Our expectations are rather significant to any show or movie, as we usually want the
project to end on a high note or to aim for something original.
For me, it takes a day or two to decide how engrossed I am on the topic and theme of the
production.
However, it is rare when it takes me a few weeks to fully wrap my head around a conclusion
of a film or show.
The season 3 finale of Twin Peaks has successfully made me dive into confusion that has been
resolving into a satisfaction I haven’t experienced before.
Let’s discuss the last two episodes of the season and how it concludes the Twin Peaks
storyline.
To keep this video from being to extensive, I’ll be going over Dale Cooper’s storyline
only.
If you’d like me to discuss my thoughts on the other concluding storylines, or in
a more simpler term, cliffhangers, let me know in the comments section below.
I’m still trying to understand what Audrey’s sub plot had to do with everything else.
I also want to note that the ideas I will be disscussing are my interpretations of the
story’s conclusion.
I believe Lynch and Frost intended us to mold our own perception of each storyline’s ending.
So let’s begin.
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So let’s first start out in the projection room, where the Fireman has been happily floating
around since episode 8.
In part 17 we see Mr. C arriving in the woods where Andy, Hawk, Bobby and Sheriff Truman
found Naido, the eyeless women.
Mr. C is transported into the projection room from here, where he looks to be in some sort
of protection cage that would eventually transport him in front of the Shreiff’s station.
I believe that Mr. C has been securing himself ever since he arrived in Twin Peaks 25 years
ago.
He was able to successfully find a way to make his presence on the world guarded from
anything that could take him off.
Let’s say that Mr. C formed separate dimensions that held vaguely similar attributes to the
original reality that he is replicating, to throw off any intruders or visitors.
Dougie, Diane and perhaps many other manufactured bodies, was a part of his watermark for these
dimensions, so he could manipulate the timeline in the way he wanted.
He would hide in one of these parallel dimensions to escape anyone pursuing him and the moment
he reentered the projection room, it would be the reality in which Cooper resides.
That would explain why he didn’t go in a linear path to the Shreiff’s
station in the reality he was currently in.
It is in this reality where he could only find Naido, which might have been
the only way for him to truly stop Dale Cooper in his tracks and successively change his
future.
My perception of the projection room is that it’s an entryway to other dimensions that
have been built to the planet Earth, and the slideshow in the Mr. C transporting scene,
displays these separate realities.
You might question why Mr. C has seen characters from other storylines, such as Richard Horne
and Phyllis Hastings.
Like I said before, I assume Mr. C built very similar realities that were almost identical
to other dimensions that carried those storylines.
So most events would execute in a similar order with indistinguishable characters in
one reality like it would in another.
Although some characters he didn't replicate, such as himself, Naido, and Dale
Cooper, because they all came from a reality unrelated to these dimensions on Earth, plus
he didn’t want multiple Dale Cooper’s chasing him in the end.
It is also unsure if the dimension that Dale Cooper is in at this time is the original
reality in which the first 2 season took place.
As we have seen unusual circumstances take place here, such as the sudden darkness that
reaches the sheriff’s office near the end of Part 17.
Mr. C could have also planted a trap that would transport Cooper into this manufactured
reality that would make his actions null, but of course, there is no real proof of this,
almost like everything else predicted this season.
Now let’s talk about the eyeless women.
As being the host of the real Diane, she intended to be in Twin Peaks to greet Dale in hopes
that he could save Diane from her confinement in which Mr. C trapped her in.
Somehow Diane has a connection to Cooper in which they both pursuit Blue Rose cases in
a special secret kind of way, almost like the the Scooby Doo gang.
In this circumstance they have the power to travel through time and space, as well as
completely alter their car to an older one on command.
Diane was the key to Dale accomplishing his true goal, to change the past and save Laura
Palmer from death, the unclear goal that Cooper was venturing to do this whole season, besides
stopping psychopathic, Mr. C.
For 25 years, it seems Dale was planning on the execution of this plan after he escaped
the lodge, but he expected his doppleganger to return and take his place and give him
a pat on the back.
