Subject: Re: LMFAP and Mike
From: ingria@bbn.com (Bob Ingria)
Date: 1992-10-09, 10:33
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: ingria@BBN.COM

In article <1992Oct7.213623.16014@cheshire.oxy.edu> rooney@cheshire.oxy.edu (Michael Sean Rooney) writes:

   [Bob Ingria's speculations equating the LMFAP to Mike the
    spirit possessing Gerard the OAM deleted for brevity.]

   But doesn't the LMFAP specifically state in FWWM, "I am the arm"?

Yep, that's a problem with the hypothesis.  Unless, somehow,
possession by these inhabiting spirits is through the hand/arms.  This
would explain Theresa's numbness, and the shaking hands in the
antepenultimate episode of the series.  It suggests the following:
Phil Gerard is possessed, realizes it, and cuts off his arm to escape
possession.  Since his arm is cut off, he is harder to possess than
those who retain their arm (Leland, The Waiter); but he is still
subject to posession, hence the need to use the blue chemical (name
forgotten, sorry) to keep off Mike.  Going against this is the
curiosity that Cooper saw Mike with the face of Philip Gerard in his
dream.  Normally, he sees the host (Leland, the Room Servie Waiter) in
this world, and the ``true face'' (Bob, The Giant) in dreams or in the
Lodges.  Although Senor Drool Cup did appear in the Lodge; the
relation of where hosts and their inhabiting spirits appear may be
complicated.

   If so, would this make the LMFAP the evil portion of Mike/Gerard
   which was excised upon beholding the face of god?  Or something
   else entirely?  Mike (the spirit) is opposed to Bob, or at least
   Bob's killings.  The LMFAP seems a more ambiguously motivated
   entity

As I've said before, I think FWWM throws a lot of doubt on the bona
fides and intentions of Mike and the LMFAP (whether they are one and
the same or not), so I'd hesitate on buying into Mike's story about
excising his evil.

-30-
Bob
--
-30-
Bob Ingria

</pre>
<hr><a target="right" href="/fwwm/index.txt">Return</a></body></html>