From: asente@adobe.com (A Usenet Pal)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Subject: 2nd viewing musings
Date: 2 Sep 92 21:12:18 GMT
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Saw the movie for a second time last night.  Spoilers...

Who was the red-clothed figure jumping on and off the box during Jeffreys'
narrative?  He was wearing whiteface and an artificial nose (like the owl
mask) and had his hair colored black.

What did the grandson have in his hand?  He was carrying it around, both
during the scene where they gave Laura the picture and the scene where he
jumped around after Leland fled the motel.

There's a long tracking shot at the end in the lodge, after the BOB/Mike/
Leland/LMFAP scene but before the Cooper/Laura scene, where the camera tracks
across the floor towards the curtains.  It appears that there is something
behind the curtains right where the camera is headed.  I have no idea what it
was.

Observations:

BOB doesn't seem to kill just for fun.  Teresa was killed for blackmailing
Leland.  Laura's death seems to be jealousy more than anything else (L/B
didn't like the idea of other people having her).  Maddy was killed to keep
her from leaving.

People have been characterizing the spirits as good and bad.  I've decided
that this is far too simplistic an analysis.  I think the spirits have their
own personal agendas. In some cases their agendas have results that harm
people, and in others the agendas help them, but the harm or help is not
usually the goal of their actions.  I think the OAM is trying to stop BOB,
but not out of any sense of devotion to humans -- he's still willing to
consume the garmonbozia.  The LMFAP screams with agony when Laura is
murdered, but he eats it too.  The two of them tell BOB "Give us all *our*
garmorbozia."

Laura can tell that the OAM and the LMFAP are related.  After the car-yelling
scene, Laura says something like, "Who was that?  Do I know him?"  It was
clear that he looked familiar.  Then she flashed on the memory of her dream
with the LMFAP offering the ring.

My guess is that the same thing happened to Jeffreys as happened to
Desmond.  (What is it with FBI agents with first names for last names?
Stanley, Desmond, Jeffreys...)

Mrs. Chalfont lived in the trailer that had previously been occupied by a Mr.
Chalfont.  As Mrs. Tremond, she lived in a house that was currently occupied
by a Mrs. Tremond.  Interesting parallel.  I don't think we've really learned
her name at all.

There are lots of things I think I now understand, and lots of things I think
I sort of understand, or at least have hypotheses for.  2 things I don't
understand at all:

- The ring.  Is it protection?  A mark?  Teresa had it for quite some time
before she died (it was in all the pictures, and notice how pale her skin was
where it had been).  Did she lose it before she died or after?  My guess is
after since her skin was dirty elsewhere, but clean there.  What was it doing
under the trailer?  How did the OAM get it?  Is there more than one ring?  It
looked as if the OAM threw it to Laura in the train car.  Did wearing it at
death help her?  Why did dream Cooper tell her not to take the ring?

- Why did Laura keep saying the Bobby killed Mike?  It could just be drunken
ramblings, but I can't help but think there was more to it.  But I have no
idea what.

Questions, questions, questions...

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