Subject: plot speculations (spoilers)
From: stvan@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Laurel Smith Stvan)
Date: 1991-06-30, 20:31
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Subject: plot speculations (spoilers)
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Organization: Academic Computing and Network Services, Evanston, Il.
Keywords: Pearl Lakes, hands, original

1) In the antepenultimate episode we see hand trembling by Pete, a pie
eater, and Cooper. That episode ends with a spotlight on Bob's hand
twisting and then emerging.  Is hand motion a sign of Bob trying to get
through?  Note that the OAM removed his arm altogether in order not to
allow such access.

2) At the end of this same scene, when Bob steps fully into the grove, I
swear I heard the words "I'm out."  Can anyone confirm this?  If it's true,
it would seem to fit with the Major's backwards speech while under WE's
drugs.  I believe some  poster transcribed his sounds (reversed) as "I'm
coming out."

3) Here's my (latest) attempt to clarify the BL/WL boundaries.  I believe
that "This is the waiting room" does in fact refer to the whole
red-curtained experience, which I agree is experienced differently by each
person who is in it.  I believe that Cooper didi not yet confront  and lose
to his shadow self in that place but only began that confrontation while
brushing his teeth (so he hasn't yet anihilated his soul through imperfect
courage as Hawk warned).  This is the beginning of a battle since up till
now Cooper has not had a one on one confrontation with a Black Lodge force.
This approach also explains why WE couldn't tkae Coopers soul--you can onle
lose it in a battle with you r own dark side; although being _willing_
torisk his soul for Annie is symbolicaly a good move.  This was probably
where he formally took up the battle for his own soul.

4) Is Bob limited to one live host at a time?  IF so  then it's possible
that one reason Laura fought Bob for so long was becasue she knew that in
order for him to leave Leland and possess her would require killing
LEland--therefore she was saving her father 's life.  (Is any of this
cleared up in the Secret Diary--I haven't read it yet).

5) Is it possible that the reason the major could transmit so many messages
is that he has been supressing a Mike/Bob-type spirit for a long time
himself?  Maybe he has found a way to master it; this may be why he lost
some control when WE shot him up with drugs.  Was the yellow drug that WE
shot into the MAjor supposed to be th same thing as the blue drug that the
OAM used (these were both haliperinal?) OR did WE's drug alter some balance
in the Major causing him to produce haliperinal on his own?

6) Don't you wish that Cooper had talked a bit more with Annie about his
investigations?  Seems lkie the girl with strange neighbors in her head
might have been able to give him some clues.  Do you suppose her suicide
attempt compares at all to Laura's allowing herself to be killed?

7) I would like to see a list of all references to Pearl Lake(s).  Seems
like a pretty improtant spot.  Offhand I recall the following: the Major
Briggs and Cooper were fishing there when the Major disappeared; Leland's
grandfather had a cabin there where Leland first met Bob; Annie used to
swim there and she and Cooper first kissed there; Catherine was saved there
after the mill fire; Andy said people need to stop sinking their beer
bottles there; Audrey and PEte went fishing there (?).  

Can someone with a map or access guide say how close this lake is to the
sycamore grove?

8) Seems like twenty years ago is a significant point in TP.  Wasn't it
also twenty years ago that Gordon lost his hearing?

9) Cooper noted that Annie was a "completely original" person.  Norma's
criteria for Miss Twin Peaks also included "originality."  Does "original "
here imply "not a duplicate" or should this be taken in some other way?

Laurel