Subject: Re: the 4-18 episode!!
From: bobg+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Steven Glickstein)
Date: 1991-04-19, 11:34
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Will someone with the appropriate equipment PLEASE digitize the
Major's gibberish and run it backwards?
Who was the sad-looking man being fed breakfast by Hawk at the
Sheriff's Station?
Among Shelley, Donna, and Audrey, Audrey was presumably the only
virgin before 2020. Annie may or may not be. Is this significant?
Andrew seemed to have some foreknowledge about opening the middle
puzzle box, especially when he wouldn't let Catherine try pressing the
moons. Where did he get the foreknowledge, and why did he smash the
last (but not the middle) box?
Things that jittering right hands might be associated with:
- Harold Smith's shaking when exposed to the sun;
- The LMFAP's shaking just before saying, "!kcor s'teL";
- BOB's *right* hand appearing in the clearing;
- Philip Gerard's seizure in the men's room.
UN040377@WVNVAXA.WVNET.EDU writes:
> > * John Justice Wheeler's leaving. Good riddance. I think
> > the thing about his friend/partner being murdered is
> > probably just to set up some new plotlines in case TP gets
> > renewed (fat chance).
Stop that. If TP is renewed, it certainly won't be helped by
pessimism in our ranks, of all places.
If JJW is gone and Audrey is heartbroken, and if Annie meets her
demise in the coming confrontation and Cooper is heartbroken, then
perhaps we'll be treated to something we've been led to expect since
very early on!
> > * Did anyone else notice: Right after the scene where Ben
> > and Audrey are talking about Wheeler, Audrey leaves, then
> > Ben is apparently startled by something behind him, and he
> > turns around quickly. They didn't show any more Ben scenes
> > after that, so we can only speculate about what it was that
> > scared him.
I'd like to think it's the white horse with a message for Ben. "The
pine weasels are not what they seem..."
> > * About the drug that Earle gave to Major Briggs: does a
> > drug actually exist that makes one tell the truth? Could be
> > a possible connection with Haliperidol.
Scopolamine is a well-known, real-life truth serum.
> > * The puzzle box was kind of disappointing. I had hoped
> > that it, or the symbols on it, would tie in to the whole
> > Lodge/Petroglyph story. Guess not. Or maybe it will in
> > some unexpected way. What was the metallic object inside of
> > it? And how do you specify any given date merely by
> > pressing two buttons, like Andrew did?
See above; Andrew had some sort of foreknowledge. I'd hardly say that
the box was disappointing; what do we know about the silvery object
within? Nothing, so far. "Mom! Dad! Don't touch it! It's evil!"
> > * The Mayor sure has trouble with microphones, eh? That's the
> > second time.
Yes; I thought that was a very nice touch.
> > * The Giant seems to have lost his mysteriousness and
> > subtlety. In the past, he's always been vague or riddle-
> > like in his warnings. This time, however, his message was
> > much more obvious. If the Giant is a "good" entity trying
> > to help Coop, why couldn't he have been this obvious before?
> > When Maddy was dying, I'm sure it would have helped Coop get
> > to her faster if the Giant had just said so instead of just,
> > "It is happening again."
Refer to an earlier, well-informed (but here unattributed) post which
talks about the Giant, as a representative of the White Lodge, being
hesitant about directly interfering with corporeal events (hence his
"cryptic and oracular" pronouncements to Cooper). His "unsubtlety"
this time around should give us a clue about the urgency of his
message.
> > * In the very chaotic Earle/Briggs/computer scene, Earle
> > said: "Dale wasn't far away; the cave painting is an
> > invitation of sorts, telling us when the _______ begin."
> > What's the missing word? It sounded like "rebels" but that
> > wouldn't make sense. This is obviously an important word; I
> > want to know *what's* about to begin.
Revels. You know, keggers.
> > * Right before BOB appears at the end, there's a sequence of
> > shots of various rooms and buildings. Here they are, in
> > order: Outside the Road House, the traffic light, outside the
> > diner, inside TP High School, a hall of the Great Northern,
> > the hospital (or the police station; anyone sure?), the chalkboard
> > with the petroglyph drawing, wind through trees, and then the
> > clearing in the woods where BOB appears.
> > There must be some signifigance to this series of locations.
> > Unless it was just for some kind of dramatic effect.
Thanks for the sequence; it *was* for effect (and a good effect at
that).
> > * Now, when the TP Access Guide gets published, everyone
> > will buy it to check out the map of Twin Peaks and compare
> > it to the petroglyph to find out where the Black Lodge
> > entrance is, like WE was doing on his computer. My guess is
> > the Pearl Lakes. Wonder if the petroglyph also contains a
> > guide to the White lodge?
The TP Access Guide is available, according to an order form in the
back of The Autobiography of Agent Dale Cooper, right now from Simon &
Schuster. See an upcoming post for ordering info.
> > * Damn it, we've come this far, we're about to discover the
> > connection between BOB and the Lodges/parallel
> > universe/whatever, and we STILL don't know for sure what the
> > owls are!
Well, the owls *seem* to be harbingers of doom, carriers of evil
spirits, and messengers from the Black Lodge. Of course, since "the
owls are not what they seem," they're probably just owls :-)
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