Subject: Re: Hmmm....
From: statman@pilot.ufl.edu (Chuck Kincaid)
Date: 1991-06-13, 06:52
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <9106111945.AA09997@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> ST601287@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (Mark Hessman) writes:
> >
> >     OK, a few thoughts scattered randomly about the last episode(s) :
> >
> >     How conscious is Leo?  If fully, why doesn't he take advantage of the
> >fact and free himself, either getting the appropriate keys while Windom's
> >out or by brute strength?  What happened to the madman from the first
> >season?

And why hasn't Major Briggs come back to save him?  Did the 
drugged state cause him not to know how to get back?  Likely, but I   
think that he would have at least tried.  After all, Leo did save his
life.

> >
> >     All throughout the finale, Cooper was so damn passive.  The side of
> >good really has done nothing throughout without evil being one step ahead
> >of them all the way.  Coop ignored the giant's warning; even when he realized
> >that Windom was waiting on the outcome of the Miss Twin Peaks pageant, all
> >he did after getting there was watch (and clap =) ).  He was a model of in-
> >action all the way through.  If anything, Andy was the one who made the most
> >progress -- the map, the revelation of the bonsai bug, etc.  Coop was even
> >passive inside the Lodge.  I expected at least something from the man who
> >was on top of everything not so long ago.  The way things were, he was almost
> >a bit player... it was Windom who made everything happen; Coop was just
> >following and watching.
> >

I agree with the this.  It may not have been in character as far
as the writers and directors were concerned, but I wanted Coop to say
something and do something in the Waiting Rooms.  It reminded me of all
of the people who walk into the old shed where Jason is and let 
themselves be killed.  Bah!

> >
> >     The Ben/Audrey scene was pretty cliched, though I liked the fire as a
> >backdrop while Ben was reverently praising the texts he had with him.  I
> >almost expected at least one of them to end up (accidentally of course) in

Ben's conversion from non-psychic evil to non-psychic good is
now taking another step.  From his reading he will become psychic (or
at least semi-psychic) good.  Although it may be a while since those 
books are pretty long and deep.  The forces will now marshal to rescue 
Coop.  See the listing of psychic and non-psychic, good and evil people
that I gave a long while back.  


> >     Entering the Lodges, both for Earle and Coop, was easier than anyone
> >thought... the 'fear'/'love' thing really didn't seem to enter into it at
> >all.  I get the feeling that if Donna had been at the grove, the curtains
> >would have appeared for her too... =)  And wasn't Earle's 'entrancing' of
> >Annie silly?

And no oil needed to get in.  Someone said that the oil was just
to make the mental connection, but I was expecting more than that.  It 
could be that the 'puddle' was really oil and this was another clue for
Coop as to the gateways location.

> >
> >     Lynch did a good job of flouting our expectations when he cut to the
> >bank scene right after Coop entered the Lodge.  And the bank teller was
> >great.

I could not help but see Tim Conway playing the part of the old
guy in the bank.  That scene was good.

> >
> >     Why, and how, did Ben suddenly change when his wife came barging in
> >to his scene with the Haywards?  Before he sounded troubled, but at least
> >honest -- genuinely trying to do the right thing but going about it in the
> >most wrong way.  Afterwards his voice lost all its conviction; he sounded
> >merely wimpy and afraid, giving Doc Hayward the righteousness with which to

Obviously you're not married.  :-)

> >
> >     How did Cooper's 'dark side' come into being?  And after Bob seemed to
> >allow him to go, too... that part was more whimsical than anything else.  Is
> >Bob the master of the Black Lodge, or just a character in it?  Why didn't we
> >get anyone really new inside such a heretofore unforeseen place?

Coop's dark side was there all along, see other people's
discussion of Hawk's comment.  However when he failed to love his enemy
and lay down his life for WE's even though WE was evil, he gave his 
dark side the strength it needed to come out.  It may have come out any
way but I think Coop could have vanquished it if he had made that
sacrifice.  The sacrifice for WE would have much greater than one for 
Annie.

> >                                                 -- Mark

charles d. kincaid
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