Subject: Re: comments on 9/30 premiere
From: bmay@chips.com (Brad May)
Date: 1990-10-02, 10:36
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: bmay@news.UUCP (Brad May)

In article <460@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> sherman@math.ucla.edu (William Sherman) writes:
> >-) Yes, Jacques' death IS being investigated.  Cooper and Truman asked
> >Jacoby whether he saw anything.  No, but he smelled engine oil.  Anybody
> >know why Leland should smell like a service station?

Big Ed ids the one who smells like a service station, but no he isn't a 
suspect because Nadine went to the hospital the same evening Jacques was 
killed, Nadine and Jacoby are both in the intensive care section, and Ed 
has been at the hospital all night with Nadine (probably pacing the halls 
and walking past Jacoby's room).  Jacoby was too sedated to know the exact 
time sequence events anyway.
> >
> >-) IMHO, the outline on the rug which Maddy saw was shaped like a body
> >wrapped in plastic.  It was lying on its left side, feet on the lower
> >right hand corner of the screen.  But then again, it's a Rorschach test,
> >and you will probably see something else.

The "ink blot" looked to me like the carpet burning.  I had a flash that this 
is fire trying to break through the carpet, just as BOB is trying to break 
into Madiliene's psyche and take control over her.  This is why she is so 
frightened by this objectively very obscure image; she is reacting in horror 
not to the image, but to BOB attacking her mind.  The fire is just a manifes-
tation of BOB.  The scorched carpet does not break into open flame--Maddy 
has retained control from BOB for the moment.

Maybe the burning carpet is an allusion to the opening sequence of Bonanza ;-)

-brad@chips.com