The backwards music was indeed an important clue. That combined with the electrical noises suggest someplace other than our dimension.
Yeah Audrey is toast
She could be another tulpa. Her manufactured self is with Charlie, and her real self is stuck either in a mental institution or in a coma...or maybe in the White Lodge. The end scene shows her in a white room=White Lodge?
I think the ridiculous 25-year coma is true.
That being said, I loved the whole sequence and I'm very happy with the way they have presented these clues, which is not cliché at all. I do think her coma has her stuck in someplace else, and it's plausible to assume she has consciousness of real people, while at the same time she is unable to interact with any of them.
I also think her waking up is related to Cooper's electric shock.
That Eddie Vedder song broke my heart. So beautiful.
The Roadhouse sequence tonight was definitely all in Audrey's mind.
I think whatever it was, Audrey was happy & relaxed in that moment - and all other scenarios are not good for her. Maybe a reminder for so many of us that what we would like to see is not the fairest or most beneficial for the other people in our lives?
So glad I got to see Audrey's Dance once more!
I think my brother said it best when he said "Once they started Audrey's dance I was howling."
I don't think this is the last we've seen of Audrey. I don't have the slightest idea how her story is going to wrap but I don't think it did in this episode. This pulled back the curtain a little more.
I know there's a theory that all the random roadhouse scenes are related to Audrey, and this seemed to tie in with that. Plus the fact that her dance was interrupted by yet another soap operatic fist fight with someone who sounded just like Chuck hitting James in the previous episode. There may be something to her being trapped in the roadhouse somehow.
I would say she's in a facility for the troubled of thinking. However, she seems to have some kind of (supernatural? lodge related?) vague connection to the outside world. She has knowledge, maybe warped or incomplete, of what is going on in her hometown. Hopefully, making it to The Roadhouse was a positive step in her return to reality.
My thoughts exactly. I think her dancing at the end of the episode is a sign that her real self is finally waking up 🙂 🙂
I think all her talk of "Billy" is stuff she's overheard while in the "nuthouse." (From memory, one of the characters who discusses Billy at The Roadhouse is asked if she's still going up to the "nuthouse." There's also "Chuck" where she might have gotten the name "Charlie" from. ) Audrey has created an imaginary/dream life based on what she's hearing around her. I think it's significant that in the final scene where she's looking in the mirror she appears to be wearing a hospital gown. Her shock is at seeing herself suddenly 25 years older. My theory, anyway.
Dear Buttercup:
I think you're absolutely right, I think the song is 100% about Audrey. I thought it was maybe about the town of Twin Peaks the 1st time he sang it, because of course I hadn't experienced Audrey's coming back to some kind of consciousness. I don't think she's dead, I don't think she and Charlie are stuck in the table the way some have theorized she was (à la Josie in the wooden knob) a I don't really think she's been in a coma for 25 years, I think she's had to have snapped, and come out of it, perhaps as I saw in this particular thread-- certainly not my idea-- as a tie to Agent Cooper-- jolted out of it by his electrical awakening.
It could also have been the electrocution death (or whatever) of her son Richard. If the song is for her, then I agree with many others that we won't see her again.
What puzzles me is this: if she was in a coma for 25 years, did the Hornes just keep her pregnant in a coma for 9 months and then raised her baby? Would they really do that?
I don't think the song means we won't see her again, just means she won't ever be the same. I think we'll get at least one final scene with her in the real world (not sure if asleep or not).
That was really shocking - seeing Audrey entering The Roadhouse with Charlie, thinking to myself "Ah, so they're real after all!", and then watching the mirror scene. David Lynch, what are you doing, man?!
I think we're going to see Audrey in the finale. The fact that the scene was used to end the episode as a cliffhanger suggests to me that it will be taken up again.
But more than that, Cooper seems determined to set things right, and that includes finding out what his double did to Audrey (and Diane). The electrical sounds suggests she might be held hostage by Mr C in the Black Lodge or some other dimension/portal. If so, Cooper will try to rescue her. If she is in a mental ward, coma or dead, I can see Cooper visiting or paying his respects.
There is no way she was in a coma and just woke up. She was standing at a mirror. If she woke from a coma she'd be in bed. She'd be hooked up to tubes and monitors.
either she is in a lodge somewhere. Or she is in a nuthouse and those bright lights will fade and reveal Charlie her doctor shining bright lights to shock her out of her fantasy.
Did she wake up when Richard was electrocuted to 'death'?
I think there's a much better chance of something being related to Richard than Dale.
In fact, I think the final episode is set up to be about parents and children (which has been a major theme throughout the season, mind you).
So was she really at the Roadhouse?
Is the Roadhouse even a real place? It has an establishing shot, so...
See I thought the bang bang bar wasn't real.. but they showed the bang bang bar and then the announcer said the roadhouse presences Eddie whatever even though it was Eddie Vedder .. and the roadhouse is from the original series is it not??
I feel like I'm slowly going crazy myself
Eddie Vedder's real name is Edward Louis Severson:
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