Subject: Re: Where's Bob?
From: horny@ucscl.UCSC.EDU (Michael Kaye)
Date: 1990-12-05, 13:05
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks,rec.arts.tv

In article <1990Dec4.155139.27471@watserv1.waterloo.edu> alternat@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Ann Hodgins) writes:
> >In article <59542@microsoft.UUCP> jeffhi@microsoft.UUCP (Jeff HINSCH) writes:
>> >>I'm willing to bet large denominations of $$ on 
>> >>this premise: Bob was an actual rat at the end
>> >>of the show (I think his presence went down the
>> >>drain behind Leland's head and inhabited a rat),
>> >>and the owl we saw was attacking the rat.  Did
>> >>you see how the camera's perspective ran through
>> >>the ditch past small drain pipes and a branch?
>> >>
> >Well Jeff, despite the fact that it is in competition with mine, I like
> >this theory a lot. [...] The perspective was like that of a small animal [...]
> >Also, I noticed in the previous episode the picture over Audrey's shoulder
> >as she was talking with Cooper in his room. It seemed to show flying
> >creatures grabbing smaller creatures in their talons. I thought
> >it was either of owls and rabbits or kingfishers and fish.
> >I assumed that the owl in the final scene was Bob grabbing a soul but as you
> >say it could be another owl-spirit grabbing Bob.

I really like Jeff's idea too!  Here's my own thinking.

I agree that the perspective was of a rat, running through a ditch or sewer.
The rat is representative of BOB's host, Leland.

Kind of symbolic, metaphorical.
BOB=owl
BOB possessed victim= rat
owls prey on rats.   
BOB's host is in BOB's grasp.  
Rats are in Owl's grasp, as seen in the painting Ann Hodgins mentions above.

This rat imagery is not new!  It's in the diary.
(for those who think the diary is innacurate, I think you are wrong,
and you can skip the rest of this message)

I've mentioned this page before, when claiming that Laura wanted to die.

page 48.  Take a look if you have a copy.

Laura dreams she is attacked by a big rat that wants to take her foot off.
She takes the foot off herself.

The dream suggests as strongly as can be that the rat is representative
of Leland/BOB.

On page 50 she again mentions rats, and again implies that rat= BOB's 
possessed human host.


So what are we seeing at the end of the last show?   We see a rat,
scurrying into a bright light.  Leland was entering a bright light,
so that fits.  We see an owl, diving for prey.  I think BOB is about 
to prey on a new victim , find a new host to grasp in his claws, a new rat.


Next victim? Probably Leo.  Why?  He's least able to resist, most likely
to want to invite him in.

Michael Kaye   horny@ucscb.ucsc.edu