Subject: TP movie about LP's last week - GREAT!
From: brian@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Brian Wood)
Date: 1991-06-14, 14:45
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

> >        Probable bad news (IMHO):
> >
> >          Lynch wants the movie to be about the last 7 days of
> >          Laura Palmer's life.  The threads left hanging in the
> >          last TV episode will probably hang forever -- and what
> >          sort of place is Peaks without Coop?

Bad news?  I think this is a GREAT idea!  There are many plot lines
that could be developed more fully with a better understanding of
what led to LP's death.  It also is the ONLY way to get mass appeal
necessary for the movie to make money.  Consider this:  everyone on
the planet watched the first episode, and the media had a field day
with the WKLP theme.  By starting earlier and leading up to that event,
the movie could stand on its own, and nobody would enter the theater
confused (although when they leave the theater is another story...).

Also, how's this for an analysis of TP, as alluded to by another post --
Suppose the central theme of TP is that when the Universe began, two
separate timelines were created - a positive time line and a negative
time line.  The two threads of time are intertwined and intersect every
20-25 years.  We live in the positive time line and the black and white lodges
exist in the negative time line.  Time is moving forward to the occupants
of the lodges, but in reverse direction to ours.  They therefore know
what's happening in our future at 20-25 year intervals.  This explains
how Laura and the LMFAP can know Dale's future.  THEY have already lived
it - in reverse.  To communicate with us, they have to talk backward,
because if they talked forward (to them), it would SOUND backward to us.

This implies a certain predestiny, for if a backwards time line started
from infinite time and worked backwards, events must have already been
predestined.  Since Lynch is reputed to be very conservative and religious,
belief in predestination may make sense.  Perhaps Bob, et al, are
messing with the machinery every 20 years and causing potential paradoxes.
It is up to the white lodge to keep this from happening.

Consider also, that if the movie addresses the time prior to Laura's
death, the Black lodge timeline would have advanced an equal amount into
its future, and they should therefore know what happened to Dale and
Annie.  Let's face it - Kyle MacLachlan WILL be in the movie! 

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