Sunday, December 31, 2017
Saturday, December 2, 2017
What is Your Name?
It then occurred to me that I had not tried to corral my thoughts in regards to the final episode of Twin Peaks return.So before I indulge in the book I figure it to best to take one last trip to the land of cherry pie and wtf
We begin where we left off....
Is Cooper trying yet again to rescue or remove Laura from her fate? Or is this just a “ LAST TIME ON TWIN PEAKS!” moment?
As there hasn’t been one of those moments all season, I’m leaning towards the thought that Cooper is trying again to rescue Laura but the same thing keeps occurring.
It is happening again .......
The Bad Dale is burning up on re-entry to the Lodge.No longer a threat. A happy ending . Or is it? The residents of the Lodge are a confounding lot. We have seen them desire the fresh Garmonbozia,the creamed corn essence of ones pain and suffering .Surely the Bad Dale would be a competent generator of the G. Or is it because he wouldn’t share? or, perhaps, could the Lodges assistance to put a stop to the Bad Dale have something to do with whatever the Bad Dale wanted. It would appear that he sought Mother.For what purpose, still remain a mystery. To assist in releasing her destructive nature upon this world? Mother seemed just fine and capable under the skin of the ever suffering Sarah Palmer. Could he have sought her power for himself? Acquire her destructive skills so he could really go wild.Endangering the existence of the Lodge.Breaking apart ALL worlds?
Mike makes good on his promise to make another. And from the seed and lock of Agent Cooper’s hair, we have the return of Dougie to Janey-E and Sonny Jim. A cathartic happy ending in a world that rarely sees them
"Home"
but happy moments aren’t meant to last....
A bewildered Cooper suddenly finds himself in the chair of the red room.Much like we saw him in the beginning of this season.
Mike sits across from him again and says his cryptic line " is is future
or is it past? " Through the darkness of future past....future
past....is this the future that has already past?have we returned to a
point in the future that is a result of Coopers action in the
past?...Cooper knows not where he is at this moment ......Is this the
same time and place as the scene we witnessed in Episode 2? or is this
the same scene repeating in the future with a different outcome due to
Coopers failure?
Cooper stares at the empty seat that should be taken by Laura if things progressed as in the past.She does not appear.Once again, She has been taken
Could the earlier visual in the Lodge, where we saw Laura violently removed from the moment, be another example of Coopers failure? That he had already tried to rescue Laura back then but failed and this was the first example of Mother removing Laura from the equation.As a result, Laura’s spirit would have been removed from her post death existence, resulting in Cooper thinking that he needed to then “Find Laura” BEFORE she died if he was to not only save her but use her in the fight against the evil of Mother.
Mike motions him to follow.
Cooper is wearing his FBI pin in this moment. Is this to indicate the timeline is before his original escape from the Lodge? When before he lost his shoes and pin in the electrical crossover.The pin was missing from his suit from the moment he returned to our earthly plane in the position of “Dougie” but appeared again on his suit when he,Gordon,and Diane approached the mysterious door under the Great Northern. Had Gordon provided him with the symbol once more?As a welcome back to the FBI ?
Cooper is brought before the arm who introduces himself just as he did in episode 2.Is time repeating itself , in a new timeline, due to Coopers choices?
This time he adds a new line " Is is the story of the little girl who lived down the lane?”
Is it? The girl who .....“lived”....... Is this NOW the story of the girl who lived,not died violently by the hand of BOB?
We move down a red room hallway
Cooper is back in the chair again.
Laura enters and begins to whisper into his ear
"Huh?" even he is confused as to what the fudge is going on .What does Laura reveal? “My Mother killed me” ? “I am not Laura Palmer,my name is ...(indistinguishable) ” ? “Cooper, you screwed the pooch” ?
Once again Laura is violently removed from the picture
Cooper enters another room and finds Leland sitting alone.
He cries quietly "Find Laura" .Even Leland’s doppelganger soul still misses his daughter “Find Laura” ? Where is she hidden now?
