History WMG / TwinPeaks

It was alluded to by Major Briggs and all the Project Bluebook references in the late 2nd season.

** She will play a new victim murdered in an identical manner to Laura, whose death will spark off the events of the new series, and who will act as a reference to both Laura and Lilly.

Possesses people? Check. Sadistic and evil? Check. Operates in dimensions + abilities outside human comprehension and what should be possible? Check.

Without avatars to project their influence through, things start getting weird. Instead of only a couple of people with ties to the powers of good and evil, now the powers seem to "leak" out into the world. This brings us to {{Twin Peaks}}. The black lodge has Killer BOB, the white lodge has (perhaps) the giant. The two lodges try to influence people in the real world using dreams. Windom Earl, a truly evil soul, is being contacted by the black lodge. The hope to use him as their pseudo-avatar. Likewise, agent Cooper is being contacted by the white lodge, who need a truly good soul to defeat evil. The show was cancelled before this could be resolved, and the series ends with Cooper trapped (perhaps forever) in the black lodge.

As {{David Lynch}} has confirmed that {{Lost Highway}} takes place in the Twin Peaks universe, and since {{Mulholland Drive}} was originally meant to be a spinoff for Audrey, it can be assumed that these two movies play by the same rules. People are influenced by the two lodges, each trying to gain a foothold in reality without the use of a proper Avatar. As Mulholland Drive is revealed [[spoiler: to be mostly a dream meant to cover up the main character's murder of her lover]], this could be either the white lodge trying to make her face what she's done, or the black lodge trying to make her forget about it and join them. Similarly, many parts of Lost Highway can be explained as visions from the lodges, the Mystery Man being a creature similar to Killer BOB, etc.

It must be remembered that time moves differently in the lodges than on our plane of reality. In the Twin Peaks prequel movie, Laura is warned about events that won't happen until the series proper. With that in mind, let's take a look at events that happened in Middlesex, Virginia. The year is 1988, and {{Donnie Darko}} is a troubled teenager who frequently sleepwalks. He also has vivid dreams. One day, a vision of Frank the rabbit tells him to leave his room. Donnie does so, and his bed is then destroyed by a mysterious falling airplane turbine. Donnie is told that he has 28 days to prevent the world from being destroyed. Clearly, the white lodge is using Frank as it's voice to help Donnie save the world. In the [[{{recut}} director's cut]], Donnie is often seen to "download" information, with close-ups of his eye and many numbers and images flashing by. The Word of God on this is that the information is coming from unseen beings from the future. In actual fact, this is the White Lodge giving Donnie info on future events which he needs to prevent. The story of Donnie Darko plays out over the course of about a month, before Donnie travels back in time and saves the world by letting the airplane turbine kill him instead of leaving his bed. The events that took place during most of the movie end up never happening. They were erased from existence. Of course, the two lodges still remember them, as they exist outside of normal time.

* She made an awfully big show of making sure [[spoiler: Andrew and Pete]] knew where the key to the safety deposit box was. It is possible she took whatever had been put into Thomas Eckhart's deposit box for herself and planted a bomb in it, knowing that [[spoiler: Andrew]] would take the key and check it out himself. She may or may not have anticipated [[spoiler: Pete]] going with him.

* BOB and The Man From Another Place still harbor the same connection on some level, which is why the latter demands his [[PerfectlyCromulentWord garmonbozia]] in ''Main/FireWalkWithMe''.

[[WMG: The events of the series was a back-up plan by [[DigimonWonderswanSeries ZeedMillenniumon]].]]

[[WMG: Catherine Martell planted the bomb that killed Andrew Packard and her husband]]
* She made an awfully big show of making sure Andrew and Pete knew where the key to the safety deposit box was. It is possible she took whatever had been put into Thomas Eckhart's deposit box for herself and planted a bomb in it, knowing that Andrew would take the key and check it out himself. She may or may not have anticipated Pete going with him.

There's definitely a peak in season 1. Not sure about season 2, but if not that, then maybe the other peak will be in season 3.

* BOB and The Man From Another Place still harbor the same connection on some level, which is why the latter demands his [[PerfectlyCromulentWord garmonbozia]] in ''Film/FireWalkWithMe''.

* She has a big crush on Cooper and considers him a friend and he disappears for 25 years? I think that could inspire someone to join the FBI to search for answers.

[[WMG: In the miniseries, Donna will be an FBI agent ]]

* In the miniseries Donna will be an FBI agent.

* Mrs. Chalfont/Mrs. Tremond/Grandmother is likewise a dugpa of the Black Lodge, and her "Grandson" is her Familiar, hence why/how he's able to snatch the cream corn(?) away.

