Part 18

Because this is what this final episode, this season, the whole Twin Peaks was. A masterpiece. A work of art. Even if you don't like Twin Peaks and hate David Lynch you can't deny it's a piece of art. Because David Lynch *is* an artist and his works are not easy to understand or to like, just like art is. Personally, I love/hate him. This revival was incredible, something different from other TV shows we get nowadays. Not in any way revolutionary like the original TP was, although I think part 8 will be always remembered as revolutionary and discussed. It's not even perfect by any means. Some episodes are easily skippable because they add nothing to the plot; too many characters introduced then never to be heard again; too many dragged and incredibly slow and boring sequences which I really hated. Even this final episode is far from perfect. A little underwhelming and a bit too slow for a season (series? I'll clarify that later) finale. But this is part of Lynch's style and you may like it or not. What I love about David is his ability to mix the supernatural with an actual plot and character development, like in the original two seasons and partly in this revival. OK, let's finally move on to this series finale. Yes, series finale. I don't think there's ever going to be a fourth season. Mind you, I would KILL to get new episodes and to have actual answers. And I'll never stop trying to make sense of what happened in this last episode. But I don't think it's going to happen. It's all left to our interpretation, just like art is. It depends on one's personal opinions whether to accept this fact or not. Some might say that this "art thing" is just an excuse Lynch has made up to cover up the fact that he didn't have any idea how to wrap up his show. It couldn't be farther from the truth, in my opinion. He knows everything, he knows precisely what happened. He's the one who created this whole thing, for crying out loud! So what happened in the end? Honestly, I really have no clue! I've read so many theories and they all seem to make sense. Of course, I as well tried to come up with some kind of explanation and it may make sense or not, I don't know. All I know is that I'll always remember that final scream, that final shot, this last episode, this incredible show. Rarely a show has made me feel so many conflicting emotions and ideas. It will always hold a special place in my heart. Thank you, Mr. Lynch. Thank you.

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.

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!

something as powerful as the 3rd season of Twin Peaks makes our beautiful and perverted human journey worth while. this is shamanism on pay TV. this is a giant pearl for one billion pigs. few are the pigs in the so called 1st world (the 2nd and 3rd world still have wise-men and still pay attention to dreams and are still knee-deep in the miracle of life) that will be able to appreciate the way the pearl shines because their minds are corrupted by the comfort of special effects, cliffhanging techniques, naked bodies and hollow pretty faces.

if you listen to music recorded before the influence of radio really took hold, and before the great icons of music were solidified, you will find strange unique voices that follow no fashion trends, no economic taboos. such voices are harder to listen to because they demand more attention and patience. unlike music, cinema took more time to be corrupted - because images grab us more intensely, and because cinemas created social and cultural bonds that still allowed filmmakers to produce strange personal visions. but the digital "miracle" and the eminent extinction of cinemas (at least of small independent houses) have finally stabbed the 7th art in the gut. author cinema is bleeding to death. and things like this are the last enlightened shout of an doomed creature.

lets watch this kind of unique creative fire with our minds and hearts clean - free from expectations, prejudice and hate - and rejoice, warm up our souls, be thankful, and believe that the fire will never really die.

my most profound gratitude to Mr. Lynch and Mr. Frost, and to all those involved.

...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.