Subject: Maybe BOB isn't such a bad guy after all
From: Makey@Snoopy.Logicon.COM (Jeff Makey)
Date: 1990-11-27, 13:26
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <N1JTVQH@cs.swarthmore.edu> pouncy@campus.swarthmore.edu writes:
> >Just when it looks as if BOB has to 
> >be Leland, we wonder whether Lynch/Frost have something much more
> >interesting in store - BOB as a more ambiguous creature, more 
> >skillfully connected to other evils in the town.

After reviewing Maddy's death scene and others, I get the impression
that BOB is not the killer we think he is.  Particularly, I noticed
that it was always Leland who actually inflicted pain on Maddy, while
it was always BOB who did pleasurable things like kiss her.

Remember the old Star Trek episode where the transporter malfunctions
and Captain Kirk is split into *twins*, one good and one evil?  Kirk
the complete man could keep things under control, but not when he is
split up.  I think Leland's story is similar, except that the split is
along the lines of pleasure/pain rather than good/evil (and Leland
does not split into two physical bodies, obviously).  Much of the time
Leland is a complete man and behaves relatively normally, but watch
out when he splits into Leland/BOB!

I think BOB is a wild but basically fun kind of guy.  It's too bad
that the nasty side of Leland is always nearby, ready to turn BOB's
fun into tragedy.

Pre-emptive strikes:

(1) In Cooper's dream with the dwarf, BOB says he will kill again, but
    that's just because it is the nature of that dream that characters
    appear as their "other" selves (e.g., the one-armed man is Mike, not
    Phillip).  BOB is just Cooper's dream representation of Leland.

(2) We don't know what BOB was pounding on in Ronnette's vision of the
    train car, and we don't know whether BOB's final scream in that
    scene was one of anguish or triumph.

(3) During Maddy's death scene, Leland changed into BOB in the middle
    of a punch to Maddy's abdomen.  I do not consider that an act of
    violence on BOB's part, since BOB did not initiate it.

                           :: Jeff Makey

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