Subject: Re: In The Darkness Of Future Past...
From: bskendig@der.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Date: 1990-12-05, 16:31
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <12331@milton.u.washington.edu> jespah@milton.u.washington.edu (Kathleen Hunt) writes:
> >From: alternat@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Ann Hodgins)
> >*There is a shot of Bob under the sprinklers shouting with arms outstretched.
> >*Then the head banging starts. I think it is Bob killing his host.
> >
> >By the way, BOB was shouting the "darkness of future past" speech.  Anyone
> >else get the impression that this isn't just a bit of poetry, but is a
> >potent chant that BOB *had* to say in order to leave the host?

No, I got the distinct feeling that Lynch had decided to have BOB
recite the poem sometime there in that hour, and he figured that the
scene in the jail cell would be the best place to put it.

It was too forced -- it felt like Mike knew he had to say it, and he
just wanted to get it over with conveniently.  I got no sense of
failure, or triumph, or wvil in it; he just shouted it.

Woulda been nice if BOB had recited a different speech after the poem
than he did in Cooper's dream.  "I will kill again!"  He did, after he
told Cooper that.  I don't think he killed Leland; I think Leland died
of his own overwhelming grief more than by bashing his head in.

::sigh:: Just another point against a thoroughly trite episode.  Lynch
drew it out for about twenty hours -- he expected to be able to pull
everything together satisfactorily in just one?  It was a nice try,
but it didn't work.

And what about the convenience store they lived above?

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