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But why? Because he realized he's got a shot to lead the eventual Mr. C into a trap. C's quest for Judy is what winds up with him being defeated. But Mr. C ''is'' Cooper, albeit an evil version - they have all the same memories. It's entirely possible that C and BOB wouldn't even know about her...except that Phillip deliberately brought her up in front of Cooper, knowing that Mr. C would inherit the memory. When BOB eventually wound up in the Doppelganger, he was surprised to find a memory about Judy and decided to look into it, ultimately sealing his fate. That whole disjointed conversation was actually a very clever maneuver, possibly orchestrated by the Fireman, who set the other wheels in motion that would lead to BOB's defeat (Laura, Freddie, etc).
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But why? Because he realized he's got a shot to lead the eventual Mr. C into a trap. C's quest for Judy is what winds up with him being defeated. But Mr. C ''is'' Cooper, albeit an evil version - they have all the same memories. It's entirely possible that C and BOB wouldn't even know about her...except that Phillip deliberately brought her up in front of Cooper, knowing that Mr. C would inherit the memory. When BOB eventually wound up in the Doppelganger, he was surprised to find a memory about Judy and decided to look into it, ultimately sealing his fate. That whole disjointed conversation was actually a very clever maneuver, possibly orchestrated by the Fireman, who set the other wheels in motion that would lead to BOB's defeat (Laura, Freddie, etc).etc).
[[WMG: Doppelcooper knew that Richard Horne was his son, and that he needed killing]]
It's already demonstrated that the Lodge can influence events in our world to a certain extent, so it seems foregone that Doppelcooper could use that influence to draw his own son to him - and in fact, knew very well that Richard Horne was breaking the rules in the first place. It is not to mention that Richard, because he was born of Doppelcooper, is connected to the Lodge.
With this, it's worth considering that EvenEvilHasStandards - hell, even BlueAndOrangeMorality has standards. And Richard is a special kind of evil that flies in the face of said morality. It would be foregone, to this troper, that even BOB and Doppelcooper would consider Richard to be in violation of that morality - and that Richard, if I may coin an old phrase, "needed killing".
[[WMG: Doppelcooper knew that Richard Horne was his son, and that he needed killing]]
It's already demonstrated that the Lodge can influence events in our world to a certain extent, so it seems foregone that Doppelcooper could use that influence to draw his own son to him - and in fact, knew very well that Richard Horne was breaking the rules in the first place. It is not to mention that Richard, because he was born of Doppelcooper, is connected to the Lodge.
With this, it's worth considering that EvenEvilHasStandards - hell, even BlueAndOrangeMorality has standards. And Richard is a special kind of evil that flies in the face of said morality. It would be foregone, to this troper, that even BOB and Doppelcooper would consider Richard to be in violation of that morality - and that Richard, if I may coin an old phrase, "needed killing".
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Clearly, the denizens of the Black Lodge are fairies.
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[[WMG: Jeffries planted the idea of Judy in Cooper's head, as a trap]]
Phillip Jeffries is clearly experiencing some sort of time travel, he knows something about Judy, and he knows what will eventually happen to Cooper, judging by his outburst where he demands to know who he is. But the ''first'' thing he says to Cooper is to refuse to talk about Judy. And in The Missing Pieces he notices the date and reacts with shock.
So...what if the reason that whole conversation is so disjointed is that for Jeffries it's all happening ''in a different order''. Due to him hopping around time, the way he experiences it is A) demanding to know if he's talking to the real Cooper or the Doppelganger B) noticing the date and realizing this must be the real Cooper because the events of the series haven't happened yet, and C) mentioning Judy.
But why? Because he realized he's got a shot to lead the eventual Mr. C into a trap. C's quest for Judy is what winds up with him being defeated. But Mr. C ''is'' Cooper, albeit an evil version - they have all the same memories. It's entirely possible that C and BOB wouldn't even know about her...except that Phillip deliberately brought her up in front of Cooper, knowing that Mr. C would inherit the memory. When BOB eventually wound up in the Doppelganger, he was surprised to find a memory about Judy and decided to look into it, ultimately sealing his fate. That whole disjointed conversation was actually a very clever maneuver, possibly orchestrated by the Fireman, who set the other wheels in motion that would lead to BOB's defeat (Laura, Freddie, etc).
