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Philip Jeffries learned the horrific truth about Twin Peaks before we, the viewers did...

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Wow...what an amazing exhausting 18 hours.  For Twin Peaks fans since 1989, like me, it's finally concluded.  I've taken some time to think everything over.

Waiting 25 years after being left with "How's Annie?  How's Annie?  How's Annie?" was difficult.  It was difficult knowing that we may never get a conclusion to something that was so open ended.  To something that wasn't supposed to end like that.

On that wonderful wonderful day, when we got the dual Lynch/Frost synchronous Tweets: "That gum you like is going to come back in style.", my heart leapt out of my chest.  I thought to myself...oh my God, we're finally going to get a continuation.  We're finally going to find out how Twin Peaks will finally end.  The wait for "How's Annie?" was finally going to be resolved.  And to have Lynch and Frost solely responsible for the 18 hours, not Showtime, nor ABC, nor network executives, nor Ciby 2000, nor interference from anyone.  Just Lynch, and just Frost, coming up with the conclusion for Twin Peaks.

Everything was right with the world.  And then, Season 3 started.  The Giant and Cooper....3 more clues....and we were underway.

And then, Monica Belluci talked to David Lynch.  It was at that point, in my subconscious, that everything fell into place.  I realized exactly what was going to happen in the next 3 episodes.

Monica Belluci, Philip Jeffries and of course David Lynch, all knew the horrifying reality of Twin Peaks.  That none of it was real.  No doughnuts and cherry pie, no black coffee, no fish in percolators.

Philip Jeffries, in his Blue Rose Task Force duties, discovered the secret before anyone else.  And in FWWM, he told us as plain as day:

The most important 2 sentences in all of Twin Peaks:

"IT WAS A DREAM.  WE LIVE INSIDE A DREAM."

When I first watched FWWM, at that time, excited that we were getting a continuation of Twin Peaks, fearing that we may never get anything at all, those 2 sentences never really registered with me, as it seemed like Philip was in some sort of PTSD trauma, and was just verbalizing gibberish.

But I believe that those 2 sentences exemplified the true HORROR about what he discovered.  That none of them were real.  Not Jeffries, not Cooper, not Cole.  That they are like the dreamer that dreams, then lives inside the dream.

Philip learned that horrible truth from going to one of "their" meetings.

BOB, MIKE, The Tremonds, the Jumping Man, the Electrician, all of them, are sick twisted spirits playing horrible games within a dreamworld.  They've terrorized the characters in the dream, and they've terrorized us, the dreamer.

I believe that when Mark Frost and David Lynch sat down to write Twin Peaks Season 3, that they decided to start with: "This is all just a dream.  None of this is real.  None of Twin Peaks was ever real.  And Philip discovered that 25 years ago and Monica Belluci will tell Gordon Cole about it 25 years later.  And no one will have any fucking idea what time it is or what year it is.  It may be 2:53 time and time again, it may be 10:10 on February 16th, or as Sarah Palmer/The Polish Neighbor from Inland Empire states, if it was 9:45, I would think it's after midnight.  Is it future, or is it past?"

Yes, it's cruel.  Lynch and Frost didn't give us what we wanted.  They didn't wrap everything up with a pretty pink bow.  They shattered our illusions.

It is my belief that they decided to not take the easy road.  They wanted this to be remembered far into the future as the one television show that not only took risks, but took risks that would shatter its most sacred and caring viewers.  There would be no straightforward narrative ending to Twin Peaks, and even now, as I'm still stunned by the horrific ending of Twin Peaks, I now realize that that is how David Lynch always intended it to be.

He foreshadowed that by having Philip Jeffries tell us 25 years ago, that "IT WAS A DREAM.  WE LIVE INSIDE A DREAM."  And he threw it in our faces more directly by having our own Gordon Cole, Lynch's direct link to us, the viewers, by relaying his recurring Monica Belluci dream to us.

So we really are the dreamers who dream and then live inside a dream.

Any other director would have had Cooper rescue Audrey, and told us how Annie was, and would have concluded the Laura Palmer story with finality.  And Twin Peaks would have ended happily ever after.

But David Lynch doesn't work that way.  Henry Spencer discovers that in heaven everything is fine.  John Merrick discovers that nothing will die.  Dorothy Vallens discovers that she still can't see blue velvet through her tears.  And Philip Jeffries discovers that they are living inside a dream.

All dreams end.  And let's be honest.  We'll never see any more Twin Peaks ever.  It's over.  It ends with Laura whispering something into Cooper's ear that we will never ever be privy to, and it really doesn't matter.  Because the dream is over.  But what a beautiful dream it was.  And if this is how Twin Peaks is supposed to end, then I'm ok with it, because it was never my Twin Peaks or your Twin Peaks to begin with.  It was David Lynch's Twin Peaks.  He chose this ending without any interference from anyone, and with his full meditative conscience and subconscience working together.  He had 25 years to think about this, but I think he had decided 25 years ago to tell us that none of this was real, and that in watching Twin Peaks, and within Twin Peaks itself, we lived inside a dream.

