Subject: Re: FWWM: MIKE and BOB (the spirits, not the students)
From: del@fnx.uucp (Dag Erik Lindberg)
Date: 1992-09-01, 23:47
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In <29AUG92.01294495@vax.clarku.edu> htilney@vax.clarku.edu writes:

> >My understanding is that MIKE is some kind of spirit and BOB is his
> >familiar. MIKE feeds on pain and sorrow, and BOB (who goes out and 
> >does the dirty work) feeds on fear and brings back subjects and their
> >misery for MIKE. Alot of this is implied, so correct me if I'm wrong.

I think that Mike, as with all characters (save one), there is a good
incarnation and an evil one.  The evil doppleganger collects the
garmonbozia.

> >My question is, why did MIKE warn Laura about her father in the traffic
> >scene in the movie? I thought that MIKE wasn't "purified" until after 
> >Laura's death. And after Laura's murder we see him retrieving "pain and
> >sorrow" from BOB in the Black Lodge.

The Mike at the traffic scene was the good Mike.  In the series, Mike
talks about cutting off his own arm to keep Bob out.  Notice how there
is a common thread about the left arm.  Anyway, in cutting off the left
arm, Mike has permanently anchored his good doppleganger in the TP world.

-- del AKA Erik Lindberg uunet!pilchuck!fnx!del Who is John Galt?

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