From: goldberg@iastate.edu (Adam Goldberg)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Subject: ANSWERS!  please respond.
Keywords: FWWM
Date: 4 Sep 92 19:00:26 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Originator: goldberg@vincent1.iastate.edu

What follows in the culmination of re-watching the entire series, seeing FWWM,
and gathering up the best theories from the net:

SPOILERS A GO-GO
^L



 
THE FOLLOWING ARE MY "CONCLUSIONS TO DATE".  THEY ARE FAR FROM SET IN STONE.
 
I think Catherine put the fish in the percolator as a prank for Pete/Josie.
 
I thought The white horse meant someone drugged, not death.  I since have
been set straight, referring to a Lynch interview, that it is a pooka,
signifying death.
 
I think Jacques told Cooper what he actually BELIEVED happened that night
at the lodge.  He and Leo argued so much, and there was So MUCH coke.  I
don't see a continuity error here.
 
The mask that the "child" wears is an owl mask.  It has no eye holes.
It seems to be reinforced by the quote "The magician longs to see".
 
That was Annie in bed with Laura.  (Some have said it looked like Ronette).
 
It seems that whomever puts on the ring, dies.  There also has to be a
correlation between the ring and Laura's necklace.  Both ended up over
a pile of dirt.  The only theory I have for this is that BOB USED to use
the ring, but upon Laura's death, kept the ring and left the necklace.
This causes a problem with Maddy's death (no symbol or dirt at all), but
could indicate that the posessor of the NECKLACE would be the next vicitm.
This, of course, ended up to finally be Cooper.
 
What happens if BOB does manage to spell out his entire name under
fingernails?
 
Mike can not physically stop Bob or doesn't really want to.  Is it
possible that BOB IS the magician and MIKE the familiar?  (This would
indicate that OAM has been covering for Bob instead of helping cooper)
 
That was the shadow self of Leland in the lodge.  Shadow Leland says he
didn't kill Laura, which we know to be true.  The real but posessed
Leland did it.
 
Time runs backwards in the lodge (futures past).  Cooper's gunshot wound
reappears and Annie ends up in bed with Laura "before" she enters the lodge.
Cooper helps Laura in the lodge after she dies.
 
There is a theory going around that Cooper is caught in a time loop and
that the TV series references to a ring, refer to this unbroken circle of
time.  Now, If we look at the time loop as a cirlce, starting where Cooper
enters the Black Lodge, the circumference is 25 years. If Cooper was indeed
caught in a time loop, this would explain why so many of his dreams are
accurate, he's lived them before. Another bit of evidence is that the angel
that unties Ronette is none other than Laura!! (For proof, look at the
still picture in the soundtrack booklet).  If the time loop theory is
correct, that could not have been the good Annie that came back out with
Cooper, otherwise she wouldn't be able to go backwards in time (in the
lodge) and end up in bed with Laura at the beginning of the loop.  This is
also reinforced by the fact that Laura told Cooper she would see him again
in 25 years, indicating the length of the time loop.
 
I whole heartily agree with the addiction theme (that SOME of the "aliens"
are addicted to pain in suffering like Laura is addicted to cocaine).
Remember that the old lady said to Donna, "I didn't order creamed corn,
take it away".  A reference to the fact that she did not partake in the
substance.
 
Bowie/Jefferies was definitely in "Time phase".  He witnessed a meeting
of the "aliens" but escaped before he could be imprisoned in wood.  This
seems to relate to the "thread" that is hinted at by the "aliens" in the
speech:
 
OAM yelled to Laura when Leland was reving the engine, honking the horn and
screaming:
 
:You stole the corn!  I had it canned... over the store!
:And Miss, the look on her face when it was opened.
:There was a stillness.
:Like the formica table top.
:The thread will be torn, Mr. Palmer!
:The thread will be torn!
:It's him!  It's your father!!
 
If we continue with the time loop theory, the saving of Laura Palmer (or
another, see below) by Mike or anyone else, would break the loop.  What
Mike would gain by this is unknown.  Continuing one step further, if
Ronette has been dying in these time loops and Laura saved her THIS TIME
through the loop, the circle was broken in the train car.  In which case
Laura finally goes to the white lodge (after all these loops) and this time
the real Annie escapes from the lodge instead of the evil one.  Now Cooper
would have to be rescued from the lodge before he passes the time of his
entrance.  The Sheriff waited about a day for Cooper to reemerge, so they
would have about that much time to rescue Cooper before he moves backwards
to before he left.  If they fail to rescue him, he would become like
Jefferies, lost in time.
 
I believe that the picture in Laura's room, the meeting room where we saw
all the "aliens", and the room above the convenience store are all the same
room.
 
Wood is the aliens method of containment/imprisonment.
 
Now ...  Here's the best "chain of command" theory I have come up with:
(I am not buying the two Mike (one good/one doppleganger theory)
 
I think Bob, Mike's familiar (owl) turned on Mike.  This is when Mike
realized the errors of his ways and cut off his arm (LMFAP).  The happened
long before Teressa Banks' murder. He physically cut off his arm as a so he
could be sure that he would never revert back to his old ways.  See, LMFAP
seems to possess ARMS (probably the dominant one). Arms go dead, remember?
So, LMFAP can no longer control any of Mike's actions, Mike has no arm
LMFAP can possess.  LMFAP need not possess Bob's arm, Bob already does
dirty work for him.  LMFAP is the one with the addiction. I don't know
whether the LMFAP PHYSICALLY possesses the arm of his minions to insure
their obedience, but this could be true as well. * THE kink in this theory
and most others (including the time loop theory) is WHY was Mike there
when Bob gave the garbonzia to LMFAP? Was he watching LMFAP partake and
wishing he could help?  Or was he waiting for his portion?  (Even at the
start of the time loop theory, Mike already had only one arm)
 
 
If there was indeed a time loop and it WAS broken, this would actually
JUSTIFY most of the continuity errors! (haha!)
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