Re: Twin Peaks Unwrapped Podcast
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2016 4:47 pm
As usual, great ones, a great guest line up also.
Re Bob scaring/provoking cooper in the lodge during their final dialogue - you actually can indeed look at it in a way that he is misleading him. Meaning that although he talks looking at him (coop) seemingly talking about WEarle, he may actually be tricking him into thinking this, while in reality he is talking to earle (whom he also looks at repeteadly) about cooper. Sort of hypnotizing/making Coop believe so by looking in his eyes while speaking, and thus avoiding giving him an impression that he is being manipulated into feeling revengeful towards earle and his shadow side is being separated/manifeated in the form of a doppelganger (e.g. when he says - potentially to windom re cooper - that he (coop) cannot take his soul, he is looking at cooper and thus physically plants/reinforces the thought of taking windom's soul in his head). That would also help to explain more exactly Bob's third-wall-breaking grin at the camera in the end of the lodge sequence, which definitely seems not only devilish, but also as if he has tricked somebody irrespective of the interpretation when and how.
Now, don't know whether the above or the following is analyzed anywhere already (probably surely is) - but the theory about hair also looked actual for sone time already. Just that took it previously that the moments with split hair refer to times where Cooper is aware of duality, both within himself and in general, and when gelled back - it is him in a sort of his usual manicly optimistic way we see him often in the series. Which bodes for interesting theoritizing that he was potentially more self aware before coming to twin peaks (if the whole scenario with him, incl. later scene with albert, is not some kind of his post-lodge dream, and then it is vice versa) - coming to a conclusion in the first case that it must have been the effect of all the sugar in the donuts they consume from day one in the series ...
Re Bob scaring/provoking cooper in the lodge during their final dialogue - you actually can indeed look at it in a way that he is misleading him. Meaning that although he talks looking at him (coop) seemingly talking about WEarle, he may actually be tricking him into thinking this, while in reality he is talking to earle (whom he also looks at repeteadly) about cooper. Sort of hypnotizing/making Coop believe so by looking in his eyes while speaking, and thus avoiding giving him an impression that he is being manipulated into feeling revengeful towards earle and his shadow side is being separated/manifeated in the form of a doppelganger (e.g. when he says - potentially to windom re cooper - that he (coop) cannot take his soul, he is looking at cooper and thus physically plants/reinforces the thought of taking windom's soul in his head). That would also help to explain more exactly Bob's third-wall-breaking grin at the camera in the end of the lodge sequence, which definitely seems not only devilish, but also as if he has tricked somebody irrespective of the interpretation when and how.
Now, don't know whether the above or the following is analyzed anywhere already (probably surely is) - but the theory about hair also looked actual for sone time already. Just that took it previously that the moments with split hair refer to times where Cooper is aware of duality, both within himself and in general, and when gelled back - it is him in a sort of his usual manicly optimistic way we see him often in the series. Which bodes for interesting theoritizing that he was potentially more self aware before coming to twin peaks (if the whole scenario with him, incl. later scene with albert, is not some kind of his post-lodge dream, and then it is vice versa) - coming to a conclusion in the first case that it must have been the effect of all the sugar in the donuts they consume from day one in the series ...