Warning : I assume that you have watched
and read everything ever edited about Twin peaks.
So I will not waste too much time on descriptions.
And of course, this video will be filled with major spoilers.
Hello , it's Guigui
and I am here with to share my thoughts
with you on my favorite TV show.
Twin Peaks - Season 3 - Finale
Analysis and theories
As you must have seen in the debriefing video done right after the show last week,
I really loved the finale of Twin peaks
which really stroke me.
To me, the best part was episode 18, with the emergence of the 3rd world,
and the brief happy ending of the Jone's family.
The downside of this finale, and of the season, as far as I am concerned,
is the fight between Bob and Freddie.
Even though the « 50's pulp style » was clearly assumed,
I didn't really enjoyed this moment.
Moreover, I would have loved to see Cooper going to the Great Northern Hotel,
guided by James, seeing Ben on the way to the boiler room with Diane and Gordon.
 
But there is no such thing as perfection !
The biggest interest of this finale, as it's often the case with David Lynch,
is that most of it is left to interpretation.
As some of you noticed in the comments section of my previous video,
this double episode reminds us of Orpheus' myth.
Who tried to retrieve his wife Eurydice trapped in Hell.
 
On their way back, Hades made Orpheus promises
not to look back in order to verify that Eurydice was following him.
Unfortunately, he couldn't keep his promise,
and looked back to see if she was still there.
This made her disappear immediately.
Many mysteries find their solution or their justification here,
25 years later.
But let's focus on what I understand from this finale.
Theory : Who is Judy ?
Besides Bob, the Doppelgängers and the other spirit forms,
the real antagonist in Twin Peaks is “Jowday”, aka “Judy”,
or “Mother” or possibly Babalon and Lilith.
Both closest mythological figures to this character,
as I explained in my previous videos.
In episode 17, Gordon Cole informs us that for many years,
surely since the middle of season 2,
Major Briggs had discovered and identified Judy.
A very powerful evil entity, that had to be defeated.
Gordon, Briggs and Cooped had a plan to find and destroy her.
We don't know exactly what this plan was,
but we can imagine that Cooper is following the outlines in the season 3 finale.
That is to say :
to confront “Mother Judy” with the orb of kindness created by the Giant,
which materialized itself in Laura Palmer, as shown in episode 8.
 
At this moment, we thought
that the Fireman was doing so to thwart Bob.
In fact, he was trying to bypass the Dark Mother,
since she was outpouring too many demons because of the atomic explosion.
As a reminder, Babalon, or Lilith, is the mother of all demons.
Bob is just one of them,
the “father” being in reality, what evil mankind is capable of.
The A-bomb could be the worst of it.
She is one of the recurrent figures in the religious and magical rituals,
which Aleister Crowley enjoyed practicing.
She represents a danger to pregnant woman and child,
and to the future of mankind.
She is also, usually, associated with the black moon
and the creatures of the night like the owl...
The “Philipp Jeffries”, as seen in the show,
was certainly coming from the future and knew about this.
He, thus, informed Gordon by the time,
who was not able to understand what was going on.
This must be the reason why Jeffries was pointing at Cooper,
implying that Cooper “wasn't himself”.
Maybe he was making a reference to Mr C at this moment.
Unless he was talking about Richard,
I will get back on that later.
His investigation on Judy probably led him
to metamorphosis himself into something different for an unknown reason.
Anyway, if the Giant says that “it's in our house now”,
implying that Judy is in their reality,
Jeffries knows where Mother really is.
He knows that Judy is, in fact, Sarah Palmer at this moment.
For a long time, I thought Sarah was possessed by an other entity.
But the finale enlightens the whole story about Judy,
and leads to the conclusion that Sara = Judy.
This could be why during the first scene of season 3,
we get to know that Mother is already in the house.
And that Judy has already started her apocalypse work, trying to destroy the world.
The question that arises is :
for how long Sarah has been possessed by Judy ?
If the girl from New Mexico is indeed Sarah,
it thus means that the orb "Laura" was near Bob
and Judy during many years.
This wouldn't make any sense.
Indeed, Bad Coop and Bob are both trying to find Mother to ally with her,
maybe to form a global entity with her.
If Bob's host was married to Judy's host, and faced Laura's orb all this time,
it wouldn't make any sense, if we refer to season 3, as far as I am concerned.
The most logical explanation would be that
Sarah isn't, in fact, the girl who swallows the strange beast in episode 8.
Unless Judy has possessed Sarah for not a very long time,
or maybe she was "sleeping" inside Sarah's body.
As if she was hibernating during all this time.
At least until episode 2 of season 2, when Sarah talks to Briggs with a strange voice,
telling him that she is in the black lodge with Cooper.
But the climax of her power surely appears in season 3.
Surely because of Mr.C's actions.
This could explain why the Giant says that "it's in our house ==now=="
This last word is important.
Anyway,
Sarah has surely not been possessed "actively" for very long,
since mother left the box in episode 1.
Sarah Palmer was indeed, a good candidate to host this evil spirit
because of her mental state, and what happened to her in the past.
Her husband did kill and rape her daughter
almost right under her nose.
Mr. C and Bob tried their best to find Judy,
their ultimate goal being to find her,
just like Mr.C said in episode 2.
Without a doubt to go back to her, become one, and never go back to the red room.
And gain more power.
To fulfill their plan, they decided to build the glass box in order to attract her.
By the way, this glass box looks very much like
the first prototype of a television set during the 20's.
But if we had to find an origin to this weird technology
which already existed during Nixon's time,
- I there refer to Marc Frost's book -
we could say that it seems to refer
to Saturn's cube.
Lilith is often associated to planet Saturn by astrologers.
Besides the glyph which symbolises Saturn
is the very opposite to the one which symbolises the black moon.
The cross of incarnation and the crescent moon of the soul.
The Celtic tribes refer to God saturn as "El".
The most supreme God was represented by a black cube,
we should be reminded at this point that the black cube
created by the Kabbalist artist Tony Rosenthal, and named "Alamo"
officially because of the famous battle of Alamo,
could in fact be associated to "Alamogordo"
the place where the first nuclear test of history was carried out.
Quite a coincidence don't you think ?
This cube was installed in Manhattan in 1967.
The mystic symbolism regards the circle as a celestial,
natural and positive shape.
On the opposite, the cube is earthly,
artificially created by humans and a negative object.
As is the A-bomb.
In order to finance the cube, Mr.C surely didn't spend too much time, thanks to his activities.
He just pretended to by an anonymous millionaire.
Anyway, since the cube's plan didn't really work,
Mr. C tried to find an other way to fulfill his plan.
Even tough his relationship towards Jeffries remains a mystery,
he finally got the informations and coordinates regarding Major Briggs.
Maybe by browsing William Hasting's website,
who reported his "crossing through the zone" experience.
A discovery made by mistake by the Buckhorn's teacher
and his mistress, Ruth Davenport.
 
