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[COOPER] Do you have the seed? Do you have the seed? I need you to make another one. [GERARD] I understand. With this little exchange, we were given a glimpse into the process for manufacturing a tulpa, this time for making Dougie Jones v2.0. You need a DNA sample (a little hair ripped from the …
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It only appeared in two scenes, both contained within the same “part” early in the season, and yet the black box with the blinking red lights is one of the puzzles that continues to have fans asking “what was the deal with that?” long after Twin Peaks season three played out. I originally wrote about …
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There are a lot of brothers featured in Twin Peaks [1]. Ben and Jerry Horne. Doug and Dwayne Milford. Jacques, Bernard and Jean Renault. Even Tim and Tom Pinkle. In My Life, My Tapes we learned that Agent Cooper had a brother, Emmet. The Secret History introduced a couple more brothers to already established characters. …
Author's Note I didn’t originally set out to write a set of articles on this subject, but here we are on the third of the series. This should be the last one. In Maybe It Doesn’t Matter What We Call It – Thoughts on Judy as a Metaphor, I explored the idea of Judy as a metaphor …
In the aftermath of the Twin Peaks Season 3 finale, I was a bit.. um, devastated? Maybe that’s a bit too strong a word. Disappointed, probably captures the feeling best. To put it bluntly, I needed my faith in Lynch-Frost restored, and it was going to be two months before The Final Dossier would be …
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Who killed Ruth Davenport? This still stands as one of the burning, unanswered questions of Season 3. The kill shot to the eye would seem to be the calling card of Bad Cooper, but if he was there, why does he need the coordinates that were written on her body? Perhaps it was Bill Hastings, …
In a previous article, Maybe It Doesn’t Matter What We Call It – Thoughts on Judy as a Metaphor, I presented a case for considering Judy as a metaphor for one of the main lessons of Season 3: living in the present moment. Under that interpretation, the negative forces she represents are regret (living in …
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SPOILER WARNING: This article contains spoilers for Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier. Do not read further if you haven’t listened to the clip: Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier Audiobook (Excerpt/Spoiler). . . . . . Still with me? Great. So here we are, a week out from the release of Mark Frost’s second Twin Peaks …
Now listen to me. For 25 years, I’ve kept something from you, Albert. Before he disappeared, Major Briggs shared with me and Cooper his discovery of an entity, an extreme negative force called in olden times, Jowday. Over time, it’s become, Judy. Major Briggs, Cooper and I put together a plan that could lead us …
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Welcome back, dear readers. This will be my final article in the Third Day Theories series. It's been a fun ride, at least until the end here. I'm not going to sugar coat it, I was bitterly disappointed by the last two episodes, but I'll write about that experience elsewhere. Right now, there’s work to …