Subject: Re: Uncle Leland
From: csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack)
Date: 1990-11-24, 21:58
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <16048@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
> >In article <1990Nov19.235343.7937@alembic.acs.com> csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack) writes:
>> >>There is, of course, another explanation (there are five explanations for
>> >>everything.) BOB wants Leland to get caught. Leland then goes to prison/
>> >>the chair/the psycho ward, and BOB moves on to another host to continue
>> >>his games, leaving everyone who knew and respected Leland a bit emptier.
> >
> >There is STILL no evidence that BOB can or does change hosts.  Leland is
> >the only host we've seen BOB associated with.  Basing an explanation of
> >Leland's seemingly cavalier behavior on such a questionable assumption
> >seems risky.

Please cite the evidence suggesting that BOB *can't* change hosts.
(I'm not saying there isn't any - I missed one episode, the one where
MIKE is revealed.) As far as I know, the only reason to suspect that
Leland has been BOB for a long time is the assertion in the diary
that Laura has been enduring BOB at least since she was twelve and 
the assumption that Leland has been abusing her, therefore Leland
must be BOB. (I don't regard Leland's assertion that he knew BOB
when he was a child as meaningful, since the statement may have come
from BOB himself to mislead Truman and Cooper. You think BOB can't
lie?)

On the other hand, the diary strongly suggests that Laura was BOB -
his entries in the diary in the middle of hers. Maybe Leland reached
over her shoulder and wrote that stuff in without her noticing? Nah.

-- Dave Mack