Subject: Re: Twin Peaks: Comments/questions on episode 8
From: bobg+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Steven Glickstein)
Date: 1990-10-03, 08:02
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks,rec.arts.tv

Excerpts from netnews.rec.arts.tv: 2-Oct-90 Twin Peaks:
Comments/questi.. Jim Pellmann@rutabaga.Ra (5255)

> > - Did everyone notice Mark Frost playing the TV reporter?

Not everyone, almost certainly, but I did.

> > - In Maddy's dream/vision, did she see blood or fire spreading on the carpet?
> >   Since they cut to a fireplace scene, I would assume it was fire.

I think it was a coffee stain.

> > - What is the significance of the boots found with the cocaine?  Remember when
> >   Leo told Bobby in the woods: "Leo needs a new pair of shoes."

Perhaps the smell of new shoes throws off dope-sniffing dogs?

> > - As pointed out here last week by David Tuttle, we have a serious continuity
> >   error with the AB negative blood type of the third man.  Cooper says it is
> >   neither Laura's, Ronette's, Leo's, nor Jacques', yet in episode 5 when they
> >   are searching Jacques' apartment, Cooper surmises and Doc Hayward confirms
> >   that Jacques' blood type is AB negative.  Could this be the one thing Cooper
> >   forgot (according to the Giant)?  I don't think so.

The thing Cooper forgot is almost certainly the note from Audrey
addressed to "My Secret Agent."  He was about to read it when the phone
rang, then a knock came at the door, and then he was shot.  It was lying
forgotten on the floor beside his bed at the end of Sunday's episode.

> > - When the Giant reappears, he says, "One person saw the third man.  Three
> >   have seen him, yes.  But not his body.  One only, known to you, ready to
> >   talk." It seems clear this is Ronette.  But if she does know who the third
> >   man is, why does her (very disturbing) dream/memory/vision show the same man
> >   (Killer Bob?) as in Cooper's dream, and Sarah's vision?  Why wouldn't she
> >   "see" the real identity of the third man?

Remember, we're still not sure if the concept of a "real identity" even
applies to BOB.

> > And for that matter, was she
> >   reliving the events in the railroad car?  What were the flashes of light?
> >   What was the image of Killer Bob running through a doorway (running through
> >   the hospital doorway at Ronette)?  That whole sequence was very effective and
> >   sent a shiver through my spine.

Ditto.

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