Meanwhile.......

 After I watched the first four episodes I have had a theory bouncing around in my head that I can't seem to shake:

Laura Palmer to Agent Dale Cooper : I’ll see you again in 25 years...........Meanwhile.......

For the past 25 years Laura Palmer's soul/spirit has been trapped in the waiting room of the Black Lodge, ever since her horrible and painful death.

But her suffering didn't stop there.

As we saw in one of the early episodes of this season ,something or someone in the Lodge causes Laura great pain and torment and snatches her away from Agent Cooper. Has it been doing this off and on to her for the past 25 years?Her Garmonbozia probably has a potent strength to it. Could this be the act of her own Doppelganger?

My theory is that after the Good Dale escapes the Black Lodge,regains his memory and defeats the Bad Dale, he will return to the Black Lodge one last time.

Agent Cooper will feel the strong need to right one last wrong.

 Leland Palmer’s own tortured doppelganger soul sadly asked Cooper to “Find Laura”

And as the final episode comes to a close , we will witness Special Agent Dale Cooper find Laura Palmer and free her.After all her suffering and sadness she will FINALLY see her Angel return. 
  
Lynch has said that FWWM is key to understanding the new series of episodes.

The entire season is leading up to circling back to the final moment of the movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me where we see Laura find peace.The final image of this series will be of Laura Palmer crying and laughing in release.

Fade to the Roadhouse ,one last time as we see and hear Julee Cruise singing "Falling" 

Questions in a World of Blue

Random observations and questions :will update this as things pop out at me as I chew on these little doughnuts for awhile

• The numbers 3 and 15 that are seen in the “Non-Exist-ant” areas of the Lodge utilize a similar font that was seen at the Fat Trout Trailer part . Could this mean that there is a portal at that location? The Tremond’s “lived” there.Chet Desmond disappeared from there. Maybe that has something to do with Carl and his line “Ive already gone places” .Maybe the LMFAP popped out to write Lets Rock on the car.
•  Coopers Great Northern Hotel room was #315
• Golden shovels- Makes me think of something you would see at a important ground breaking. Has Jacoby had a dream while out in the woods that makes him think he and others will have to dig up Laura Palmer’s body?
• Golden Shovel is a poetic form that one uses by taking line from a poem you admire. This line must be used as the END of your new own poem.The new poem does not have to be about the same subject as the poem that offers the end words. This makes me think of my own theory that the end of this series will circle back to the end of Fire Walk With Me . Lynch/Frost have said that FWWM is very important. As stated, I picture that at the end of this series Cooper will feel the need to return to the Lodge. After he has defeated the Bad Dale. He returns to find Laura who has been spiritually trapped and tortured in the Lodge for the past 25 years. He returns to relieve Laura’s suffering by helping her FINALLY see her Angel again.
• “One one nine”, ramblings of a drug addled mother, or a just another lodge resident talking backwards in our world? Could this Mother and Child be the new version of Mrs Tremond and child from Twin Peaks and the Fat Trout Trailer Park?
• Is the sound Cooper suppose to listen to sound like one of the casino machines? Or the cameras with the Glass Box?
• The blackened ?dirty? mountaineer man in the cell next to Bill Hastings appears like a body stuck in rigor mortis. If this a Lodge resident, why was it here?Could it have been someone sent to find BOB,who may or may not be in both or one of the Hastings? and he got there too late to catch BOB somehow?
• "Dougie" Jones wife is named Jane-Y Jones. Janie Jones, was an English singer. She became renowned for holding sex parties at her home during the 1970s, and was jailed for her involvement in 'controlling prostitutes. Could this be an indication to Naomi Watts character and the money she and Dougie owe to an as unnamed individual ? Dougie spends time with a prostitute 
• Where Dougie meets its prostitute is at Ranch Rosa, a newly built subdivision. Double R in a circle is its logo
•  The card that Bad Dale has with the blacked out image looks a bit like the owl cave glyph filled in. A card deck can be seen on the table of the drug addled mother in the house across the street from where Dougie left his car.
• The Bad Dales date of birth is wrong . It has him as too young. 8-15-73. And born in Buckhorn
• William Hastings has a similar date on his drivers license : 8-15-73.  (expiration date 8-15-2017)
• Could Dougies clothing be a nod to BLue Velvet guy whose stands upright in the parlor despite having his brains blown out?
• I think someone involved in real estate is running a prostitution ring (hmm, another ring(circle) in the world of Twin Peaks) using the houses in the Rancho Rosa homes.There appear to be squatters and homeless in the neighborhood, so maybe alot of the homes are empty.This could explain how Jade of theTwo Rides has a key to the front door. “Dougie” appears to be a regular of hers. Their interaction before Dougie goes poof seems to indicate a closeness, despite the business transaction. It also would help explain why she is actually caring towards him despite Coopers lost senses. I’m beginning to thing that Dougie may actually run the ring, maybe even with his wife. And much like Benjamin Horne and One Eyed Jacks , he likes to sample the merchandise . Dougie was manufactured by the Bad Dale, so there are sure to be some criminal elements built into its character. But, then again, if he was running the business, he probably wouldnt have to pay so much, if at all. So, maybe the wife runs the show.But then again, Dougie seems to be a nice person all things considered, he probably doesnt expect Jade to work for free,especially if she is a favorite.
• A red balloon can be seen on the floor behind the drug addled mother. Does this indicate her son was at Sonny Jim’s party? Could this mean that the two families know each other? Sonny Jim seems a little off. (probably the result of being sired by a manufactured Lodge spirit) maybe he has no friends from school and the wife(if she runs a prostitution ring) might have invited the kid of one of her employees to have someone at the party. Or this is a subtle way to show two side of the same coin. The boy of the drug using woman maybe had a birthday on the same day as Sonny Jim. And while Sonny Jim’s had balloons,decorations and cake, all the other boy had a less buoyant balloon on the floor.
• The opening letter from Gordon Cole in the Secret History of Twin Peaks is dated 2016, which is two years after the timeline that consists of the actual “present" date of the new series as March of 2014 (25 years after the events of season 2). So, this could indicate that Agent Tamara Preston is tasked to go through the document either during the middle of the current season(which would mean that the show at some point jumps ahead in time) or is given the assignment AFTER the events of the show.
• In the room Dale Cooper enters at the beginning of Episode 3 where on the wall is what appears to be a large electrical outlet and time appears to alternate forwards and backwards within seconds. Could this represent alternating current? Electricity is heavily associated with the Lodge residents.
• Alternating current is how we deliver electricity via the wall sockets in our homes. Rather than having to send electrons in one direction for miles to their destination, we reverse their direction over and over 60 times a second. This allows for the transmission of electricity over long distances as safely as possible. The opposite of alternating current (AC) is direct current (DC). DC=Dale Cooper?
• DC is also what comes out of a battery, and of note, out of a car's cigarette lighter.
• Could the switch that the woman called "Naido" pulls on the top of the building change that huge socket on the wall from AC to DC? When Cooper climbs back down into the room it is no longer going back and forth in time. The building is set to DC mode. If things went according to plan. Cooper should have entered into the Doppelgangers car.But the Bad Dale was nowhere near an AC outlet in his car in the middle of the mountains and he had manufactured the false Dale(Dougie) which somehow drew the Good Dale to the AC outlet in the condo.
• Could the blind woman who gets an electric shock from switching the rooms power be The Magician that we have long heard as  referenced in the Fire Walk With Me Poem : The Magician longs to see.....?

