Want to share a thought/theory on the ending. Thinking that there must be real significance to Coop's question "what year is it?", and note that he's not concerned about where he is, but specifically what year.
My thought is that Coop is concerned that he is too late to prevent Laura's death. The answer to Coop's question is "1989." Despite the contemporary setting that we see in Part 18, the time line of the original events is in fact at 1989, and specifically the morning after Laura's death. We might be in an alternate timeline that looks contemporary, but when Carrie/Laura hears her name called, she is hearing as her Sarah call it from the alternate timeline in 1989, when Sarah realizes her daughter is missing. Carrie/Laura then has the realization that something terrible has in fact happened her (or to her alternate incarnation).
And Coop would realize he is too late, that what he achieved via time travel was undone.
There is not much evidence to support this conclusion, but I wonder whether the appearance of the white horse at Carrie/Laura's home, in the form of a figurine, has any meaning in this context. The horse appeared previously prior to Laura's death, and then again before Maddy's death (and Maddy could be seen as a Laura doppelgänger/tulpa in the same way as Carrie is).
The appearance of the horse could again be signaling the impending death of Laura, though the death is occurring in an alternate timeline.
It is possible that Coop thought he saved Laura, and only needed to recover her from the alternate dimension that found her living as Carrie in Odessa. The ending may indicate that the alternate dimension was a step back in time, and therefore Coop was mistaken about significance of returning Laura to her literal home.
Also, I'm not sure if this was already discussed, but "Odessa" is the female form of "Odysseus." The Odyssey was an epic poem about the return home of the Greek hero Odysseus after the Trojan war (which of course saw Odysseus and the Greeks fighting to bring home the captured Helen of Troy, often depicted as a blonde).
The allusion to Odysseus could apply to both Coop and Laura, both struggling to return home.
All of the above is subjective and might be way off track (if there even is a track). Amazing show, very fitting finale.
Want to share a thought/theory on the ending. Thinking that there must be real significance to Coop's question "what year is it?", and note that he's not concerned about where he is, but specifically what year.
My thought is that Coop is concerned that he is once again too late to prevent Laura's death. The answer to Coop's question is "1989." Despite the contemporary setting that we see in Part 18, the time line of the original events is in fact at 1989, and specifically the morning after Laura's death. We might be in an alternate timeline that looks contemporary, but when Carrie/Laura hears her name called, she is hearing as her Sarah call it from the alternate timeline in 1989, when Sarah realizes her daughter is missing. Carrie/Laura then has the realization that something terrible has in fact happened her (or to her alternate incarnation).
And Coop would realize he is too late, that what he achieved via time travel was undone.
There is not much evidence to support this conclusion, but I wonder whether the appearance of the white horse at Carrie/Laura's home, in the form of a figurine, has any meaning in this context. The horse appeared previously prior to Laura's death, and then again before Maddy's death (and Maddy could be seen as a Laura doppelgänger/tulpa in the same way as Carrie is).
The appearance of the horse could again be signaling the impending death of Laura, though the death is occurring in an alternate timeline.
It is possible that Coop thought he saved Laura, and only needed to recover her from the alternate dimension that found her living as Carrie in Odessa. The ending may indicate that the alternate dimension was a step back in time, and therefore Coop was mistaken about significance of returning Laura to her literal home.
Also, I'm not sure if this was already discussed, but "Odessa" is the female form of "Odysseus." The Odyssey was an epic poem about the return home of the Greek hero Odysseus after the Trojan war (which of course saw Odysseus and the Greeks fighting to bring home the captured Helen of Troy, often depicted as a blonde).
The allusion to Odysseus could apply to both Coop and Laura, both struggling to return home.
All of the above is subjective and might be way off track (if there even is a track). Amazing show, very fitting finale.
I thought that the horse appeared to Sarah in FWWM after Leland sedates her and then climbs through Laura's window, and Laura sees his face for the first time instead of BOB's. I also thought that in the series, the horse appeared to her as again-sedated Sarah slid down the stairs as Leland/BOB prepped in front of the mirror to kill Maddy. Laura had a horse named "Troy" in the diary. I don't believe that the horse was white, though. But the white horse in her Odessa home and the horseshoe pendant are significant in identifying her as at least a facet of the true Laura.
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