Subject: What are THEY up to?? (was re What We Could Expect In A Sequel FWWM)
From: v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey)
Date: 1992-09-21, 16:29
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

     Coop, Desmond and Jeffries must die...

> >I don't think ALL of them would be trashed.  After all, we need someone
> >to explain (or at least hint) at more of what's going on in the Lodge.
> >Chester Desmond is probably the most likely to survive -- after all,
> >his main reason for being in FWWM is as a substitute Coop.  (I get the
> >feeling that if Kyle had been more available / willing, he would have
> >investigated Teresa Banks like he did in the Autobiography.)

     I get that feeling too... but Desmond's presence may have
     worked to the film's advantage - to suggest, as with Blue
     Rose, a wider, more formal investigation by Cole into
     what's up in those Douglas Firs...  and Sycamores, for
     that matter...

     However, my point was: Coop CAN die now, because we don't
     NEED a narrator anymore.  For several reasons: first,
     a film has wider breadth of narration in and of itself;
     especially a Lynch film.  Second, we have a workable
     knowledge base of the backstory - perhaps it is still
     harder, but in the end much more rewarding, if we are
     forced to work through it ourselves.  And third, of
     course, these people have a very high mortality rate:
     Coop MUST die because he CAN die.

> >On the other hand...  Coop must DIE.  For several reasons.  Kyle's
> >reluctance to continue is the least of them.  Another one is Jean
> >Renault's speech about how Coop brought the nightmare with him to
> >Twin Peaks -- and maybe, if he will die, the nightmare will end.

     I'd take issue briefly with that: Josie says similar.  The
     truth of it is, Coop didn't BRING the nightmare.  He
     brought it OUT into the open.  Before Coop, the weirdness
     in Twin Peaks - and Bend, Oregon, and Deer Meadow WA and
     Missoula Montana, etc - was simply not spoken of: like
     adultery in the 50s -- which contributed to the anachronistic
     feel of the series.

  Most
> >important, though, is the fact that Leland died, and Twin Peaks is
> >cyclical.  If there is to be a final confrontation between MIKE and BOB,
> >we know it will end with BOB getting shot, as in the dream sequence...
> >and that doesn't bode well for Coop.

     When did BOB get shot in the dream?  In the Euroversion, you
     mean?  I wouldn't go by that, myself... 

     But: I don't see the grand scheme of Peaks mythology as
     simply as a confrontation between MIKE and BOB.  

     These beings are from somewhere else - I don't want to
     say another planet, that's stupid, it smacks too much of
     Rocky Horror -- but they're from somewhere else, and they're
     clearly stranded here.  At least, FWWM makes that clear (the
     script makes it even more clear).

     The "fuel" they need to get home is distilled from the 
     fear and suffering of humans: FIRE distilled to Garmonbozia
     distilled further to Creamed Corn.  MIKE and the LMFAP (who
     were once one entity) and other residents of The Lodge
     like The Giant inhabbit humans - perhaps even with those
     humans' approval - and collect the ambient fear and
     suffering we all feel daily.  
     BOB, at some point, stopped collecting ambient fear and
     suffering and started CAUSING it.  This indicates that
     FIRE is addictive to the one who consumes it.  BOB is
     an addict - he stole the creamed corn MIKE had "canned"
     above the convenience store.
     If he doesn't return it, the "thread" (the link to that other
     place they want to get back to) will be "torn" and they'll
     be stuck here forever.  
     So BOB must give MIKE and LMFAP "their share" of FIRE after
     killing Laura and taking hers: because he owes it to them.
     In the script, LMFAP tells BOB: "You're not going home without
     me" just before he demands his (and MIKE's) share of the
     FIRE.
     This explains MIKE's behavior too.  MIKE is also addicted
     to the FIRE.  But he "saw the face of God" and "took off
     the arm" -- so he's a reformed alcaholic.  

     I think this has the ring of possibility -- what does everyone
     else think?  I'd love some feedback!

> >Besides, it's just such a neat image for the end of the film for Coop
> >to be in the chair in the red room, this time with Laura as his guardian /
> >angel.

     But is Laura still in The Lodge?  (She was in the Lodge 25
     years later... but she wasn't Laura, she was LMFAP's "cousin"
     then - same Laura?  Dunno...)  I thought she was saved by
     that angel - and perhaps taken to The White Lodge?

                 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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