A Return to Twin Peaks

It has happened again

David Lynch and Mark Frost have given us something wonderful and strange.And I could not be happier.It's everything I hoped it would be and almost nothing what I thought it would be.From the subtle homages to his many previous movies to the new challenges this work presents there is much that I admire.This is a work of art.And like any good work of David Lynch/Mark Frost art, there are questions aplenty.Some questions are sure to be answered by the end of the show. Most are likely to be left open or expanded leaving much to be discussed and dissected over the next 25 years.

And I'm only 4 episodes in.......

We appear to have three storylines driving the show

1) Will the Good Dale escape the trappings of the Lodge?

2) In order for that to happen ,the Bad Dale,who is on his own quest for some information of great importance, will have to return to the Lodge and he has no intention of doing so

3)Multiple murders-could BOB be up to his old tricks?

As I work my way through my second viewing(on episode 3 at the moment) I thought it best to make some notes for future reference.

And so it begins:

Memories,mountains,The Trees

Was that what is left of the Packard Sawmill after Benjamin Horne bought it?

Laura,Main Titles,the Falls(Why do I have tears in my eyes?)

Red curtains flowing like FIRE

The floor..that beautiful floor...the world spins

Out of control

A Monocrome meeting.

Are we in the Giants private quarters?A calm Cooper shares a conversation with the Giant that only he understands and we may come to understand ourselves as the series unfolds.What does the lack of color tell us about where we are in regards to the whole Lodge?

"Agent Cooper, listen to the sounds"

Is that the noise of an insect? Or just the record needle without a record on a spinning turntable? Does this mean ....there is no longer always music in the air? Or is this a direction for Cooper: listen to the sounds, not the words.Sounds and scents can help with memory recall.And as we later discover, Cooper will need all the help in that regard.

One of the things that stands out in the show overall is that Badalamenti's familiar score and themes are absent.Even in one of the many alternate variations Angelo created for the original run.It stands to reason that we will not hear many of the familiar tracks as they were fit to lay under the scenes of the original shows pacing and atmosphere.For the most part, we aren’t even spending a lot of time in the town of Twin Peaks.Yet.

"It is in our house now."

Hard to believe, but something has even tainted their world of doppelgangers and Garmonbozia. The Blacker Lodge? Have we even seen the Lodge , or just been hanging in the waiting room....that goes on forever.Lynch likes to make us wait ,after all.Mike and The Arm are trying to reset the balance in the Lodge but the doppelganger Arm is having none of that.Non-Existent!

"It can not all be said aloud now "

Secrets. Someone(s) are listening and want to stop what is coming?Shhhhhhhhhh. Also, this may be Lynch/Frost telling the viewer.Chill the fuck out, we're just getting started. So that favorite character you want to know about? He/She will be along soon.We are not going to get a recap scene where we see someone like Benjamin Horne waking from his head concussion coma, only to have Jerry Horne fill him in on all the events that have happened over the last 25 years. "just how long was I out?"

Clues?

"Remember 430".

Is this a time?If Cooper supposedly found his exit at 235,is this a number connected to a return? To remember is to return to a thought.Biblical, the number 430 has connections to the word Law- could this be a reference to FBI,Deputy Hawk? who may be able to help Cooper. Remember Cooper saying to Deputy Hawk " Hawk, if I ever get lost I hope you’re the man they send to find me" How fucking spectacular that THIS is actually happening !!! What a great callback to the original series. All thanks to the Log Lady ( the beautiful Catherine Coulson) giving Hawk the Logs message.

"Richard and Linda"......Thompson?

Quickly looking up the names online...Richard has meanings of ""hard" (strong, brave, hardy)strong in rule" Linda:The name-element Linde is possibly derived from the same root as the linden tree, with reference to a shield made of that wood,but may have become associated with Germanic lind meaning "soft, tender", the image of the tree being used to indicate a gentle personality.Other meanings: "beautiful,pretty,cute,and clean" So we have potential references to Trees.Expected in the world of Twin Peaks.Could it refer to the two sides of the same coin-Doppelgangers?

Speaking of which.....

"Two birds with one stone"

Two Coopers?One has to die ( headstone?) The discovered dead body made up of two people? Birds as in British slang?

you are far away ( bad dale, no where near lodge. or the giants way of saying go away now

"

You are far way"

Is this a reference to Coopers other half? or is it simply the Giants way of saying time to leave me alone.Sending Cooper off.

