Subject: Re: Renault's speech
From: dja1@backyard.picst.bellcore.com (Dave Arlington)
Date: 1991-01-23, 11:11
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

|> 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.

     I found this message to be very insightful, just like Jean Renault's
speech, but everyone seems to pooh-pooh it with the fact that many events
(BOB being around for years, triangles that don't involve Cooper) either
precede Cooper's arrival or are not incident to his arrival.

     HOWEVER, how about this? What if all of Twin Peaks, it's history, its
events, etc. are all simply a nightmare of Cooper's that he is having. Perhaps
he never recovered from whatever incident happened in Pittsburgh and he is
locked in an insane asylumn there? When I first thought of this, catalysed
by Jean's speech (another moment as creepy on TV as you'll see), a lot of
things seem to make sense.

     Cooper's obsession with dreams and visions; science, supernatural, and
the real all mish-moshed together like they are in dreams; maybe the wacky
agent is Cooper and Wyndham Earl really was the one who stayed sane, Cooper's
dream could twist this around; Jean's sppech is his subconscious trying to
break through; BOB (Cooper's enemy) is the evil in Cooper's sick mind, the 
evil he alone must vanquish to become sane again; and so on. I'm sure others
could find more correlations to this theory. And we all know it wouldn't be
outside Lynch's ground rules. (Ooops, one more I have to add; Albert is
that cold unreasoning voice that says all the things our conscience would
never let us say, as much as we would want to...)

                                    Dave Arlington