Part 18

Cooper crossed over, and as he told Diane -- everything may be different. The Diane he found was not Diane, the Laura he found could not be Laura, and the optimistic can-do Agent Cooper that we were (OK, I certainly was) so happy to see re- emerge was lost in the wreckage of his dreams.

I have never been as fascinated by the tortuous dark wraiths of Lynch as by his skewed portrayal of 'normal' American life, and that was certainly true of the finale episodes. To see Sheryl Lee and Sherilyn Finn today, after seeing so much of their entrancing characters in the inital TP was ... what? Riveting, certainly, and sad, and puzzling -- they have aged, and so have I, and so has everyone who was so fascinated by the original series. Incredibly brave of both these women to go all in for these portrayals. The overarching theme of life as a lonely highway was chilling & lovely.

As for Lynch -- all criticisms are valid, but his work is beyond regular TV criteria. The Showtime placement was genius --he got to make what he wanted, w/no commercial interruption, and no time limits -- and we were free to watch or not. He stands apart, and thank God he has given us so much to puzzle over, and argue about, and remember. So -- do we live in a dream?

One word to begin about Mark Frost: in the 5 hours of bonus, he is never mentioned. It's always about David. Like in the 1st season, he does however a cameo in the return (the walker in the wood in EP#15) but beyond i wonder what he really did and what was his ideas to the story as he is never shown on sets. Oh yes, he wrote 2 books before and after the show. Honestly, the 1st one is unreadable as it's so stupid (Roswell, Nixon, JFK in TP ???)

So i waited the DVD release to go back to TP. Sincerely, it's the only show i watched recently that i was impatient to see the next episode. And after the final one, for sure, i was very sad. So it's like the original show. To try to organize my feelings, i would pick a bit of my disappointments and a bit of my fun:

1) the big black hole of this return is the lack of Badalamenti score: he did a piano fugue at the end of EP#11, 2 classic TP songs are played in the bang bang bar closing moment but it's pretty much all. The new music isn't very gripping and at the end, there is no really gripping moments as in the old one.

2) it's called TP but now the ground is all over America: for the town only stuff, the stories are not really interesting but i keep 2 things: the beautiful locations and the rare opportunity to meet again a cast 25 years after: it's about seasons passing, getting old and for a show so focused on time, there is really a great emotional source here albeit their anecdotal events and fate.

3) Some new mysteries keys are a bit too rational or expected: the impulse is too strong to develop every bit of FWWM cryptic scene with David Bowie: the convenience store, the woodmen, Judy. Now Diane is Cooper true love while i thought it was Caroline or Annie whose fate is still missing. The zone, the orbs, the tea Jeffrie lack the mystical touch of the lodges... And the new map seems a remix of the forgotten Owl cave...

Now for the good part:

1) it's like having a 18 hours Lynch movie: between his focus of the daily life (neighbors, coffee, pie), his dark nightmares and his love for nature, the season is indeed an epic, breathtaking journey trough today America. That's why this new TP doesn't feel like the old one because America has deeply changed since the 90s and it's just impossible now to find this one again. It's a bit like Lynch magnus opus because it looks like he revisited again all his past movies and tied them all in the fabric of a dream!

2) the new characters are interesting and above all, extremely well cast and played! The bonus are really interesting because it really shows the talent of Lynch to have a vision and have everyone involved to get it: he is kind to anyone, really hard working for everything so if he doesn't get an Emmy for his dedication and his huge work, it would be rather unfair and incomprehensible!

3) The quality of the picture is stunning: sets, light, special effects. We are faraway of the yellow/blue palette: no show is more deep and it beats almost any new movies!

At the end, it was an extraordinary trip for me: maybe some things are bothering but overall, it's a damn good show and i'm in need of a 4th season definitely!

I'm going to start off with this: I get why people wouldn't like it, but you got to realize what you're watching and take it deeper. There's so much to pick off in it's dark and gloomy atmosphere. There's also many other things like how the characters emote and react to the world around them. Including the scenes that evoke certain emotions to you.