At least, this is what he said during the interrogatory driven by Tammy in episode 9.
In the finale, Judy, who seems to be now in full control of her power,
can feel what Cooper is doing in episode 17.
 
She senses that Cooper is executing his plan :
he goes back to the past in order to save Laura
and prevent all the dramatic events that occur as consequences.
But also in order to confront Laura
with her own mother, possessed by Judy.
This evil entity having multiple ressources,
won't let herself be defeated.
She thus, uses her power to make Laura disappear from Cooper's reality.
Thereby, the Laura who died in the past,
and the one of the future in the black lodge,
who disappeared in episode 2 of season 3,
seems to disappear because of what happened in episode 17.
All because of Cooper's actions, that changed reality
allowing Judy to extract Laura from her first reality,
to replace her in an other one :
The third world.
Theory : The third world
So, Judy kidnaps Laura to put her in another universe.
When Laura disappears in episode 2,
the curtain rises, showing the white horse usually associated with Sarah.
 
This, combined to the fact that Carrie works at Judy's dinner,
and the fact that there is a small white horse in her house,
just like there is one in front of the Diner,
we are obviously in one of Judy's universes,
close to ours.
Maybe the world where she comes from after all.
As far as I am concerned, I consider that Laura has been kidnapped by Judy in episode 2,
which is happening at the same time as at the end of episode 17.
Right after Laura whispers an information to Cooper,
we can hear a sound.
She screams and disappears, abducted by Judy,
to be thrown in her universe.
Since my very first video, I said that the intruder :
also named as "it" is in the house right now, whom the giant is talking about,
could be Mother.
Also known as Judy as we know now.
Indeed, in episode 3, before Cooper finds his way back to his reality,
he finds himself in a place very close to the one the Giant inhabits : the purple zone.
Certainly the white lodge.
Mother knocks at the door and tries to get inside.
If this place is the white lodge, we can assume
that it is about to be spoiled by the most unpure feelings.
By Mother,
stimulated by Cooper and Mr.C's actions.
The Giant tries to protect the Fire from corruption
so the world does not fall into darkness.
I was wondering by the time, if Mother was coming from a place out of the Lodges,
and the human world.
Was she coming from a third world which could damage the first two worlds ?
I said, back then, that if a third world exists,
it could be our own reality.
Since we are the only ones, the viewers,
with our third world, capable to destroy the first two.
We could be facing a "mise en abyme"
Dale Cooper could understand that he is a fictional character,
and that he is living inside a dream.
In the beginning, this theory seemed important, even though it is incomplete,
because it helps us to find our way into the mysteries of the show.
What did we get in the finale ?
First of all, we had a Dale Cooper telling us that everybody is living inside a dream.
 
