Subject: Re: The Owls still are what they seem! Dumb giant.
From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Date: 1990-12-06, 12:26
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

>> >>The giant said he would give the ring back after his three statements
>> >>were shown to be true.  What is there in this episode that satisfied
>> >>this condition?  I don't see how Cooper has any notion of why the owls
>> >>are not what they seem.
> >
> >Didn't you see the episode where Major Briggs showed Cooper the nifty
> >little printout with the words "/THE/OWLS/ARE/NOT/WHAT/THEY/SEEM/"
> >written on it?  This was the event to which the giant was referring.

Absolutely right!  People seem to be misunderstanding the Giant's
prophecies.  The Giant was predicting things that Cooper might NOTICE in
the coming days, so that Cooper would believe in the Giant's ability to
foretell stuff.  He was not guaranteeing Cooper complete understanding
of all the issues.

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[1] "There's a man in a smiling bag."  Fulfilled when Cooper saw Jacques
Renault's body.  Cooper repeated the words.

[2] "The owls are not what they seem."  Fulfilled when Cooper read the
printout from Major Briggs.  Cooper repeated the words.

[3] "Without chemicals, he points."  Fulfilled when Cooper and Truman
interrogated the One Armed Man.  Denied the blue drug (chemical), Gerard
yielded to MIKE; when shown the police sketch of BOB, MIKE reached out
and emphatically pointed at the picture (close up shot of Gerard's fist
and finger slapping down onto the table).  Cooper did not repeat the
words at that time.  Just possibly the prophecy refers to MIKE's
identification of BOB rather than that particular gesture, although the
other predictions are pretty concrete.  Either way, fulfilled.

[4] "Leo locked inside a hungry horse."  Fulfilled the next day when
Hawk tells Cooper Leo was in jail in Hungry Horse MT the night Teresa
Banks was killed.  I think Cooper repeated the words, but I'm not sure.

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I don't know why the predictions were given in that order.  Some of them
appear to advance the case materially, while others seem fairly trivial.

One, about the owls, predicts Cooper being told about something we still
don't really understand, although it looks like the time's coming.

Let's hope we're in for a quality upgrade soon, so we can enjoy
some of these mysteries instead of glossing over them.

-- Canada -- a few acres of snow. ^v^v^ Tom Neff -- Voltaire v^v^v tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM