Subject: Re: Finale
From: tom@kether.webo.dg.com (Tom Sullivan)
Date: 1991-06-12, 23:01
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

>>>>> >>>>> On 12 Jun 91 20:46:17 GMT, hship@sw.stratus.com (Howard Ship) said:

>> >> Anyway, I'm beginning to get upset by the use of the word "doppleganger"
>> >> for what Bob does.  Bob posseses people, perhaps shifting their 
>> >> soul/essense/personality to the black lodge, but he uses (then discards)
>> >> the actual body. 

Actually, I think this is an idea of what *we* do.  In other words,
all of us have a Yin and a Yang side, but here in TP, expanded to the
extremes of Good and Evil.  In Lynch's TP universe, there is a
corruptable dark side that must be conquored (Hawk's statement of
first going through the BL to reach the WL).  The doppleganger is a
split we ourselves possess that allow Bob to do what you are describing.

>> >> In fact, Bob may simply pre-empt the personality of the user.  Check
>> >> Leland's behavior:

>> >> He killed the fat frenchman (memory fails).  A brutal act,
>> >> but motivated by fatherly revenge, not Bob's kill-lust.  Also,
>> >> he killed the dude in a non-Bob like manner.   This would
>> >> indicate that Bob's possesion pre-empts the Leland personality,
>> >> who has no memory of whats going on.  I kind of see Leland's soul trapped
>> >> in the Black Lodge, where Bob can extract information from him, so as
>> >> to maintain the Leland act.

AFTER his gains control.  Here is possibly where the struggle lies with ones
own dark side.  There's not enough real information to go on though in
trying to speculate as to the exact process of becoming em-Bob'ed.

>> >> What goes on in the black lodge has its own set of rules: presumably
>> >> the physical reality in the black lodge is a manifestation of the
>> >> occupant's mental state (that is, it is a dream world).  Having
>> >> two Coopers there is just a way of viewing the internal battle within
>> >> Coop as Bob takes possesion ... Bob has split off the evil in Cooper, and
>> >> given it sufficient power that it appears a seperate entity.

Good theory!

>> >>...stuff deleted...

>> >> Of course, in the final scene, it appears that Bob is showing off to
>> >> Cooper:  Staying hidden in the back of Cooper's mind until he is alone,
>> >> then taking control slowly (slow enough for Coop to try and brain himself)
>> >> as Coop realizes what is happening.

Another good theory, but Coop didn't seem himself even before that (of
course who *would*!).  But upon waking, he gave no greeting to Harry,
and his how's Annie seemed to have lost it's previous gush.