First of all, I'd like to thank all of you in the forum, from the bottom of my heart, for such lively conversation while we witnessed yet another groundbreaking experiment by Lynch! You are all amazing. And, well, you are almost always very civil (the finale seems to have unleashed the Judy in some of us, though).
I don't know how long I'm going to enjoy coming here to theorize now that the show is done. The finale yesterday made a great impact on me. At first, I was eager to understand it. After some sleep, I figured it's probably not meant for immediate, conscious understanding. So I feel, right now, like just letting it percolate in the back of my mind.
I'm probably going to be less active here in the next few days... so much going on! But I'm curious, how is the finale's digestion going for you guys?
Judy has the potential to be inside all of us.
It's like every other Lynch unveiling. Try to pretend it's not inserting itself into my focus, but it is. I don't feel like I have to lock myself in a room and gorge on the finale for a couple of days until I'm catatonic, but I know I'll see it many more times in years to come. It's like a diffused and unidentifiable ache right now. Like knowing your doctor wants to see you in a couple of weeks, but you don't know the reason.
By the way, I liked it. Not one of the haters. 🙂
Loved it. Second watch of 18 showed a few things I hadn't noticed before.
It's done a number on my head, for sure. I keep wondering if this Labor Day weekend timing (for us U.S. folk) was at all intentional, because I feel like I needed a day off after watching that. Lynch would probably do a little dance to hear me say that it really is like shaking off a nightmare. The same shaky, slightly sick feeling. The same routine where half your brain says that, seriously, you're fine because none of this was real, but the rest of you still gets jumpy at small noises. I've got to go splash some more cold water on my face.
Anyway, time to go back to work now. Normalcy, please. No more dark highways. No more crumbling faces. No more epic screaming. No more people who aren't who they are.
But you know... I have a couple more shows I could be starting on, just sitting on my Netflix or DVR. Comparatively normal shows (though that would describe anything). And you'd think I'd be up for some comfort-TV at this point. But right now they sound boring. Funny how that works.
I'm kind of in the same boat. I'm struggling with it, especially as an end to the franchise. I would immediately warm to it more if I knew there was more coming, but I have to assume this is the end. As a coda I prefer the end of Fire Walk With Me at the moment, and actually what happened here throws a bit of a wrench in what happened there.
The thing is I can appreciate how effective the filmmaking was of that final sequence. It's an incredibly subtle but deeply unsettling and uncomfortable sequence. It's really hard to watch Cooper fail like that (again). The creeping doubt that is slowly building... you can hear it in Cooper's voice when he asks Carrie if any of this looks familiar. Carrie/Laura's scream seems to come from some recognition of her identity as Laura, but she could be screaming for any number of reasons, not the least of which because she just traveled halfway across the country with a man who apparently has such a tenuous grasp on reality that he doesn't know what year it is.
I have a feeling that, with time, I will come to accept this as the final note of the franchise and appreciate it for it's strengths, but no doubt it's a struggle now. But I have invested too much in the franchise and have too much respect for Lynch as a filmmaker to not give this a good amount of time to gestate.
First of all, I'd like to thank all of you in the forum, from the bottom of my heart, for such lively conversation while we witnessed yet another groundbreaking experiment by Lynch! You are all amazing. And, well, you are almost always very civil (the finale seems to have unleashed the Judy in some of us, though).
I don't know how long I'm going to enjoy coming here to theorize now that the show is done. The finale yesterday made a great impact on me. At first, I was eager to understand it. After some sleep, I figured it's probably not meant for immediate, conscious understanding. So I feel, right now, like just letting it percolate in the back of my mind.
I'm probably going to be less active here in the next few days... so much going on! But I'm curious, how is the finale's digestion going for you guys?
I'm good with ambiguity and wasn't expecting answers to everything but for God Sakes throw us a bone here.... Audrey? Judy? Briggs? The glass box? Becky? 99% of it was left unresolved and it's unacceptable.
First of all, I'd like to thank all of you in the forum, from the bottom of my heart, for such lively conversation while we witnessed yet another groundbreaking experiment by Lynch! You are all amazing. And, well, you are almost always very civil (the finale seems to have unleashed the Judy in some of us, though).
I don't know how long I'm going to enjoy coming here to theorize now that the show is done. The finale yesterday made a great impact on me. At first, I was eager to understand it. After some sleep, I figured it's probably not meant for immediate, conscious understanding. So I feel, right now, like just letting it percolate in the back of my mind.
I'm probably going to be less active here in the next few days... so much going on! But I'm curious, how is the finale's digestion going for you guys?
I'm good with ambiguity and wasn't expecting answers to everything but for God Sakes throw us a bone here.... Audrey? Judy? Briggs? The glass box? Becky? 99% of it was left unresolved and it's unacceptable.
One of my lingering questions was related to Briggs, and I'm happy as a clam that his head is chillin' in the White Lodge with the Fireman and Señorita Dido.
Fire walk with