Subject: The Great Went - Duality Role Playing in Twin Peaks
From: v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey)
Date: 1992-09-14, 10:27
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

     Everybody in Twin Peaks has a double.
     Whether its a physical double - such as Leland/BOB, Senor Droolcup/
     The Giant, or Laura/Maddy - or a spiritual/mental double, such
     as Donna, the innocent and Donna, the bitch; Nadine the bitch,
     Nadine the teenager; Josie the sweet, Josie the vicious; etc.

     Twin Peaks is playing, sometimes elaborately, sometimes for fun,
     with the concepts of duality - from different halves of a
     character's personality, to bumps on the head, etc; sometimes
     for serious: dopplegangers, possessions, harbinger/visitations,
     etc.

     The Great Went/Muffin exchange between Jaques and Laura is clearly
     meant to be more of this; a reference to sexual role playing they
     have had fun with in the past.  

     Personally, I wouldn't give it any more weight than that: it affirms
     Peaks' obsession with duality, it's funny.  It's over.

     Scott

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