Subject: Re: LMFAP is *not* BOB (NOT) From: larryy@Apple.COM (Larry Yaeger) Date: 1991-06-19, 19:48 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article appel@xcf.Berkeley.EDU (Shannon D. Appel) writes: > >In article <54112@apple.Apple.COM> larryy@Apple.COM (Larry Yaeger) writes: >> >>In the original, classic dream sequence, after "Laura" (who the LMFAP has >> >>said is really his cousin?) makes that comment about her arms bending back, >> >>the LMFAP says: "She's filled with secrets. Where we're from the birds sing >> >>a pretty song and there's always music in the air." >> >> >> >>Note that he says "we", and the description of their home certainly sounds >> >>more like the White Lodge than the Black Lodge. I've always thought that > > > >Not. > >They made the record player in the Palmer house pretty darned obvious > >throughout the first season, especially during the episodes right around > >where Maddy was killed. "There's always music in the air." Well, I suppose this could be the meaning, but it's awfully obscure, and doesn't address the "birds singing", so I think I'll stick with my interpretation. > >Your thoughts about that "we" fall apart anyways, because Laura is most > >definitely not from the White Lodge. They were both from the Palmer House > >though, yes? Don't think so... Laura, in the show to some extent, and especially in the Secret Diary, is shown to be a surprisingly strong character. The drugs and prostitution and such are sort of to show BOB that he can't hurt her with excess and sexuality. She resists BOB to the end, preferring death to possession. In fact, until the final episode suggested that there may very well be good and bad versions of everyone all the time, I would most certainly have placed Laura in the White Lodge, rather than the Black Lodge. And in the finale, I think it is pretty clearly a good/White Laura that tells Cooper she will see him in 25 years, and, as others have pointed out, is a good Laura speaking to a 25-year-older Coop in the original dream sequence. (For what it's worth, the Euro-film version even has a title card come up before the dream sequence that says "25 years later", so I'm reasonably certain that there is a connection between Laura's line in the finale and that original dream sequence - at least in Lynch's mind.) So I still think that the LMFAP is either a good guy or a union-of-the-two, noncommital kind of guy (someone else suggested a St. Peter figure that mans the gates to perhaps both kingdoms). Just my opinion. -- -larryy@apple.com "You wouldn't recognize a *subtle plan* if it painted itself purple, and danced naked upon a harpsichord, singing, 'Subtle Plans are Here Again'." - Edmund Blackadder