Subject: Re: TP - Northern Exposure
From: rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu (R o d Johnson)
Date: 1991-04-18, 10:21
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
In article <16673@chaph.usc.edu> ramos@aludra.usc.edu (Luis Ramos) writes:
> >Of course, there are also other possibilities like Sam (of QL)
> >leaping into TP in one of its episodes.
This has all sorts of possibilities. (Have we talked about this?) I
mean, what is Sam anyway but an inhabiting spirit? I've only watched
QL about four times (don't like it, but my wife does), but in at least
one show there was a little girl who could see Sam. Gifted or damned?
I like the idea of BOB as a renegade leaper, or perhaps someone simply
assigned to to prevent some terrible occurrence from happening, one in
which he has to inhabit Leland for a *long* time. One of the major
failings of QL, in my opinion, is that Sam always plays the good
guy--his actions always have positive consequences for the people
around him. What if, in order to prevent something terrible happening
in the future, a leaper had to kill a young girl in a small town and
make it look like a gruesome murder? What if he had to leap into her
*father's* body to do it? Then he wouldn't seem like such a good guy
to the locals, would he? Maybe they'd find out about him and call him
BOB. . .
Now suppose that BOB's deeds in this little town have unexpectedly
terrible consequences down the line. So whoever sends these people
sends someone else in to prevent BOB--call him SAM. But BOB's people
try to prevent SAM by sending, oh, MIKE, who gets answered by
MARGARET, and so on. Before long you have a whole population
inhabited by leapers on various sides, talking to their holographic
companions (who may look like giants, owls, logs, Dean Stockwell,
etc.). From the standpoint of the people in this hypothetical small
town, it would look like a mysterious battle between Good and Evil,
carried on by a bunch of people who have a tendency to talk gibberish.
So: my ending for the last episode: finally all the leapers accomplish
what they all were sent to do. They all vanish, leaving the people
they inhabited normal again. Everyone lives happily ever after.
-- Rod Johnson * rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu * (313) 650 2315 "Poetry ends like a rope" --Jack Spicer
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