There must be an awareness of this situation,
even though it's not fully expressed.
Indeed, we had a third world where Laura Palmer is changed
into a "Carrie Page".
A world disenchanted.
Very far from the colorful or dark atmosphere of the show.
In this world, everything is raw
common and awfully realistic.
It is the end of the gas station, just like in a painting,
we find ourselves in a sad common place,
Even Cooper who looks far from his usual happiness,
that he probably gave to Janey-E and Sonny Jim, looks cold and too ordinary.
This world looks very much like ours.
Up to the point that Mrs Tremond, who opens the door in the last scene
is in fact the real owner of the house where the show has been shot,
and which is the Palmer's house.
Is that a clue to indicate that we are in the reality ?
Actually, yes and no.
All of this shows that there is a swap between two worlds,
from the exuberant fiction world, to a more tangible one, close to ours.
But this is not completely our reality at 100%.
Because, indeed, Alice Tremond is not her real name.
It is in fact Mary Reber,
Both names, Tremond and Chalfont, refer to the spirits who slip into reality.
Under the form of a grandmother and her grandson.
We already talked about them in the pre-bilan videos.
Knowing that the little boy looks very much like a small David Lynch,
it's just as if he was one of this entity,
able to create a link between these three worlds.
In this case, between reality and fiction.
Or "his" fiction.
But this is not the only thing,
as Sylvain Bano who takes care of the translation
of my videos told me,
another clue could be significant.
In Paris, there is an Odessa street.
Which is right next to the "Départ" street.
And so what ?
Well, you have to know that these two streets
are right behind the Montparnasse street where Lynch's atelier is located.
At the exact place where Gordon is looking at in episode 14.
The episode 18 looks very much like a fresh new start.
Anyway, if this third world looks very much like ours,
it is not the exact same.
It could be a hybrid world
an intermediate between fiction and reality.
As if there were a superposition of different layers of reality
just like a Russian doll, or in the movie Inception.
By the way, if this world looks really sadder then the one we know,
strange things are still happening though.
Just like the corpse who lies in Carrie's living room.
When she opens the door to Dale Cooper, she is like :
oh yeah, there is a dead body in the living room. It's a real mess, sorry about that. Don't pay too much attention
When Dale and Cooper cross the gateway
at mile 430,
the change operating is slow.
Diane, the motel and the car, change during the night.
While Cooper who became Richard, awakes.
Here is an other clue that the scenarists might have left for us :
after the quote of the Beetle's song which mix dream and reality,
we can hear the "Sunnyvista" song.
Interpreted by the Thompson couple.
Named Richard and Linda.
The length of the song is exactly 4 minutes and 30 seconds.
The beginning of the song starts like this :
"In Sunnyvista, all your dreams are reality"
which could mean that Cooper who became Richard,
passed from fiction to reality and through Judy's world.
We can imagine that Judy is part of our world
and that she represents the evil mankind is capable of.
She represents a danger for our future and our kids.
No matter what shape she takes.
When one creates a fiction, he takes different parts of reality to form a story.
Except in one of the Rick and Morty episodes,
in a fictitious world, you can still find the sun and the moon,
and all the different elements that compose our reality.
A fictional story doesn't create everything from zero.
In Twin Peaks for example, Richard Nixon was present,
and it was referring to the story of the United States as we know it.
And maybe Judy, as an evil entity,
or Monicas Belluci, a real Goddess in her own style.
According to David Lynch or Gordon Cole, as you wish!
In the end, we can say that, even if Lynch and Frost didn't entirely destroy the fourth wall,
at least they opened a window in it.
Anyway,
since evil exists and is told, it crosses the different layers of reality.
Cooper and Diane might have crossed one of them to find Laura.
We could therefore imagine that
4 different layers of reality exist in the show.
Starting from the most fictional one and going closest to our reality,
we could thus identify in the following order :
the soap opera "Invitation to Love"
that the characters from season 1 are watching,
then the TV show Twin Peaks as we know it,
followed by the movie Twin Peaks Fire walk with me,
to finally reach the third world,
the hybrid world, somewhere between fiction and reality.
And access in the end, our own reality.
And that could be the end of it.
Unless we could be ourselves, the characters of a whole different story.
According to some fans,
Laura could be kidnapped by the white lodge and the Giant at the end of episode 17.
And Sarah, acting under Judy's bad influence,
is getting mad because of Laura's disappearance in her reality.
And tries to destroy her image.
But the tape keeps on rewinding and the picture remains intact.
And this could be a trap invented by the Giant for Judy,
an empty "pocket universe" created by the Fireman for this purpose only.
To attract her and make Laura's emotional bomb,
explode.
 
