely
high speed when it hits, but its mass is so low that, off the top of
my head, the force of impact is probably comparable to getting beaned
by a line drive.  If you've ever been beaned by a line drive, you know
that it can *really smart*, but it doesn't hurl you backwards.

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