Subject: Re: Who died and Donna's birth certificate
From: jblum@lucy.umd.edu (Jon Blum)
Date: 1992-06-05, 10:24
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <sFPVLB3w163w@zitt> joe@zitt (Joe Zitt) writes:
> >jblum@lucy.umd.edu (Jon Blum) writes:
>> >> I think it could be symbolic in a different way than you intend -- perhaps
>> >> that Ben too could be possessed.  Think about it.  Ben's a bad man who has
>> >> seen the light and changed.  Does the name "MIKE" ring a bell?

> >Not >that's< interesting! One possible bug: Were MIKE and Ben ever seen
> >together? It looks like one of the game rules (as it were) is that the
> >posessor and posessee can't be in different places...

Yes, they were in the same room at the beginning of #2007, when Coop and
the one-armed man were searching for BOB at the Great Northern.  Ben
walks into the room, and the OAM clutches at his amputated arm, falls
to the floor, thrashes and passes out.

Interesting, no?

Personally, I don't think MIKE was always in Ben -- I think he either
entered him at the time he decided to change his ways, after his little
"attack" at the end of the Civil War plotline, or is only just entering him
in the final episode, now that Ben is a suitable/sympathetic host for this
spirit.

The spirits do seem to bond with hosts that match their personality --
Leland is clearly unstable even when he's not under BOB's direct control,
for example, and Laura can be wanton and destructive on her own, according
to Bobby's discussion with Jacoby in the first season.

Just thoughts...