"Gotta light?"
Some smokers get hostile when they can't get their fix. ( facetious commentary )

Posted by: Karen

"Gotta light?"
Some smokers get hostile when they can't get their fix. ( facetious commentary )

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Funny thing, even when I was watching Twin Peaks years ago as a teenager, I always assumed that the Giant is, big word, but... God. Just like BOB is simply devil.

And now we see the old ???? with his female companion (Kronos and Gaia from Greek mythology anyone?) in this beautiful lighthouse watching the world through the window/big screen and sending there Laura to save it.

BTW David Lynch's youngest daughter's middlename is Boginia which is slightly modified polish word meaning... goddess.

Don't know why but I got a feeling of complete peace and safety during the scene where we first enter the "lighthouse" and meet the woman in the flowered dress... the music was amazing.  I was further comforted when the Giant appeared...

I would say that we all watched intecourse between the two worlds...

Thanks to everyone who chimed in on this convo. I thought I had an overall idea of what happened, but the stuff everyone here said confirmed it (making me happy I actually had it right) and gave lots of good info.

Kudos to all!

Posted by: Eric M. Johnson

It's weird. It looks like the charcole people are somehow a supporting force for bob and help him along his way.

This really cracks me up... it's just such a positive interpretation of Bob and the charcoal people. But even demon entities need a shoulder to lean on from time to time!

I don't think that atomic bomb brought about the birth of Bob as everyone seems to say. I remembered indeed the scene where Agent Hawk told to Cooper  that the spirits have always haunted the woods and it's inscribed in the indian culture ("My people believe that the White Lodge is a place where the spirits that rule man and nature reside. There is also a legend of a place called the Black Lodge. The shadow self of the White Lodge. Legend says that every spirit must pass through there on the way to perfection. There, you will meet your own shadow self. My people call it The Dweller on the Threshold.") So Bob always exists even if Albert said it can be the bad things which mens are doing.

I'm pretty sure there's a correlation between the death of Mr C (yeah I support the theory when Mr C wakes up after being shot at, he's the Good Cooper because the Bob spirit just vanished) and the cosmic opera with atomic mushrooms etc. 

There're so many possibilities to raise after the Part VIII (purple ocean, golden marble, the frog wasp or the reaction of the Giant and the Woman of the 20's...)

Posted by: Hookrugdance17

I don't think that atomic bomb brought about the birth of Bob as everyone seems to say. I remembered indeed the scene where Agent Hawk told to Cooper  that the spirits have always haunted the woods and it's inscribed in the indian culture ("My people believe that the White Lodge is a place where the spirits that rule man and nature reside. There is also a legend of a place called the Black Lodge. The shadow self of the White Lodge. Legend says that every spirit must pass through there on the way to perfection. There, you will meet your own shadow self. My people call it The Dweller on the Threshold.") So Bob always exists even if Albert said it can be the bad things which mens are doing.

 

Possibly not...

Rather than his creation, the nuclear blast could have just created a portal through which Bob could travel to our place (or the existential realm(s) on which TP takes place).

I'd need a rewatch but I don't think he was egg-hatched as the woodcutters/hobos seem to have been, he seemed to be transported in a bubble.

I'd like to think that Bob wasn't "created" at that moment either; it cheapens somewhat the long-standing metaphor of Bob as the embodiment of man's inhumanity to man.

However, if Lynch does it one better and takes us even further into cosmic horror territory than he already has (!), then Bob being that young would be perfectly fine by me.

I want to double down in understanding this last episode, but somehow I feel that is the true game.  Lynch wants us to spend 2 weeks guess and wondering just to take us in a direction outside of our expectations.  This outside direction is possible because like a good mystery writer we are not given enough facts or details to properly find that path ourselves.  I am left debating the value of burning grey matter on a deeper understanding.  Choosing against my better judgement to simply wide the purple wave.

There are references to BOB or very similar creatures in Secret history of TP predated 1945. 

I stand with the idea that the bomb simply opened are larger portal between realms that these beings could walk amongst the humans of earth.

Also, am I the only one that immediately assumes the Lighthouse is in fact the White lodge?

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We got some answers but the last episode created new questions as well, i bet we all gonna try and find explanations till the new episode is out. At the end of the day some questions probably will not be answered, ever, some they are not supposed to and that's what the beauty of David Lynch is. We can assume and imagine them in whatever way we like and believe is the right one.

I am no expert on dimensional theory or Jack Parsons, but I get the impression that access to our plane of existence is limited for the beings we know as lodge people.  I think the trinity test somehow 'changed the rules' of access.  I have some theories, but trying not to do down that rabbit hole without more information.

I am still struggling with the end game with Dougie; let's assume Coop wakes up, what happens to Dougie's family?  There is something not working for me on how that story line is resolved without Dougie's death or the family's death.

I think Dougie will be present for the rest of the season because his background is to anchored in the story and I hope so because he's the most beautiful and deepest character of the Revival. So The Good Coop' takes over Mr C in the last episode I think (but there's a contradiction because Woodsmen seemed to reanimate the Mr C's body -and the resurrection of Good Cooper- and at the end the Woodsman smashed heads of innocents)