Subject: Re: Disillusioned by The End
From: marks@skat.usc.edu (Louise Marks)
Date: 1991-06-14, 14:27
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

dbalcom@gmuvax.gmu.edu writes:

> >Was it just me, or did the whole Windham Earle thing seem to run into
> >a giant brick wall, or more specifically, into Bob?  As much of an insipid
> >overdone loser as he was, I was expecting a touch more from the ole
> >Earlster.  Instead he's sucked into Bob like lint to a dustbuster.
> >Bummer.  I was hoping for something--well, I don't know--more.  Just more.

On the contrary, I would have been disappointed if Earl had turned out
to be powerful in the Black Lodge.  Think about it-- Earl has embraced
EVIL as a means of gaining power.  Is he a threat to BOB?  No way...
he's playing BOB's game on BOB's turf.  Because he's useful to BOB,
BOB lets him THINK he's powerful until he oversteps his bounds by
tring to take Cooper's soul, then just squashes him like a bug.  To
BOB, Earl the wannabe is no great trophy; he was co-opted long ago.
COOPER is the prize that BOB wants to put on his mantelpiece.


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