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No scene in Twin Peaks Season 3 is ever cut and dry whether it is set in material reality or Lodgespace. As I said in Part 1 of this theory: Fans are constantly debating if the Roadhouse is material or non-material, if Audrey is in a mental institution or the Black Lodge. Fans debate if the Las …
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In the original seasons of Twin Peaks and Fire Walk With Me, there were two states of reality in play: the material world and Lodgespace. But as Season 3 proceeded, it became clear where once there were dualities there are now instinctively three available choices, as best explained by Brien Allen in Themes of Three …
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Twin Peaks Backstory Investigations looks at the film and television that influenced David Lynch & Mark Frost when they created their wonderful and strange TV Show. Starting the series off is: The FBI Story The very first autobiographical entry that thirteen year old Dale Cooper made on an audiotape, recorded December 25th 1967, featured the …
In Part 3 of this Final Dossier Deep Dive series, I brought up the section from Pages 131 to the end the book where Tamara Preston experiences a reality where Dale Cooper travelled back in time to 1989 and “saved” Laura Palmer from the immediate events that resulted in her death. I suggest this is …
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So we have reached the end of 25 Years Later's examining of Mark Frost's novel, The Secret History of Twin Peaks. I have been tasked with piecing together what is perhaps the most enigmatic and complex story---that of The Archivist himself; Major Garland Briggs. The big questions are why did he compile this Dossier? And …
Hello Friends. As a David Lynch and Twin Peaks enthusiast I have spent the last 25 years seeking out content that engages me in the same way that Lynch's work does while waiting for him to produce more work. This searching has largely taken place in a cinematic space, through the back catalogues of historical …
This was a conversation I was eager to have. Emma (aka the Vlog Lady) was a constant companion of many (myself included) during the run of Twin Peaks: The Return last summer via her popular YouTube channel. Her insights and reaction videos provided endless sources of inspiration and analysis, and so we thought we'd look …
Cæmeron Crain recently chatted with Grace Lee of the YouTube channel "What's So Great About That?" about her interest in philosophy, language, art, what it all means, and how it relates to David Lynch. We hope you enjoy! CC: Let me say, first of all, that you say towards the end of this video that …
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One of the deepest mysteries conjured by the transmedia combination of The Secret History of Twin Peaks, The Return, and The Final Dossier is the role or roles of F.B.I. Agent Tamara (Tammy, TP) Preston. As new episodes continued to drop in the original May-September 2017 run of The Return, the trend within the Twin …
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I can’t be the only one who secretly hoped Diane was just the name Cooper gave to his tape recorder, can I? Perhaps it’s a silly thing to hope for, but I liked the quirkiness of the idea. This isn’t to say I was at all displeased with Laura Dern’s performance as Diane, or with …
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