Subject: Questions/Answers and some Trivia (was Re: FAQ about the series)s From: v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey) Date: 1992-09-20, 01:37 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article <15559@umd5.umd.edu>, jblum@hamlet.umd.edu (Hi ho -- Kermit the Frog here...) writes... > >In article <28325@twics.co.jp> joji@twics.co.jp writes: >> >>Who was with Leo when Bobby and Mike ego to the woods to pick up the >> >>football of cocaine? One of the Bernaud(sp) brothers? [early episode] > >Good question, actually. My money is on Dr. Jacoby, since we find out > >later that he's been watching Leo. The other popular theory is that it > >is Jacques Renault, or maybe Bernie. My thought was always that it was Jawques -- someone standing behind Leo to imply someone BEHIND Leo -- a backer in the drug smuggling operations. That someone is Jaques (who, I believe, "muled" the drugs over the border from his brother Jean to Leo who sold them to Bobby (and Laura, and sometimes Mike) to sell at school.) >> >>When Bob leaves Leland's body in that scene where the sprinklers come >> >>on in the jail cell, why does Leland always say "They made me do it"? >> >>Why doesn't he say 'He' made me do it, as in BOB? > > > >Because back at the time when he killed Teresa, MIKE and BOB were still > >partners. We still don't know how / if Leland knew MIKE, or the one-armed > >man. That's not right. The One-Armed-Man says he was BOB's partner until he saw the Face of God and took off the arm -- he was already One-Armed when we see him in FWWM and nothing suggested he had JUST RECENTLY lost that arm... Instead, I think Leland's dialogue in his death scene signifies only that there are more beings involved in it than just BOB: The LMFAP, the Tremonds/Chalfonts, probably the Giant as well... They have a larger motive than just thrills in feeding on the fear and suffering of victims. In FWWM, the OAM says he had the creamed corn "canned above the convenience store" and that BOB stole it, and that "The thread will be torn" if BOB doesn't replace the corn he stole -- which he does, with Laura's. That's why the OAM and LMFAP demand their share -- BOB must replace what he stole so they can go "can" it again. This signifies the LMFAP and MIKE (and probably The Giant) have a longterm, higher goal -- When they have enough Creamed Corn, strengthening the thread -- although who knows what they are holding together with that thread -- the passage between two worlds moving apart, theirs and ours, perhaps -- they can "go home." This last part is made clear in the script, but was cut from the final film. BOB, I'd argue, hordes the creamed corn for himself -- he's addicted to it, as his victims are usually addicted to drugs. So he kills humans. That makes the OAM a reformed alcaholic -- he broke the addiction. Anyway, that's my two cents for now... :-) >> >>In the roadhouse, the night Maddy is killed, Donna is sitting in a both >> >>with James. The Giant tells Cooper that it is happening again. He goes, >> >>she starts crying. Why? > > > >Movie spoiler. There are hints that Donna's sudden transformation from > >nice-girl to weirdo is connected to something in the movie which begins at > >the Roadhouse. Maybe she too gets a sense that "it is happening again" -- > >that the process that corrupted Laura is happening to her. > >Or maybe not. It could just be that she's breaking down at the thought of > >her part in Harold Smith's death. Or not...! Um. I agree that on one level, Donna is probably crying for Harold Smith - but TWIN Peaks usually operates on at least two levels. James also looks stricken, and why would he be weeping for Harold? He had very little to do with Donna and Maddy's plot - and he believes "it wasn't anybody's fault." I think Donna is stricken - as is James, but not as strongly - with the knowledge, not exactly that "It is happening again," but that "Something horrible has happened..." She has that sudden sick feeling you get when you suddenly become sure tragedy has befallen a member of the family. >> >>Also, Bobby has this remorseful look on his face. Why? > > > >I didn't see too much remorse -- I think he's looking at James and Donna > >with a vague expression of cluelessness. He doesn't know how James got away >from the planted cocaine from before. He also has completely missed > >everything that just happened on-stage. This works on one level for Bobby -- except when you think, "Wouldn't he have known James was in school that whole week in between the cocaine thing and that night in the Roadhouse?" Rather, I'd say Bobby's expression belies feelings which match Donna and James'. These three were Laura's closest friends and lovers -- shouldn't they pick up some vibe of what The Giant communicated to Coop? Not enough to have gleaned "It" was happening again -- but enough to know something terrible happened? I think that's definitely reasonable given that ANYONE specifically attuned can see these people. Cooper is spectacularly intuned, to the point of Tibetan techniques. So are Major Briggs (Bobby's father, no less) and The Log Lady... >> >>Does anyone know if the Log Lady saw the Giant up on the stage. > >No. We don't know. Yes we do. She saw the whole thing -- she's the most peacefully intuned to this shit in the whole town; she's survived exposure to the "Owls" (in the form of her husband and her log) and been left alone. She's moving during the visitation, and no one else in the Roadhouse is - that is, apart from Coop himself, who definitely saw it (duh). She's looking at Cooper in a different way than Donna and James are looking at themselves -- as their looks, and Bobby's, are unknowing looks, the Log Lady's is a KNOWING one. She's a savvy kind of lady, you know -- she knows what's what. Shortly thereafter, the health of Annie Blackburn still in question, the behavior of Special Agent Dale Cooper was noticed __________________________to have changed. Scott Gorcey.
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