Subject: The Red Room - Time going BACKWARDS!
From: osmigo@ut-emx.uucp (Ron Morgan)
Date: 1991-06-17, 10:24
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

I don't know if anybody noticed, but time seemed to be going BACKWARDS in
the Red Room. When the characters spoke, for example, their words appeared
in captions on the screen. I've seen people speaking "backwards" on other
TV shows (some people did it on "America's Funniest People"). What they do
is videotape somebody actually pronouncing words backwards; then when the tape
is played in reverse, they appear to be talking "forward," although their
speech naturally looks and sounds a bit weird. This is EXACTLY what the
various characters, WITHOUT exception, were doing in the Red Room! Read on:

When Windom Earle jabbed Coop with that thing (looked like a small knife
to me), Coop fell to the floor. Then you saw the exact same "stabbing" scene
in REVERSE. Coop "fell upwards" into the knife. Notice this happen right
AFTER (or was it "before"?) Coop was walking around bleeding in the exact
same spot where Earle stabbed him!

Perhaps this "stabbing" incident, since it happened twice, once forward, then
backwards (or was it backwards, then forward?) was some point where the
time continuum surned around went the other way. Past became future and future
became past, or....or....oh, God help me.....I'm really confused here......

Any comments on this?

Ron Morgan
osmigo@emx.utexas.edu