to wrap my mind around this. . . Coop & Diane are in an old pickup truck on a two lane highway, pull into a motel
Diane consistently looks up
Coop then awakes in a different motel, reads a note and gets into a Lincoln
. . . What year is it indeed
My theory is that Naido/Diane was left standing in the basement of the great Northern. The Red Room Diane is a new Tulpa. Coop is again being tricked. Coop unwittingly takes Tulpa into the past, mid-sixties, intending to make another attempt to alter Laura's destiny. Tulpa uses the sex to alter Coop and project him back to the present. She remains in the past to make mischief. Laura's spirit is now Carrie and Laura is gone from the world.
The mystery now is 'Who is Laura Palmer?'
My theory is that Naido/Diane was left standing in the basement of the great Northern. The Red Room Diane is a new Tulpa. Coop is again being tricked. Coop unwittingly takes Tulpa into the past, mid-sixties, intending to make another attempt to alter Laura's destiny. Tulpa uses the sex to alter Coop and project him back to the present. She remains in the past to make mischief. Laura's spirit is now Carrie and Laura is gone from the world.
The mystery now is 'Who is Laura Palmer?'
Interesting but I'm gonna rewatch to see the comparison between that motel, and the one above the convience store . . .
There has to be some connection with the "Jumping Man" going down the stairs when Coop and Gerard go up
to wrap my mind around this. . . Coop & Diane are in an old pickup truck on a two lane highway, pull into a motel
Diane consistently looks up
Coop then awakes in a different motel, reads a note and gets into a Lincoln
. . . What year is it indeed
I feel like it's a time splice between bad Coop and hybrid Coop and the changes are told by how the intimate encounter occurs
to wrap my mind around this. . . Coop & Diane are in an old pickup truck on a two lane highway, pull into a motel
Diane consistently looks up
Coop then awakes in a different motel, reads a note and gets into a Lincoln
. . . What year is it indeed
I feel like it's a time splice between bad Coop and hybrid Coop and the changes are told by how the intimate encounter occurs
And how did Coop get back in the lodge from leading Laura through the woods
Not sure it helps at all but if that jumping man is the one with the white papermache type mask on with the long nose then possible link to the end of FWWM when the mask is in close up, then the reveal underneath is the monkey whispering "Judy" ?
My theory is that Naido/Diane was left standing in the basement of the great Northern. The Red Room Diane is a new Tulpa. Coop is again being tricked. Coop unwittingly takes Tulpa into the past, mid-sixties, intending to make another attempt to alter Laura's destiny. Tulpa uses the sex to alter Coop and project him back to the present. She remains in the past to make mischief. Laura's spirit is now Carrie and Laura is gone from the world.
The mystery now is 'Who is Laura Palmer?'
That's interesting and it hadn't occurred to me that Coop had intended to go into the past. But wouldn't he, when he leaves the motel, instantly recognize from the vehicles for one thing that he was in a modern era? My feeling is that when he asks, 'what year is this?' that he must be either A) pretty close chronologically to where he expected to be or B) is realizing that he's in the grip of a total identity crisis in which everything he had imagined himself to be, ie. Coop, is a delusion.
My theory is that Naido/Diane was left standing in the basement of the great Northern. The Red Room Diane is a new Tulpa. Coop is again being tricked. Coop unwittingly takes Tulpa into the past, mid-sixties, intending to make another attempt to alter Laura's destiny. Tulpa uses the sex to alter Coop and project him back to the present. She remains in the past to make mischief. Laura's spirit is now Carrie and Laura is gone from the world.
The mystery now is 'Who is Laura Palmer?'
That's interesting and it hadn't occurred to me that Coop had intended to go into the past. But wouldn't he, when he leaves the motel, instantly recognize from the vehicles for one thing that he was in a modern era? My feeling is that when he asks, 'what year is this?' that he must be either A) pretty close chronologically to where he expected to be or B) is realizing that he's in the grip of a total identity crisis in which everything he had imagined himself to be, ie. Coop, is a delusion.
Yeah! I just finally got to watch last night. Switching to a different timeline didn't occur to me until I started reading here. But I don't think Coop could've been back in the 60s. The Valero gas station they stop at is definitely modern (did they even have those in the 60s?), and his car is modern.
I am really, really confused. And that's a good thing.
Funny thing is how well Episode 17 really wrapped everything up. Cooper found his way out of the Red Room back to the entrance surrounded by sycamore trees, and he had told real Diane to find him there. I'm convinced that was real Diane who met him when he exited the Red Room.
I'm guessing it was the sex, and not just driving 430 miles, that switched timelines/universes. But I have no idea what was going on when the second Diane peaked out at Diane in the car at the first motel.
And I don't understand why good Cooper woke up as a hybridized personality--right? He was kind of a blend of real Cooper and Mr. C in the final episode, wasn't he? He wasn't our coffee-drinking, Tibet-loving, good-spirited Coop.
Yeah! I just finally got to watch last night. Switching to a different timeline didn't occur to me until I started reading here. But I don't think Coop could've been back in the 60s. The Valero gas station they stop at is definitely modern (did they even have those in the 60s?), and his car is modern. I am really, really confused.
That part is somewhat obvious(?), when he drives into Odessa, road sign shows population 99 940. This population was according to the 2010 census. So at least Cooper is not in 60s, and not even in some 1989 or 90s
This is my theory the real Dale Cooper and Diane travel 430 miles in an old 60s vehicle from the Black Lodge in Twin Peaks and then cross over into another dimension either created by Judy or the Fireman to trap Judy. This other dimension is the 1960s and that is why they have a 1960s car. At this point before the sex they may have changed identities to Richard and Linda but maybe only Diane knows this after seeing her double at the motel. They then have sex which either is done to attract Judy or to project themselves into the future in this dimension. Diane realises that she is now someone called Linda and that Dale is now someone called Richard. On waking up Dale does not realise that he is called Richard and continues to believe he is Dale Cooper. He leaves the motel in the future which is our present. He finds Laura who has a changed identity either from the actions of Judy or the Fireman hiding Laura from Judy in this other dimension. Judy is present in the Palmer household. At the end when Carrie Page screams she kills 2 birds with one stone i.e. destroys Judy and saves Laura who wakes up from her dream/nightmare when her mother calls her from the kitchen. Carrie Page is the stone that is used to kill Judy and save Laura. That is my reading of the ending.
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