Subject: RS: things to answer From: bobg+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Steven Glickstein) Date: 1991-04-13, 17:47 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks This is an attempt to identify the important things that a really sexy Grand Unified Theory of Twin Peaks would have to address (not only address, but hopefully tie together in an elegant fashion). At the moment I'm offering no answers, only a possible set of things to be answered. A path is formed by laying one stone at a time... The questions raised here are in no particular order. Who is BOB? Who is the Giant? Who is MIKE (and where is he)? What happened to Josie, including her missing body weight? What did BOB have to do with Josie's death? If Josie's spirit is still around, then are the spirits of other recently deceased people (esp. Laura) still around? What are the owls? Why did BOB start appearing to Laura? Was he always (ever?) in Leland during those visits? Why did BOB kill Laura? (I don't buy what BOB told us in 2009.) Why did BOB kill Theresa Banks? What happened forty years ago? Is there a link between "forty years ago" and the music that Leland/BOB danced to? What is the significance of wood? Why did Cooper dream about Tibet? What does the LMFAP signify? (Cooper wasn't entirely on the mark when he drew the easy parallel between Leland and LMFAP.) What does Twin Peaks have to do with Project Blue Book? What is the effect of Halperidol? Why was Josie sad at the beginning of episode 1000? Beside the fact that it just happened to precede her death, what did the events at Jacques' cabin have to do with BOB killing Laura? (Cooper's dream led the way to the cabin; it had to have more significance.) How did Ronette's IV turn blue? How and why did she wind up with a fingernail letter? Why was BOB spelling ROBERT (in an apparently random order)? Laura's clinical cause of death was blood loss. She survived the Waldo attack to meet BOB at the train car. Did something besides his pounding kill her? Laura had come to some sort of decision before she died. What had she resolved? To confront BOB? To sacrifice herself? Whatever she decided, did she succeed or fail? What does BOB have to do with what happened in Pittsburgh? What is the connection between Laura and Cooper? She dreamed about him; does this mean the connection is stronger somehow than simply, "he's the investigator of her murder"? Who and what is Harold Smith? Who and what are the Tremonds? Was there something supernatural about the shadowed figure in the woods with Leo, and if so, did Leo know about it? The hooded figure from 2019: related to the figure in the woods with Leo? How about the figure that appeared when Briggs vanished? What is the nature of Lana's power over men? What is the full meaning of MIKE's poem? What is it about Twin Peaks that things like a high-school prostitution ring can exist? Is it just the normal underbelly of rural America, or is there some evil that permeates the whole town, a la "It" or "The Tommyknockers"? What ritual occurred in the traincar? What is the significance of the "Ghostwood" project? What "possessed" (ha-ha) Ben to call it Ghostwood? Who attacked Dr. Jacoby by the gazebo (Leland, right?) and why (jollies? I don't think so...)? What's special about Cooper, Briggs, and Margaret, vis a vis their ability to commune with the supernatural? What, exactly, is the charter of the Bookhouse Boys (something about protecting Twin Peaks from the evil in the woods...)? What event precipitated its formation; when, and by whom? Why do BOB and the Giant not resemble their hosts, but MIKE is only ever seen in Philip Gerard? Cooper asks the Giant, "Where do you come from?" and the Giant responds, "The question is, where have you gone?" Does this imply that Cooper himself is transported elsewhere during his visions (as opposed to his visions coming to him). What was the white horse in Sarah's vision? Why did Donna want Laura's sunglasses? What explains the change in her personality between 1007 and 2001? What is Benjamin's role in the evil that permeates Twin Peaks? Why is BOB accompanied by the smell of scorched engine oil? Is there any meaning behind Harriet's poem (I saw Laura glowing...)? After the Giant vanishes for the second time, a bright bit of SFX flashes into Cooper's body. What about it? Ronette recalls Laura's murder in the traincar. She sees BOB in the recollection, not Leland. Why, and how? Cooper tells Albert "You'd be amazed at the connection between [Twin Peaks and Tibet]". What did he mean? Where is Pearl Lakes in relation to Twin Peaks, and how does it tie in to the mystery? I've got to knock off for now, but please add to this list if you can think of anything. Meanwhile, I have a notion that ties together a couple of things. Cooper and Caroline Earle were in love in Pittsburgh; Caroline was murdered by BOB. Some time later, Caroline's disembodied spirit entered Laura Palmer and acted subliminally to lend Laura strength to face her problems. It was around this time that she quit One-Eyed Jack's, started dating James, and quit coke. Caroline's spirit enabled her to understand BOB (because Caroline had previous experience with him?) and gave her the courage to confront BOB. Caroline (in Laura) has the red-curtain dream because of her affinity to Cooper. BOB identifies Caroline's spirit in Laura and kills Laura to get rid of Caroline (again). Caroline's spirit will (has?) finally find (found?) Cooper again via Annie. More to come from the mind of Bobg. ______________ _____________________________ Bob Glickstein | Internet: bobg@andrew.cmu.edu Information Technology Center | Bitnet: bobg%andrew@cmuccvma.bitnet Carnegie Mellon University | UUCP: ...!harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!bobg Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 | (412) 268-6743 | Sinners can repent, but stupid is forever