From: georgen@pooky.cs.mun.ca (George Noel)
Subject: Re: Comments from 2nd viewing
Summary: Good/Bad OAM
Keywords: OAM different from series and movie
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:12:08 GMT

In article <iFe6qB3w165w@zitt> zitt!joe@dogface.austin.tx.us (Joe Zitt) writes:
>UnoJ writes:
>
>> Conclusions: Mike is not _evil_ since nothing seems to
>> be so clear cut in the TP world. But his is nonetheless
>> a character that has a variey of shady purposes of his own.
>
>Another possibility: MIKE could simply be >incompetent< at what he does.
>Considering that he did very little that was ultimately useful, perhaps
>he just messed up at his task a lot. After all, we have no reason to 
>believe that the Others are necessarily skilled at their tasks; in fact,
>most of them seem to have >serious< communications problems.
>
>(Just think how much better off the world would be if we could get the
>Black Lodge Hooked-On-Phonics B-].)
>

You also have to remember that in the movie the OAM was being posseded and
controlled by Mike BUT in the series, the OAM for the most part ISN'T being
controlled/possesed by Mike. In the series for the most part the OAM is
Phillip Gerard thus he knows nothing about Leland being Bob, knows nothing
of Bob, says the tatoo on his arm said "Mom" and says he lost it in a car
accident.. to Phillip Gerard this is all true (or so he thinks). In the
series he was taking drugs to prevent Mike from taking him over. He says
before he was a shoe salesman he was a pharmacuticle salesman (needles,
pharmacy drugs etc.) thus his knowledge of drugs to keep Mike out, and the
drug wasn't of any composition that Albert could recognize. When taking
the drugs, Phillip Gerard has a life of his own, without them he is Mike
and takes on a whole new life/personality - what is reality to one isn't to
the other. Maybe Mike made Phillip Gerard use the drugs so he wouldn't act
the same way and give anything away to Cooper - Mike's test to see if Cooper
could figure it out for himself like The Giant was seing if Cooper could
solve the puzzles he was giving him. The Giant and the LMFAP, from the last
episode of the second season we know are "one and the same".

 The reason why the OAM in the series knew nothing of Leland being Bob is
 also like why Leland didn't remember killing Laura - it was blocked by the
 possesing spirit.

  From what I can gather Mrs. Tremond, Pierre Tremond, LMFAP, The Giant and
  the log lady's husband (4 of the 7 people shown in the red room above the
  convenience store) are good, out to help either Laura/Coop or whomever on
  their path. Everything they tell or do for someone is a hint for
  an event in the future which WILL come true ("The latter events are not
  kept a secret"). They, along with the OAM (possesed by Mike), Margaret with
  her log (possesed by her husband) and Major Briggs (linked with White Lodge)
  seem to be out to stop Bob which is one of two evils.

  I keep seeing the LMFAP being referred to as Mike.. this is not correct,
  entirely.. while he is related to Mike (His arm) he is not Mike as a whole.
  For one thing he doesn't speak like Mike did through Phillip Gerard and
  the only other time we hear Mike speaking that way is when the LMFAP is
  reattached to Phillip Gerard in the movie asking for his garmonbozia - thus
  Mike as a whole. I think Mike as a whole was represented in the red room
  as the dancing man in the owl mask - the shaman.. Coop says he thinks Mike
  was a shaman/seer in his time in the series. Mike, as a whole, is the only
  person Bob is affraid of - thus why he isn't affraid of the LMFAP around
  the formica table. Mike used to take part in the killings with Bob until
  he saw the face of God and cut off the arm with the tattoo on it (thus
  creating the LMFAP in the spirit world like someone suggested) - the only
  problem with this idea is that shouldn't the shaman only have had one
  arm in the red room? Or was it where time flows differently there that
  he could be there with 2 arms even though the LMFAP is there also? Afterall,
  most of them are one and the same anyways. :-)

  -=*George*=-

 P.S. Something else just came to me - everything that happens with the
 spirits seems like a big game - ie: only providing certain pieces of the
 puzzle to be solved. In the entire red room scene above the convenience
 store LMFAP is sitting at one end of the formica table.. Bob at the other.
 LMFAP "This is a formica, green is its color" - green usually represents
 Earth doesn't it? A woodsmand says (in the cut parts) "Our World" - this
 woodsman is the log lady's husband. It was like they were looking on the
 formica table as having a "God's eye view" of everything that happens on
 earth or in Twin Peaks. Going with my theory that LMFAP et al is good
 and Bob is evil - what does that remind you of when sitting at opposite
 ends of a table and it being a game? A game of Chess. Compare that to
 Coop's and Wyndem Earle's chess game using people as pawns, a piece gets
 taken off - someone dies.. I think this is what LMFAP's and Bob's "Chess"
 game is like also .. the LMFAP being the arm for Mike playing the game like
 Pete was for Cooper playing the chess game against Wyndem. Coop or Wyndem
 says something about how they have gone beyond the borders of the board,
 investigating them. That is like the lodge folk - they are beyond
 the borders of their "board" (Earth/Twin Peaks).

  Anyone agree with this?

   -=*George*=-

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