Subject: Re: Uncle Leland
From: alternat@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Ann Hodgins)
Date: 1990-11-29, 07:23
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <16062@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
> >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:
We have not seen MIKE change hosts,
> >nor have we seen BOB change hosts.  It's just an unsupported conjecture.
 
       The only evidence I've seen for the host-jumper theory is 
a movie called The Hidden starring Kyle McLachlan as an agent pursuing
a host-hopping alien.  However, there is no real reason to think that Lynch/
Frost are using that plot idea for Twin Peaks.
> >

>> >>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.
 
       I take two possible interpretations from the evidence that BOB 
could intersperse his writing with hers:
1) BOB is *practising*, exercising his ability to control a human and has
been building up control of Laura over several years. By the end, BOB is
able to move in and out of Laura at will. BOB writes "I just wanted to see
what was possible", explaining his interest in Laura.  This would indicate
that BOB has the capability to switch hosts but not easily. He requires
some time and effort to get in and to take control. 
 
2) BOB is nothing more than a figment of Leland's mental illness. All of
Bob's stunts are performed by natural means (if you include ESP as a natural
phenomenon).  Leland has simply been drugging Laura and writing in her diary
while she is unconscious. I conversation could develop that way since Leland
had full access to Laura and her diary and could write a note every time he
saw that she was asleep or unconscious.
 

> >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.

     The diary clearly shows that Laura *did not* like to play with
BOB.  But otherwise your theory that she may have been trying to sacrifice
something of her life to save her soul doesn't contradict the evidence.
At the end of the diary she is clearly headed for a confrontation with
BOB and she says at one point that she thinks one of them will die as a
result of the confrontation. 
 
a.h.