And now it's time for our first visit to the town.And our first townsfolk is Dr Jacoby? Intriguing choice. What part will he play in the play? He clearly has lived in the woods for some time.He Most likely lost his Doctors license.Thought he retired to Hawaii? What brought him back?He indicates that like always he prefers to work alone.He is methodically preparing something.Something so important that he has built his own apparatus to paint them. Were these specially made shovels of certain weight and balance and material?We linger on these moments twice.Once with the delivery of the shovels.Second with their painting of both side.This is certainly how time moved in the original Twin Peaks.No cutting away from these moments even after the viewer is clear on what the action character is doing.Two trees frame the image of the two men.

New York?

Were not in Twin Peaks anymore ,Toto.In fact,we wont be spending much time in TP for awhile it seems.The world wipes its ass with TP.Where we are is in an extra secured room of a building with one sole window looking out on the world.With a lone viewer watching the Glass box in front of the window. Is this Lynch commentary on the Television viewer?Is this some metaphor for people who watching TV is how they look out on the world? This someone is watching a box to see what will happen,even though nothing is happening.Sound familiar?AND recording the box at the same time. The guy(who remains nameless outside of the credits)says that the "guy before him" saw something but couldn't or wouldn't tell him about it(doesn’t this sound like someone who's heard about Twin Peaks but hasn't seen it.You cant talk about Twin Peaks with someone who hasn’t seen it before without running the risk of SPOILERS,you could barely talk about this new series as prior details were scarce)"Tracy" is the spouse of a Peaks fan -- she comes in because she's curious about the box, but quickly becomes bored and looks for a distraction. Of COURSE then something comes out of the box and bites their heads off right when they take their eyes off it.Lynch hates for viewers to watch films in a distracted manner.Its as if he is saying "If you watch TP as background to doing other things, this show is going to eat you alive". This also feels a lot like the start to the Fire Walk With Me movie.Which itself felt like a comment on the TV show transition to film-this is not your TV show !SMASH !

What of the box?

We sat and watched a box on which people sat and watched a box. They didn’t know what it was they were watching for, only that it made them uneasy An elaborate security system has been put into place to protect this mysterious box from prying eyes.A system for recording its every second and retaining that information has been set up.When a cameras memory disc is full,a voice even alerts the caretaker.Various other devices appear to be recording information that the box gives off.For what purpose though? Something must have happened here before.What are they hoping to see happen again?Capture something?There isn’t an armed guard inside the room with the box, so there is not much of an implied threat.They even hire a college student of all people to take care of things.

The visitor, Tracey, appears to be more than just curious of what is on the other side. I am thinking she was placed to work at the coffee shop in effort to meet the caretaker."You’re bad ,Tracey" For hire to obtain entrance and information about this room.Side note:many of the women are only given a first name in the credits.Darya,Buella.And many of them are involved in something criminal.There is a bonsai on the table in the background. Could that be a nod to Windom Earle?Someone is listening

Could someone have deduced that this is an entry point from some other plane of existence?

Was this someone paying to place the secured box at an exit point for if or when Cooper tried to escape? Is it there to prevent Cooper from escaping the Lodge? Always watching, Did they know about the other creature? Could the mysterious billionaire, or whomever put this into motion, have been setting a trap that would have resulted in Cooper being imprisoned in the box only to have the ghostly creature appear and eat his face?

What of the creature?

Credits list the creature as "Experiment model"-no indication whatsoever of its nature -alien,Lodge resident,ghost? Do the heightened emotions and energy of the couple making out draw the visitor? The box goes black and the figure that appears is grey flesh, feminine with a elongated back of head.What looks like at first are deep socketed eyes.But in the twitching looks like just a large mouth on an eyeless head.Not unlike The Evolution of the Arm.Could this be a further step in an evolution? Might this be the mysterious Mother who bangs on the door of the room floating in space?

Bad Dale:

Welcome to the dark woods and the first interesting track on the soundtrack .Welcoming the Bad Dale into the picture. He doesn’t look well kept. Long hair Greasy. Looking not unlike Frank from Blue Velvet Here to do some shady business in the woods. No time for bullshit.Strong, but looks tired. While Dale calls everyone by their first name, they refer to him as Mr C.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

Bad Dale knows a lot but he is searching for some specific information.Meanwhile, people are searching for him.Either to kill him or return him to the Lodge.The Half a million hit on him has gotten to the people he is currently working with on something,and te Bad Dale is aware of this fact.Is this the work of the Mysterious Billionaire closing in on Cooper?

Bad Dale may be involved in something with Phillip Jeffries (David Bowie’s character) or P.J.s doppelganger.He is connected in some way to the Hastings and the murder of Ruth Davenport.Who is the John Doe? and who helped get it up into Ruth’s apartment?Hank? The two victims were both killed somewhere else.And where are the other halves of their bodies?

Side Note: What if David Bowie filmed one last scene as Philip Jeffries? But it was all kept hush hush so as not to overshadow the show itself or spoil a surprise? Bowie was still with us when filming had begun.

Bad Dale is being forced back into the Lodge and has a plan to stop it.Going so far to a even create a false Dale.One who lived his own life,married wife .(hey if a possessed Leland can have a child ,why not a fake Dale?).Doppelcooper is so skilled and thinking steps ahead he knew to create this distraction in Dougie Jones.

Bob can come and go from the Lodge as he wishes as we have seen in the past as BOB is not a doppelganger, just a pure evil spirit. The two Coopers can not both be out in the world at once (at least not without the consequences as we have seen-puking creamed corn and scorched engine oil. Its stench in pure form dangerous to humans).It makes more sense that what we have seen is just the Bad Dale and not at all BOB. Since actor Frank Silva has passed we will most likely see BOB in the form of his current host at the time. Why is Cooper fucking with BOB’s play time?