Cooper leaves the Lodge of his own accord. In control of the door .He steps out from behind the curtains into Glastonbury Grove
Diane is waiting in the dark
Diane is not sure its Cooper.
“Is it you?Is it really you?”
“Yes, Its really me Diane”
“Is it really you?”
“Yes”
After all the Doppelganger, Tulpa terrors,they will always be unsure of each other.The damage has been done. How can they trust each other going forward with the task at hand?Even if they WANT to trust each other , they NEED to trust each other for their plan to be successful.Whatever that plan may be.
Driving in their car....they never,never want to go home...because they haven’t got one ...anymore
They have been driving all night. wearing the same clothes as before.No time to waste.Time?where we’re going we don’t need time.
Diane-”Are you sure you want to do this? You don’t know what its going to be like once we.....”
Once we ...what? We have no indication of what is going on here?Other than the “Find Laura” statement ,nothing has pointed in the direction of what has led us to this moment. While Diane and Cooper together is not odd,even after all they have both been through, the idea of her working closely with him on whatever this plan might be is curious. Yes, she has seen things,and perhaps she has seen enough of the bigger picture that she has agreed to go forward by Coopers side. As his assistant.So he doesn’t have to do this alone this time. There is not likely to be a Janey-E this time to guide him to safety
Her statement implies that even Agent Cooper is clueless as to what awaits.
Cooper-”I know that” ....sure you do,like you knew what would happen to Laura when you tried to save her.....
"Were at that point now, I can feel it .Almost exactly 430 miles"
The car they are driving is old
Diane-: “Just think about it cooper”....without hesitation he gets out of the car
Cooper walks forward unto he reaches a spot that stops him.Almost as if he walked into something. He makes note of the electricity crackle in the air from the wires up above
Diane is scared
Cooper gets back into the car .Sure that this is the place
He asks Diane to kiss him .”Once we cross it could all be different”. Is he trying to prepare Diane or himself?
They share a kiss
All this Cooper/Diane kissing is just strange. When did this relationship flourish?I understand they have been through a lot. Individually. But when did their working relationship become something so ....friendly.Wouldn’t kissing your secretary be a definite FBI HR no-no? It is implied that Cooper has kissed Diane once before all of this Twin Peaks business ever occurred.Perhaps this is a emotional extension of that moment.What do they have to lose? But everything.
Perhaps this is an indication of how much Cooper has changed from his experiences. The Cooper we knew from the original series never hinted at a romantic relationship with Diane( truth be told, why would he with the people of Twin Peaks) .Something seems off about his casual and repeated approach to intimacy.He’s kissed her twin in the last two scenes with her.With the implied danger and seriousness of the situation , it feels unlike Cooper to be thinking about kissing ,much less acting upon it.
The kiss is not as passionate as the previous one that took place upon Diane’s return
Diane says "Lets go".......Wouldn’t it have been awesome if she had said " Lets rock"
The car rolls slowly forward to “the spot”
Electricity flashes. Two points are seen overlapping,merging. Day and night.
.......and then they are suddenly driving fast down the road at night
On this other side, it is dark .Undefined in the distance.Is this side a dream?
They are shown pulling up to a motel . Surrounded by darkness
Cooper gets out and goes inside to get a room.
Diane sits in the car
She notices herself standing by a pillar in the distance .Watching herself.
Out of body experience? Or is Diane already losing control of who she has been placed inside on this side. Slipping away from herself.
They enter room 7.
Diane turns on the light.Cooper tells her to turn it off.Now it's dark.She says :”What do we do now? “ Had they really no plan for what happens on this other side? Rather reckless to cross over into something without having some semblance of a plan. Especially since in situations before, Cooper and the gang had some type of contingency plan in place “If I disappear ..”
Cooper-”You come over here to me “
She does
Cooper looks at her and says "Diane"
He still knows who he and she are. Does she?
She reluctantly kisses him .Could she be recalling the Bad Dale and the rape.Does she still remember everything ?
And then.......
