Subject: Re: Creamed Corn (& unanswered questions)
From: giovin@risky.ecs.umass.edu (Rocky J Giovinazzo)
Date: 1991-08-15, 11:57
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Aug15.125334.55062@eagle.wesleyan.edu> ttullio@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
> >In article <9299@umd5.umd.edu>, jblum@umd5.umd.edu (Jon Blum) writes:
>> >> In article <1991Aug14.153031.9459@risky.ecs.umass.edu>

>>> >>>2.  What the heck does the Palmer ceiling fan signify?  There were a
>>> >>>couple different shots of it shown repeatedly. Was it nothing special or
>>> >>>did have something to do with a golden circle? 
 
>> >> Ditto for the Traffic Light.
 
> >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..
Ahhh... but if a traffic light changes and no one's around
to hear it, does it make a sound?
As Dale described, Twin Peaks is a town where "yellow means
slow down and red means stop."  I always thought that the traffic light
was just showing us that the town has been slowed down and stopped 
by Laura's and various other people's death.

>>> >>>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
> >remember him freaking out as Ben enters the room.  I think this was a clever
> >coincidence meant to mislead.  After all, the OAM was getting pretty unravelled
> >by the experience in the hotel lobby, and it's possible that he just chose
> >that moment to collapes from the strain.

Here's the scene I was talking about with Mike, Jerry, Ben, Coop, 
Hawk, and Truman in the jail cell:

Mike:  [walks around Ben full circle twice] 
       "He's been close.  BOB is not here now."
Jerry: "Sherriff?  Isn't there something you'd like to share with us?
        Oh great.   Would you tell this guy to stop staring at me like
        a dog biscuit?"
Mike:  "BOB has been very close."
       "Who's BOB?  I don't know BOB.  Do we know a BOB?"

The other scene where Ben comes storming down the room and Mike goes
nuts could just be coincidence I suppose, except that coincidence
doesn't seem to exist in Twin Peaks.  Just about everything in the show
that was seemingly unrelated to something else, has somehow become more
than coincidence.  In fact, this seems to be one of the themes of the
show.  (Coincidence and fate play largely in our lives. -- "When two 
separate events occur simultaneously pertaining to the same object of 
inquiry, you must always pay strict attention.") 

Rocky Giovinazzo