I think Bad Dale is now possibly BOB's familiar,like Mike was to BOB before.But I don't think BOB is inside Dale that much.Probably even less so as the 25 years went on. Maybe BOB used Bad Dale to escape the Lodge and not be threaded to a single host.Maybe when the two eventually separated was around the time that Bad Dale went missing from Twin Peaks. Coopleganger is not BOB, he's a separate entity that originated from the Lodge. Can he be inhabited? Sure. But why would BOB want that permanently? They both want to sow evil and chaos so why wouldn’t BOB want to have a partner in crimes?

What about BOB?

I think BOB is not only playing inside the Principal but also William's wife.Jumping back and forth.Killing the Librarian. Messing with the relationship by making both of them cheat on the other.Playing them against each other and generating double the Garmonbozia as they destroy lives.It appeared that we saw BOB come forward for just a brief moment when William confronted his wife about the affairs.Something is off kilter about the wife, cold: her husband is being arrested and all she can think about is they have guests coming.Or is there a second entity involved?Was that filthy figure that floats away one of the members of the meeting above the convenience store seen in FWWM in the cell next door?

When Cooper showed up(he's connected?!?!) and killed the wife framing the wife;s lover with his gun (creating even more complications) Is this Cooper fucking with Bobs handiwork? And what of that comment Bad Dale makes to the wife : "You did good,” he says. “You follow human nature perfectly" Is he remarking on BOB’s (or the other inhabiting spirits) ability to pull off the possessions? Or is he merely commenting on the wife’s ability to be a high functioning non-possessed sociopath?

Mike

He seems to be trying to help Cooper.

The Arm

......had me fucking laughing. The evolution of the arm is a talking asshole on a stick. Take note folks, don’t piss off Lynch or he will turn you into a work of art and embarrass the fuck out of you at the same time.Supposedly,the actor who performed the LMFAP demanded way too much money to return in this new TP,claiming that there is no Twin Peaks without him. And then was even a more than a bit of a bastard to Lynch after Lynch refused to pay.He indirectly claimed that Lynch had not only raped his own daughter but had threatened to murder his daughter if she ever told.And other awful untrue things.Can't you just hear Lynch?: Money doesn’t grow on trees,but look how much I can save by turning you into one!

Since the arm was an anomaly in the Lodge world(which is saying something),a severed body part that became a living being...it stands to reason it might change along with its doppelganger

The Body

Might that be Major Briggs body with Ruth's head? Briggs was believed to be killed by a fire. But whose to say his whole body was ever found.Could Bad Dale/ BOB have absconded with the corpse for fun later.Remember, we only see Major Briggs head floating in space in the Lodge world , It could explain why the prints on the john doe were classified: military. Major Briggs was involved in some highly classified research.

Good Dale:

Our poor Dale,trapped in a world he never made for 25 years.Cooper isn't Cooper. He's basically split in two. Neither one of them will be whole until the other one dies. They aren't supposed to exist in the same plane of existence.

To prevent his own "death",the Bad Coop set up a duplicate copy,an actual dupe, that could be pulled into the Lodge instead of him. When Good Coop slipped out,the Lodge tried to pull the Doppelganger back in, but it failed and got the dupe,"Dougie"

Dougie was shown wearing a owl cave ring and having a numb arm.When the ring slipped off his finger,its as if the spell that held him together was no more.

What trouble had this Dougie/Dale been causing? Since it was made from the Bad Dales hands was it like a copy of a copy of a ....

Dougie had found himself in some form of trouble, he and his wife owed someone a lot of money.

What of Coopers escape?

Who or what are all these people he encounters?We have a speech impaired eyeless woman who appears to electrocute herself and falls off into space.Did she fall faster and faster?..did she burst into fire?..and the wind rises? ...and all goodness of Cooper is in jeopardy?

We have a lady performed by the actress who played Ronette Pulaski in the original Twin Peaks, but is named American Girl.Might this be a hint at Ronette’s fate.That one day BOB returned and claimed her.Are these individuals souls claimed directly from residents of the Lodge?

Escaped Cooper

Is this the Good side of Dale now in our world, or the actual living Coop? Having gone through whatever that experience was to emerge from the electricity it is sure to mess up ones mind, with amnesia and loss of basic functions. Plus ,Cooper has been existing in the Lodge for 25 years and not in our reality.His mind and body could have forgotten how to live(Bad Dale "you have learned how to live like a human")

Recall how Phillip Jeffries walked in FWWM? Well he was only in the Lodge meeting for a short time.Major Briggs, too, was a bit loopy after his travels. Coopers been on the other side for 25 years. Its going to take a while for him to get back in the groove.

When I saw the brain burnt Cooper with bare feet I was waiting for him to mutter and spit "New Shoes".

As Cooper managed to move through this place and time, I found it interesting that good things seemed to happen repeatedly to him.Almost as if this Good Dale has good vibes emanating off of him and effecting the world around him.He drops something just in time to make him appear as if not in the car when a hit-man is about to take him out.His ride gives him a ride to safety.With a little Lodge help, he hits the jackpot multiple times. Even shares that luck with a woman who has clearly thrown her life away with a gambling problem. When he returns home to his "wife" she remarks that the money he has now will be enough for them to pay off someone they owe. He bumps into people who know him and help him get his "name" and address.

One thing to consider ,until Cooper returns to his senses, there is no one actively trying to get the Bad Dale back to the Lodge.Gordon and Albert may discover that this is not their Cooper and in turn learn some helpful information.Especially the person they think who can know if this Coop is true can actually see. Gordon Cole:" We need one certain person to take a look at Cooper." I hope it is Diane,played by Laura Dern (wouldn't that be an awesome Blue Velvet homage with the two actors across from each other).Diane and Coop were close even though we never seen them together outside of a deleted scene. Coop felt her important enough to dictate and send tapes to her daily during his cases. She took good care of him .(earplugs). In the deleted scene she tests his memory playfully. They clearly had a mutual respect and (I'm guessing platonic )love for each other. She saw him through the first Windom Earle situation and its fallout. Shes been at his side longer than anyone. I could easily see Dale's sudden disappearance breaking her heart,especially if Diane is hearing about the bad things the doppelganger is now doing. This grand fall from grace of someone she so admired,cared for and respected could have possibly driven her to drink.