[[WMG: Jeffries planted the idea of Judy in Cooper's head, as a trap]]
Phillip Jeffries is clearly experiencing some sort of time travel, he knows something about Judy, and he knows what will eventually happen to Cooper, judging by his outburst where he demands to know who he is. But the ''first'' thing he says to Cooper is to refuse to talk about Judy. And in The Missing Pieces he notices the date and reacts with shock.
So...what if the reason that whole conversation is so disjointed is that for Jeffries it's all happening ''in a different order''. Due to him hopping around time, the way he experiences it is A) demanding to know if he's talking to the real Cooper or the Doppelganger B) noticing the date and realizing this must be the real Cooper because the events of the series haven't happened yet, and C) mentioning Judy.
But why? Because he realized he's got a shot to lead the eventual Mr. C into a trap. C's quest for Judy is what winds up with him being defeated. But Mr. C ''is'' Cooper, albeit an evil version - they have all the same memories. It's entirely possible that C and BOB wouldn't even know about her...except that Phillip deliberately brought her up in front of Cooper, knowing that Mr. C would inherit the memory. When BOB eventually wound up in the Doppelganger, he was surprised to find a memory about Judy and decided to look into it, ultimately sealing his fate. That whole disjointed conversation was actually a very clever maneuver, possibly orchestrated by the Fireman, who set the other wheels in motion that would lead to BOB's defeat (Laura, Freddie, etc).
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[[WMG: The Black Log is somewhere within the realm of TheFairFolk]]
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* That love-child is, of course, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDgnb9iAWtY Park Ranger Carl]], who got a job with the government in the vain hope of winning his long-lost father's affections.
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* That love-child is, of course, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDgnb9iAWtY Park Ranger Carl]], who got a job with the government in the vain hope of winning his long-lost father's affections.affections.
[[WMG: The Black Log is somewhere within the realm of TheFairFolk]]
Peculiar magick? Check.
Beings who are powerful enough where you do ''not'' want to fuck around with them if you know what's good for you? Check.
Realm entrance in a forest? Check - it even has astronomical requirements and is a particular growth in a ring formation.
Malleability of time and space? Check.
Arcane linguistics with obfuscating riddles? ?̵̖̅í̸͓s̸̹̀ ̷̬̓i̴͔͂t̷̫̋ ̷̡̃ẗ̶̗́h̵̛̫e̵̖̓ ̵͔́ö̴͙́n̴͖̕ĕ̵̼ ̶͛ͅa̸̰̚ḇ̶̈́o̷̭͠ṳ̶͝t̷͍̒ ̴̹͝t̵̖̉ḩ̸͌ě̸͎ ̷͍̾l̵̼̂i̴̟͋ṫ̶͍t̸̠͊ḽ̴́é̷͈ ̷̫̈́g̸̰̈́i̴̦̐r̸̨͘l̵̨͆ ̴͚̑d̴̠̂ȍ̸̭w̷̰̾ǹ̷͇ ̶̰̔t̵͍́h̵̡̍è̴͓ ̶̰̒l̷͚̄a̸̖͘ņ̴̚E̵̳̋ ̷͖̓ ̵̲͝
Surreal geography? Weird room layouts - close enough.
Doppelgangers and tulpas? There are your changelings.
Clearly, the denizens of the Black Lodge are fairies.
[[WMG: The Black Log is somewhere within the realm of TheFairFolk]]
Peculiar magick? Check.
Beings who are powerful enough where you do ''not'' want to fuck around with them if you know what's good for you? Check.
Realm entrance in a forest? Check - it even has astronomical requirements and is a particular growth in a ring formation.
Malleability of time and space? Check.
Arcane linguistics with obfuscating riddles? ?̵̖̅í̸͓s̸̹̀ ̷̬̓i̴͔͂t̷̫̋ ̷̡̃ẗ̶̗́h̵̛̫e̵̖̓ ̵͔́ö̴͙́n̴͖̕ĕ̵̼ ̶͛ͅa̸̰̚ḇ̶̈́o̷̭͠ṳ̶͝t̷͍̒ ̴̹͝t̵̖̉ḩ̸͌ě̸͎ ̷͍̾l̵̼̂i̴̟͋ṫ̶͍t̸̠͊ḽ̴́é̷͈ ̷̫̈́g̸̰̈́i̴̦̐r̸̨͘l̵̨͆ ̴͚̑d̴̠̂ȍ̸̭w̷̰̾ǹ̷͇ ̶̰̔t̵͍́h̵̡̍è̴͓ ̶̰̒l̷͚̄a̸̖͘ņ̴̚E̵̳̋ ̷͖̓ ̵̲͝
Surreal geography? Weird room layouts - close enough.
