From: v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Subject: Who Judy is.  Owl Ring/Tatoo.  OAM-Mike-LMFAP.  (was re TP,FWWM...)
Summary: The Owl Ring and Tatoo come from The White Lodge.
Keywords: Briggs, Log Lady, Owl Ring...  connected?
Date: 11 Sep 92 21:24:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
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>>1) Just where does the special European ending start on the movie
>>   and what is different?

>It starts at the scene where Sarah Palmer, half-asleep, has a vision of
>BOB in her daughter's room.  Everything after that is new/different,
>though large chunks of it were adapted for Cooper's first-season dream
>sequence.  The original pilot ended with Sarah instead seeing a vision
>of a gloved hand taking the necklace that Donna and James buried.

     Actually, Sarah DOES have the same vision of Bob in Laura's
     room in the ABC pilot -- we just didn't see it.  A later
     episode (1004, I think) has Andy sketching Bob from Sarah's
     descriptions of a man she saw in Laura's room in her vision
     from the pilot.  
     Sarah's vision in the American version is simply intercut with
     Jacoby's hand taking the necklace...  but they're not connected
     on any level higher than editing.

>>2) Who is Judy?

>Good question.  Dialogue from the extended version of the David Bowie
>scene implied that she is someone working with the FBI on the Blue Rose
>cases -- about the beings from the Lodges.

     Vely intelesting...  Can't wait to find out more.

>>3) How is it that Dale is able to talk to Laura (i.e. Don't take the
>>   Ring) and stuff like that, and how does he get to the curtain place
>>   so easy, like at the end.

>Because this is Dale after the end of the series, when he is "trapped
>in the Lodge and can't leave".  Time flows strangely in the Lodge --
>backwards, in a sense.

     Do we know that for sure?  I guess we do, but if he's trapped in
     the lodge, why is he able to - seemingly - move so freely and
     communicate with Laura in dreams, etc... if he's a prisoner,
     wouldn't his actions be more ... limited?

>>4) I am assuming that the chick at the end in the black dress standing
>>   by Coop is the same chick from the end of the pilot where the LMfAP
>>   says "She looks a lot like Laura..."  Then why is she so happy at
>>   the angel.

>That WAS Laura, or more accurately her spirit.

     That was the Laura we saw in the final episode - it's the same
     dress, isn't it...

>>5) Everyone seems to say that the ring symbolizes "You're next"  Then
>>   howcome when the OAM drives up screaming, he holds up his hand with
>>   the ring on it?

>Because he's from the Lodge, and they control the ring.  It's theirs.
>Why shouldn't he wear it?

     I don't think that's the significance of the ring.  Remember that
     the Log Lady and Major Briggs both had those symbols TATOOED on
     them when they were kidnapped...  and we know that they're
     operating with a much greater understanding of the Lodges than
     anyone this side of Agent Jeffries (that we know of)...

     Briggs is clearly a candidate for entry into the White Lodge (and
     the only one we know of too), so I think that ring comes from the
     White Lodge.  The tatoo and the ring both serve the same function:
     to protect the wearer from posession by BOB or his buddies.  
     When Laura put the ring on, she was saved from possession - and
     Leland/BOB had no choice but to kill her.
     Teresa Banks is shown with the ring as well... somehow, she came
     into possession of the ring, and Bob/Leland couldn't possess
     her either (if that was ever his intent... to stop her blackmailing
     him...?) - so she's dead.  
     What about the tatoo on the One-Armed-Man's missing arm - he talks
     about the mark in 1002, in the dream - and says he "took off the
     arm."  Is this the same tatoo as Briggs and Margaret have - the
     same symbol on the ring?  Or something else?  (We don't really 
     believe it said "MOM" do we?)

     Incidentally, the LMFAP CAN'T BE MIKE, because Gerard "took off the
     arm," severed it.  And we SAW him still possessed by Mike.  That's
     a contradiction, if the LMFAP himself is Mike.  I think we haven't
     seen the OAM's "true face" yet...
From: brian@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Brian Wood)
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 16:28:17 GMT
Subject: Re: A positive FWWN reveiw!
Organization: HP Mfg. Test Div., Loveland, CO