The people of Twin Peaks-

We get to see Benjamin Horne still running the hotel,now avoiding sleeping with married women.

Jerry is a pot head(anyone surprised?)and making a living infusing his favorite foods with weed while occasionally eating the profits.So not much has changed with these two.

Log Lady-when she says” Goodnight,Hawk” and Hawk says” Goodnight,Margaret” .....ow. Goodnight ,Catherine.

Shelly,who appears quite happy and seems to be much more carefree (the previous Shelly couldn’t be caught dead out with the girls) has a daughter who is in a bad relationship.Her daughter is involved with someone named Steven who everyone loves (hmm, everyone "loved" Laura and look what she was going through). Who is the father of Shelly’s child?Bobby?

Bobby now works for the Sheriffs Department.Is he using his skills as a former drug peddler for good?Or maybe he is the one slipping the drugs over the border and into the students,taking over ol' Leo Johnson's handy-work,unless,maybe, he is still working with Leo. Or did his fathers death by fire cause a real change in Bobby?Maybe he has grown,and is less selfish emotionally. This might explain his reaction to seeing Laura Palmer’s photo on the desk.He probably hasn’t thought of her much at all in the last 25 years.Back in the day, he moved on pretty quickly and never seemed to look back.But seeing her, the memories all came flooding back in a sharp moment.And he had one of his usual melodramatic cries.

James has been in an accident and now full of smiles."still cool" and thankfully not singing in one of the many Roadhouse bands we hear play.

The town however has seen some changes. The Sheriffs station has been upgraded with modern equipment.And kids are now overdosing AT school.

An insurance agent wishes to speak to Sheriff Truman.Which one? One is sick,the other fishing. 

 Harry is sick,but with what and for how long?His brother is now the current Sheriff.

Lucy is still...well, Lucy.Lucy having eaten a chocolate bunny from evidence in the Laura Palmer case (why was this collected in the first place?) is SO a pregnant Lucy moment. But is she suffering from early stages of dementia? She seems even more off than usual.Has a cell phone aversion. Might we learn it started with the birth of hers and Andy’s child, Wally Brando? (seriously, did they name the kid after the Minah bird Waldo? WAL-ly bran-DO?)

Laura

I admit it, I teared up seeing her.At one moment,we see Laura removing her face.Could this be a reference to the doppelganger mask.Remove your mask,remove your doppelganger . Laura’s seems to be showing Cooper that she is still pure light underneath,not possessed by the spirits of the lodge.But they are still trying.And moments later, try they do.

A thought occurred to me when Laura was cast off upward,releasing a painful scream.Has the Lodge been doing this to her all these years?("I am dead,yet I live")Has she been tortured and suffered,still,within the lodge after all these 25 years after her murder.That that moment we see at the end of Fire Walk With Me didn’t occur until 25 years after her death.

Perhaps, after the Good Dale has won his fight with the Bad Dale,and set right whatever balance is needed,He returns to the lodge one last time.Recalling what the sad and lost looking Leland told him to do-"Find Laura"(heart....breaks,poor Leland he will never find peace).

And the end of this series circles back to that final moment in Fire Walk With Me where we see the Good Dale find Laura and free her.

Letting her see her Angel once again.’

Twin Peaks: I'll see you in Twenty Five Years

It is happening again

The story of Twin Peaks will continue.

          Even as a huge admirer of this show and all that came with it, I never really gave much thought to its possible return.Granted, back when Fire Walk With Me was released, I did have odd fantasies of the show continuing in movie form every couple of years with David Lynch returning to a favorite playground. Each movie exploring elements of the mysteries that filled the forests of the town.

         I imagined a possible follow up movie to be about Leland Palmer as a child and how BOB came to be a part of him,the things BOB did to him and through him. Once more going backwards in the story to reveal something new about the future.

        They could have shown us the story of Dale Cooper,Caroline and Windom Earle.

        They could have explored Phillip Jeffries experiences and how he came to go missing, and just where he was and went to afterwards.How he has seen both the Good and the Bad Dale Cooper in the Black Lodge.Maybe Judy was somehow connected to Josie?But we are not going to talk about that

         Sadly, the movie was not well received at the box office and even less so by many fans of the show.Personally, I love the movie. It's actually a wonder it ever got made in the first place being that it was not common for a film to be made from the ashes of a cancelled show.One that existed only for a pilot movie and 29 episodes, no less.

Then,25 Years passed.

        That's a lot of water over the falls.Life has been lived.Many events have come to pass. We will not be stepping back into the town of Twin Peaks as we knew it.Everything will look,feel,and sound different.

         In what form will this new mystery unfold?Will there even be a mystery? I LOVED the "Who killed...?" story-line. The idea that as a viewer you had to work with the characters to look for clues and connections to solve a murder that wouldn't be resolved after the last commercial break was thrilling television.
        Originally, they did not have a rushed desire to end the mystery and reveal the ultimate secret right away. According to stories, they actually hoped to have that particular story-line fade more and more into the background as we met more and more of the town and uncovered other mysteries and secrets.
        Though, this would not be the best choice in my viewers opinion (you run the risk of becoming parody,a self telling joke every time the murder is mentioned or some new "clue" is revealed that doesn’t go anywhere concrete.That 12:30 SNL skit featuring the favorite catchphrase character., that moment of Skully walking into the room seconds after Mulder's Snuffaluffagus has walked out the other door)
        Eventually, a murder needs to be solved when telling a story.Once solved,it's solution could open up another new mystery just as intriguing.But at some point,they need to get to the point.The original shows pacing was that each episode in the beginning averaged a single day in the town of Twin Peaks,and by the time of the reveal we rested on day 20/21 after the murder. This season only has 18 episodes with a two hour premiere and a two hour season finale.