Doppelgangers and tulpas? There are your changelings.
Clearly, the denizens of the Black Lodge are fairies.
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[[WMG: Cooper returns to the Black Lodge at the end of The Return.]]
Throughout Twin Peaks' original run, it's made clear that time, space and matter are incredibly malleable within the Red Room. Given the breadth of the Lodge's ability to alter these things, it's plausible that when Cooper believes that he's jumped into a 'new' timeline at the end of the The Return, he has actually just reentered the Red Room without realizing it. But why? Why should the Lodge be so fixated on Cooper? Why deceive in this way with changed identities and the missing Palmers? Because, by saving Laura, he also took the blame off of BOB for the loss of all the garmonbozia someone like Laura would've produced over time. As opposed to BOB, whom it seems the Arm tried to be patient with in the past and is newly frustrated with, Cooper is a total outsider. BOB was at least the Arm's old running body/homunculus/odd rhyme enthusiast; Cooper is some uppity human trying to cut them out of a feast. Ahhh, but if Cooper thought that all his sacrifices, all his little insights and zen claptrap were totally for not and were utterly misguided to the detriment of all those around him? That might yield up oodles of garmonbozia.
Throughout Twin Peaks' original run, it's made clear that time, space and matter are incredibly malleable within the Red Room. Given the breadth of the Lodge's ability to alter these things, it's plausible that when Cooper believes that he's jumped into a 'new' timeline at the end of the The Return, he has actually just reentered the Red Room without realizing it. But why? Why should the Lodge be so fixated on Cooper? Why deceive in this way with changed identities and the missing Palmers? Because, by saving Laura, he also took the blame off of BOB for the loss of all the garmonbozia someone like Laura would've produced over time. As opposed to BOB, whom it seems the Arm tried to be patient with in the past and is newly frustrated with, Cooper is a total outsider. BOB was at least the Arm's old running body/homunculus/odd rhyme enthusiast; Cooper is some uppity human trying to cut them out of a feast. Ahhh, but if Cooper thought that all his sacrifices, all his little insights and zen claptrap were totally for not and were utterly misguided to the detriment of all those around him? That might yield up oodles of garmonbozia.
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* Seemingly confirmed by The Return; "The Fireman" as he's named appears in what seems to be the White Lodge, and may in fact be responsible for the creation of Laura as a counter to BOB.
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* That love-child is, of course, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDgnb9iAWtY Park Ranger Carl]].
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* That love-child is, of course, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDgnb9iAWtY Park Ranger Carl]].Carl]], who got a job with the government in the vain hope of winning his long-lost father's affections.
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[WMG: At least one of Gordon Cole's many, many affairs has led to a love-child about whom he may or may not know.]
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[[WMG: At least one of Gordon Cole's many, many affairs has led to a love-child about whom he may or may not know.
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* Carrie's scream at the end of the story is a scream of realisation as this false reality collapses around them - and possibly as she experiences the sensation of an entirely different life's worth of memories awakening inside her head.
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[WMG: At least one of Gordon Cole's many, many affairs has led to a love-child about whom he may or may not know.]
* That love-child is, of course, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDgnb9iAWtY Park Ranger Carl]].
[WMG: At least one of Gordon Cole's many, many affairs has led to a love-child about whom he may or may not know.]
* That love-child is, of course, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDgnb9iAWtY Park Ranger Carl]].
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* Even "Doctor Amp" is subconsciously aware that something is terribly wrong ("We're all in the shit!") And recognises that the colour gold is related to salvation ("Dig yourself out with a golden shovel!").
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* Even "Doctor Amp" is subconsciously aware that something is terribly wrong ("We're all in the shit!") And shit!"), and recognises that the colour gold is related to salvation ("Dig yourself out with a golden shovel!").shovel!"). And it appears the people who fall for his grift recognise a grain of truth in it - Nadine is inspired to do the right thing and set Ed free.
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** [[https://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/twin-peaks-finale-ending-explained-david-lynch-part-18-1201872823/ Certain readings]] of the end of ''The Return'' interpret it as an endless struggle, "a continuous loop where good will never stop trying to defeat evil." For creatures which feed on suffering, wouldn't this be a guarantee of an infinite supply of sustenance, if Cooper never gives up?
