she has a family. Was she just speaking emotionally of friends, or something else?
I think she was hinting at big Ed considering she who must not be named hasn't been mentioned at all.
I think she was talking about Everybody in Twin Peaks.... Twin Peaks is her family.
I thought she meant Ed?
If she was going to use that reason initially, it may have been 'my customers are my family' - but Ed's announcement changed that. I also thought it might mean a reference to Annie...
I thought she meant Ed?
If she was going to use that reason initially, it may have been 'my customers are my family' - but Ed's announcement changed that. I also thought it might mean a reference to Annie...
Did you not see my above post? She must not be named!!!!
Annie might be long dead, the only mention of her was in Laura's diary pages.
Annie might be long dead, the only mention of her was in Laura's diary pages.
Or, as Norma has just mentioned her family - and Annie is the family member we know of - it would seem most straightforward to be her.
Or her mother may be 102 & shacked up with another dodgy bloke...
Annie might be long dead, the only mention of her was in Laura's diary pages.
Or, as Norma has just mentioned her family - and Annie is the family member we know of - it would seem most straightforward to be her.
Or her mother may be 102 & shacked up with another dodgy bloke...
I think if Annie was alive and/or still around Twin Peaks, they would've referenced her in some other way than "the girl who came out of the lodge with Cooper", which was the only vague mention to her the entire show so far. They didn't even link her to Norma at all. The feeling I got from the conversation between Norma and Walter was that Norma was talking about the RR/Twin Peaks family. She treats Shelly like a daughter/little sis (always has), clearly cares for Bobby and Becky as well, she's put her life's work into her diner and probably spends more time there than at her house. It makes sense for it to feel like home and the people like family...
It seems like if she didn't have a more traditional family, Walter would have retorted "What family"? He doesn't appear to have the sensitivity to understand anything beyond the simplest ideas of family.
Ed appeared to feel threatened by that dude in an earlier part and it looked like Norma had some kind of romantic relationship with Walter. That made no sense to me. He's a bore.
Ed appeared to feel threatened by that dude in an earlier part and it looked like Norma had some kind of romantic relationship with Walter. That made no sense to me. He's a bore.
As ZZ Top reminds us, every girl is crazy about a sharp dressed man.
I think the exchange is one of those low key significant clues in the sense that it's the second hint we've gotten about Annie. Obviously at one point when the two were doing business or dating or whatever she told him she didn't have any family. Her parents must have passed at this point but if Annie, who does exist because Hawk mentioned her, isn't referenced as family (and I don't think it was specific to family in the area) then she must have died.
And as far as the family she does have, I think she spent a lot of time thinking about her Diner and Twin Peaks and what that means to her when she was considering the direction the franchise was going . So yeah, I agree she realized she has quite a few people she considers family now.
At first I hoped Norma was going to mention You-Know-Who, but as she talked I realized she was speaking of her townies and Ed in particular. I found it poignant and heart-warming, a whiff of the original TP, even though Annie's non-exis-tence is truly perplexing.
EDIT: of course Annie might be dead but it's the Donna conundrum all over again, why not mention it?
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