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Is anyone watching the new Twin Peaks? (Spoilers Walk With Me). (Probably).

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DucksGoWoof · 21/08/2017 08:00

Anyone? I'm loving it. Proper weird, obviously.

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DamnDeDoubtanceIsSpartacus · 07/09/2017 07:20

That's a great theory jamie

We all know watching Peaks isn't easy, it never performs the same way as other episodic shows so the last ever one was never going to do that. In a way it opened up many possibilities, Coop could have been a Tulpa, or he could have changed when he crossed the border, both are valid and I bet your life Lynch and Frost could't tell you.

What about the body in Alt Laura's home. It is testament to how odd the show is that there is an entire scene with a rotting corpse and it's not mentioned because it was the least odd thing.

beepbeeprichie · 07/09/2017 08:20

jaime that's the theory I like best too- that the real Coop went back to LV.
I don't feel massively disappointed with the Cooper storyline, more that there was far too much pointless filler that went nowhere and while it was enjoying to watch, leaving so many threads going nowhere (rather than just unresolved, proper storylines) is ultimately frustrating. For example- Audrey, Jerry, Dr Jacobi, Shelley and Red, Gersten.... what was the point of them being in it? The Richard Horne storyline/ hit and run- why?
The stuff with Sarah on the other hand, I liked- she was possessed by the frog/moth which was born of the atomic bomb, potentially attracting BOB to her and thereby possessing Leyland. All moving through electricity with the portal through the ceiling fan. The Tremond/ Chalfont house ownership linking back up to FWWM was quite satisfying too.

I particularly enjoyed Sarah saying "Laura" before the scream- apparently identical to her calling for her to wake her up the morning her body was discovered, and so allegedly waking up Carrie/Laura as to her real identity.

jaimebravo · 07/09/2017 10:55

It would kind of be a happy ending of sorts if it was.
The part that struck me is when everyone is at the sheriff station and Coopers face is there faded in full screen and he says "we live inside a dream" it has me baffled...was it all his dream? Especially as the there seems to be a recurring theme of dreams.

FishinthePerculator · 07/09/2017 11:50

I both loved, and was frustrated in equal measure, by the way this series developed and ended. I consider the town of Twin Peaks to be a character in its own right and I liked the way that the series ultimately focused on Copper's escape from the lodge while dipping in and out of the town, seeing vignettes of life there but not going into too much detail as they were really superfluous to the main plot. Twin Peaks is obviously a town with evil lurking under the surface and it made clear even before overtly stated ("the past dictates the future") that the evil will keep resurfacing and history will repeat itself ("it is happening again").

Take Becky, for example. She was very much created in the Laura Palmer mould and there could so easily have been a whole series built around her character, her dark side, secrets and murder (yes, I do believe Steven shot her, and himself) and it would have been fascinating to see this play out and the relationship and history between Bobby and Shelley explored in more detail. Instead we dipped in and out of their story and were left to piece things together. There is this sense that so many things were happening in Twin Peaks (also the weird entity in the car when the diner window was shot, whatever was going on with Billy, James' fledgling relationship with Renee and so many more) that it almost grounds it as a "real" place and not just existing for the purpose of a central plot. This was a brave and brilliant decision.

But as much as I loved the framing of the series in this way, I can't help but also be frustrated at the lack of resolution and answers to some of the things we saw. Especially when they are connected in some way to the central story. The things still keeping me awake at night are:

Audrey. We found out that she and the Coopleganger were Richard's parents and are led to believe this is the result of the Coopleganger's visit while she was comatose. Lynch obviously believes that's all we need to know but I still want a resolution to the end of ep.16. Where is the real Audrey. How much of what was seen at the Roadhouse was in her head. Is she just walking from the coma now after 25 years or has she been institutionalised?

Sarah Palmer. WTF??? Are we meant to believe that she was the real evil entity in the Palmer household all along. Was she controlling BOB/Leyland as a result of possession by the bug (if indeed it was the sleeping Sarah in ep.8)? Why was she stabbing the picture of Laura at the moment Cooper "saved" her if not to ensure her destruction? Or, is Sarah actually Laura? Lodge Laura is the only other entity we saw open her face in the same way before she disappeared. Could she somehow have swapped places with her mother - is this what was alluded to in the sequence with Sarah acting so oddly at the supermarket, followed by Hawk's visit and the weird sounds coming from the house. Did Laura find her way home but took over her mother's body and then when Coop went back in time to the FWWM sequence to save her, she flipped out as she was being pulled back out of this new world she had created for herself? Which is why she ended up as Carrie and then ultimately, at the very end, remembered everything, the fact that she never truly existed but was created in the lodge and inhabited so many different bodies (Laura, Sarah, Carrie) but has never been able to find peace?

