I guess I'm all alone in my Windom loathing!

 No you aren't! Dr. Jac and I just think of him as silly. Also, he is a total and complete bastard! How dare he insult the Major like that! That man makes my blood boil with rage! Curse you Windham Earl, CURSE YOU!!!

Oh god. this thread is done, sorry!

my god id be so freaked out if i saw someone like bob lerking around.... shudder to think of it.

windom earl plays a great part.. specially that laugh. but hes not in the same league as bob.

Bob wanted Cooper... he killed Windom to scare Cooper but also to show Cooper that he was more powerful than Earl.

to me, him and ray wise probably showed the best acting in the series

 You guys must really like over the top acting... I usually do, but this kind of "dark", but silly humor is out of place in Twin Peaks. Ray Wise is very good but he went a little overboard in episode 16.... though that was partly the writer's fault. As for Kenneth Welsh... see my previous comments. I think that Kyle MacLachlan turns in the best performance by far... though I love (almost) all the characters and actors.

I like WIndom a lot, and the disturbing atmosphere of his cabin (idyllic? psychopatic?).

The reason why some people don't like him seems obvious - too big the expectations (the exposition of the character at the end of Ep.21 is fantastic and lives up to any expectations raised by Cooper's praising his genius).
Windom really seemed kind of "unserious" when he moved on to tame Leo in those filthy pyjamas of his... hmm.

The biggest problem though was best noticed by Crabalocker:

I think his character suffered for having to 'carry' the later half of series 2 once it had lost it's sense of direction.

yeah... it would make a great subplot but it couldn't have made a good enough follow-up for the who-killed-Laura mystery...

However, the Windom  character played a very important role in the development of Cooper's character. 12rainbow noticed it very well: 

But Windom is there to show us that Cooper is not, as Hawk says, "fearless in this world,"

 Exactly so.

Note that at the beginning (esp. Season 1), Cooper himself seems to be some superhero and his mind clear as a diamond. The more he sinks into the everyday life of Twin Peaks, the more humane he seems - yet, he still remains a man of superb intelect and great strength who knows exactly what he wants and how to get it.

And then - he becomes weaker. Vulnerable. And that is very closely connected with Window and their common history.

The confrontation of Window against Cooper makes Coop look like some young boy playing in the yard. Like he says himself, if Windom wanted to kill him, he'd already be dead. He realizes it and can do nothing about it at all....
 

I think his character suffered for having to 'carry' the later half of series 2 once it had lost it's sense of direction.

However, the Windom  character played a very important role in the development of Cooper's character. 12rainbow noticed it very well: 

But Windom is there to show us that Cooper is not, as Hawk says, "fearless in this world,"

 Exactly so.

Note that at the beginning (esp. Season 1), Cooper himself seems to be some superhero and his mind clear as a diamond. The more he sinks into the everyday life of Twin Peaks, the more humane he seems - yet, he still remains a man of superb intelect and great strength who knows exactly what he wants and how to get it.

And then - he becomes weaker. Vulnerable. And that is very closely connected with Window and their common history.

The confrontation of Window against Cooper makes Coop look like some young boy playing in the yard. Like he says himself, if Windom wanted to kill him, he'd already be dead. He realizes it and can do nothing about it at all....
 

 I had never thought of it like that before. A better theory which makes his storyline more interesting and makes sense too.

where did the quote game go

Windom Earle is definitely one of my favourite characters in the series.

I tend to like the creepy ones. 

where did the quote game go

 It's in the off-topic thread

 
 I had never thought of it like that before. A better theory which makes his storyline more interesting and makes sense too.

thanks :-)

that's what I wrote it for :-)))