My feeling is that the Woodsmen are somehow connected to energy. Literal energy. They make an audible crackling noise, an electrical snapping noise, and when the Woodsman leans into the car light flickers behind him. That is why they ask again and again, 'Got a light?" Light energy. I'm reminded then of the power lines that are connected to the Harry Dean Stanton scene where the boy is killed. The woodsmen seem to be offered to us in the context of the bomb, of nuclear energy. But as with all things in Twin Peaks I don't think there's a direct correlation.
Again, it seems as if it's the light, and the power, of the broadcast tower in the radio station that attracts the Woodsmen. They seem to be an inversion of the Dr Jacobi project. Jacobi is hoping to enlighten, to wake is audience. The Woodsmen are putting them to sleep. When the one armed man contacts Dougie, it's to tell him to "Wake up." It's as if the energy, the literal electricity, is being put to ill use, to broadcast a kind of general anesthetic to the masses.
My feeling is that the Woodsmen are somehow connected to energy. Literal energy. They make an audible crackling noise, an electrical snapping noise, and when the Woodsman leans into the car light flickers behind him. That is why they ask again and again, 'Got a light?" Light energy. I'm reminded then of the power lines that are connected to the Harry Dean Stanton scene where the boy is killed. The woodsmen seem to be offered to us in the context of the bomb, of nuclear energy. But as with all things in Twin Peaks I don't think there's a direct correlation.
Again, it seems as if it's the light, and the power, of the broadcast tower in the radio station that attracts the Woodsmen. They seem to be an inversion of the Dr Jacobi project. Jacobi is hoping to enlighten, to wake is audience. The Woodsmen are putting them to sleep. When the one armed man contacts Dougie, it's to tell him to "Wake up." It's as if the energy, the literal electricity, is being put to ill use, to broadcast a kind of general anesthetic to the masses.
In a way I truly think they are really correlated to the A Bomb itself. They look like burnt bodies. In some pics of post Hiroshima and Nagasaki you can see grey bodies made of ashes. Of course electricity is a vehicle for them, if we assume what we "learnt" from FWWM is important to the story. To me they are simply doing the job of evil which can be massive mind control via radio waves and as Woodsmen they could be "the providers of the wood that keeps the Fire going" like an physical extension of the fire/bomb blast itself. Especially if the ??????? name is really the Fireman, which would make total sense in this fire's metaphors.
And found this on a website:
On July 16, 1945 after the Trinity test in New Mexico, the USS Indianapolis took off from San Francisco to drop off supplies for the atomic bomb that would later be dropped on Hiroshima.
Immediately following this, the Indianapolis went to Guam to switch out sailors.
This radio station you found (KUAM TV channel 8) that started broadcasting on August 5, 1956 is in Agana, GUAM!
Probably just a coincidence, but STILL! EERIE!
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