Annie: How is she??? Grin But seriously, what was her ultimate fate and why was she whitewashed from the Secret History. Related to this, I just can't get on board with the Cooper/Diane love affair. There was never any hint in the original series that their relationship was more than admin based and if she was the true love of his life, why was he flirting with Audrey, still hung up on Caroline and then besotted with Annie?

I don't really care about the other loose ends as I believe they were just vignettes of what else was happening in the town but oh for one more episode to give a glimpse of clarity to these issues...

Auntiedahlia · 07/09/2017 12:31

I have no answers but am enjoying all these theories!! Will there be another season do you think?

FishinthePerculator · 07/09/2017 13:34

I highly doubt it, although ep.18 did seem like the set up for a new season. I think I read Showtime have already ruled out showing it even if Lynch wants to. Personally, I think I'd love another film rather than another full season. I don't think that will happen either though.

jaimebravo · 07/09/2017 13:52

Definitely a film would be excellent.
I don't think there will be another season either, so many key characters have passed on since like Albert and the log lady.
If there is another season it could be a spin off like with Dale, Diane and Gordon like the scene before he went into the boiler room in the great northern away from twin peaks.

DamnDeDoubtanceIsSpartacus · 07/09/2017 15:58

I just realised that Laura is the child of Evil/Sarah and Bob/Leland.

Sure I read somewhere that Bob didn't want to kill Laura, he wanted to posses her. She goaded him into killing her so he couldn't.

SparkwoodAnd21 · 07/09/2017 16:13

I'm loving the theories too! Keep them coming. (OP here with a new TP name).

I'd love the answer to some of these questions too, especially Sarah and Audrey.

MissionItsPossible · 08/09/2017 11:38

I LOVED IT!! Finally caught up with episodes 17-18 yesterday. I also found a link and it explains a lot and makes sense (though it made my head spin)!:

ozba.wordpress.com/2017/08/31/twin-peaks-audrey-billy-and-living-inside-a-dream/

Episode 18 felt like the start of Season 4!

SparkwoodAnd21 · 08/09/2017 18:38

abovethestore.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/judy-judy-judy.html?m=1

I am disappearing down a TP wormhole.

DamnDeDoubtanceIsSpartacus · 08/09/2017 20:17

But we now know that Judy is the Jowday, ancient and evil.

Auntiedahlia · 10/09/2017 16:06

So, thinking back, what was the thing that came out of the glass box and ate the heads off those people?

DamnDeDoubtanceIsSpartacus · 10/09/2017 20:49

I think that was Judy.

Tatlerer · 10/09/2017 21:15

Yes I was thinking Judy. Wasn't the depiction of the entity in the box the same as the one who spawned Bob? Gawd I'm going to miss TP. There's nothing quite like it.

DamnDeDoubtanceIsSpartacus · 11/09/2017 16:15

There is nothing like it, literally nothing. Just episodic dramas.

Nothing else has talking feet and David Bowie being trapped inside a large kettle!

jaimebravo · 11/09/2017 18:19

I used to look forward to Monday nights as i had recorded it from the Sunday night.
I might rewatch Fire walk with me tonight and see if that sheds any more light on the finale, I can't go cold turkey with no twin peaks just yet!

Tatlerer · 11/09/2017 21:41

Did someone say FWWM is on YouTube? I would love to see that again in light of series 3.

jaimebravo · 11/09/2017 21:57

I am watching it on a site called veoh. I just searched "fire walk with me watch online" and found it. It works perfectly, the quality is fine too.
I couldn't find a decent one on YouTube.

chezbot · 11/09/2017 22:30

What do you all make of the watch 17 and 18 in sync theory? medium.com/@onantiad/episodes-17-18-of-twin-peaks-the-return-are-meant-to-be-watched-in-sync-81352ce38e8 a few synced versions up online now, worth a look if you're so inclined

SparkwoodAnd21 · 12/09/2017 09:35

Ooh that's really interesting! I like it.

DamnDeDoubtanceIsSpartacus · 12/09/2017 19:03

Woah, mind blown!

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