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** [[https://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/twin-peaks-finale-ending-explained-david-lynch-part-18-1201872823/ Certain readings]] of the end of ''The Return'' interpret it as an endless struggle, "a continuous loop where good will never stop trying to defeat evil." For creatures which feed on suffering, wouldn't this be a guarantee of an infinite supply of sustenance, if Cooper never gives up?up?
[[WMG: Parts 1-17 are set ''after'' the end of Part 17.]]
Cooper's valiant attempt to save Laura by travelling back in time backfired when something - likely Judy - spirited Laura out of his hands and out of reality. In ''The Final Dossier'', Tammy confirms that the current state of the new reality is that Laura's case is marked as a disappearance rather than a murder and the engagement by law enforcement (including Cooper) was minimal after no leads were returned. As her report finishes, Tammy further notes that her own memories are seemingly fading and changing.
* Episode 8 - and Margaret Lanterman's exchanges with Hawk - cemented Laura as the ChosenOne sent by the benign influence of the Fireman and Senorita Dido to counterbalance, or perhaps defeat, the evil influence of BOB. Even in dying, her presence on Earth has a Christ-like effect, influencing the innocent people of Twin Peaks (and spiralling out into the world) to listen to the better angels of their nature.
* In a world where Laura disappeared, her murder cannot have that effect. The scales are tipped in the favour of BOB, Judy and anything else that hungers for garmonbozia (pain and suffering). Throughout "The Return", each time the focus shifts to Twin Peaks itself we find an unsettling current of aggression, cruelty, and unrest. Gunplay, drug abuse and angry episodes are a daily occurrence.
* While many people remember that Laura was murdered and allude to that event, the unsettling nature of the changed reality is also encroaching on them - and it doesn't help that the current sheriff Truman wasn't around when the investigation happened. Notice that when Bobby sees her, although he bursts into tears and her theme plays, he doesn't specifically mention her being killed at all.
* Meanwhile, in the Black Lodge in Part 2, Cooper meets someone who ''looks'' like Laura but aludes to the last time we met Laura's double ("I feel like I know her, but sometimes my arms bend back"), someone who is both alive and dead, identified on-set as Carrie Page. After she disappears, Cooper has a couple of encounters, one of which is with Leland - a clear-eyed, non-doppelganger Leland - who pleads with him to "Find Laura". Laura is missing. Cooper's own future self has, unintentionally, caused her to stop existing.
* This is another narrative convenience of the "Dougie Jones" storyline - if a clear-headed Cooper returned to Twin Peaks any time before Part 17, not only would he realise that something was wrong, he might not have gone back in time, thus creating a paradox.
* The events of Part 18 are inspired by Cooper's attempt to put right what he has done wrong and restore Laura to the prime timeline from the alternate world in which Judy attempted to contain her (as symbolised by the diner that Carrie Page works at being called "Judy's" - while a familiar setting, its cleared-away tables makes it look hollow, showing that like the universe, it was created to trap Laura). He's "trying to kill two birds with one stone" by preventing both the world where Laura dies ''and'' the one where she disappears.
* Carrie's scream at the end of the story is a scream of realisation as this false reality collapses around them - and possibly as she experiences the sensation of an entirely different life's worth of memories awakening inside her head.
[[WMG: Parts 1-17 are set ''after'' the end of Part 17.]]
Cooper's valiant attempt to save Laura by travelling back in time backfired when something - likely Judy - spirited Laura out of his hands and out of reality. In ''The Final Dossier'', Tammy confirms that the current state of the new reality is that Laura's case is marked as a disappearance rather than a murder and the engagement by law enforcement (including Cooper) was minimal after no leads were returned. As her report finishes, Tammy further notes that her own memories are seemingly fading and changing.
* Episode 8 - and Margaret Lanterman's exchanges with Hawk - cemented Laura as the ChosenOne sent by the benign influence of the Fireman and Senorita Dido to counterbalance, or perhaps defeat, the evil influence of BOB. Even in dying, her presence on Earth has a Christ-like effect, influencing the innocent people of Twin Peaks (and spiralling out into the world) to listen to the better angels of their nature.
