Subject: Worrying about deep meaning (was Re: Spoiler - Who Killed Laura Palmer Really) From: francis@heruka.cs.adelaide.edu.au (Francis Vaughan) Date: 1992-01-10, 03:07 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks Reply-to: francis@cs.adelaide.edu.au In article , joe@zitt (Joe Zitt) writes: |> johnatwe@midiline.la.ca.us (John atwell) writes: |> |> > You know, there might be something to that. Bob is, after all, the |> > "Father of Lies" (read The Devil, if you wish), and he could have |> > convinced Leland that HE killed Laura, whereas she really killed herself. |> > Perhaps Laura killed herself while under control of Bob. Or even more |> > believably, Laura could have escaped Bob's clutches and decided to commit |> > suicide rather than face returning under his control. In any case, Bob |> > could have done away with Laura using any "vehicle", if he so desired. |> > Maybe the Owls killed her! I always felt that Ronnette Pulaski could |> > have a lot to say, but didn't get to for some reason. |> |> My theory (which is mine...) is that BOB had really possessed Ben and had |> >him< kill Laura (and also fast-talk) Catherine into being able to provide |> an alibi. This also supposes that Ben was Laura's real father. BOB |> possessed Leland for the first time on the night that he killed Jacques -- |> the shock of possession turned Leland's hair white. Nah, it was Dale Cooper all along. BOB just left him for a bit of fun whilst he (Dale) was messing around trying to find the killer (himself.) The last episode is just BOB coming home again after a bit of a holiday. :-) Just kiddding. Read what you like into the scripts, I very much doubt that anything like the effort expended now in resolving the loose ends and tying the whole story into a more global mythos ever went into the origonal writing. Personally I feel that part of Lynch's art is the ability to know when to stop embelishing. He understands more by visceral feel how to set the atmoshere and incorporate background to flesh out the charaters. What he really understands is the art of not overdoing things. To totally map out the entire world with a full structure in minute detail is like overworking a painting. Suddenly it losses its life and vitality. It is like comparing a super realist painting with an impressionist. Somehow there is no depth to the super real and yet in the simplicity of the impressionist one sees true emotion expressed. Not the best of analogues but you get the idea. My whole enjoyment of Twin Peaks was really one of feel. I really miss the atmoshere that seeped out of the tube each week. Especially in the early episodes when the atmoshere seemd so much thicker. Somehow it started to thin out as time progressed and the plots become more ridiculous than deep and forboding. Ho Humm, I still really hope they can manage to start again. It is the only reason I still subscribe to this group, hoping that one day someone will hear some good news. Francis Vaughan