This isn't a thread to theorize about the meaning of various numbers in Twin Peaks (although you can if you want to), but a more general question of like... are ~numbers~ a thing in this season? How do I do this? After watching the first four episodes, it certainly seems like there are specific numbers that are of vague importance... 430 in ep 1, 253, lingering shots on apartment numbers, etc. Is there precedent to Lynch playing with numbers like this?
Anyway I was never a "Lost" fan so I don't even know how to approach the numbers in Twin Peaks! For me Twin Peaks is more about open-ended mystery than a sort of explicit puzzle related to numbers...
It will be interesting to see how these play out. I think it may be worth remembering that strange room(s) with "Mother" beating on the door. When he was in there with the blind woman, he was warned against approching the "outlet/door" with #15. After the switch was flipped outside and he returned, it was a #3, and he was told to leave.
430 & 253. 15 is bad. 3 was good. Or maybe not...
I'm wondering if there could have been a misdirect by the blind woman. Would Cooper be fully functional in the real world if he exited through 15? Granted, it's a hypothetical with no merit. Still.
430, 253, 15, & 3.
Totally. I'm excited to read what other people say about this since the idea of making meaning out of random numbers is new to me.
I'll just add for tracking purposes: 119. The dope-addict-esque mom in Rancho Rosa yells it out... "ONE ONE NINE"
Omg junkie mum, I totally forgot about her! Who is she? Who's the kid? What do they have to do with anything??
About the numbers 15 and 3, when Cooper looks at his key from the Great Nothern, the room number is 315...
yeah a few numbers always make it more complicated and make us think deeper, thats cool!
I remember reading once years ago that 315 meant evil was rising - reversing it could mean good is rising / evil is decreasing....
253 signified the time of transport. The EvoArm says in episode 2, "2-5-3. Time and time again. Bob... Bob... Bob... Go now! Go now!" In episode 3, when Cooper teleports via the steampunk socket, the time turns from 2:52 to 2:53. This is also when DaleBob starts phasing in the car and Dougie gets sucked out from the rental house. 2:53 was simply the time of transition.
In the prologue scene with The-Being-Formely-Known-As-The-Giant, he says, "Remember 4-3-0." Any ideas on that one?
Omg junkie mum, I totally forgot about her! Who is she? Who's the kid? What do they have to do with anything??
I have a couple different ideas about this scene. It was filling my head today at work. Going with just the basic information we have in the first four episodes, it's possible that like in New York someone was stationed to monitor the portal between two worlds that dumps into Rancho Rosa. Sam was a promiscuous welp whereas the Drugged-Out Mother is completely blasted out of consciousness and possibly asking for help but failing to do so. It may be possible that she's a lodge resident, hence the speaking backwards. Crying out 911 is an emergency code, and she had it reversed. However the chemicals in her body were jamming the signal. The presence of the neglected little boy may indicate that there may be an implied similar relationship between them as the Tremonds. That's purely speculation though. In any instance the general feeling I get from the scene is discomfort and distress. We might see them again at some point.
My take on the panel that read 3 and 15 is that the room was like a traintrack junction. When Dale first enters the room it is set to exit to where Doppeldale is. After the switch is thrown it changes to exit at Dougie's location. The key having the number 315 shows that Dale could have exited at either location. Unless the blind woman was lying, switching with his doppelganger was somehow dangerous. Either that or she set him up to fall into the doppelganger's Dougie trap.
All the slot machines that Cooper goes to, shows a sticker with "25¢", and to the right of the sticker you can see a glowing digital digit, namely 3. If you leave out the cent sign and put the digits together that will make 253.
When I heard the apartment number in South Dakota was 1349, I thought the 1 and 9 should be added together for a 0, making it 430 backwards. The other clues the Giant gives sound like the could relate to the murders in Dakota or victims in New York. There may be a third murder on the way (I don't quite think Mr. C shooting the young woman in bed was a feature presentation kind of murder the way the other two were).
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