Tonight, Twin Peaks ends again. I don’t think we’ll get another season, so I consider tonight the finale. Perhaps this time David Lynch and Mark Frost can make it go out the way they wanted.
Can’t wait!
It’s going to be a bittersweet night: these past weeks of anticipating each new episode have brought enjoyment of a kind we won’t easily find again.
I’m guessing that Lynch and Frost will offer some sort of commentary on what seems to have been their theme of the human propensity toward violence. The high-water mark of that propensity (apparently, or at least so far) was, they seemed to say, the invention of the atomic bomb --an event that inspired extraterrestrials or supernatural spirits to intervene in human affairs. Maybe.
I’m sort of dreading a resolution involving the spirit of Laura inhabiting Candie, or maybe all three blonde cocktail-waitress characters, with the implication that this new being or beings will counteract human bloody-mindedness. I don’t see how that could be presented without it seeming sappy, but then again I’m not David Lynch.
In any case, here’s hoping it gets epic ratings, and consequently Lynch is given tons of funding to do whatever else he wants to do next.
I’m trying to go in free of expectations, but it’s hard. If Cooper can be happy in the end, or content, or…I’ll even take dead but ascended to a higher plane, or at peace in the White Lodge, I think it will be satisfying for me.
I think saving Laura Palmer in some way would be spot on, actually. I’m not saying I have the slightest idea if Lynch-Frost would do that, but I think Cooper could even sacrifice himself if he thinks it would somehow transfer Laura back from the other world.
I do want Evil Cooper and Real Cooper to have their confrontation. And I think that Real Cooper should clearly and unequivocally win by sending Bob/Evil-Coop back to the other world.
I hope they filmed it as a finale to Twin Peaks as a whole.
Did they destroy Bob there?
Screw you Lynch.
Okay internet (opens arms) “EXPLAIN IT TO ME!”
Uh…OK.
I have no idea what I think of that final episode.
I think Cooper saved Laura from being murdered, but in doing so, he dramatically altered reality. He became Richard and Diane became Linda.
But I’ve been wrong so often that I wouldn’t lean on my theory.
All right, so… Breathes deep
I had a good time. Twin Peaks: The Return had me questioning and shouting and obsessing and decoding and tweeting my little heart out. I got to love Dougie. I got to love Janey-E. I got to love Diane. I laughed, I teared up, I worried. In the end, I don’t know what exactly Dale Cooper did to try saving Laura Palmer, what he gave up, or why, and I might never know for sure. I don’t know if he’s truly lost, though I suspect he is.
All I know is, I’m glad I watched it. I’m glad I stuck with it. I’m sorry it’s sad. I’m happy it happened.
It was a good show, and it was different from all other shows.
So Cooper is time traveling. He prevented Laura’s murder but that screwed up reality in some hard to understand way. Cooper sort of understands it - something led him to her apartment - but the year is wrong, or something. And just when he realized that, she was taken from him again.
All of this is screaming for another season, but it could end up being another tired sci-fi about a man jumping from one alternate reality to another, chasing a woman he can never quite rescue, but he needs her in order to save the universe… or something.
And what the mf-ing hell is going on with Audrey, and Jerry, and who’s the mumbling guy in the jail cell, and what did Cooper need that hotel key for…
My biggest question involves the person EvilCoop spoke to in the motel. It’s safe to assume that it wasn’t Jeffries, and I thought it might have been Leland. But now we’ll never know.
I’m not sure what happened.
I get that he tried to save Laura. I had been saying this should be the ending. He pulled her out of the past. What was so significant about that scene with James? Was that from the show or the movie?
Was the stuff with Cooper seeing Leland and all that the same scenes we saw in the first episode?
The scene with James was from the movie, I’m pretty sure. That was the night she was murdered. James said that she was acting strange and then jumped off his bike and ran off into the woods. The next day they found her body.
Laura ran off to meet with Jacque and Leo By keeping her from that meeting Cooper prevented her murder (they had left her in the railroad car and then Leland came along and killed her).
Cooper seeing Leland was from the first episode.
Thanks, I had actually forgotten what happened the night she was killed. Mrs. Mahaloth and I mainly remembered that she was nice, but seemed to have relations with just about every prominent male in Twin Peaks.
So, yes, Cooper did save Laura, but screwed up the timeline massively.
“What year is it?”
Was he in the past?
He must have been in the past. The hotel room had a rotary phone.
I can’t swear to his veracity but the guy in this video claims that Showtime has every single actor, even one line bit players, under contract saying that they can’t do interviews without an okay from Showtime and that, in his opinion, no network does that unless they’re planning a movie or two or even another series of episodes.
Thinking about it some more, I suppose that all of those loose ends were wiped away when the time line was changed so there’s no need for resolution. That’s not very satisfying, but I think that’s the idea.
Of course that just leaves us with totally different loose ends.
I remember liking the movie, but also wanting to never watch it again. On the other hand, her acting in that scene - and in her scenes in the last episode - were very well done.
I may have to watch the movie again. 
I like how they put the Welcome to Twin Peaks sign in the same place again in that quick shot driving by.