Subject: Re: Cooper was given the solution on a silver platter. (was Re: Major glaring diary discrepancy? (and some MAJOR dissatisfactio
From: p_davis@epik.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis)
Date: 1990-12-06, 10:56
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1443@bbxsda.UUCP>, scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) writes...
> >In article <4520@idunno.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@der.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
>> >>[...]
>> >>"Let's give Cooper back his ring!  Oh, we didn't reveal the owls to him
>> >>  yet?  Well, no time!  Give 'im back the ring!"
>> >>
>> >>Grr.  And I spent _weeks_ painstakingly analyzing about _twenty hours_
>> >>worth of episodes, all for THIS?
> > 
> >I feel the same way.  One thing about the owls though - I got the
> >impression that the Major's computer printout was the fulfillment
> >of the Giant's "owls are not what they seem" prediction.
> >

Simply have the phrase "The owls are not what they seem" is not the same as
having it be true.  If I remember correctly, the giant told Cooper he would get
his ring back when he found "these things to be true."  In my book, the Major's
printout doesn't cut it.

In fact, I interpreted the Major's printout as indicating that he had somehow
stumbled onto the Giant's communications medium, and actually intercepted the
message to/from the Giant.  This was reinforced by the fact that the Major was
the one to bring Senor Drool Cup to the Roadhouse.  There's some kind of
connection between the Major and the Giant.

I agree that the 12/1 episode seemed in a hurry to wrap things up.  My
impression was that Lynch/Frost gave in to pressure from ABC, from viewers, or
whatever to start giving some answers.  Also, many of the things were simply
repeated, and not explained.  We still don't know what the gum is about, or who
the Man From Another Place is.

-pd