What the fuck?Literally.The two of them making love is just creepy even before they get full on weird
What the fuck?Literally.The two of them making love is just creepy even before they get full on weird
“My prayer” plays over the intercourse .With a layer of ominous music underneath.
Cooper is emotionless during the act. He just stares at Diane.Cold.Is he trying to put on his best Bad Dale look to evoke terror in Diane?Is this a ritual to call? forth what?
Diane is not enjoying the moment at all , she is in pain. She covers Coopers face because she can’t look at THAT face anymore, especially during this act. This is not the twin of the passionate sex of Janey-E and “Dougie”
What is this act ,anyway? For what purpose would they need to make love so immediately upon crossing over? To remain present within themselves?Create a strong emotional link between the two?
Or is there some other rhythm method to this madness?
In Mark Frost’s “Secret History of Twin Peaks” , there is a story of a dark sexual magick ritual that is attempted to summon a being (The Moonchild) at “The Parsonage” ,home of Jack Parson who was a chemist instrumental in the development of rocket fuel science. He produced “alchemical elixirs” and was a member of the English mystic Aleister Crowley‘s church/coven. After Jack Parson’s death, a science fiction writer friend of his declared (in Mark Frost’s book): “Once a magician stands between two worlds, he’s in danger of not belonging to either one of them .” This does not bode well for Coopers fate.
Could Cooper and Diane be attempting to perform their own ritual to call forth The Mother? As we saw in one of the early episodes of this new series, the sexual act of Sam and Tracey caught the disapproving eye of Mother, who burst forth from the glass box to bite their faces off. Could this be Coopers goal? Why would they think that Mother/Judy would be on this side ? Let alone watching?Doesn’t the Fireman know that Mother was last seen staying at the Palmer house ? We saw him keeping an eye on that home.Does Cooper think the stench of Diane’s suffering and pain in this moment would be enough Garmonbozia to catch the attention of wherever Judy is hiding? And what if they HAD succeeded? What then?
The morning after, cooper wakes and call out for Diane.He still remembers her name. However, Diane is gone .Most likely, in every sense of the word.Her mind succumbing to this sides reality influence of Linda. Or could Diane, sensing that she is in danger of losing herself, have made a return to the point of electrical breach and returned home to our side of the coin?
On the bedside table is a note that indicates she did not make it through the night and that Diane may be lost forever. Part of me thinks this was an intentional effort to write “Diane” out of the story completely.For if Twin Peaks were ever to return for a fourth season,her involvement would be integral to the overall story and would require more than a token appearance. It would be counting on a lot to rely on Laura Dern being available to return to the show for an extended involvement,many years later.The current story also dictated that Diane be somewhere else when Cooper finds Laura and tries to take her home once more.Diane would have been a third wheel in those scenes.Which begs the question,why bring her along in the first place?Why didn’t Cooper come alone or with someone who had more experience not getting lost. Diane already lost her identity once before when she was on the other side of the Lodge,hidden under the guise of Naido.What did she think would prevent this from happening again?
Dear Richard (Cooper is confused by this Richard?)
When you read this ,I'll be gone ( Goodbye Diane)
Please don't try to find me
I don't recognize you anymore
Whatever it was we had together is over.
Linda
Diane has lost to the idea of Linda .Remember Richard and Linda ,for if you forget who they REALLY are, you will forget who you really are.
Cooper exits the hotel room.He is now in a different hotel than the night before. Has the world been rewritten around him during his sleep? Is this other world becoming more whole with each passing hour? More of “Richards” world. In the light of day, there is more to this world than the dark,detail less visions of the night before.
Cooper steps out and looks around for the car that should be there. Then he notices a familiar vehicle across the way and head towards it .How does he know this is his car now?He catches himself and realizes both the car and the hotel are off
The above image caught my eye when watching. While likely to be just a visual coincidence, the tree reminds me of the arm while the tall slender pole with the globe light makes me think of the orb of Laura and the Fireman.All the while in the background there are electrical wires. Significant of nothing, most likely , but gave me pause. Could they be watching?
