Subject: Re: Creamed Corn (& unanswered questions)
From: jblum@umd5.umd.edu (Jon Blum)
Date: 1991-08-15, 13:14
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Aug15.125334.55062@eagle.wesleyan.edu> ttullio@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
> >A totally off the wall thought I had on the traffic light late one night:
> >It means "things happen, even when there's no one around to see/make
> >sense of them."  (Especially in the shots where the light changes.)  This
> >is the town's only traffic light, isn't it?
> >On the same note, I'd venture that the ceiling fan was a "things ARE
> >happening, and continue to happen" idea.  Circles are so easy to ascribe
> >obscure meanings to..

Hmm...  I always thought that the traffic light had completely the opposite
meaning -- I thought of it in terms of an eye.  Always out there, unblinking,
watching everything that happens.  But your idea's not bad either.

As for the fan, I doubt it means anything really, it was just a suspense
device (kind of like a ticking clock).  But I _hope_ it means something...
> >
>>> >>>3.  When Maddy died, why did Bobby have that goofy look on his face?
>> >> 
> >This is one of my favorite scenes, and so I'm inclined to disagree.  I saw
> >it as a touching re-unification of the "small town" spirit -- Despite all
> >the weird, horrible stuff that's been tearing them apart, they all
> >share this moment, somehow sensing that "It is happening again." 

Except that Bobby and James didn't exactly have much of that friendly
small-town spirit between them...  I'll have to rewatch, but I thought at
the time that it was intended as a lead-in for something else which would
have "happened again"...  the next round of Bobby vs. James, which was
halted when James Marshall decided to take it on the road.  His contract
was up for renewal two episodes later, and I always suspected that was the
real reason he zoomed off on his bike.

>>> >>>4.  Why did the OAM say that BOB had been near Ben/Jerry?
>> >> 
> >
> >The OAM didn't really say that BOB had been near Ben/Jerry, did he?  I just

Yep, he did, two episodes later when they brought MIKE in to identify Ben
Horne in prison.

That's my 5 cents worth...  after all, they're going to stop making pennies,
so we'll have to change the expression...  :)