I have been watching this forums before The Return but I never felt inspired to write or to present myself...

Of course all changed since s03ep18!!!

(Bear with me, as english is not my first language. Sorry in advance for the typos.)

This post is divided in two: first the questions referred in the title of the thread and then the impressions that this finale caused me; not because its important per se, just because I need to get them out of my chest (!!!).

First of, Billy and the unknown people in the Roadhouse:

I need to read some opinions here because this is the only topic I felt it really needs clarification, even among the myriad of others. I don't know why, but I subconsciously feel it holds a key to understand a larger part of this fractured alternate reality story.

All along the 16 first episodes I assumed these random people hold a larger meaning, but everything seemed to unify when Audrey appeared, then assumed it was only related to her and her mental state. Now, after watching ep 18 I'm beginning to think there's some more.

Here's my question, I hope wouldn't be a stupid one: Could it be this ensamble of characters and their Billy story all happened in the alternate reality, the one that has Carrie living in Odessa? The Twin Peaks of this alternate reality has all this bands in the Roadhouse and this characters dealing with the Billy disappearance?

Could it be Audrey sense all this because the place she really wakes up after the trauma of the bad Cooper rape is the alternate reality? Is she insane in an institution of the alternate reality? Will Carrie and Richard/Coop cross paths with Audrey in this other universe? Maybe we havent had an Audrey closure because she shares the same place as Carrie and Richard/Coop.

If this realities are interconnected, maybe the terrible Ruby scream at the same time as Dougie electrocution in the other dimension has a lot more logic, since one reality can alter the other one...

What do you think, guys?

And for last, my humble impressions:

The amount of feelings this last episode provoked in my are countless and I'm still recovering from them. I need to assume frustration was one of them, but profound sadness overtook the rest.

The shot of the backs of Richard/Coop and Carrie walking alone, in an desolate alternate Twin peaks street, with the noise of the emptiness of a suburb to strange to recognize, with a house that could have been a memory but is lost in the turmoil of others realities... it really got me and I'm still shocked by the brilliance of Sheryl Lee glance, her face, her defenselessness in front of the incomprehensible.

Those moments felt absolutely amplified by the setting of the ten minutes drive in silence sequence. I guess that journey, in silence, may become my preferred part of the episode as the days pass. 

As the hours passed by I cannot stop recalling and thinking about everything again, and again, and again... I'm starting to believe this season shocked me, confound me and amazed me even more than the previous two seasons! That's a lot to assume because I'm still mad about my Audrey absence in the finale... but the good surpasses the bad (by far), at least for me (I understand this is not the case for a lot of viewers and I get it).

Sorry, I needed to get this out of my chest... lol.