In the "Above the Convenience Store" scene, we see the "formica table" with a circle cut out of the tabletop as the Little Man From Another Place rubs his hands over it, before he says to BOB, "With this ring, I thee wed" and they both laugh. This indicates to me that the ring has a Black Lodge, not White origin. It does seem to prevent the wearer from being possessed, but it also seems to doom them to death with the resulting garmonbozia (pain and suffering) becoming the property of the Little Man From Another Place (The Arm of MIKE). When Laura puts the ring on, BOB does shout in frustration (with Leland saying "don't make me do this!"), but we see clips of the Little Man laughing hysterically, as if he has won the game.

But in the "Above the Convenience Store" scene, we see the "formica table" with a circle cut out of the tabletop as the Little Man From Another Place rubs his hands over it, before he says to BOB, "With this ring, I thee wed" and they both laugh. This indicates to me that the ring has a Black Lodge, not White origin. It does seem to prevent the wearer from being possessed, but it also seems to doom them to death with the resulting garmonbozia (pain and suffering) becoming the property of the Little Man From Another Place (The Arm of MIKE). When Laura puts the ring on, BOB does shout in frustration (with Leland saying "don't make me do this!"), but we see clips of the Little Man laughing hysterically, as if he has won the game.

Also, Judy is described in ways by Philip Jeffries and the hotel staff in Buenos Aires in terms that seem to indicate she is a real person rather than a Lodge spirit, an informant for Jeffries of some kind, with a place in Seattle where he "found something" which resulted in him going to one of their meetings "above the convenience store".

JUDY may be the angel who visited Laura and Ronette.

* In The Missing Pieces, the same scene between Coop and The Man From Another Place plays out, except this time, the ring is not there. Cooper notices its absence, and is told that it's in someone else's (Annie's) possession. Because of the nature of the Lodge, both versions of the scene happen simultaneously. Cooper tells Laura not to take the ring, because if she had it, she wouldn't be able to give it to Annie, and Annie would be vulnerable to BOB. Cooper realizes the paradox, and believes that Laura will die regardless of whether or not she takes the ring. But, if she does, Annie won't have it to protect herself from BOB. So he urges her to leave it where it is, knowing that events will work out anyway.

What happens if one of these alternate realities is not destroyed in a fairly timely manner? {{Southland Tales}} is what happens. It's not all that obvious in the feature proper, due to half of the story being told in a tie in graphic novel (whatever idiot thought that would work should be shot), but Southland Tales can best be described as the future of Donnie Darko's tangent universe. Since Donnie sacrificed himself and closed the tangent universe, our reality was saved. However, he did not destroy the alt. universe, instead simply closing it off. Since the tangent universe can no longer effect out own, neither lodge is influencing it. This means that the white lodge isn't acting to save this world, nor it the black lodge acting to destroy or rule it.

[[WMG: Agent Cooper eventually becomes [[{{Dexter}} Special Agent Frank Lundy]]]]
He escaped the Black Lodge and continued his work for the FBI. Notice Special Agent Lundy is chipper, upbeat, has precise unique methods and is obsessive about food. He even ends his time on [[{{Dexter}} Dexter]] by saying he is going to work on a case in Portland, OR. Back to where he started . . .

It all starts with HBO's {{Carnivale}}. Several thousand years ago, the first avatara appeared: one an avatar of good, the other of evil. Every generation, two new avatars were born. The avatars were receiving their good/bad powers from either the white or the black lodge. Had Carnivale not been cancelled, Word of God is that it would have ended with the Trinity nuclear test, in the mid 1940s. It's also stated that Sofie is the Omega: the last of the Avatar, neither good nor evil, the one who will bring about the end. So, in the mid 40s, the avatar lines cease. The lodges, however, continue to exist.

3. Phillip has been to one of their meetings. I didn't see Phillip in the meeting scene, but I did see Pierre...with his black suit and David Bowie hair. "Fell a victim," he says. Could be a self-referential comment.

I think Pierre, a.k.a. the grandson, a.k.a. the creamed corn kid, is really Phillip Jeffries. It's either an inhabiting spirit thing, or Jeffries is reverted to child form in certain incarnations. (I lean towards the latter.) My supporting points:

[[XanatosGambit In case his plan to conquer the omniverse was thwarted, by Ryo or ENIAC, whichever, it's not unthinkable that he'll have some way to flip off the Sovereigns and ENIAC, who were dedicated to order, peace and stability.]]

[[The events of the series was a back-up plan by [[DigimonWonderswanSeries ZeedMillenniumon]].]]

[[XanatosGambit In case his plan to conquer the omniverse was thwarted, by Ryo or ENIAC, whichever, it's not unthinkable that he'll have some way to flip off the Sovereigns and ENIAC, who were dedicated to order, peace and stability.