Cooper finds himself in Odessa
He passes a restaurant that catches his eye
Judy’s Coffee shop.A white horse ,children’s toy ride , sits our front.Even Cooper glances down at it.A train horn blows in the distance
Inside, Its a world of truck drivers.
Cooper sits down after taking note of the surroundings
Kristi ,the waitress pours him some coffee
He asks her if there is another waitress who works here
Kristi" Yeah, its her day off, actually its her third day off"
Cooper drinks some of the coffee , but does not have any of his characteristic responses to the java. Its emotionless, rather. Is this dream coffee?Not real?
Or is Richard influencing Cooper.Replacing Cooper?With a less enthusiastic response to coffee. Another indication that this Cooper is different.Changed by his experiences. Or now a combination or the Good and Bad Dale.
In contrast,the few other patrons in the restaurant are all keeping Kristi busy as she refills their coffee
A trio of cowboys start harassing the waitress. Cooper tells them to leave her alone. The three get up and approach the seated Cooper.One pulls a gun out. Cooper quickly disarms him in a Bad Dale move with a kick to the groin. Cooper then shoots a second in the foot and before the third can pull out his gun he calmly instructs him to take his gun out and put it on the ground.
All this behavior is not typical of FBI Dale Cooper. Its a mix of Good Dale, Bad Dale and ...potentially Richard. Is Richard this sides Bad Dale?
Is it because Cooper knows he is in a dream world, or alternate world and none of this matters? FBI procedure is not necessary as he intends to leave as soon as he finds Laura.
Cooper tells Kristi to write the address of the other waitress down for him.
While she does this, he places the cowboys guns into the french fryer.
He’s even considerate to tell the gawking chef to move aside unless the hot oil sets off the bullets inside the guns
“Its ok, Im with the FBI”
Address in hand , Cooper exits
What the fuck just happened?
Cooper pulls up to the address.
We see a familiar electrical pole. Had Cooper been shown this before? Did the Fireman hide Laura here when Judy attempted to interfere with Cooper’s original plan? Did the Fireman create this place? Is that how he knew about Richard and Linda and the #6 pole
The front yard of the house is an unkempt mess. Overturned pots. Random lengths of rope. Tire parts. Dirt, no grass. Complete lifeless opposite of the lush green front yard of the Palmer house and the trees of Twin Peaks.
Cooper knocks on the door.
A blonde woman, played by Sheryl Lee cautiously approaches from inside. Who is it ?
Cooper -”FBI”
At the mention of this she opens the door instantly
“Did you find him?”
Cooper upon seeing her -”Laura “(she at first reacts to this and then says)
“You didn’t find him?”
Cooper ,again-”Laura” (she doesn’t recognize this name)
She shakes it off-”You got the wrong house mister”
“You’re saying you’re not Laura Palmer?”
“Laura who? No, I’m not her “
“What’s your name?”
“Carrie Page”(The missing page of Laura’s secret diary?? perhaps?)
“So the name Laura Palmer means nothing to you ?”
Cooper than says to her"Your fathers name was Leland” Why would he lead off with that? Does he think the mention of Leland, will evoke the memory of what he did to Laura in this version?
Carrie----(whatever mister) “OK”
This sort of seems to ring a bell-is her fathers name in this place Leland as well
“Your mothers name was Sarah”
This gets a different reaction...."S-Sarah"
Something is overcoming Carrie.She seems suddenly awash with a feeling or memory. She braces herself in the door.
Carrie-”What's going on?" Have new memories, that feel true ,seem to have emerged?
“It’s difficult to explain”
“As strange as it sounds I think you are a girl named Laura Palmer”
“I want to take you to your mothers home.You’re home at one time.Its very important”
(Mother’s home, interesting way of saying that, not take you home, or parents home, or the home you grew up in, but mother’s home-as if it is significant or on his mind The Mother...of abomination)
Carrie gives us a little indication of what her life is like on this side of the coin " Normally when someone like you came to my door I would tell them to fuck off and this door would be slammed in their face. But I need to get out of dodge real fast so riding with the FBI might save my ass"
“Where we going?”
