Subject: Re: Re: 12/1 episode questions...(Europeans avoid due to spoilers)
From: kck@g.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Karl Kluge)
Date: 1990-12-04, 16:49
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

> > From: grega@hpcuhd.HP.COM (Number 6)
> >
Subject: Re: 12/1 episode queastions and analysis?
> >
> > Another thing along this line that bothers me is why Coop says that the
> > police picked up Ben AFTER Maddie was killed.  We saw those events happen
> > in the opposite order.  I guess screening order don't mean beens to this
> > show.

I was initially bothered by this, but if I remember that episode correctly
the Log Lady comes into the jail just as they're taking Ben down to the
holding cell, and given the error bars involved in estimating time of death
it isn't outrageous that they might make an hour plus error.

On the whole, it was nice that we finally got closure with respect to 
various issues. Leland was Bob's host the night Laura was killed;
Leland appears to have been Bob's only host, although he doesn't
seem to be in Leland at all times ("When he was inside I didn't
know, and when he was gone I didn't remember." "*Leland tells me*
you're going to Misoula -- MONTANA!"). (BTW, I thought it was clear
from what Bob said that he left Leland before Leland killed himself.
He just chose, as a parting gift, to let Leland know the things he
had done while Bob was in him.)

On the other hand, I tend to agree that the writing was awful. Albert
was out of character in every scene he appeared in, the scenes between
James and Donna were dreck, and the drawing room scene seemed cheap
and shoddy given that Coop should have been able to catch Leland using
purely mundane clues and methods (in particular, the bus station lie).
Also, the praise for tying things in from the dream (the gum, for instance)
seems odd. What, then, are we to make of the dwarf saying that Laura was
his cousin if the dwarf was supposed to be Leland? It seemed more 
retrofitting than anything else. Also, given that there wasn't much of 
a case against Ben if his blood didn't match the blood on the towel
and note, why the hell was he so concerned about getting Catherine's
testimony? 

Karl Kluge (kck@g.cs.cmu.edu)