Subject: TP: Yammering about Coop (Spoilers)
From: kimi@ablnc.att.com (Kimiye)
Date: 1991-06-14, 11:50
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Cooper lost his control of the situation as soon as he fell for Annie.
He lost his _soul_ at that point.  He became scattered in his thoughts,
and inaction began to permeate everything he was involved in.  What
happened to "the best lawman I ever met"?  

For Cooper, it seems that caring more about a woman than he does 
for himself (and he is Twin Peaks' only weapon against BOB, Windom
Earle, and the Black Lodge) is his tragic flaw.  He is a fallen
priest!  Aaacck!  I don't like this, but it sure fits in with the 
Lancelot analogy.  He will have to sacrifice Annie (at the least, his
relationship with her) to fix this up.

The dark-haired, filmy-eyed Leland who claims innocence seemed to be 
a way of teasing Cooper, who is about to be put in the same position
if Coopelganger does any damage in Twin Peaks.  Leland, after BOB 
leaves his body, is aware of and remembers the crimes committed while he
was possessed.  So that really must be Coop's body, although some part
of his soul may be left in the Red Room.  Is there any part of the
real Coop left in his physical body?  Must be, trapped, like Josie
in the drawer knob.  Maybe Coop's in that log Truman was sitting on...

Was BOB toying with Cooper by letting him think he was okay, get up
to brush his teeth, and then taking over?  (I once had a dream about
a force which tried to possess me--I felt a huge pressure in my head, 
which I fought, and which suddenly went away.  I was then frozen with 
fear waiting, in the absence of the pressure, to find out whether I had
won or lost.  Instead, I woke up.  Still scares the crap out of me, 
fifteen years later.)

BOB was very comfortable in Leland, dancing and singing and performing
complex physical tasks.  BOB seems to be awkward in Coop's body, with
very little finesse.  Does he get better with practice?  Or is he still
fighting some remnant of Cooper?  Who was "not sleeping"?  

Why does BOB injure Cooper by banging "their" head into the mirror?  
If he was gloating over how easy it is to fool Truman and Doc Hayward,
why would he do something that makes Cooper's sanity subject to doubt?  
He'll probably lie and say he fainted, but a badly injured body won't
be a good vehicle to go on a murdering rampage.  Maybe he just hates
Coop too much to control himself?  

I think any further appearances of Cooper (ghod, I hope there is one 
movie or something to come out of this) must leave us guessing for 
quite a while whether Cooper has any influence on his own body.  How 
would the memory work?  Like a victim of multiple personality disorder, 
where some personas know everything while others are conscious only 
occasionally?  But Cooper would be aware of gaps, and certainly suspect 
who "had" him.  That head injury might serve a purpose, then, to give 
Coop black-outs and hide BOB's presence.  Where's that blue liquid
when you need it?  Whatever did happen to the one-armed man?  Oooohh,
what might Coop have to cut off to get rid of BOB?  Uh, oh!  At least
there's precedent for a human to regain control of his body.  

Yeah, Cooper has to get control back, but probably at the cost of major
body parts and any possible relationship with a woman ever again.  


Kimiye Tipton    att!ablnc!kimi   kimi@ablnc.att.com   Maitland, FL
"If you want to catch a fish, think like a fish."