From: v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Subject: Reasons why Teresa, Laura and Maddy were killed (was re: 2nd viewing)
Date: 3 Sep 92 02:08:00 GMT
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In article <1992Sep2.211218.22627@adobe.com>, asente@adobe.com (A Usenet Pal) writes...
>Saw the movie for a second time last night.  Spoilers...
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>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.

     No, I'd agree that BOB doesn't kill just for fun...  but he's "eager
     for fun..." so I'd guess that's a large part of it - he kills for
     the garmonbozia, obviously...  And the One-Armed Man/Little Man From
     Another Place DON'T kill for the same reason: because the
     garmonbozia is addictive, and the OAM has broken the addiction,
     "I took off the arm..."  after "...I saw the face of God..."

     Anyway, I am not quite sure why Leland/BOB kills Teresa, but 
     the blackmailing Leland angle is a good one... but why would
     BOB care if Leland was being blackmailed?  It's no big deal to
     him/it.  
     But with Laura, on the other hand, I think you've missed a big
     piece of the point: Laura wasn't killed out of jealousy, Laura
     was killed out of RAGE because she had the strength (as Leland
     when he was a child did not) to resist BOB...  BOB wanted Laura
     as his new host...  She resisted him from the ages of 12 to 17,
     and it nearly cost her sanity (or maybe it DID cost her sanity).

     The climactic train car scene is the final battle between Laura
     and BOB/Leland... and she wins, HER will is stronger.  BOB will
     never have her... so he kills her... and in so doing, capitulates
     the struggle.  BOB gets Laura's garmonbozia, which he must split
     with OAM/LMFAP (because they were once partners... a pre-existing
     deal or one of the rules of the Lodge people?)...  But he DOESN'T
     get Laura.

     I've been wondering if that Train Car scene might not have been
     LAURA'S version of the Dweller On The Threshold confrontation:
     she faces her greatest fear with perfect courage, sure enough...
     but does this gain her admittance into the White Lodge?...  
     Comments on that???

     Maddy, on the other hand, was killed, I think, because BOB had
     feasted on Maddy's garmonbozia and wanted more.  Remember the
     episode which opened with Leland's interrogation for the murder
     of Jaques Renault?  That long track throuh a dark cavernous
     region with Owls hooting, girls (Laura... Maddy?) screaming,
     and little voices coaxingly chanting "Maddy... Maddy... Maddy?
     Maddy..."  We realize that the track has been out from a slot
     wall in the interrogation room, but on another level, we've been
     given admittance to Leland's own head... 

     We've heard what is going on in there: BOB, or BOB and others, are
     enticing Leland into murdering Maddy...  or BOB is tormenting the
     real Leland with what he's going to do.

     True enough, Maddy was murdered to prevent her from leaving, but
     I think had she not decided to leave just then, she probably
     would have lived a bit longer...

>- 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.

     They were stoned!  I don't think there's anything more to it than
     that...  Naturally, if Phillip Gerard turns up dead, wrapped in
     plastic, in the next PEAKS film (knock... er, wood), I'll recant
     that and call it foreshadowing...

     Comments anyone??? 

     Scott Gorcey