Subject: Re: finale (SPOILERS!!!)
From: jblum@umd5.umd.edu (Jon Blum)
Date: 1991-06-26, 20:21
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

OK, spoiler break...

There.  About the question of how BOB took control of Cooper -- does anyone
here remember Hawk's explanation about ten episodes back?  You must confront
your shadow-self to make it into the Place of Perfection (OK, mixing Indian
and Buddhist metaphors, but close enough).  Confront, not run from.  The
fact that Coop ran away meant that he wasn't able to face his dark half
(afraid of his own shadow, eh?), and therefore automatically it won.

As BOB almost said, you can't ask for someone's soul -- you have to be strong
enough to take it, and they have to be weak enough to let you.  Laura Palmer
was strong.  Leland wasn't.  And apparently Dale Cooper wasn't -- at least
till the next season...

Oh well.  Sigh...