Something always bothered me.

You made me laugh there franz!

Leland just went grey overnight in the second season, he didn't opt for dyeing his hair blonde!

When he jumped on Laura's coffin he was just lying there, not actually seen humping!

With the dancing and show tunes, I think there's an element of realism in that though...?

Would you say that Leland is supposed to have a somewhat middle-class, rather bad taste in music? He's not portrayed as someone with a real artistic outlet as such and his dancing to that type of music seems to me to be about him harking back to something in his childhood.

If you had done what Leland had done, might you not refer to yourself in the third person? Couldn't something that began as a decoy or deflection --all that letters under the fingernails and whatnot-- turn into a refuge, under pressure?

And might not the decoy myth be enshrined later by either some who went for the fake, or some who were too close to the reality for their own comfort, or safety?


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Say, "Kitty is innocent! I swear, Kitty is innocent!"
--The Killers (1946)

^This.

One reason Bob is so terrifying when we first see him on the show is that he's the perfect projection of the "creepy" stereotype, exactly whom a child would fear most if told that someone wanted to hurt them.

The revelation that this figure is, in some sense at least, one with our lovable Leland, who despite his manic behavior still seems to be a good and responsible upstanding citizen, is just so absolutely chilling and terrifying. That shot of the mirror from episode 14 is one of the strongest in Lynch's career.

Episode 16 is kind of a mess, planting some interesting seeds that won't really be cultivated into the movie but also attempting to put a too-clearly-supernatural spin on it all. I've never thought about it till now, reading your post, but perhaps one reason it doesn't gibe is that Bob doesn't really seem to be a manifestation of all evil (as that episode more or less presents him) but a very particular kind of evil. The episode glosses this over by making him an all-purpose evil spirit but he's really the incarnation of child abuse.

I do think in FWWM the Lodge creatures are, in some sense, literal. Rather than completely roll back the second season's concepts, even if he wouldn't have established them (I don't know that he himself would have pushed so hard in the direction of the Lodge mythology had he been more heavily involved), Lynch builds off of the mixed legacy the show left. But he does his best to JOIN the physical and psychological. Not only does this create an ambiguous and unsettling world onscreen, it sets a pattern for the rest of his films as well (except for The Straight Story) all of which act as visual allegories with one foot in recognizable reality and the other in the otherworldly.

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Because Bob was part of the mythology - like the Devil. "I didn't do it. It was Bob" sort of . The series were more complex, there are lots of social issues there, with all their quirks. The movie concentrates mostly on Laura, and Bob gets a clearer "treatment".

The show makes it evidence throughly that outside of the Laura Palmer mystery that BOB was a very real, very horrible entity.
I surmised that the Ghostwood forest really was a "opening to a gateway" namely the Lodges, or gateways to extra dimensions. When Leland was a boy he lived near the Pearl Lakes, which are close to Ghostwood. Being possesed by an inhabiting spirit of pure id most likely;
A. helped him in life- as Leland's happy up moods and dancing seem endearing to those around him, and he seemed to be very well respected as a lawyer and member of a community.
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B. completely ruined his life. One of the things that send chills though my spine is how the movie portrays Leland/BOB's past, but still leaved open to imagining how the time between his possession and the Teresa Banks murder play out. Remember- the same pattern of possession is repeated throughout the film and movie- the Lady & her Grandson appear, BOB/MIKE appear, visions, then death or possesion (or death by refusing possession). Leland ultimately ends up dead, as does Laura, Maddy, Earle and arguably Cooper.

The horrible, heavy truth of the matter is that there are extradimensional abstractions which use ritualized cycles of absurd pain, violence, rape, and murder to collect their sustenance and, presumably, amusement. The representation of blood, corn, and the alien word "Gamonbozia".