       Will there even be a big town encompassing mystery ?(that this time Lynch and Mark Frost refuse to solve for the viewer)
       Will they twin the murder of Laura Palmer with a similar beloved young girl full of secrets?A murder that is someone linked directly to Laura(who has been dead for many years)? Will Sheryl Lee return as yet another town resident who just happens to look exactly like our Laura only to be murdered on the show a third time?Odds are that Leland,under the influence of BOB sewed his oats for many years and there are bastard BOB children all over the state.Maybe one of them will be Sheryl Lee's character coming to Twin Peaks to learn about her real father.And re resemblance to Laura Palmer ignites a fire chain of events.BOB would love to relive the murder of Laura,yet again.

        Will Twin Peaks be painted with the same palette of colors as the original?Or will HD make that difficult to pull off?

        Will it duplicate the single day in the life episodic nature of the original series? Or will time pass even slower? Since they don't have to write an episode to meet the needs of multiple commercial breaks, ending every fifteen minutes with a mini cliffhanger to get the viewer to return after these messages. Will David Lynch continue to pull off the Season Two opening scene every chance he can?

Will the tone be close to the original with its quirky squeaky clean with dark fillings donut flavor? Or,since this is on cable with no censor restrictions, will this show feel more like Fire Walk With Me?Oppressively dark,yet still delicious ,with coarse language and more graphic violence frosting?Or will they choose somewhere in the middle-close to the tone and pace of the original series with unrestrained moments of staring the darkness in the face.

           Will the town still feel trapped in its own time and place with limited references to modern sensibilities?

           What of all that music in the air? The fact that our ears will be graced with more of Angelo Badalamenti's and Lynch's scoring is probably my most favorite aspect of this shows return.Old favorite themes are sure to return(they would be foolish not too) but will they be variations ,influenced by both musicians years of performing?

           The creators say that the movie Fire Walk With Me is very important to understanding the new series.FWWM is quite different in tone and presentation from the television series.Often in the TV shows story-lines the writers liked to twin elements within the show.....so will this Twin Peaks be a twin of the first series,not entirely the same, close in spirit, but not intended to be the SAME Twin Peaks we knew from before, like the movie?

           One chants out,BETWEEN TWO WORLDS?Might we be meant to take this literally.Not Red Room to one reality,but Red Room to many realities?Times and places, even? Can one step into the Black Lodge at one place but if you step out at a different side you are stepping out into an alternate timeline. Like crossing a room,Step into the Lodge from outside....cross the room.....step out on the other side into an other timeline.

           Will we see a whole new alternative TP? Only threads connecting the two. In this one Big Ed shot out Nadine’s right eye vs her left? We know that time travel is possible within this world. David Bowie's Phillip Jeffries character jumped in time and place.Major Briggs seems to have experienced this phenomenon (do doo,do doo doo). Could a Bad Dale have been jumping back and forth in time and altering history over the past 25 years?Creating a whole new Twin Peaks that never saw certain sufferings.Did Agent Cooper fuck with Twin Peaks original timeline by trying to change history using the Black Lodges powers? In FWWM ,Cooper tries to save the living Laura Palmer in her dream in her timelines past while he himself is a Dale from the future(albeit by only a few weeks post Laura’s death) ....or so we think....one thought is he says "dont take the ring" as if that would be a bad thing.However, if I understand it right, the ring belongs to MIKE and since he give it to Laura in the train car moments before her murder,then that means she is wed to him("with this ring,I thee wed"). Mike now owns all the Garmonbozia her pain and suffering gives.Which is why later we see Mike and The Arm say to BOB " we want all our Garmonbozia" that BOB has collected from Laura and Leland,but which now rightfully belongs to them due to the ring.Even though BOB did all the dirty work to create it.So,could that have been the Bad Dale under the control of BOB,trying to get back what was his? Ive often seen BOB’s use of inserting the letter into his victims ring finger as his form of the wedding ring.

            Can you imagine the rage of losing that reward after all those years and years you put into cultivating the pain.Making a father repeatedly rape his daughter for years and then make said man kill his own daughter violently. Torturing that young girls mind to the point of death.

            Did Cooper/BOB try and change other pieces of history. The "Secret History of Twin Peaks" changes well known established events in it's documents ( though this is still suspect as the book gives the sense that there may be an unreliable narrator who has altered the Archivists original documents despite his knowledge).Such things have been altered as Big Ed and Nadine's relationship. Norma Jenning's mother is now dead in a timeline where before she was actually seen IN the diner on the show for several episodes?

           I sincerely think BOB/Cooper has been fucking up the townsfolk in a rage. He lost all that Garmonbozia so he wants to create even more stronger suffering this time by really impacting as many lives negatively as possible.

          Or maybe BOB,in effort to be good at being bad, just wants to fuck with the lives the living Good Dale has met in his time in TP.Enjoying the pain of making a good-hearted man betray and hurt his friends and do the nastiest of evils.Revenge for getting him removed from Leland. Imagine Cooper destroying Sheriff Truman?

          Cooper,as a host, would create a different approach to BOB's form of fun.Different body,different rules:BOB is now inside an FBI agent,and all that comes with that.Flash the badge and get people to start talking,telling their secrets, or open doors willingly.

         Would BOB/Cooper do something that gets him removed from the FBI? Or was the Blue Rose case enough to keep Cooper as part of the FBI team and in Twin Peaks after the Laura Palmer resolution just so Gordon Cole could learn more of the secrets of the woods?

         How would Cooper even report his findings of the Laura Palmer murder case to the FBI?How to speak of BOB?Would  BOB/Cooper write up a completely false report to hide anything that would lead to awareness of the other side?And could this report be found to be false, leading to legal troubles for Cooper? Could the new series be a court case that Cooper is on trial for and the series starts as his recollections of events that happened before this new series began.(allowing for Denise Bryson to make an appearance as a character witness/agent discussing how she observed events while in Twin Peaks.Maybe it could be Denise's observations that exposes Coopers lies).

