Subject: Re: Ooooh! What a beginning!
From: gln@cs.arizona.edu (Gary Newell)
Date: 1990-10-04, 13:28
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <22093@spudge.UUCP>, johnm@spudge.UUCP (John Munsch) writes:
> > 1:  Ronette is clearly the one who has seen his (Bob's) body and is now ready
> > to talk.  Her grisly flashback at the end seems to me to kill the idea that
> > Bob could be anything other than a real live person.  No alternate
> > personalities or other nonsense, he's real.

Huh? How can anyone say this based on the final scene? Did that look like
some kind of real-time sensible sequence of actions to you? Looked clearly
like an attempt to throw a number of visions/views of a number of moments
and ideas to me. The continued flashing back and forth between Laura and
'BOB' seemed like a clear attempt to equate the two IMHO. If some yahoo
that we know nothing about is the actual killer then this show is a joke -
"Here look for clues and try to figure out who the killer is - but whoops
it doesn't matter because we're going to throw a meaningless character in
for you that you could not possibly have known about". If it turns out to be
some sort of bullsh*t alien/parallell world storyline then they can kiss
my interest goodbye - why watch a show like this if they can throw in
*anything* they like under the guise of 'it is an alternate reality"???
I'd like to think that the clue about 'only one has seen his body' or
whatever it was - is a clear indication that only Ronnette has seen the
true embodiment of BOB - Laura. Hell, Cooper and Mrs. Palmer have both
'seen' the image of BOB that we saw in Ronnette's vision - why would
it be so damned important that he was not actually physically present?
I really think the key to that 'clue' is that only Ronnette knows that
Laura IS BOB, and those images we saw were the symbolic representation
of that from the mind of a drugged up, badly beaten young woman. 

As to who tied her up? Could be anyone who came along and fought BOB off
of Ronnette - my guess is either Donna's old man or Leland but it could
be anyone.

Whether or not this is even close to correct, I only hope that they avoid the
ridiculous possible endings of an unknown psycho or some screwy magical
world scenario.

gln