Subject: Rooms in the Lodge(s) (SPOILERS)
From: scottn@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (scott.h.novack)
Date: 1991-06-12, 11:40
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

My!  There's so much traffic in this group that I'm only about halfway
done, so I don't know if someone else posted this.  But I might not have
time to post later, so here goes.

Anyway, there's a lot of talk about the number of rooms in the Lodge(s)
(I'm not going to get into the argument about how many Lodges).  At least
one poster mentioned that Coop kept going back and forth in the hallway.  I
take issue with this idea.

Rather than thinking that there are only 3 rooms and 1 corridor, look at
the Lodge as a maze of red rooms, all alike :-).  That is, you go through a
room, any room, and you end up in another hallway.  This makes the Lodge
much bigger than originally imagined.  This would also make more sense in
as far as the Lodge itself is a spatial anomaly, so why shouldn't its own
architecture be spatially anamalous?  Various rooms could return you to the
same corridor or a different one, sort of like Dr. Who's Tardis.

Evidence:
1) There are many points when you see Coop entering a room or being in the
hallway from a hard cut from the previous scene.  There's no reason to
assume that he left the previous room the way he came in.

2) The irregularity of the Statue.  Some thought it was disappearing
because we were seeing one end of the hallway or the other.  It is also
possible that there were many hallways, some with statures, some without.

3) Coop running from his doppelganger.  Notice that he went down several
corridors before he got caught.  One could think that they were all
different, or one could say that the whole lodge is some Mobius strip
(which is another exciting thought).

4) Complexity and disorientation make up a lot of Madness and Fear.  Bob is
both, IMHO (don't flame me on this, ok?).  What better way to weaken Coop
than to give him confusion over where he is or how he's going to get out?
Confusion over one's location and feelings of being out of control of one's
environment are key elements to fear.

Hmmm.  I guess this argument would say that we saw only the Black Lodge and
Coop had yet to reach the White Lodge.  Whatever.
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