“Twin Peaks, Washington”
“DC?”
“No.State Washington State”
“Is it a long way?”
Its a ways away “ (depending on which version we are talking about, this side, or back to our reality.Does Cooper plan to drive through the entry point with this version of Laura?)
Carrie lets Cooper inside. While she gathers her things Cooper looks around the room and notices the dead body on the couch. The back of it’s head blown off. The gun on the floor.It could be a self inflicted wound. The bodys hand is frozen in rigor at about the position where the trigger would have been if the gun was still in his lap.There is something that looks like vomit on his shirt. Could it be that same kind of vomit we saw the Bad Dale give up? Flies buzz around. The body is not new
Cooper does not comment or really react to the body as if he was FBI in this world. This body doesn’t matter.None of this does.
Cooper makes note of the white horse in front of the blue plate (blue plate special?)
There are frozen meal packets all over the room. Is that frozen corn?
A phone begins to ring. Carrie makes no notice of it.
As she leaves she gives the body one last glaring look and then shuts the door on her past
As they drive out , Carrie makes the statement "At least we are getting out of this fucking town of Odessa" This made me think that Carrie Page has never been outside the border of this town.Perhaps there is no outside to this town in her eyes.The original Laura Palmer probably had misgivings about her home town of Twin Peaks.
As they do leave town ,it quickly becomes night. And except for the road in the headlights its black on the borders.Unfilled in dream space?
They drive in silence .An occasional car passes. For a long while, another cars headlights can be seen behind them....Carrie makes note of this .Suspicious that someone is following them.Her past on this side seems to lead her to suspicion.Who would she think would be following her?That someone is coming for her?That “Him” that she thought the FBI might have found? Was that “him” friend or foe?
After some time, it eventually passes.
“I tried to keep a clean house .....keep everything organized” Clearly she is not referring to the actual house she just left. Did this”Laura” also try to do good, only to have her efforts fail?She and Cooper have a lot in common.
“It’s a long way”
“In those days, I was too young to know any better” This is true of our Laura.How could a young girl being abused by a monster hiding under the guise of her father know how to deal with all that?let alone the bigger picture of the struggle.Sounds like this version of Laura suffered the same inevitable fates. That despite doing good it always came out wrong .Tainted.By her touch. Could this be a result of Laura,though sent down from the Fireman to stop evil such as BOB, her birth was itself tainted by the fact that she was conceived by Leland while he was under the influence of BOB.
They drive for a long time.Does Cooper ever cross over the electrical breach?Or do they stay in this version of reality?
We see them stopping for gas. A lone station surrounded by black. The world is not built around this place.3 similar looking cars drive by. Police cars? the Same something is on their roof
They pull into Twin Peaks. Oddly, we do not see them pass the town sign at night. Things are different in this version of existence.Who dreamed this world up? They do pass the Double R diner. Its closed. How late is this? We’ve seen the RR open late into the night in previous episodes.Late,as in , after the Bang Bang Bar closing time of night. Also , in this version, there is no “RR to GO” on the side of the building. Neither Cooper or the memory of Laura would be aware of this advancement in the RRs life. Is this another indication that we are still in an alternate ‘verse? Inside a dream,perhaps? or alternate timeline? One created by Laura not dying by BOB’s hand?
Cooper pulls up to the Palmer residence. Carrie Page still doesn’t recognize anything. Maybe if he had spoke to her about Laura’s life.Kept trying to trigger memories with conversation of her past(He has read her secret diary).But the car ride is suspiciously silent from both sides.
They step out of the car.Cooper offers his hand and they both walk up the front steps towards what was the Palmer home.Cooper looks around for some type of sign.Nothing gives
Carrie looks around , seemingly lost in a haze. Of foggy memory? Is something stirring?
Cooper knocks.
