Subject: TP - Giant
From: alternat@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Ann Hodgins)
Date: 1990-11-22, 06:27
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,alt.tv.twin-peaks

In a previous post the giant was equated with the 
collective, group feeling, unity, the collective
unconscious.  Perhaps then it is a 
appropriate that he appears to Cooper who seems generally
well attuned to the people around him, and that he appears
in the Roadhouse where people come to gather, like a church.
 
It is touching that even though Maddy was a stranger, not of
the town, know to few,  and even though she is attacked in secret,
far from help, the other people of the town still feel
a loss.
 
One of the reasons for switching back and forth from the isolation
of the Palmer home to the group safety of the Roadhouse is to show
the connection between the two.
 
In the most recent episode, when Maddy's death comes to light 
(consciousness) Cooper suddenly seems tall, almost a giant.
When he receives the phone call, his head almost seems to touch the
ceiling. To me this indicates that he is now in full
possession of the collective knowledge and also that now he is free
to put his full resources to work. Truman will not hold him back or
prevent him from using his full intuitive ability.
 
ann hodgins