The use of symbolism is used to the entirety of the episode from Names to Items to people. The world is different and you have to look into the cracks in order to understand. Its all there for a reason and are very in line with the cryptic quotes spread throughout.

The characters show certain emotions and actions that should some importance to the entirety of what's happening. The new Laura and her strange behavior towards Cooper, and the things she says. Dale Cooper and his slightly more aggressive manner towards others. The cynicism in how the other characters are portrayed.

The emotions that the scenes themselves show. The car scene being a big contender to this. The bleak, cold and cynical feel from every character, environment, tune, and angle. You don't like anything or anyone you see and it makes you feel like whole world is going after you. A feeling that is the complete opposite to twin peak's tone. While yes it's usually creepy in Twin Peaks, but there was always something that countered it like a funny quirk. That quickly dissipates once they get into this world with not even Dale Cooper to push it away.

All and all, I loved it. It's filled to the brim with dark atmosphere and symbolism to pick apart. It'll keep me occupied with everything it offered and ideas of what's going to happen next. Give it another chance and see what you can find because this is deserving of many viewings.

This isn't your usual ending. It doesn't really make sense and almost half of the episode is just them driving, but it culminates in a great scene and overall was a very enjoyable final chapter in this series.

I think I would call part 17 the real finale, with 18 being the epilogue, and that's a good thing.

I hope we get a season 4 (or maybe another movie) but that is very unlikely.

Overall I am very satisfied with this episode and the series as a whole.

...and at first I was too, but then I was left saddened. And not sad because there was no good resolution, but sad because the resolution (if you can even call it that) we got felt so somber in tone to me. I didn't really have any predictions in mind for the series finale, but I was expecting a more cheery ending, or at least one not as bleak and straight faced as this. But, I really liked it, as a matter of fact I love it! Lynch has balls to do this kinda stuff, to make this huge franchise and finish it off with a bang (episodes 16 and 17) followed by an inevitable and melancholic silence. Sometime around I'll really need to rewatch all of Twin Peaks so I can not only fall in love once again with it's iconic characters, unique experimental visuals, and engaging plot lines, but also so I can try to even make a slight dent into the egg that holds whatever meaning this weird, discomforting final part may contain. Perhaps it should be taken at face value, perhaps it should be analyzed for hours upon hours. Off the top of my head, something certainly seems a little fishy about this final episode, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. This is just me talking out of my ass, but I think that this isn't the last episode, and I don't mean that Lynch or anyone else involved will make another series or film or something, I mean that I think we have already seen the final episode and we didn't even know it. This may very well be the first episode, and the year that it really is, Agent Cooper, may be long before the Palmers even moved into town. Perhaps it really is the final episode and in fact it take place in the darkest future, or in another dimension.

You know what, I actually wanna happily applaud Lynch for is stunningly difficult-to- process closer to what may very well be his masterpiece, because it leaves me with so much food for thought, and when Lynch passes it will be a sad day, but it will also be a day in which I will further recognize his triumphant achievements as a filmmaker and artist, because we will all still be debating and discussing what the Hell the meanings of all of his films are, especially this one. This one massive, mysterious, funny, disturbing, awkward, beautiful, complicated, romantic, ingenious, scary, philosophical, spiritual, divisive, and gripping magnum opus known as Twin Peaks has caused so much joy and pain to me and many others across the globe, and now it's still worth countless rewatches and revisitings. Twin Peaks may very well be a genuine friend of mine, someone I have learned so much about over time, someone I've grown to love, and someone who I'll still be talking and thinking of for years to come. And, you know what, I congratulate its lack of conclusion, even if the two other people I was watching this with were left in anger, shock, disappointment, and confusion, so much so that they believed here must have been another episode coming...but there isn't. So much so that they swore, but not really aggressively, but because that's the only thing their bewildered mind could concoct. And I don't blame them. I really don't.