Subject: Re: Cooper sold his soul? From: Terri Buchman Date: 1991-06-12, 08:34 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article tom@kether.webo.dg.com (Tom Sullivan) writes: > >What about Cooper saying "I Will" to Windom Earle's request to him > >about trading his soul for Annie's life? Is THIS why Bob now has > >Cooper? Note that Bob popped right in at that point, but mentioned > >that Windom had overstepped his "authority"...Hmmmm...... > > Evil is often represented as a structure with a chain of command. Perhaps that is what Lynch & Co. were thinking of when they wrote the scene. As one advances through the ranks one gains power to do more and greater evil. WE was on a lower rung than BOB and lacked the authority to claim an immortal soul. BOB might have had that power. * (See Sillly Note at bottom) WE was tricked into believing that he would gain power in the Black Lodge. Hardly surprising since the promises were coming from a demonic persona. (Isn't Satan sometimes referred to as the Father of Lies?) Poor ole WE, demented, duped and disposed of. Does BOB now control Cooper's soul? I think that Cooper assenting to take Annie's place granted BOB the authority to release Cooper's dark side. (I think that Coop's doppleganger did not appear until after this scene.) Cooper failed to defeat (or refute, disable or unconjure) his dark side (so far). I think that it is this dark side that has been released into the world and that the "good" Coop is still wandering the halls of the Lodge. This scenario scares me a little more. Cooper must have witnessed some pretty awful examples of human behavior as an Agent of the FBI. There must have been times when he wished he could go outside the law to punish a criminal. When his normal, good self is in control, such impluses are dismissed. But with the good interred in the Black Lodge the bad is free to act out all not only all his revenge impulses, but could recreate and re-enact many of the horrors he had witnessed professionally. Brrrrrrh. Kind of turns Cooper into a Hannibal Lector type, only scarier. *Silly Note When I was writing that paragraph about the structure of evil, I suddenly thought of direct-sales groups like Amway and Nu-Skin. BOB might have been the entity in charge of his little circle of evil souls, and is trying to go out and recruit more souls to join the group so that he can get more and more power. Maybe he has a structure under him that consists of directors, sub-directors and entry-level bad guys! Geez leave it to David Lynch to make free enterprise resemble hell. *End Silly Note Terri Disclaimer: I wrote it, I'm responsible for it. Similarities between any business group mentioned in this post and any such group exisiting in real life are a figment of your imagination!