Although when his doppleganger didn’t care about his compassion to save anyone, it caused
Mr. C to be his new priority before his true goal.
Thankfully he was able to accomplish this goal and change the past, by pushing Laura
away from the demise that awaited her.
Let’s move onto the timeline of this season.
There are subtle hints that the timeline is disorderly this season, which could change
everything.
One example is in Part 12, we see DougieCooper attempting to play catch with his son Sonny
Jim, but in the next episode Janey E questions Dougie's absence for the past few days.
At this moment, in Part 13, the last Janey E saw of Dougie was before he met the Mitchum
brothers back in Part 11, 2 episodes prior.
This presents the idea that the timeline isn’t running parallel with the show’s episodes,
since Dougie wouldn’t be home for target practice if he was missing with the Mitchum
brothers during that time.
Although what does this mean exactly?
In the last episode, we find Mr. C returning back to his fiery hell in the red room, due
to Dale’s heroic ring placing skill.
We are then presented with a strange and unusual return back to the Red Room, after attempting
to save Laura for the first time.
During this moment, Cooper is either unsure of what caused Laura’s disappearance or
lost memory of the rescue, either way, he still has the same objective, to save Laura
from danger.
Diane and Cooper enter a portal into a different dimension that changes their identities to
“Richard” and “Linda”.
Cooper then finds Laura and brings her back to a slightly changed Twin Peaks, where nobody
knows anything about the Palmer family, even Laura doesn’t know who Laura is.
At the Palmer house she screams, just like she did when she disappeared the first time.
In my opinion, I believe Cooper is in a constant loop in separate dimensions, where he must
attempt to save Laura Palmer every time the loop resets.
Each loop would have a different route in the rescue, but the same outcome.
If you remember back to the first scene of the season where the Fireman was explaining
what Cooper must do once he returns back to the world, he was told to listen to the sounds.
The sound playing on the phonograph is the same sound that played once Laura disappeared,
followed by Cooper stopping in his tracks.
This sound might have somehow brainwashed Cooper that resets and clears his mind to
the last time he heard that sound.
When he heard the unusal sound guiding Laura home, he lost all memory of the entire season,
in which he was directed back to the lodge to take a different direction to save Laura.
I’d like to think that the first time we hear that noise is also the initial time that
Dale hears it, as well.
I don’t like notion that the whole season was a dream of Dale’s, giving the illusion
that none of the events actually occured.
I would rather imagine that the first rescue did save Laura’s life and in turn sacrificed
Cooper’s mental state, which started the loop into separate dimensions.
When Cooper does see that Laura is alive, but instead named, Carrie Page, that might
prove that Laura did in fact survive in the original reality.
Carrie Page would be her true identity in this dimension, but with similar traits and
of course body.
Sarah and Leland Palmer would still be her actual parents but with a different identity
as well, along with everyone else in the series.
To save the life of another, he must make the sacrifice, which I believed he understood,
since he did say he understood to the Giant in the first scene of the season.
It is the Fireman that does present him with this unusual sound in the first place, perhaps
showing that a deal was made between Cooper and the Giant.
In the end, I believe Lynch intended to conclude the story of Twin Peaks here, showing that
the past changed the future.
Perhaps this is why we didn’t see a conclusion to the other plots, because they wouldn’t
be the same now that Laura is alive.
This might also explain why the timeline is disorderly, as Cooper was intended to successfully
save Laura, which caused the timeline to transition into the reality in which Laura is alive.
There would be no need to return to a plot where Agent Dale Cooper never entered Twin
Peaks, a series of events that changed the rural town over a 25 years span.
The finale of Twin Peaks season 3 is extremely complicating, but I feel like I should have
been expected this, as Lynch is just being Lynch.
It seems this conclusion was the original idea for the series 25 years ago, but was
successfully executed this time around.
This gave me and many others an extremely unique and satisfying way to end a fascinating
show.
What do you guys think happened in the finale?
Would you define this as a good ending or a bad one?
I know I missed a lot of key information in the final episodes of the season, but I’m
still hashing out all the details and might make another video on the finale, let me know
if that interests you.
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