Subject: TP: There, *now* are you convinced?
From: broehl@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Bernie Roehl)
Date: 1990-11-04, 09:52
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,alt.tv.twin-peaks

So the remaining question is, who's BOB inhabiting now?

Whoever it is, they're currently at the Great Northern.  Several possibilities:

Benjamin- I don't think he'd *let* anybody possess him!
Jonathan- Ditto!
Andy- my guess is he's out chasing Lucy
Myst. Asian- Possibly, but I doubt it
Senor Drool Cup- an interesting choice, but unlikely
Leland- the front-runner, I suspect

Leland stole a bit of fur from the model bear in Ben's office at the Great
Northern.  Why?

Some asides...

Interesting how Cole said something to the effect of "If you give
him the drug now, you'll never see the other side".  Cole of course meant
"the other side of Phillip Gerard's dual personality", but "the other side"
turned out to be something quite different.

The word definitely seems to be "chants" rather than "chance"... confirmation
from closed-caption viewers would be appreciated.

When MIKE describes BOB as his "familiar", that might have the well-known
meaning of a magician's "familiar" (e.g. a cat (or owl?)), or the more
mundane (and Elizabethan?) meaning of "someone I hang out with".

Do writers of different series talk to each other?  On Friday night
we had Sam and Al doing a duet on Quantum Leap, and on Saturday we're
treated to Ben and Leland.  Wonder if Al and Bud will do a softshoe on
Married With Children this Sunday...?

BOB was inhabiting Laura, and now he's moved on to someone else.  Perhaps
the letters under the nails are a forwarding address?  (1/2 :-)

In reference to who can see BOB's "true face"... MIKE looks at Cooper when
he says "the gifted", and straight at *us* when he says "the damned".
Interesting.

Speaking of "true faces" and who can see them (to say nothing of "through
the darkness of future past" and the time-travel aspects of Cooper's dream),
I wonder if Lynch/Frost are Quantum Leap fans.  (What does BOB see when he
looks in the mirror? :-)

Earlier I compared Phillip Gerard's possession in the washroom stall to
Harold Smith's reaction to being outdoors.  I will now draw a similar
comparison between Gerard's possession in the police station and Nadine's
(apparent) possession in her hospital bed.  (I know, you've seen one
convulsion you've seen them all, but still... head goes back, body starts
shaking, torso heaves forward; when it passes, a different person is in
control).

All in all, an interesting episode... the plot thickens.

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