         Cooper had already done some rule breaking things(while well intended) even before BOB got to him.

           Whatever they choose, I think it would be impossible for the show to simply pick up the story years later after the last episode.Continuing the threads we are most familiar with from before.There is only so many secrets Laura Palmer's death could reveal.It would be strange for these characters to STILL be talking about the same things after all these years.It would take a lot of exposition to get a viewer up to speed on what happened in those 25 years (though they could have Ben Horne waking from a coma from his head injury and after brother Jerry has filled him in on all the details Ben says " How long was I out?" )

            These characters have gone on living their lives while we were binging on different shows.Watching programs that were influenced by Twin Peaks who then added something more to the storytelling on the television landscape.Story-lines that we knew of back then could very well have been concluded years ago off screen without us ever hearing what happened.Characters would have moved out of town.Died.New characters will be introduced with their own backstory and secrets.We will have to meet them while once again meeting our old favorites for the first time in 25 years. When you see me again, it wont be me .

Meanwhile......

           What have our favorite characters been up to all these years? I've tried to avoid any potential spoilers from the little information that has been offered about the new show.While I've watched the teasers(Gordon Cole eating a donut on a loop!I bet Lynch plays that out for the entire consumption of the donut in the show),read the book, and looked at pictures in the magazines, I've resisted the urge to go down the google rabbit hole and uncover things that could spoil the surprises.I am shivering in antici.......SAY IT! ...PATION! of who will return to the show and what will we see and hear(new Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch soundtracks and songs....*droooooool*).Will the original cast be more than just a nostalgic cameo or will they be part of the bigger story? What IS the bigger story? HOW'S ANNIE?!?!?

Our Special Agent, Dale Cooper:

            What trouble has Dale Cooper been up to?Which Cooper will we meet again? The Good,but older Dale? Or the darker unreliable narrator BOB/Dale? Or,perhaps the shattered shell of a kind-hearted man who has somehow survived BOB’s influence and subsequent exit but still struggles with the darkness and horrors he has helped bring to life via his own hands,albeit under the influence(like a drug) of another being? Was he able to fight BOB off? Did Dale cast BOB out between now and then(two worlds)? and we are now dealing with this broken man?

Deputy Hawk probably sensed the evil spirit within Cooper and maybe was a helping hand in freeing Cooper before BOB could pull the ripcord on Coopers soul. I picture The Log Lady:She senses things, probably spitting her pitch gum out at Cooper every time he came into the diner for pie.

Sarah Palmer:

          Sarah Palmer has lost her daughter and her husband in the span of a few weeks. How does she cope?Can she? I think this is one of the biggest fails of the original run, when they jumped 3 days later to Leland’s funeral .We missed her reaction. We missed the towns reaction (Did they ever reveal to the public that Leland killed Laura?since it would be part of an ongoing Blue Rose/BOB investigation) She lost it when her daughter died. How did she deal with that grief and then her husbands death and THEN the potential revelation that he had been raping Laura for years AND then killed her violently. Lord knows what Leland was doing to Sarah for his own enjoyment under BOB’s influence over the years.The levels of emotional abuse and manipulation. And how much did Sarah know before? She was often drugged by Leland/BOB so BOB could play undisturbed. But did she sense or know something was off? How did Laura behave after that first time in the woods? Did Sarah notice in the beginning? What did Sarah think of Leland/BOB’s occasional cruelty to Laura , to herself? BOB had been in Leland for nearly forty years, so he was there when they met,maybe BOB was even present when Laura was conceived.Did BOB touch Laura as an infant? When Laura got to a older age,was there a change in Leland and Sarah's intimate relationship that might have made Sarah start to notice the darkness in her home? It would be no surprise if that Sarah became an alcoholic in the following years.Something which is implied in one of the few first images to emerge for the new series.Sarah in the booze aisle of a store with TWO bottles. Did Sarah's visions increase in intensity now that Leland/BOB no longer drugged her on a regular basis.Or did they fade away now that she was no longer so close to the source of such a unique power as BOB? Could she have been addicted to that fuzzy mental passive state?She was already heavy in to cigarette smoking, but that could have been an emotional stress crutch because of what was going on in her home.

Donna Hayward:

           Honestly, without her investigating Laura's murder as a form of guilt absolving what integral place  does she have in this story? Ben Horne as her father? So what?Standard soap opera drama there. I can see the character using that as one of many reasons run away and to get the hell out of dodge,Go far away for college. Best friend is violently murdered by her father a man you knew? You discover terrible things about your best friend Laura that you only were hinted to at before? You have an abusive ex boyfriend (Mike) and the guy you cheated on said ex with was also in love with your best friend? And he has wild ambitions of becoming a singer and its not "just you" who thinks this is a ridiculous idea?Another young girl you know gets murdered just like your friend Laura? Your meddling actions result in a agoraphobic gardener to kill himself after you betray his fragile trust? Then you find out your Mom shacked up with the town sleaze Ben Horne,and, oh, he's also your father? and just when did Mom get so Horne? While married to your Dad ? That’s more than enough reasons to want to get away from all of that grief that this town has to offer. Supposedly, neither of the actresses who portrayed her are returning.They replaced her once, it could happen again.But I have a strong feeling the character has left town,never to be heard from again ( well maybe via a letter to her sisters )

James Hurley:

          I bet he has a band. *shudder*. Probably works at Big Eds during the day and bar-tending the Road House at night.Still a Bookhouse Boy.Donna has most likely moved on leaving this lap dog to lick his wounds.But what would be his part in this story?What purpose does he now serve? And sure he was young , but what kind of a jackass, lets his girlfriend have an emotional breakdown in front of you and then lets that young girl just walk off into the dark woods alone at night??Driving off and abandoning her.Only to have her found murdered the next day.The town folk probably liked to whisper about that behind his back.

