you folks are thinking too much subjunctively...
there is a reason lynch is giving a virtual character the honors of being credited past virtual post mortem....
hint:
life=virtual.
death=not the end.
Leaving aside the dedication to the character, I found every second of Catherine Coulson's screentime this season, but especially the scene in part 15, to be the most touching, heart-breaking thing I've ever seen on TV. It looks like those scenes have been shot in her very last days, she's visibly weak and she plays a character who's also dying, openly speaking about her imminent death. It just gives you the idea how much she loved her job, how much she loved Twin Peaks and what she was going to do just to be part of the revival. And at the same time seeing the character, a fictional person, dying, knowing that shortly after the scene was filmed the actress, a real person, died as well, makes it all more real, and makes you care more that you usually would for a character dying in a show, no matter how much you loved the character.
I agree. I couldn't stop myself from thinking how... I don't think anyone but herself could have wrote her script. And i wouldn't be surprised if she was the one wanting to give this beautiful open farewell
I agree with both, entirely. It was her way on saying goodbye... as an actress and character aswell. I not only felt her tears real, but I share them. It made me cry, that it was her, as you said giving an open farewell.
I think it was a mutually agreed decision between her & David for her to not wear a wig to have Log Lady looking like she did in past, to give realism to her story, art imitating life.
I'm a bit ambivalent about the sad and unfortunate passing of Coulson and Ferrer and their being in the show. On one hand, Ep. 15's moving final scene between Margaret and Hawk, or Cole telling Albert "I worry for you", and knowing that the actors were actually dying, feels a bit too meta to me, in a morbid way. I wonder how those scenes would feel if we didn't live in an Internet world where all news are received in real time, and we didn't know about their fate.
On the other hand, those scenes are indeed profoundly moving and thought-provoking, and it's obvious that it wasn't a stunt by Lynch, casting dying actors as dying characters. (Though we still don't know Character-Albert's ultimate fate.) It speaks of the lovely relationship between the actors and Lynch - I just read the interview on this site where Ferrer said Lynch always called him Albert - and of the amazing effort and passion that led the actors to give us this last gift. Ah, David Bowie, what a pity, what we missed...
I loved the tribute to the character rather than the actress. This was meta too, but in a good way. The Log Lady was such an iconic figure for us who watched the original TP first-hand. (She also scared me witless, but it was a pleasant scare, if you see what I mean.) Now she is beyond iconic; as someone has said - sorry, these threads are so dense - she changed, she transcended fiction and reality and joined her actress in a place where Laura's angels might feel at home.
Out of the blue, as I write, a couple of verses from W.B. Yeats's "Easter 1916" comes to me, entirely out of context, but like a dream:
All changed, changed utterly: a terrible beauty is born.
Posted on Reddit today :
THE LOG ON THE HEADSTONE. HOW CAN YOU NOT CRY?
Posted on Reddit today :
THE LOG ON THE HEADSTONE. HOW CAN YOU NOT CRY?
Indeed
Fire walk with