Subject: Bob as galactic demon: Did L/F cheese out?
From: user@darkside.com (A Modem User)
Date: 1991-05-21, 12:37
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

You know, I was just browsing a newspaper the other day, and a tiny little
blurb about Twin Peaks mentioned the possiblity that Leland Palmer, the
infamous Laura Palmer daddy/murderer, might not have been actually possessed
by a demon named Bob, but was just manifesting this apparition to explain
his cruel treatment of his daughter. The paper suggested that Bob was a man
who may have molested Leland as a child.

Now, dammit, why couldn't Lynch/Frost expand on this? I mean, the whole
thing with phantoms and aliens and the like is an interesting story -- much
more so than those sad little trifles involving One Eyed Jacks or that
"possibly possessed" little boy, Nicky (whatever happened to THAT sub-plot?)
-- but if they had implemented a little Freudian psychology, you would have
had something REALLY interesting. But since they have spent so much time
on developing the whole alien thing, I guess it's too much to hope for that
Leland was living in a terrifying state of paranoia, guilt, and denial.
Oh well. Maybe if Ingmar Bergman had had a hand in it...

                       -Uzer