* In a world where Laura disappeared, her murder cannot have that effect. The scales are tipped in the favour of BOB, Judy and anything else that hungers for garmonbozia (pain and suffering). Throughout "The Return", each time the focus shifts to Twin Peaks itself we find an unsettling current of aggression, cruelty, and unrest. Gunplay, drug abuse and angry episodes are a daily occurrence.
* While many people remember that Laura was murdered and allude to that event, the unsettling nature of the changed reality is also encroaching on them - and it doesn't help that the current sheriff Truman wasn't around when the investigation happened. Notice that when Bobby sees her, although he bursts into tears and her theme plays, he doesn't specifically mention her being killed at all.
* Meanwhile, in the Black Lodge in Part 2, Cooper meets someone who ''looks'' like Laura but aludes to the last time we met Laura's double ("I feel like I know her, but sometimes my arms bend back"), someone who is both alive and dead, identified on-set as Carrie Page. After she disappears, Cooper has a couple of encounters, one of which is with Leland - a clear-eyed, non-doppelganger Leland - who pleads with him to "Find Laura". Laura is missing. Cooper's own future self has, unintentionally, caused her to stop existing.
* This is another narrative convenience of the "Dougie Jones" storyline - if a clear-headed Cooper returned to Twin Peaks any time before Part 17, not only would he realise that something was wrong, he might not have gone back in time, thus creating a paradox.
* The events of Part 18 are inspired by Cooper's attempt to put right what he has done wrong and restore Laura to the prime timeline from the alternate world in which Judy attempted to contain her (as symbolised by the diner that Carrie Page works at being called "Judy's" - while a familiar setting, its cleared-away tables makes it look hollow, showing that like the universe, it was created to trap Laura). He's "trying to kill two birds with one stone" by preventing both the world where Laura dies ''and'' the one where she disappears.
* Carrie's scream at the end of the story is a scream of realisation as this false reality collapses around them - and possibly as she experiences the sensation of an entirely different life's worth of memories awakening inside her head.
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* Though there is the possibility - however slim - that while traveling through the country he sought out Dick, having heard of the weird love triangle that precipitated his own birth (small towns do tend to gossip). Besides which, Lucy is not the deceptive type and would have been happy to tell young Wally about his "Uncle Dick" if asked.
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** Certain readings [[https://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/twin-peaks-finale-ending-explained-david-lynch-part-18-1201872823/]] of the end of ''The Return'' interpret it as an endless struggle, "a continuos loop where good will never stop trying to defeat evil." For creatures which feed on suffering, wouldn't this be a guarantee of an infinite supply of sustenance, if Cooper never gives up?
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** Certain readings [[https://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/twin-peaks-finale-ending-explained-david-lynch-part-18-1201872823/]] com/2017/09/twin-peaks-finale-ending-explained-david-lynch-part-18-1201872823/ Certain readings]] of the end of ''The Return'' interpret it as an endless struggle, "a continuos continuous loop where good will never stop trying to defeat evil." For creatures which feed on suffering, wouldn't this be a guarantee of an infinite supply of sustenance, if Cooper never gives up?
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* Chet Desmond discovers the ring beneath the trailer. It's implied that the spirits of the Black Lodge kidnap him. The Man From Another Place suggests that they can "descend from pure air" by traveling through electricity; this is also how they kidnapped David Bowie. The ring, and Chet Desmond, are now at the Black Lodge. David Bowie is aware of the ring's existence, perhaps due to his visit to the Lodge, and mentions it during his ramblings in the FBI office.
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* Chet Desmond discovers the ring beneath the trailer. It's implied that the spirits of the Black Lodge kidnap him. The Man From Another Place suggests that they can "descend from pure air" by traveling through electricity; this is also how they kidnapped David Bowie.Phillip Jeffries. The ring, and Chet Desmond, are now at the Black Lodge. David Bowie is aware of the ring's existence, perhaps due to his visit to the Lodge, and mentions it during his ramblings in the FBI office.
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*** More than likely Cooper warned her not to take the ring to try and prevent her murder, possibly after or during the final events of ''The Return''. BOB planned to possess Laura after assaulting her but was unable to do so because of the ring, and killed her in a rage. Had she not had the ring she would have lived, though possessed by BOB - and Cooper has already learned how to exorcise BOB, with or without the ring to do so.
