Some of you already know how strongly I believe that the opening credits reveal the finale of the return because of the golden orb/bubble looking image that appears. That's not all however:
A building appears in the middle of the mountains. I have a feeling that this is a Hanford Site building (they were all around the river near the real location of the fictional twin peaks). The credits building might be one of the old nuclear reactors that still stand there.
It was the first nuclear reactor in the world (a secret project) and was build to produce plutonium exclusively for the trinity test (the plutionium used for the first atomic bomb). That's a big connection of Twin Peaks with Bob's genesis, don't you think? Its almost as if Bob was "made" in Twin Peaks.
Also: an enormous direct telephone cable line was built between the los alamos site and the hanford site, for the two facilities' communication.
And I do believe that it is the same building behind Bobby in one of the promo clips of Showtime.
Is the orb/bubble of Laura heading there? Will something very significant happen there?
The Frost book on the history of twin peaks includes a two-page photo spread of the Hanford Site on page 119 (119???). The site was build on Nez Perce land!
Excellent observation. I don't think the people of Twin Peaks created him, but the government employees at the Hanford Site certainly led to his creation. This is also an excellent explanation for why Bob would focus on this region.
The widespread assumption that TSHOTP is meaningless for the series may be false.
I'm a late starter on the secret history, it's anything but meaningless. I think people read it before the show started and have forgotten or disregarded things in there. The stuff on Jack Parsons alone gives a huge bit of clarity to episode 8.
I'm a late starter on the secret history, it's anything but meaningless. I think people read it before the show started and have forgotten or disregarded things in there. The stuff on Jack Parsons alone gives a huge bit of clarity to episode 8.
i wouldnt call it clarity. its a different direction. Ep. 8 is philosophy/sociology, it opens up many issues that go beyond the series scope. The book is (as its name states) dry history: it limits ur mind to particular events. I don't think u can understand better the series by reading this book.
Jack Parsons, in the book, is documented as saying, "The magician longs to see." Furthermore, he describes rituals he held in the desert that may have been linked to summoning Mother/The Experiment. I think the book does an excellent job of tying the framing of the series' supernatural happenings to (mostly) last century occult movements and figures.
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