I also did find the fates of several characters very tragic (including my favorite character in the series, who happens to be female), but the way it happened was completely shocking and it shows just how unpredictable Lynch is. The murder, and Lynch's trademark suspense.
He is a master at surrealism and mystery, and it was part of what got me into Twin Peaks. I am sure many people would have dismissed it as being 'weird' for the sake of being weird, but that is what Lynch is. The scenes of Cooper dwelling deeper into the Black Lodge are completely bizarre and unpredictable, and I wonder what kind of reception it got back when it aired. It actually does not have much of the other characters besides Cooper and Windom Earle stuck in the Black Lodge.
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What I find truly amazing about the ending to the series is that it does not close the doors for the characters. The writing and direction are spectacular and spellbinding. David Lynch is back to direct this episode, and whoa, what an episode it is. Sorry fans, but I suspect “Peaks” may be done - forever.The finale to Twin Peaks was everything you could hope for and more. To wit, it’s up to each person to ascend the individual levels of consciousness, but Laura had squandered all her chances. The inconclusive wrap was precisely where they wanted to end up, its meaning both obvious, cautionary and ambiguous. Should it? It’d be wonderful if it did, but Lynch and Frost have probably said all they wanted to. Nevertheless, we do need to parse for some meaning to figure out whether the series should come back. In several posts this year, I’ve suggested that it’s a fool’s errand to find meaning in “Peaks,” but to just sit back and enjoy the glorious ride. Laura stares at the house, then lets out that bloodcurdling scream. His final words are, “What year is this?” in the year 2015 (25 years after the ABC series ended.) 2+5 equals 7, which is more confirmation (to him) that he must save Laura. More numbers: Many years ago, Laura told Coop in the Red Room, “I’ll see you in 25 years. Even her necklace is an upside-down horseshoe, meaning the luck has run out. There’s a dead guy on her couch, and rigor mortis has set in.
Laura - he quickly discovers - is in a terrible place. The meaning of that 6? Coop knows that the entire universe is one, bound by energy - which is electricity, of course - and perhaps this says to him that by saving Laura, “7” awaits him.
I submit that Coop believes he has found all the meaning he is looking for in those numbers, and it’s just a matter of simple arithmetic to prove that.
Then, he finds Laura’s street address in Odessa (1516), and then he stares at the electric utility pole. To do so, he and Diane (Laura Dern) follow the numbers. Coop had saved Laura’s life in the previous episode (recall the erasing of her body on the beach, after BOB was destroyed) which leads him to find her in the present. What then are these seven levels? (What follows are simplifications, and probably over-simplifications.
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If you think of Coop’s TV journey as an allegory roughly parallel to Lynch’s journey as an artist, then both achieved the sixth level, but not quite the seventh. (They’ve discussed all this before, and so have other commentators, so Google away). here’s my theory of what “Peaks” was really about all along: It was an exploration of both Lynch and Frost’s deeply held interests in Eastern mysticism, notably the seven levels of transcendental meditation, paralleling the seven levels of consciousness. That’s more of a comic book interpretation of “Peaks,” and an inadequate one. Yup, there was a “good” Coop and his evil twin (the “twins” of “Peaks,” if you will) suggesting “good” and “evil” were separate entities within the “Peaks” universe, and that good had to triumph over evil. So what then did they intend? I really don’t think “Peaks” had much (if anything) to do with the oft-mentioned Eternal Battle of Good versus Evil. By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy.
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