Subject: Re: TP movie about LP's last week - GREAT!
From: joe@zitt (Joe Zitt)
Date: 1991-06-16, 13:05
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

brian@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Brian Wood) writes:

> > 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 lodge
> > 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.

One bug with this (rather nifty) theory: If this were true, as I understand
what you're saying, then Laura of the Lodge would not know who had killed
the earthly Laura, since from her viewpoint it wouldn't have happened yet...

> > 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! 

Some random speculation re: the movie...

I've had a sneaky suspicion (voiced here before) that Leland did >not<
kill Laura, but that BOB had possessed >Ben< up until the end of the first
season. At that point, to confuse issues, BOB left Ben and entered Leland.
Results of this:
. Leland's hair turned white (like BOB's?)
. Ben lost his marbles for a while.
. BOB started dropping clues leading Coop to Leland

This would also posit that, like Donna, Laura's real (physical) father was
also Ben. I wouldn't be surprised if BOB would have played with Sarah's
memory to make her not recall this. The results of Sarah's encounter with
BOeBn would have long lasting effects, causing her to have the visions and
the communication with Major Briggs.

This could make for a shocking end to TP:TMP -- everything goes as we know
it did, >except< the killer is revealed to be Ben, not Leland. That could
well throw audiences for a loop, and would have the effect of, in a sense,
trashing and reconstructing our understanding of what happened in much of
the series (thus, if the movie is successful enough, prompting Fox or something
to bring back reruns as a miniseries, much as they did with "V").

My guess is that the movie would follow parallel story lines: one following
Laura, and the other following Coop in the investigation of the murder of
Theresa Banks. Possible intertwinings might include:
. An early interconnection between Laura, Theresa, and Ronette
. A link between Ben (and possibly BOB), One Eyed Jacks, the
  Renault Brothers, Leo, some counterparts where Theresa is from,
  and Fleshworld magazine
. The appearances in dreams of the Blue Man to Coop, and Laura's
  visions
. Coop's precognition of the Red Room dream (mentioned in his
  autobiography).
. Earlier appearances of MIKE connected to Theresa
. BOB and MIKE's separation, and what actually led MIKE to cut off
  arm.

After Laura's death (and transfiguration?), the movie would conclude
with his entering the town of Twin Peaks, and the first tape to Diane.
However, the footage of Coop driving would show stuff from different
angles that we didn't see at the beginning of the show -- stuff (like owls
leading or following the cars, as in a presidential caravan) that would
now be known to be ominous...

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