It was a brilliant adventure, and I am convinced that I will never be able to experience another world like this again.  David Lynch set the bar high with Twin Peaks, and we all got to live it to the finality that was always meant to be.

A true Magnum Opus, by one of the greatest artists of our time.

 

 
Posted : 05/09/2017 11:13 pm
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Oh, I can't click "like", because it is too awful to take in, but nicely stated. And, to quote detective Brandy, a punch in the stomach.

 
Posted : 05/09/2017 11:18 pm
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And a kick in the naughty parts.

 
Posted : 05/09/2017 11:20 pm
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Posted by: Brandy Fisher

And a kick in the naughty parts.

I am in pain.

 
Posted : 05/09/2017 11:21 pm
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Posted by: MJ Gilbert
Posted by: Brandy Fisher

And a kick in the naughty parts.

I am in pain.

As am I.

 
Posted : 05/09/2017 11:21 pm
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Posted by: Brandy Fisher
Posted by: MJ Gilbert
Posted by: Brandy Fisher

And a kick in the naughty parts.

I am in pain.

As am I.

But isn't this better than having no resolution at all?

 
Posted : 05/09/2017 11:23 pm
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Very well reasoned, very well said. And I hate its truth. I absolutely hate it. Of course it's not real, its a TV show. I'd prefer a Twin Peaks that was not so damn self-aware. I'm depressed. If I can find Jeffries' hotel room I may travel back 2 years in time and fiddle with Lynch's script for parts 17 & 18. What could go wrong?

 
Posted : 05/09/2017 11:24 pm
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Posted by: henrysteiger

Very well reasoned, very well said. And I hate its truth. I absolutely hate it. Of course it's not real, its a TV show. I'd prefer a Twin Peaks that was not so damn self-aware. I'm depressed. If I can find Jeffries' hotel room I may travel back 2 years in time and fiddle with Lynch's script for parts 17 & 18. What could go wrong?

Maybe the same thing that went wrong when Agent Cooper tried to fiddle with saving Laura from dying in 1989.  It's best not to fiddle.  🙂

 
Posted : 05/09/2017 11:27 pm
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Posted by: Jack
Posted by: Brandy Fisher
Posted by: MJ Gilbert
Posted by: Brandy Fisher

And a kick in the naughty parts.

I am in pain.

As am I.

But isn't this better than having no resolution at all?

Not to the child in me. But childhood is over. I am glad I am not a child anymore. But still, ouch. Oh, Dale. 

 
Posted : 05/09/2017 11:27 pm
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Posted by: MJ Gilbert

No to the child in me. But childhood is over. I am glad I am not a child anymore. But still, ouch. Oh, Dale. 

So perfectly said.  I wish I'd thought of that.

We're too old for great expectations of Disney land. Time to face the reality  (and maybe even the beauty) that is the world's largest ball of twine.

 
Posted : 05/09/2017 11:28 pm
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Interesting, but the context of Jeffries statement is in recalling where he has been and the meeting above the convince store, Judy's Place. When he says "We live inside  a dream." he means himself and the being's above the store. A dream is where he has been for 2 years.

As far as Monica Belluci Cole himself states he was in Paris on a case speaking with her. He isn't David Lynch talking to her, he's Gordon Cole. And the dreamer they are talking about is clearly Cooper as Cole realizes when he looks back at himself as pointed out by Belucci. They are reminded Jeffries asked who they think Cooper is. Jeffries is clearly implying Cooper in Feb 1989 is a doppelganger.  I'm not sure he's right. I think at this point Jeffries no longer knows if it's the future or the past.

 
Posted : 05/09/2017 11:39 pm
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Posted by: Brandy Fisher
Posted by: MJ Gilbert

No to the child in me. But childhood is over. I am glad I am not a child anymore. But still, ouch. Oh, Dale. 

So perfectly said.  I wish I'd thought of that.

We're too old for great expectations of Disney land. Time to face the reality  (and maybe even the beauty) that is the world's largest ball of twine.

Back to existentialism 101 ?

 
Posted : 05/09/2017 11:40 pm
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No to the child in me. But childhood is over. I am glad I am not a child anymore. But still, ouch. Oh, Dale. 

So perfectly said.  I wish I'd thought of that.

We're too old for great expectations of Disney land. Time to face the reality  (and maybe even the beauty) that is the world's largest ball of twine.

Back to existentialism 101 ?

Fuck you Caoimhin.

Naw, you're cool.  😉

 
Posted : 05/09/2017 11:43 pm
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Posted by: Brandy Fisher
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Posted by: Brandy Fisher
Posted by: MJ Gilbert

No to the child in me. But childhood is over. I am glad I am not a child anymore. But still, ouch. Oh, Dale. 

So perfectly said.  I wish I'd thought of that.

We're too old for great expectations of Disney land. Time to face the reality  (and maybe even the beauty) that is the world's largest ball of twine.

Back to existentialism 101 ?

Fuck you Caoimhin.

Naw, you're cool.  😉

Thanks. I needed that laugh!

 
Posted : 05/09/2017 11:48 pm
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Caoimhin has always been cool.

 
Posted : 05/09/2017 11:55 pm
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