Subject: Re: Uncle Leland From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Date: 1990-11-25, 16:41 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article <1990Nov25.055848.22598@alembic.acs.com> csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack) writes: > >In article <16048@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes: >> >>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. Why? I don't need to chase after negative evidence here -- I'm the one wielding Occam's Razor. Having BOB change hosts is just an unnecessary multiplication of hypotheses. It's not necessary for BOB to inhabit anyone but Leland in order to explain anything we've seen in the show or the Diary. Some people seem to want to throw in this host-changing idea just so they don't have to give up their favorite Andy/Truman/Nadine-did-it theories! That's not good enough. We have not seen MIKE change hosts, nor have we seen BOB change hosts. It's just an unsupported conjecture. > >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. Let's look at that again. Laura herself talks about playing with BOB, seeing him etc -- if she was *hosting* BOB it doesn't look like she'd be able to see him. The other hosts seem completely transformed and oblivious to their possessors' actions. Those diary entries are more consistent with BOB being in someone other than Laura herself. Now the entries where BOB himself is talking had to have been written by someone with *access* to the diary. (Remember the early entry where Laura says she knows someone else is reading the diary.) The prime suspects for access would be members of Laura's own household. Like, for instance, Leland, who can obviously go anywhere he wants in the house and has plenty of opportunity to get at the diary. Asking Harold Smith to take the diary, then, would be a way of getting it out of Leland's reach while keeping it within her own. In exchange, Harold gets the vicarious thrill of absorbing Laura's seamy story... a fateful bargain for him. Here's some food for thought. Only two people have mentioned BOB by name in the series/Diary. One is MIKE; the other is Laura. MIKE was "touched by the devilish one" but "saw the face of God" and apparently saved himself at the cost of an arm, thereafter becoming BOB's sworn enemy. Laura liked to "play with BOB" and ultimately seemed to be welcoming her own death -- perhaps as the sacrifice that would save her as MIKE saved himself? However, MIKE seems to be inhabiting the otherwise mortal Gerard, with MIKE being the one who actually detects BOB; did Laura have a spirit side, or was she 'damned' and thus able to see him? A lot of tough questions remaining out there.