Subject: Sarah Palmer? From: rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (Richard L. Carreiro) Date: 1990-11-11, 02:03 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks Spoilers A couple of things confusing me.... 1) what was the deal with Sarah Palmer? Did Leland beat her up and she came down after him? Or was he in bed and then got up, and she wanted to know what the hell was happening? I'm sure she didn;t go through all that just to turn off the phonograph. :-) 2) why do so many people think Sarah is dead/near death? She seems unharmed (for now, anyways). I thought she passed out from the effort of crawling down the stairs and generic psychic trauma. And I think Maddy'll turn up dead, but I'm not sure why, unless Leland finishes her. Granted I've never been beaten up by a possessed man, but none of what he did to her struck me as fatal, though granted she might bleed to death (also, if he cracked one of her ribs while punching her, that could do some serious internal damage). 3) Is the smell that Maddy mentions a manifestation of BOB, or is something really burning? 4) when Leland was "dancing" with Maddy and crying, was it BOB or Leland doing that? 5) devil's advocate - all the episode really told us is that BOB killed Laura (and that's by inference) and that Leland/BOB tried (succeeded?) to kill Maddy. Did Leland (or his body, anyways) kill Laura? Did he kill Theresa Banks? Why didn't BOB kill Ronette in the hospital when he stuck the letter under her nail? 6) There's one shot of Maddy screaming, with blood in her mouth that brought to mind the shot of Laura screaming from the 2nd season opener. Neat job. 7) Is Leland oblivious to BOB? BOB certainly seems to be able to know what Leland is doing ("Leland says you're going back to Missoula, MONTANA!" ). Ah, well - don't go crazy analyzing these - I'm just curious as to what people thing and how their ideas match up to mine... Those above aren't so much "ack! I have to know!" questions as they are "what are my fellow netters thinking." I don't view TP as something to analyze frame-by-frame, nor to discuss cinemetography and other esoteric points. I like TP mainly because (moreso than most current shows) it gives the viewers something to talk about afterwards. Whether the talk is insightful or banal is somewhat irrelevant - it's something to talk about. That it's usually interesting is an added plus. Other stuff... They almost had me thinking Ben did it, especially when he took so long to answer Audrey's question. Was the Log Lady in on Coop's vision, or did time stop for her, too? It'll be interesting to see what they do with Ray Wise (Leland). I can't see how they can keep him in the show. Granted, they could have Coop taking the rest of the season to realize about Leland, but I hope that doesn't happen, as it'd be a real piss-off. I figure they'll just have to write Leland out (and killing off Sarah and Maddy would indeed be a good way of disposing with the entire Palmer family (in the Twin Peaks area, anyways) in one fell swoop). Poor Big Ed - "kiss you to death" indeed. I still think Nadine will figure into one of the BOB or Hank plots, eventually. And what of the Log Lady's husband...... -- Rich Carreiro The "War on Drugs" ARPA: rlcarr@athena.mit.edu is merely a smokescreen for UUCP: ...!mit-eddie!mit-athena!rlcarr The War on the Constitution BITNET: rlcarr@athena.mit.edu JITTLOV FOREVER!