A woman answers( the actual owner of the real Palmer house,btw)
Cooper introduces himself as FBI ,and asks if Sarah Palmer is here
The woman informs him there is no one here by that name
And that she doesn’t know her
Cooper asks whom they bought the house from
The woman asks her husband off screen.
"Chalfont, a Mrs Chalfont"
Cooper asks who owned it before Mrs Chalfont. They do not know.
What is your Name? He asks.
“Alice Tremond”
Both the names Chalfont and Tremond have been a part of Twin Peaks lore since the original series. Often connected to the old woman and her magician grandson,who are Lodge members. They work in mysterious ways. Not out right evil it would seem, but certainly associated with danger.We see the two of them in attendance at a meeting with BOB and other Lodge spirits, where there is talk of murder.Do they participate in this fate? What purpose did they hope to fulfill by placing the photo of the room in Laura’s hand for her to hang on her wall? Did this photo operate as a portal? To let Laura over to the other side, or something over to hers? Within the new series the Woodsmen are shown to be residents of this dilapidated filthy wallpapered room. And their presence is not a good thing. For what purpose would the GrandMOTHER(of abomination?) and the grandson want to prevent Laura’s murder?The grandson is even the one who utters the line “Fell a victim” to BOB . Do they have a bet with BOB as to whether he will be able to take Laura and are trying to trip him up? Or are they trying to steal the Garmonbozia he has created? One of the versions of Chalfont/Tremond do lead Donna to Laura’s secret diary by directing her to Harold place across the way.While this results in Harold’s death(more pain and suffering generated on his part) it also leads closer to revealing BOB’s hiding place in Leland. Do they do this intentionally to stop the reckless nature of BOB whose actions are likely to be disrupting the order of their own existence?
Unsuccessful, Cooper walks away from the Palmer house .Confused.”How did I fail this time?” he seems to be saying to himself, “what did I do wrong? “ “Where is Mother?” What did Cooper hope to accomplish by bringing Laura home? From his attempts to remove Laura from her fate of death as a teenager to this returning of someone who looks almost exactly like Laura Palmer to a home she never grew up in, his goal seems to have been to bring “Laura” home. If Laura had not been violently removed from his hand in the woods during his first attempt, would he have taken Laura directly home to her front door then? Laura would want nothing with being inside that house with her BOB infested Father.Let alone left there for another night. And at the time, Sarah Palmer would not have been infected with Mother.So there would have been no confrontation between the two forces.Would Cooper have confronted Leland/BOB in front of Laura.Force him to reveal himself?It’s not like Cooper could have stopped BOB in that moment, he couldn’t and didn’t even do anything to stop BOB without the help of a green gardeners glove in the hand of another. Just stood by and watched while someone else did the fighting.
Would Cooper have taken the Laura from before to the Lodge and use its time traveling skills to emerge 25 years later to take Laura home to confront the new terror of her Mother infested Mother? Again,to what purpose?Laura would not know of any special power she had within her to stop this new threat.She was an emotionally, psychologically damaged, drug addicted teenager.Laura couldn’t even stop BOB. Did Cooper really think it would just work itself out?We never see him provide Carrie or Laura with any form of guidance. Or would he teach her in transit while traveling in the Lodge,spend 25 years guiding her and preparing her to emerge in the future when he takes her home? For all her purpose, Laura seems like a strange unreliable choice of weapon to fight this evil. While Laura may be imbued with the spirit of goodness thanks to the Fireman, she is still a tainted soul. Her own conception is the result of the very thing she was meant to destroy. BOB was inside Leland when Leland was inside Sarah in that moment that resulted in her conception. Laura is, as a result, part BOB.
Carrie Page, meanwhile, seems to be remembering something.She stares at the house and then back to Cooper, who makes some type of motion as if trying to open a unseen door or curtain.Carrie Page must be thinking , what the hell is wrong with this guy and why did I let him drive me all this way?
Cooper says to himself..."What year is this?
This seems to trigger something in Carrie.
