Subject: Re: More impressions!
From: tim@muvms3.bitnet (Tim Calvert)
Date: 1990-12-05, 09:38
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <16095@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
> > 
> >If that spoiler about Cooper and Truman saying goodbye is true, and if
> >we sensibly assume MacLachlan outlasts Ontkean, then I'm not too
> >shocked.  Truman's importance in TWIN PEAKS has seldom been much more
> >than symbolic from the word go; lately he has dwindled to near
> >invisibility.  Guess they've been writing him out gracefully.  It's kind
> >of a shame; I'll miss his face.  He was wasted as a foil for Cooper's
> >stoic Aquarianisms; I hope he gets lots of good work now.


Why take this at face value. Every TV-Guide-type listing I've seen for TP
was at least a little misleading. For example, the one for 12/1 said something
like "Andy's French amazes Donna." We all know how that turned out. I don't
think it was Andy's expertise with the French language that amazed Donna. :-)
It also said something about Cooper requesting 24 hours to solve WKLP. While
that wasn't in any way untrue, it gave the impression that he wouldn't solve
it until the 12/8 epsiode.

So these TV listings seem to me to be "pink herrings" in that they don't
necessarily mean what they say. How about this idea: Cooper and Truman
say goodbye but then something happens to prevent the one that was going
to leave from actually going. Maybe? (I also offer as evidence the 
previously-posted interview with Frost (I think) where he said something
like "Cooper's going to try to leave Twin Peaks, but FBI internal
investigations concerning his two trips to OEJ keep him there."


On another subject, my recollection of the BOB leaves Leland event was
that BOB was still there when the sprinklers went on. At least it seemed
to me that Leland was still acting like BOB (snarling and screaming), and
remember it was just before the sprinklers came on that Cooper, et al, out
in the corridor heard Leland/BOB reciting (make that shouting) the "Fire 
walk with me" poem from inside the cell. And when the sprinklers came on,
Leland looked up at them snarled, grinned evilly, howled a little and then
"headed" for the door. :-) At least, that's how my frequently-faulty memory
recalls it. Anyone agree?

Tim