In order to destroy Judy.
For those of you who want to know more about this theory, I refer you to the comments section.
But I really don't agree with this theory.
Indeed, when the Giant gives the indication of the following noise :
 
to Cooper, he seems like he wants to associate him to what is inside the house.
As if it was a clue to detect Judy.
This is why, to me, Laura disappears because of Judy,
through this sound.
Moreover, if Laura was really in the black lodge all this time,
a place where the Giant can also go,
why would he do all this just now, 25 years later?
Furthermore, it would indicate that Cooper is not working together with the Giant.
and that they both have their own plan
interfering with each other.
This would look strange to me.
I therefore do think that it's Judy who is producing the sound.
And since the scene with Laura takes place right after
Cooper saves her in episode 17,
Judy is thus responsible for this unexpected turn of events :
Laura's disappearance.
The frame of the photo being broken,
and if we pay attention to Sarah's weird gestures, on Laura's picture
which remains intact, it looks very much like a strange ritual.
This is right after this scene that Laura disappears from reality.
This is why I do think the most relevant theory is the one I exposed to you before,
because it makes sense to the subtext
the scenarist are giving us.
With the Giant creating a pocket universe, with Odessa
being a trap, I don't understand what the message could be.
 
Moreover, when Carrie remembers that she used to be Laura,
it creates a short circuit with reality,
to the detriment of Judy.
The question remains unsolved, even though I have my opinion on the subject.
Besides, my whole interpretation remains open.
Just like Carlos said, if in the first two seasons,
everybody could come to the same conclusion
the third season offers much more possibilities.
And it's impossible to know what is true and what is not.
And it's fine this way.
Even tough we don't all agree on the significations on the story progress
or on some details,
like the origin of the third world and who takes Laura from one world to another,
we still agree on some conclusions.
Laura is some kind of bomb, filled with all the sadness she felt because of what happened to her,
Dale needs her to destroy Judy,
and the final scene probably shows the short circuit Laura is capable of
and which could destroy Judy, or at least,
give her a strong stroke.
Anyway, I think we can all come to the same conclusion thanks to this third season...
 
Twin Peaks' message
I thus think that the Fireman gives Cooper instructions
that can help him to reach the third world,
and evolve into Judy's world,
in order to defeat her, with the energy Laura carries in herself.
As if the ideas carried by the Twin Peaks as a fiction,
and represented by Laura,
could help the viewers to get rid of the evil in our own reality.
Fiction, and art in general,
can help us to understand what is going wrong in our world,
not being passive viewers anymore,
and even passive individuals towards what is going on in our world.
A simple, yet subtle and powerful message, without pathos.
A message that transforms the viewer into the dreamer
Gordon and Jeffries are talking about.
We are the dreamers, and we have to wake up.
Our mission, just like Dale Cooper's, is just starting.
To get back the enchanted world of Twin Peaks,
even though it's impossible.
It is highly probable that the secondary plots left unsolved
are in fact a symptom of Judy's rising power and influence on Twin peaks.
And also on our world.
As if the scenarists' anguish had infected their work.
Even if it was dark in the first place,
it was also very bright, because the evil in Twin peaks
was occurring only in the city and its woods.
Here, we can definitely feel that evil is spreading into the world,
on our reality and the fictions
that our world can create through Mark Frost and David Lynch.
The fact that the viewer is forced to concentrate
on the third season to understand and apprehend it,
is a way, for the scenarists, to make us active viewers.
Or maybe as fictional characters.
Maybe in order to show us that we can be actors of the History,
and we have a responsibility not to let the world disappear,
and leave it to the Dark Mother.
Just like Pacôme Thiellement clearly explained
on the Facebook group "Something is missing" :
"The killing of the passive viewers in episode 1 in the third season,
is the symbol of what Judy is capable of in our reality,
if we don't pay real good attention."
The third season is some kind of warning.
To me, this subtext isn't even hidden.
And we could, in the end, think that the conspiracy speech of Docteur Jacoby,
even though it's confused, is telling the truth somehow.
Just like Nadine says, he could be the only one telling us the real truth.
The scenarists might be sharing, at least, half of it.
A fourth season or not?
Some fans started a petition to ask for a fourth season.
Some others did the same, but in order to leave the third season
as the real ending of the story, because of its perfection.
So what could be the interest in doing a fourth season?
I don't really know, since finishing the story here could be possible indeed.
The story ending at a crush point that could be a conclusion after all.
 