It is an interesting question that could indicate what may have happened to lead us to this final moment. One question that comes to mind is not so much “when” are we , but “where” are we? We are not shown the entire journey from Carrie Pages front door to Laura Palmer’s old front door. So time is in question even before Cooper poses the query.
1)If we are still in this “430” alternate timestream/universe?whatever this is . Then this is not the Palmer house of old and it raises the question again as to what purpose or why Cooper would bring this version of Laura here? This is not the time and place where the big bad is hiding.Cooper must know this.The Fireman was watching the Palmer home.He knew.Even showed Andy who was shown Laura Palmers hiding place in his vision during his visit to the Firemans side. Is it believed that the evil exists in all versions of time and place at the same time? That one can confront it and hurt it in this world as well as in all the others.
Its interesting to note that outside of Odessa, now its dark. Only around the bubble of what was Carrie Page/hidden Laura’s hometown were things in light,detailed.This is where she lived,Shelly! Once that threshold was passed everything is in shadows and distance is undefined in blackness.As if this version of “Laura’s” world was only defined by what she needed to see. She never left Odessa in this lifetime.Even Twin Peaks is dark and clouded by what the two may or may not remember.
2) What if during their travels outside of Odessa, Cooper crossed back over the 430 threshold .What if when he did that, they emerged at a different time. 25 years further into the future, perhaps? Time enough for Sarah Palmer to have moved away from Twin Peaks.Or even died under the cancerous influence of Mother. Mother moving on to a new host.The Palmer house could have known several owners since then. The Double R could have closed down.They missed the mark.Klatu Baradda......necktie *cough cough*
3) What if the time crossed was backwards ,not forwards? And either in this side of the coin or back over the 430 mark, Cooper and Carrie are in a time before the Palmers.
4) Cooper and Diane immediately traveled to the 430 mark after Coopers failed attempt to rescue Laura from BOB. They left in the night without stopping after he emerged from the Red Room. No time to waste.They might not have seen the immediate resulting changes of Coopers influential failed actions. What if by Laura’s removal from that iconic murderous moment resulted in the creation of a new alternate timeline where Laura was now a missing girl and not a murdered girl. The whole series of events of the series now forever changed. In effect ,David Lynch and Mark Frost having created a second Twin Peaks playing out and existing on top of the original. Twining Twin Peaks. A world where events play out in the town completely different. This would still not explain the discrepancies found in Mark Frosts book “The Secret History of Twin Peaks” as those events occurred long before the murder of Laura. Is it possible the “Secret History” book is to be found in Carrie Pages world of events?
It is mentioned by Phillip Jeffries that Gordon Cole will remember the unofficial version of events. Does this mean that this new version of Twin Peaks ,with its missing Palmer’s and dark Double R are what people believe to be the real version of events? Could Audrey be one who also remembers the unofficial events? And that moment when Cooper fails and Laura now becomes a “missing girl” , the time stream changes abruptly. And she is present in this moment. Shocked to find her world and memories now two parts of one.
Carrie hears the faint sounds of Sarah Palmer calling "Laura" . It sounds like the same "Laura" that was called out in the pilot. When Sarah was calling up the stairs to have Laura come down for breakfast before school on the morning of her murder. A sleepily heard version of her name being called out.
Could this be an indicate that Cooper is inside Laura’s dream? And the impending moment is where Laura Palmer wakes the morning after.Alive and well,wrapped in her warm bed sheets and not in cold plastic? Ready to start the last 25 years over. Hence Cooper thinking what year is this ,as to him, he is 25 years older from that moment while Laura is about to wake a young girl 25 years in the past.
Could the 430 point be a way to enter a persons dreams? A place where someone else has control of events and you can easily get lost in the shuffle of dream thoughts if you don’t maintain control of your own?
Carrie Page lets out one of Sheryl Lees beautiful and terrifying screams.Is “Laura” awakening inside? Instant recalling every single second of horror that this house holds in her stored memories?Is she feeling all that pain,suffering, and fear in one solitary moment?Does she see the evil hidden under the glamor over the house?Over this version of the world?