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Consider this: the new tulpa!Cooper is created and then Dougie arrives "home" in Las Vegas before Coop exits into Glastonbury Grove. This would be Coop's essential retirement, in Las Vegas - he found what he was looking for, so he decided to defer the FBI stuff to the tulpa. Meanwhile, the distinctive demeanor shift as Diane and Cooper travelled that 430 miles may well be a side effect of this simply being tulpa!Cooper (or would that be tulpa!Richard?). It never is shown in the show, but considering this is David Lynch we're talking about it's not completely off the table.
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Consider this: the new tulpa!Cooper is created and then Dougie arrives "home" in Las Vegas before Coop exits into Glastonbury Grove. This would be Coop's essential retirement, in Las Vegas - he found what he was looking for, so he decided to defer the FBI stuff to the tulpa. Meanwhile, the distinctive demeanor shift as Diane and Cooper travelled that 430 miles may well be a side effect of this simply being tulpa!Cooper (or would that be tulpa!Richard?). It never is shown in the show, but considering this is David Lynch we're talking about it's not completely off the table.table.
[[WMG: The Black Lodge creatures never intended to help Cooper.]]
Throughout the first and second season the various figures that come to Coop offer messages that are either too cryptic to decipher initially ("That gum you like is going to come back in style") or come too late ("It is happening again"). This can be interpreted as the product of non-human beings, living in a non-human state of existence, trying their best to communicate in human terms. Then, in ''Fire Walk With Me'', it's explicitly shown that it's not only BOB who feeds on "Garmonbozia", or pain and suffering - it's '''all''' of the inhabitants of the Black Lodge, including MIKE and The Arm. Which leads to the disturbing idea that The Arm, MIKE, The Giant and others...might not actually be trying to help Cooper, or Laura. They might be deliberately being cryptic, or even ''un''helpful, because to see Cooper and the others try and fail, over and over, is just a different flavour of Garmonbozia. A kind they prefer.
** Then in ''The Return'' we find the "origin story" of Twin Peaks is both "The Experiment"/BOB and "The Fireman" reacting to the 1945 Trinity nuclear test in New Mexico - arguably the beginning of one of the most heinous atrocities ever committed by human beings against one another - and converging on that point. To fight one another, or to compete for food?
** Furthermore, it's implied that the Fireman and Senorita Dido specifically sent Laura Palmer to Earth. To be the ChosenOne? Or to be such a beloved and desired figure that those who knew her couldn't help but suffer at her untimely death?
** Certain readings [[https://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/twin-peaks-finale-ending-explained-david-lynch-part-18-1201872823/]] of the end of ''The Return'' interpret it as an endless struggle, "a continuos loop where good will never stop trying to defeat evil." For creatures which feed on suffering, wouldn't this be a guarantee of an infinite supply of sustenance, if Cooper never gives up?
[[WMG: The Black Lodge creatures never intended to help Cooper.]]
Throughout the first and second season the various figures that come to Coop offer messages that are either too cryptic to decipher initially ("That gum you like is going to come back in style") or come too late ("It is happening again"). This can be interpreted as the product of non-human beings, living in a non-human state of existence, trying their best to communicate in human terms. Then, in ''Fire Walk With Me'', it's explicitly shown that it's not only BOB who feeds on "Garmonbozia", or pain and suffering - it's '''all''' of the inhabitants of the Black Lodge, including MIKE and The Arm. Which leads to the disturbing idea that The Arm, MIKE, The Giant and others...might not actually be trying to help Cooper, or Laura. They might be deliberately being cryptic, or even ''un''helpful, because to see Cooper and the others try and fail, over and over, is just a different flavour of Garmonbozia. A kind they prefer.
** Then in ''The Return'' we find the "origin story" of Twin Peaks is both "The Experiment"/BOB and "The Fireman" reacting to the 1945 Trinity nuclear test in New Mexico - arguably the beginning of one of the most heinous atrocities ever committed by human beings against one another - and converging on that point. To fight one another, or to compete for food?
** Furthermore, it's implied that the Fireman and Senorita Dido specifically sent Laura Palmer to Earth. To be the ChosenOne? Or to be such a beloved and desired figure that those who knew her couldn't help but suffer at her untimely death?
** Certain readings [[https://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/twin-peaks-finale-ending-explained-david-lynch-part-18-1201872823/]] of the end of ''The Return'' interpret it as an endless struggle, "a continuos loop where good will never stop trying to defeat evil." For creatures which feed on suffering, wouldn't this be a guarantee of an infinite supply of sustenance, if Cooper never gives up?
