Subject: Re: More impressions!
From: halcyon!hikaru@sumax.seattleu.edu (Richard Barrett)
Date: 1990-12-05, 17:25
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

alternat@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Ann Hodgins) writes:

> > In article <16095@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
>> > >The moment that really made me smile: Major Briggs arriving on cue with
>> > >the Room Service Waiter.  I love the character of the Major and I get a
>> > >tremendous kick out of the strength Don Davis brings to him.  On some
>> > >level the Log Lady doesn't make much sense, but the Major is perfect at
>> > >all levels.  His utterly mysterious high-tech assignment ("Dad... what
>> > >do you DO?" yields, with perfectly gentle equanimity, "Son, that's
>> > >classified") somehow leaves him wide open to the world of spirit and
>> > >fate.  And he has visibly grown in two seasons, rather than merely
>> > >flopping around like some of the younger people.
>> > >
> > I'm afraid the Major will die soon - his dream seemed to be a forshadowing
> > of his own death. Hope not, I really like him, pompous and banal as he
> > is. He has warmth and I think he truly has wisdom too. For instance he
> > considered himself *privileged* to give the old waiter a ride, he
> > seemed to see it as a honour done to him by the old man, not vice versa.

Those of you who hate "diary-based theories" hit N now...



I agree that either Bobby, the Major (Don Davis - is this the same Don 
Davis that did the paintings in _Cosmos_?), or Bobby's mother will die 
soon. In the diary, Bobby shoots a guy point blank in the heart, and 
Laura later has a dream where the man comes back to life, and says to 
Bobby: "You had better watch yourself. Murder is just a way of shaking 
hands with Death, and saying `What's mine, is yours.' Eventually Death 
comes looking for you, or a friend, or a relative." (okay, not an exact 
quote, but I don't want to run upstairs and grab my copy) 
Dreams appear to have great accuracy in this show, so I wouldn't be 
surprised if this has some significance as well.

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