*BOOM!*
The Palmer house goes black as every thing shorts out and there is FLASH as all of the lights come on bright as day and then all is black.
What ...the ....actual....fuck...just....happened????
Did the power of Laura just shut down/short out this world with its electricity? Overload it with energy till the circuit broke that kept it running? What does this mean for the fate of Cooper and Carrie/Laura/Diane who are still in this world when it went down and potentially ceased to exist?
How is ....THIS..... how they choose to end Twin Peaks? 25years, 18hours later and BOOM, out go the lights.Don’t get me wrong.I LOVE the ending. As frustrating and confounding as every last second of it is. I LOVE IT!
As the credits roll ,we are not treated with one last Roadhouse gig,but rather ,Cooper sitting in the Red Room chair with Laura whispering something silently and surprising into his ear. Is this her telling him what went wrong?Where he is in time and place? Is he back where he started from?Surprised to be here again so suddenly?Like Audrey’s sudden emergence from her perceived reality.Has a whole new third Twin Peaks timeline been created because of Coopers actions in Carrie Pages reality? Is this future or is this past?What year is this?
How did we get to this point?This doesn’t quite feel earned. Why are we here? Why end it like this? I’m not opposed to a cliffhanger,both Season one and two ended with a question mark. Both dramatic.So it is no surprise that they chose to end on another dramatic “Tune in next week .Same Peaks time ,Same Peaks Channel!”
But now? When there are no more next weeks ,or even a real potential for them?A fact they knew well in advance.
No offense meant, Lynch is old.He will make art till he dies.But making a show as intricate like this(with long and late hours into the night) is a lot of hard work, it will take many years (It took five years for this series to be written to completed)for another season to be written and then find finance for it to be potentially produced,let alone filmed. More of the cast will have passed on and or retired.We’ve lost many major players as it were.Many of the original cast weren’t even parts of this story.
When there is no real hope of a fourth season or even second movie?Why end it with a hour of a whole new can of unfamiliar cherries to digest?I never expected it to be all tied up in a perfect cherry stem knot.That’s what the previous episode felt as if it meant to accomplish.
I am not disappointed there is not closure of any kind. Rather,I’m left confused as to why they would explore a whole new verse of events in this last hour. An impressive accomplishment, lets be honest, I’m grateful for the new mysteries.I applaud the choice to add a scoop of ice cream to the already previous tasty 17 slices of pie. But where is the lead in to this? Some semblance of the purpose. Cooper first tries to rescue Laura in the past.Forces conspire to make that not work. So Cooper now tries to find her in a alternate reality? Only to...fail again? There is nothing in the previous 17 episodes that indicates what the plan in this episode is meant to be?Or why Cooper and Diane are suddenly so unnervingly intimate with each other .Its understood that they must “Find Laura” ,no matter what the cost. She is important to the defeat of whatever this great and powerful Mother evil intends.But why and how did they find Laura hidden in another reality? Who hid her there ? Has she been there since she was taken violently from the woods ?Plucked out of one reality and dropped into another. Or is this an entirely new manifestation of the spirit of Laura?
When we saw Laura once again plucked out from time and space in the Red Room in the earliest episode of the season ,was this someone punishing her for telling Cooper how he had failed ? So the moment we witness at the end of the series is the same moment we saw in the first episode.Circling back to the beginning.
Personally, I hoped it would have circled back into a moment we had seen before.That final moment when Laura finally gets to see her Angel.Show it in a new light.Ideally, I would have loved for it to end with Cooper “Finding Laura” like he did in the end of Fire Walk With Me. Circling the stories back into each other and ending once again on that point and time.Showing us the viewers what led up to that Fire Walk With Me moment in the last hour of the series . Showing us Cooper freeing Laura from the Lodge.Laura weeping with joyful release as she finally sees her Angel return to help her. Giving her a second chance to "live". Fade to the Roadhouse, cue Julee Cruise singing “Falling” .
“Don’t let your self be hurt this time”
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