Subject: Re: 2 observations
From: jblum@umd5.umd.edu (Jon Blum)
Date: 1991-09-10, 12:25
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <3759@lulea.telesoft.se> sture@lulea.telesoft.se (Sture Jonsson) writes:
> >Yes, I agree that both Donna and Maddie were supposed to be out of character,
> >but the question is why ? Maddie said she liked it, but does that mean that
> >she just did it for fun or that the shades helped her ?

The shades were probably just a symbol of Laura's continued presence.
(Perhaps a pun...  shade=ghost?  Just a thought...)  Maddy and Donna were
simply showing their own Laura-like sides, which they had kept hidden
up to that point.

Either that, or Donna was being influenced by Laura's spirit in much the
same way MIKE controlled the one-armed man.  Laura/Donna wanted the shades
as a hint to who she really was.

Of course, the real reasons for both their out-of-character actions were
that Sheryl Lee was sick of wearing the glasses, and Lara Flynn Boyle had
complained about how normal and boring her character was.  ;-)