Subject: Re: Renault's speech
From: burns@sparkle.uucp (John Burns)
Date: 1991-01-22, 15:34
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: burns@das.harvard.edu (John Burns)

In article <1991Jan22.152531.15193@cs.cmu.edu> webb@CS.CMU.EDU (Jon Webb) writes:
> >I consider Jean Renault's speech to Cooper, just before he died, to be
> >extremely significant.  He said, before Cooper arrived in Twin Peaks,
> >everything was quiet.  Now that he is here, everything has changed.  I
> >think that this relates Renault's activities (which have been
> >conventionally criminal) to the mystical things going on in Twin Peaks. 
> >I think that Cooper is driving events in Twin Peaks somehow; his
> >spiritual force is perhaps activating the various evil things in the
> >woods, and turning a quiet conflict between good and somnolent evil into
> >an active confrontation.

Hogwash.  Many of the things happening in Twin Peaks, especially in the
first season, had little to do with Cooper.  Laura's murder was what drew
him there in the first place.  Leo killed Bernard Renault over their drug
dealings.  Although Cooper was at the Bernard's interrogation by the
Bookhouse Boys, they had already caught him before bringing in Cooper.  The
whole Shelley/Leo/Ben/Catherine/Hank/Josie fire thing and the
Josie/Catherine/Andrew/Eckhart storyline evolved independently as well.

It makes a lot more sense to say that Cooper is drawn to Twin Peaks by the
presence of evil than the other way around.  I have to agree that he won't
get out of Twin Peaks, but it's because the whole show revolves around him.
He looks like a better Ghostbuster than FBI agent anyway.

John A. Burns (burns@das.harvard.edu, Burns@huche1.bitnet)
"Laura calls me in the middle of the night/
 Passes on her painful information"             -Billy Joel