From: jsnell@ocf.berkeley.edu (Jason Snell)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Subject: Re: FWWM - spoilers...
Date: 29 Aug 1992 19:47:08 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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In article <Iebumjy00WBME1vCAt@andrew.cmu.edu> Jeremy Matthew Toeman <jt3h+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>This is actually a list of questions I have, but will spoil a few things..

>
>1] Was I the only one disturbed by the painting with the door on it? That
>was one of the more horrifying things I have ever seen.  In Laura's dream,
>when she walked through it, where was she?  Is this a possible entrance to
>either of the Lodges?

I'd say yes. It was very disturbing, too. Believe it or not, when Laura looks 
back and sees herself in the picture, the movie theater I was in filled with
gasps. This creeped people out more than just about anything else...

>2] What happens to Chris Isaak? I was expecting to see him later in the
>Black Lodge (assuming that is where they ended up later.. I have trouble
>distinguishing between the 2..) but he never showed up again.

This disappointed me, because I think Isaak/Sutherland were the best thing in
the movie.. true, Isaak was a little stilted, but the pair was still enjoyable.

>3] Did they forget to put in a scene of a letter being shoved under the
>girls' fingernails?? I *KNOW* they both had them. (Either that, or my
>memory is way-screwed)

Laura did; in the movie, they just didn't show it.

>4] David Bowie - simply a great scene that was probably cut down to <8
>minutes of answering SOME questions from the TV show, but had no real place
>in the movie. I want more.

Agreed. It was a fascinating little bit, but as it was, it was just a tease.

>5] I will forever picture Lara Flynn Boyle as Donna.  Moira was too..
>innocent looking, whereas I pictured Donna as basically innocent, but not
>putting that image up. I think Moira did a good job, but it was a bit too
>inconsistent for me..

This is a question? I liked Moira, actually. The entire idea that Laura was
trying to protect Donna from falling to evil as Laura did. As we know,
Donna did end up making the mistake of wearing Laura's stuff -- the glasses.
And that's when she became a "bad girl," like Laura. (Well, not like Laura,
but kinda "bad" nonetheless.)


>6] Was the one-armed man the guy driving the truck? Didn't he make the same
>sound as the short dancing man (dont know his name) as he approached the
>Palmers in their Jag?

Yes, as has been answered elsewhere.

>7] How did both Chris Isaak and then Coop know which trailer to approach?
>And what was the significance of the place being rented by the same guy
>twice? (and what was that person's name?)

I think they followed a line from a telephone pole over to the trailer.
And I think the significance of the name was that the person who rented
the space (Mrs. Tremond and her grandson, the Creamed Corn Kid) just used
the old name. In other words, it was just a fake name, because it was really
Mrs. Tremond.

>10] DId Leland ever know he was Bob until his final night on the show? If
>not, then I found much of this to have been inconsistent, and Bob should
>have done more of the fighting/anger scenes..

Leland was totally controlled by Bob. Leland, the REAL Leland, didn't know what
he had done until Bob fled his body right before he died. That's when Ray
Wise gave perhaps his most chilling line (even moreso than "Missoula,
Montana"..): "I killed Laura!" A line said not with the anger of admission,
but with the pain of suddenly realizing what BOB had made him to.

>
>Great flick.

Flawed-- VERY flawed. But fun nonetheless. Just as TP is a fascinating
television show, but flawed -- VERY flawed.
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  Jason Snell / jsnell@ocf.berkeley.edu / Cal Graduate School of Journalism
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