But just like I said in the debate video on the finale,
it will certainly depend on the reviews,
both from critics and commercials, on  season three
and on the will of Twin Peaks creators, to express something more.
So, is it possible in the end?
I do think it is.
Because just like I said, the fourth wall,
even though it is very thin, is still here.
So some space still remains to add a few things more.
Besides, the link between the main plot and the secondary ones,
for example Billy, Red, Becky, Steven, Beverly, etc.
are quite strange in season three.
There are numerous.
What is happening in Twin Peaks doesn't seem very interesting,
apart from what is going on in the sheriff's department.
Indeed, there are many other plot lines left unsolved.
That's quite strange, but they must be there for a reason.
If a season 4 was planned, these secondary stories
would be a door left open by the scenarist for a new season.
Maybe it was planned from the very beginning.
This fourth season would  thus  be happening in a whole different world
very different from the one of the three first seasons,
where all Twin Peaks characters would be present.
But maybe all completely different,
much more realistic.
In this case, Cooper, who may actually be called Richard,
would be in Twin Peaks for real
but everything there would be different.
And maybe Twin Peaks town would even lose its name.
Cooper could be stuck in a loop, trying to get back to the town he knew,
But just like season 3 already shown
a backward,
the will to reincarnate the past and our nostalgia into something new
can never really occur.
Besides, I didn't talk about Audrey.
It is because I do think that in season 3,
Audrey seems to already be thrown into season 4's plot.
 
For example, if the Billy she has been looking for all this time, was in fact
Billy Zane!
The actor who was playing Justice Wheeler in season 2.
It is an other example of the collision between fiction and reality.
After all, there is still one page of Laura's diary missing.
We are still looking for it.
Who know what's in there?
And maybe in this dimension, close to our own, a TV show is being broadcasted,
that would remind us of Twin Peaks episodes.
Maybe a show Major Briggs could have watched.
I refer you to the video I did on this subject on episode 9.
All of this could extend and sleek the scenarists' subtext.
Let's not forget that the show was written 2 or 3 years,
before the arrival of Donald Trump.
Seing Mark Frost's tweets,
I am convinced that they still have a lot to say.
Especially Frost.
I think he might even feel more ready than Lynch himself.
Maybe for a mini serial of six episodes?
Or a new movie has some other think?
Or maybe, the sequel will occur in our own minds.
What about you? Do you really want a season 4?
To conclude...
This was a magical summer and season 3 as far as I am concerned.
All these theories we made up in our fans brains,
is a pleasure that really extends the show.
This is what make Twin Peaks such a strong work.
A real masterpiece, since a work of art, raises questions,
and forces the viewer to question himself,
in order to find his own answers.
Adding answers to the one the artist had.
The theory on Richard Horne, Audrey and Mr C son's,
was verified quite early and confirmed in episode 16.
The idea that Lucy and Andy's son might be dead was thankfully not the case.
And thank God I misunderstood what Jessy said about the shots fired, when he was at Ed gas station.
He actually meant that he heard the shots at the Double R, from there.
And not that there were shots at Ed's gas station.
But the theory that got to me the most, apart from the third world, is the one of the black moon.
The black moon which happened the day all the characters were going to Jack Rabbit's palace.
Because in reality, there actually was a black moon
during between the 30th of September and the 1st of October.
This opens up a passage between the worlds and enables Naido
to find herself in the Twin Peaks forest.
Even if this idea, which is part of the background of the story,
has only been superficially brought up,
I am persuaded that this is one the keys to understanding this season 3.
Anyway, it is thanks to this that I could elaborate some of my theories,
expressed in my previous videos.
To me, this theory as well as the others that have been verified,
are the proof that this season 3 was well written.
It was possible to guess a few things, thanks to the clues left by the scenarists all along the episodes.
There was nothing shown without a reason,
and if we didn't guess the twists in advance, it was not because of the scenarists bad habits.
For my part, I will stop doing videos here and now.
Unless a season 4 or a movie is released.
You will probably have an epilogue video in November,
to follow the release of Mark Frost's upcoming book
"Twin Peaks, the Final Dossier".
In any case, I will meet you back here in 2018
for a few videos on the X-files, season 11,
I might go back on season 10,
or to talk to you about the Star Trek discovery TV show
that starts on Netflix in a few days.
I invite you to follow my updates concerning
one on my comic books "Bertrand Keufterian and zone 57"
Meanwhile, don't forget that
"the owl are not what they seem".
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
