Twin Peaks Usenet Archive

Subject: Re: incontinuity?
From: jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
Date: 1990-11-02, 15:42
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <43993@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, v075nkds@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Julie A Moran) writes:
|> 	Here's a possible discontinuity, but I may have missed something, 

I'm getting very annoyed at the rate where the word "discontinuity" is
being thrown around.  True, the show is made by human beings and we have
a thousand-odd folks watching it six times in slow motion frame-by-frame,
so naturally some minor screwups will be found.  But 99% of the time
(and this goes for anyone, I'm not picking on Julie here) there was
no discontinuity or error at all, you simply missed something, or
there's a way to interpret what you saw that makes perfect sense.

> > 	If Sara was the source/inspiration for the sketch of BOB, which
> > 	is rendered by Hawk from her dream/vision, why isn't Leland
> > 	aware of this? It seems to me that she would certainly tell her
> > 	husband about her vision and he would certainly want to see the
> > 	drawing of his daughter's killer.

I seriously doubt it.  At the time, Leland was completely flipped,
and Sara only knows that she's had a vision, not that the man in her
vision is the killer.  Sarah never says "I know who Laura's killer
is, I saw him in my vision".

> >	Why then is the first sight he 
> > 	has of the sketch later with the OAM? Also, if the sketch was 
> > 	drawn before the murder of Jacques, why then did Leland kill
> > 	Jacques? If he saw the sketch, he would know BOB was the killer!

You're assuming a lot here -- for one thing, that Sarah knows who the
kill is, two, that Leland believes her and places more weight on that
than that the sheriff and Truman have arrested a suspect, etc, etc.

SARAH doesn't know that BOB is the killer.

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Joe Buck
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