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Twin Peaks Season 3 has taken a lot of flack for not feeling like there are protagonists, antagonists, or even things they want. At the time, I knew it had to be purposeful, but all the same I couldn’t quite understand it. But over time, I’ve come to this conclusion: I think Season 3 is …
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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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If you feel like the central trauma of Twin Peaks (the murder of Laura Palmer) shouldn’t/can’t be undone, this theory is for you. No matter how many Season 3 moments involve turning away from or covering over this fundamental trauma, reality cannot be expunged just because of persistent disinformation. What’s my alternative explanation to the original …
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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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[Cooper] Who’s the lady with the log? [Truman] We call her the Log Lady. - Twin Peaks, pilot episode [Log Lady] One day my log will have something to say about this. - Twin Peaks, season 1, episode 1 Famously, neither David Lynch nor Mark Frost like to discuss publicly who contributed what bits to …
What do Margaret Lanterman (the Log Lady) and Buckaroo Banzai have in common? Those big red glasses, an infrastructure of vision. A pair of glasses is both an object and a mediating relationship between other objects--the viewer and the viewed, or, the focalizer and the focalized, to put it in visual narrative terminology. Those …
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Welcome back to our Secrets and Mysteries series, where it is our goal to offer in-depth looks into Mark Frost’s The Secret History of Twin Peaks: A Novel section by section. As these each engage with the novel’s plot, giving close examination of its connections to the overall narrative of Twin Peaks, new readers should be aware that …
"You asked about this shovel," Nadine says to Ed in the opening scene of Part 15 of The Return. "Well, I'm shoveling myself out of the shit!" "Have you been watching that show of Jacoby's?" Ed drawls. Nadine's grin says it all. "You know I have," she replies, before "freeing" Ed to pursue Norma, as they …
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My dream is to go to the place (you know the one) where it all began. On a starry night... on a starry night... when it all began. You said hold me... hold me... hold me. Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. We're with the stars. - Rebekah Del Rio, "No Stars" Part 10 ends …
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