Subject: Re: Final TP episode
From: barb@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Barb Miller)
Date: 1991-09-17, 21:31
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: barb@zurich.ai.mit.edu

In article <91254.134717ACPS6410@Ryerson.CA> ACPS6410@Ryerson.CA (Nadir U Ahmed) writes:

     Personally, I thought that Cooper was supposed to face his
   shadow-self not run away from it. If Cooper had shown he was
   a little braver maybe he would have won and we might have
   seen the White Lodge as it was said by Hawk.

Or in another season we might have.  My reading of Hawk's description
of the Lodge legend only says that one must meet one's shadow-self
there, nothing about fighting it or overcoming it.  It also says that
if you meet the LODGE with imperfect courage it will annihilate your
soul.  It seems to me that the soul that we saw annihilated was that
of Windom Earle.  Because I think it is much closer to the
psychological truth to have to integrate one's shadow rather than
defeat it, I believe that, were the story to continue, we would see
that the image of Bob in Cooper is in fact really the beginning of the
Black Lodge struggle, in the sense that only now is Cooper really
confronting the shadow.  Thus, the entire curtained area could in fact
be the "waiting room", since it was there that one waited for the
shadow to appear.

Barb Miller