Subject: Re: Some thoughts on the finale...
From: jpb@calmasd.Prime.COM (Jan Bielawski)
Date: 1991-06-12, 18:57
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <wR5c42w163w@zitt> joe@zitt (Joe Zitt) writes:
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<Oh, yeah, SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER
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<It seems that Coop has, after all, been taken over by BOB -- or has he?
<What was with the apparent antiCoops that we saw in the lodge? Did one of
<them return rather than the real one, leaving Coop himself still inside
<the lodge?
<A friend with whom I watched the show has pointed out that it's wide open
<for a sequel, since BOB is still on the loose, and Coop is either fighting
<the spirit which has possessed him, or is on the inside of the lodge, trying
<to get out.

It seems to me the two are the same.  "Entering" a Lodge consists
of a change in one's perceptive faculties.  I.e. the Lodges are not *places*;
they are right here and it's only a change inside you that lets you
experience them while the ordinary world seems to have disappeared.
Presumably for a person who is sufficiently "developed" this change
in perception can be effected by an act of will.  "Normal" people
and "normal" occult beings cannot do that unless the configuration
of some "ambient" energies makes such a change of perception particularly
easy (this happens when Jupiter and Saturn meet).

Yes, the shadow self of Cooper is "out".  That is -- due to his
moment of weakness -- his "psychic" energies have reoriented themselves
in a super-nasty way.  The bad stuff now has a "majority vote" among
the forces of his soul.

Something like that.

The question of "but where did their material bodies go while
in the 'waiting room'?" is not very important.  Maybe people who are
near are also affected by some kind of light trance.

<Did we ever see the White Lodge? Are we, indeed, sure that there is one?
<Is the Waiting Room part of either lodge? Did Laura lose her battle and
<become part of the Black Lodge?

I suppose when you are in the waiting room (and I am inclined
to think we haven't seen the Lodges themselves yet) -- or when you
are in the equivalent state of consciousness -- you are able to see
the good and bad components as *separate beings*, not unified as usual.
It is only a mode of perception that doesn't necessarily correspond
to an "objective truth".  So Laura is one Laura but she is manifest
as two beings -- while Coop/whoever is in that state.  Coop himself
becomes two Coops (or so it seems to him) and while in this state
the two sides can fight for the territory.

<So, we never did get to see Diane... and the scene with Gordon from the
<trailer didn't make the cut...

That scene was from several episodes ago.

<This was clearly one of the bloodiest shows I've seen made for primetime.
<Ben, Coop, Annie, and, I think, someone else, had serious untended head
<wounds.

Seems like Bob's favorite wound.

<The MFAP said that he'd show up again as someone else -- who?

As his other (negative) self.

<Was that Laura reflected in the coffee cup in the end titles?

Looked like her.

<It seems that the dream sequence from earlier in the series does indeed
<happen 25 years later -- but that seems to be an unpossessed Coop in that
<sequence. What does this tell us about who has come back as Coop?

See above.

<When did Ronette get better?

I don't know, what difference does it make?

<Where did the Log Lady go when Earle replaced her? How did she get back?

I thought this was funny, like Roger Ebert's "predictable tree"
fallacy.

<How did Coop know exactly when she'd show up at the sherrif's office?

He made an appointment with her.

Jan Bielawski
Computervision, San Diego
jpb@calmasd.prime.com