Subject: Re: Dei Ex Machinae From: larryy@Apple.COM (Larry Yaeger) Date: 1991-06-21, 18:01 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article <1991Jun21.115103.13003@pbs.org> mpax@pbs.org (Cool Bean) writes: > >In article <1991Jun19.052300.17954@odin.corp.sgi.com>, sjohnson@texas.vlsi.sgi.com (Scott Johnson) writes: >> >> In <50700@ut-emx.uucp> osmigo@ut-emx.uucp (Ron Morgan) writes: >> >> >>>>> >>>>>1. ...So there you are, in the Black Lodge, with your trusty FBI-issue >>>>> >>>>> Smith & Wesson Model 1076 10mm pistol at your side >> >> [and others have wondered why Cooper was so passive in the Red Rooms] It was Dale Cooper's nature to be an observer rather than a participant. The autobiography drives this home repeatedly, but it's also evident from the show. His love of observation certainly takes him into a lot of strange and interesting situations, but he is ultimately there as the passive viewer. The one motivation that seems to kick him into genuine action is a head to head confrontation with known evil. I suppose you could say that the evil in the Red Rooms should have spurred him to greater action, but the nature of the evil and all of the experiences in the Red Rooms (not all of it was evil) was unknown to Dale. And while those experiences would have been totally disorienting to most mortals, Dale lapsed into his observe-it-for-all-it's-worth mode, and probably dealt with it better than almost anyone else could have. At least that's my take on Dale's personality and the nature of his actions (or lack thereof) in the Lodge waiting rooms. -- -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