Having now wrapped up Twin Peaks, the show is definitely one of my favorites all time. I’m currently writing this without an Internet connection to refer to my last few entries, so hopefully I don’t overlap too much, but I wanted to go ahead and get my thoughts down on paper.
So with 3 episodes to go, I absolutely loved the finale. The Miss Twin Peaks Pageant was everything I hoped for, including Windom Earle in drag as the Log Lady, Andy’s victory as the father of Lucy’s child, the inevitable repeating of Cooper vs. Earle for the life of the woman Dale loves, and more.
Before I talk finale, I’m going to just fire off some thoughts about the various storylines:
Donna and James: I’m glad James disappeared but whoa was I not expecting the twist about Ben Horne being Donna’s real dad, especially with the cliffhanger that Doctor Hayward might have killed Ben in anger. It is too bad the show ended when it did because I was definitely curious about that plot. Especially because I don’t think they ever specified why Donna’s Mom was in a wheelchair. And do we ever really see Donna’s mythical third sister?
The Ed/Norma/Nadine/Mike thread came to a head (lol) exactly as I thought it would with Nadine regaining her memory and being batshit crazy again. The storyline concludes with Ed hugging Nadine and Mike and Norma on the edges, so while I’d like to believe that Ed will be a grownup and go after Norma, he will probably stick with Nadine because he is a total wuss.
Audrey is truly the HBIC now having declared her love for Billy Zane and is primed to take over the Horne family business. The cliffhanger with the bomb was an absolutely mess though, leaving Pete and Audrey lost in limbo forever. :[
The finale was absolutely wild as everyone expected it to be. Once Cooper entered The Black Lodge anything could have happened and it was an interesting way to showcase how the various spirits had been participating throughout the story. Some of the visuals were absolutely maddening though, I watched it with the lights off and some of that strobe was so intense that I even I thought I might have a seizure. Cooper is the man with how damn noble he is, selflessly giving up his soul for Annie and not even to BOB, but to Earle, who then pays the price of trying to even take Coop’s soul. The final sequence with “How’s Annie?” seemed sort of obvious but was no less brilliant as Dale is a hero who will fight BOB to the very end.
The movie that everyone told me I HAD to watch, "Fire Walk With Me" I felt was absolutely disappointing though. It was nice to get a little more back story on Dale and even how he was able to call in a favor for Albert, but the parts starring Laura Palmer were.. unnecessary? And fairly boring and almost pornographic. We just got 30 episodes of having to hear about Laura being abused by BOB for years, did we really need an actual scene of it? You'd think that if they had to recast Donna and Coop barely being it in was a sign that they shouldn't have bothered.
Overall though, I loved the show and I was pleased at how many things I was able to puzzle out on my own, both thematically and in terms of the mythology. The dwarf guy being Mike's missing arm, Laura's clothes causing Donna to act more like Laura herself, Dale's impending possession were maybe all kind of obvious things, but they make me feel good in that I was at least interacting with the show in a way that meant I was putting thought into it and giving it my attention!
I'll miss you Dale. :[
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