Sheriff Truman:

         Another broken soul.Ive read he is not coming back.Thoughts are he might have been recast.The character relationship of Cooper and Truman will be missed.Whose Albert Rosenfield going to "WOOF" at now? He may be recast...with his brother, who is mentioned in the book as being sheriff before Harry.So the new sheriff could still be a Truman of a different color. But what I hope is there is a story to support this.Harry Truman went through a traumatic loss with Josie dying in front of him. He also lost a bit of his town...as people he knew and protected turned out to be quite the dark opposite. Maybe this was too much. He saw Leland's death bed confession. He had cursory experiences with BOB and elements of the Red Room. Maybe this all became too much for his structured mind to process and he walked away.Admittedly,I'm really looking forward for an Albert vs a new Truman confrontation and Albert getting a completely different reaction when he tries to call the new guy a blithering hayseed. This Truman bites back. And what's his secret?

Will this new Truman, older brother, be as good as Harry? or the dark twin to Harry's light?

Major Briggs:

         What of Major Briggs?He is indicated to being the Archivist and creator of the Secret History of Twin Peaks.Even though the book halfway through starts to feel as it there was another hand in the making...or altering. Major Briggs has been implied as time traveling. gone for days back in a period outfit. Where has he been, what has he seen? What is his purpose in the new story and how does it connect to reasons for creating the document in the first place? Sweet Jebus...don’t let it be aliens. don’t let the spirits from the other place be aliens Major Briggs has been investigating. Don’t involve aliens at all. Let that be a red herring

Bobby Briggs:

           Is he still working for Ben Horne? Involved with Shelly?Going out for a pass and finding new shoes?

Leo Johnson/Shelly Johnson:

           Last seen hanging out under some tarantulas. Sure he could have gotten away from that.But he was not fully recovered from his new shoes mental state. What would be his place in this town/story?Shelly would not take him back after everything. Could the two have divorced within the last 25 yrs,gone separate ways? Would Leo let her do that and live? Or if he disappeared in the woods,could she have the marriage annulled? have him declared dead? or is she forever held as his legal prisoner? Forever being expected to pay off his debts/truck/house payments/old criminal dealings from people who come to claim what Leo owed them?Shelly, Forever living in fear that one night Leo might return from the Woods and come give her another cleaning lesson?

Lucy and Andy :

        WHAT OF THEIR CHILD?!?!?!?!

Diane:

        Don’t reveal her. Don’t let us see her.Or even hear her.But still have Dale speak to her.

BOB/MIKE/THE ARM

-       Frank Silva, dead, , Mike Anderson- not asked to return . Philip Gerard?Supposedly returning .Since the Little Man From Another Place is implied as to be what became of Philips arm when cut off in the Lodge,what happened to it if its no longer part of the story?How could they communicate this absence.Its not like the members of the Lodge are forward in their telling tales. Did Gerard, in effort to change and control his host, take action against his own now living arm? and just what did Phillip make his own host body do? Could the Arm be replaced by another actor?

Annie Blackburn:

         How's Annie? Since Heather Graham is not in this series, despite expressing interest to return. How IS Annie? Is Annie ? Will she be written out under the "it's 25 years later", people move on and out of town line of thought. Did she die off screen? Murdered? Mental break down after her experiences?Could her mind handle this reality after having only just left the convent weeks before? Did she run scared from Cooper? Did BOB/Cooper hurt her again?

Ronette Polaski

       What of Ronette Pulaski?What became of her?She was mixed up in wild things like Laura.Did her near death experience/head trauma change her?

Is Invitation to Love still on the air? or will there be a whole new modern show that the townsfolk watch?

So many main actors have passed on, so their stories are no longer possible to continue without recasting.How do you replace BOB?

Pete and Catherine Martell:

        Picture the Packard Sawmill and its influence on the town. Pete Martell's character is now dead,supposedly protecting Audrey Horne with his body as the bomb went off.Catherine Martell's brother killed in the same explosion. Even Josie's character is dead. Catherine Martell has lost her only close relations. According to the book, she became a recluse. Sold off the mill to Ben Horne who closed it down (which must have had a dramatic effect on the town economy) Even if she had not became a recluse,without the mill and her dealings with Horne in selling the land, she has no more connection to the town. How did the Ghostwood estates effect the town? What kind of new townfolk with their own quirks did it add to the mix. What kind of effect did this cutting down of some of the woods have on the evil in the town?Fewer places to hide. Released spirits? Could this create some type of imbalance in the darkness that is in the woods?

Audrey Horne:

        When I first heard of the return of the show , I found myself thinking about how it might all start. And I immediately saw an image of Audrey Horne returning to Twin Peaks after being away for years.Driving into town,much like her Special Agent Cooper did oh so many years ago.She is talking to someone off screen on her phone.Dictating.Audrey is now a Special FBI Agent of her own.

There has been a death in the family(Johnny?her mother?Ben?) So she is returning for the funeral

I picture her car pulling up to the Great Northern.She opens her door and places her feet on the concrete.Wearing stylish ,but Audrey shoes.The camera reveals her then getting into a cherry red wheelchair.But does she really need it? or is this a secret to be revealed later?

In the course of her visit she finds herself assisting in investigating Cooper/BOB’s dirty work.....and maybe her father.....perhaps a murder happens while she is home.....a murder,duplicate in every detail to a murder she investigated last year in another state......one that also involves letters under the fingernail....

Speaking of the letter under the fingernail....

Teresa was 'with a T'

Laura had the letter 'R'

Ronette had the letter 'B'

and Maddie had the letter 'O'

           Where was the letter 'E' victim? Did Leland kill someone between Laura and Ronette....was this someone other than Jacque Renault? and they never bothered to look under his fingernail since they had no reason to? Or was there someone else? Could this be a body that was discovered some time after the whole first series before this new one and the found letter connects it back to Laura?

Ok, the crazy,drunk Icelanders seem to have stopped singing loudly and I think its time to go to sleep. More random thoughts on what may be to come later