Subject: Love is not enough (plus repeats of SPOILERS).
From: phylac@lure.latrobe.edu.au
Date: 1991-06-13, 07:06
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

G'day,

Firstly, a disclaimer: I've only seen one episode of TP (that in which Maddy
get's killed), but I'm hooked anyway.  I read this newsgroup religiously now
& I feel ready to make a fool of myself with asking some naive questions.

:-)

I've been *unable* to resist reading the SPOILERS about the ending of TP (NB
I'm in Australia so we have a few more episodes to go before we see it). I'm
in a spin now and I have a couple of questions that are nagging at me that I
am hoping some more experienced TP'ers may be able to help explain.

1) How can "love be enough"? {Put another way I believe "love is not enough"
   as has been mentioned often in postings here relates to the Yin/Yang like
   nature of the spiritual conflict/battles going on in TP.}

   Does anyone think that the hateful/evil forces for any specific personal-
   ity in the TP world will have to combine with the good side/forces to end
   in "victory" in the conflict?

   On the surface of it I see the existence of Bob and the requirement for a
   "perfect courage" to be disproofs of such a thesis as the above. But what
   is "perfect courage" anyway?  Also, has Mike ever been seen in the series
   (the Mike that Bob is afraid of).  If not I'm willing to speculate that a
   reason could be that Mike is anti-Bob. {Of course the doppleganger count-
   erparts from the Black Lodge scene you all talk about do not seem to have
   different names to their counterparts. :-)  Shooting down my own theory?}

2) Arthurian legend as pointed to in the SPOILERS leads me to ask about some
   ones reference that I read  to Leo as "Leo the Lion Hearted" with respect
   to was there a "Lion Hearted" individual in Arthurian legend (or am I now
   thinking of Robin Hood's story and of King Richard the LH'ed. :-))

There may be a lot to shoot down in my above thoughts but then remeber that I
have *seen* almost nothing of the series ** s o  f a r **.  :-)

Thanking you in advance for your consideration of my questions.

yours truly,
Lou Cavallo.
   
PS: thanks to all the TP'ers that helped me overcome my problems with making
a properly unpacked version of the TP timeline.  It's great!  And lastly, it
has impressed me no end that over 300 posts have been made to this newsgroup
since the ending of TP in only a couple of days. Is this some kind of USENET
record?