It looks significant to figure out why there are certain two people, as like Coop and Diane and etc.
How do we interpret that ANOTHER Diane showing up and seeing Diane waiting in the car at the motel parking lot?
To me, the finale was disappointing too, but, first thing first; like this question.
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---you do understand that Bad Cooper manufactured a Tulpa copy of Diane, as shown in earlier episodes, right?
yes. but wan't that Naido?
The second Diane at the motel is the one that will be killed by Albert and Tammy, isn't it?
Perhaps Linda is looking at Diane pre-crossover.
Linda leaving Diane behind.
Cooper manages to stay with Richard. He remembers who he is/was. When he wakes at the motel he reads Linda's message and doesn't recognize himself as Richard. He his determined to accomplish his mission, but the inner conflict is quite palpable.
Notice that in the credits Sheryl Lee is mentioned twice, the first time as Laura Palmer, the second one as Carrie Page.
Laura Dern, however, is credited only as Diane Evans.
Lynch seems to have been very careful in choosing how to credit the main actors, to reveal (or not to reveal) the charachters identities at the right time (e.g. The Fireman was first credited as ???????) so that should explain she is (they are) not in fact Linda. They are Diane and probably another Tulpa.
Linda leaving Diane behind.
Cooper manages to stay with Richard. He remembers who he is/was. When he wakes at the motel he reads Linda's message and doesn't recognize himself as Richard. He his determined to accomplish his mission, but the inner conflict is quite palpable.
I bet you if you asked David Lynch "is it all a dream of Cooper's?" You'd get told you got it wrong. People talked of Eraserhead being a dream and that was NOT it.
Until someone comes up with a better idea, I'm going with Cooper altering reality and the Diane walking out of the motel, seen by Diane in the car, is an overlap from another version of reality.
In any event, Cooper left Diane with Cole in the Great Northern. When he said "See you at the curtain call", and emerged from the Lodge to find Diane there, there's no way of knowing which version of "here" he emerged to, or if he was creating it as it all happened.
Linda leaving Diane behind.
Cooper manages to stay with Richard. He remembers who he is/was. When he wakes at the motel he reads Linda's message and doesn't recognize himself as Richard. He his determined to accomplish his mission, but the inner conflict is quite palpable.
I bet you if you asked David Lynch "is it all a dream of Cooper's?" You'd get told you got it wrong. People talked of Eraserhead being a dream and that was NOT it.
I am confused Karen. I don't count myself among those who think it was all a (Cooper's) dream. How did you get to that conclusion from what I've said?
Octavio, I think you're on the right track here. I take the two Dianes shot to be the beginning of Diane's loss of identity. I'm not sure the lovemaking scene is about Diane recognizing Mr. C in Dale like some have suggested, but instead Diane as Linda NOT recognizing this Richard-Dale.
And in fact the next morning reality has changed significantly. Dale seems to be holding on to his sense of self and his mission fairly well, but things have slipped for him too. Outside the motel/hotel, he seems to know something is wrong/has changed, but doesn't quite know what. Kudos to KM for communicating that so well.
Here's something I've been chewing on...was Dale's Dougie experience a key to his being able to avoid being drowned in the Richard identity? He spent how long trying to find himself/hold onto pieces of his true identity Did Dale HAVE to become Dougie to be able to fulfill his mission? It could put the Dougie era in a new light.
So I posted this thought last night and after rewatching the scene again this morning am still holding onto the potential of the similarities/mannerisms between the 2nd Diane and the gatekeeper/bosomy woman from Ep. 15. If you look closely at the 2nd Diane hopefully you can see what I am referencing... what this could mean is anyone's guess.
So I posted this thought last night and after rewatching the scene again this morning am still holding onto the potential of the similarities/mannerisms between the 2nd Diane and the gatekeeper/bosomy woman from Ep. 15. If you look closely at the 2nd Diane hopefully you can see what I am referencing... what this could mean is anyone's guess.
During part 18 we can find lots of situations/objects/images that indirectly evoke what we've seen in the previous 17 parts. That one is good example. But they don't necessarily have the same meaning (if they have one) besides the evocation itself.
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