I've read a lot of comments regarding episode 8 and the seeming "creation" or "choosing" of Laura as some sort of deterrent to the release of Bob on the world. The White Lodge's reaction/response to what "The Experiment" unleashed.
What I can't wrap my head around is ... why Laura? What was so special about her that made her this almost Mother Mary-like figure to these entities? The woman holding the orb with Laura's face nearly weeps with happiness while looking at it. Why? What is Laura's purpose, and why was this moment such a big one in the overall story arc?
When I look at Laura's life, I see a fearful, sometimes nasty, pain-ridden, drug-addicted, abused girl. I see nothing that sets her up as some "force of good" that's equipped to "do battle" with Bob or any of these other dark forces. Why was she considered some sort of threat to Bob and his ilk? What am I missing here? I would like to either a) understand or b) pretend to.
I dunno, I think of you look at the ending and see that it's kind of a battle between good or evil due all time, the are different Laura's around. As with some characters that are good, they can be corrupted, and I would think Bob would be all to keen to corrupt any good he sees. In a way, her death helped set the destruction of Bob in motion, so maybe she was just a sacrificial lamb and maybe that's why the woman was crying? I don't really know man. That's what I love about twin peaks, there are so many possibilities.
Wellllll - it's plausible that even though the orb looks like Laura, that the orb isn't actually Laura. . . also, some people have theorized that the golden orb is, in fact, a big 'ol gloop of garmonbozia, which is acting as bait for the evils of BOB et al.
Personally, I could see her as a sacrificial lamb in a sense - a force of good that attracts the evil and is corrupted by it. It would explain the tearful goodbye by Lady Dido. Not weeping with happiness, as much as weeping because of love but recognition of the sacrifice about to be undergone.
Of course, as Mark Frost suggests, the motivations behind the Fireman and his kind are abstract and likely unfathomable to us.
Partly posting b/c, WTF, the last post on this thread happened. . . 48 years ago?!!! Timeloop warning. . .
Wellllll - it's plausible that even though the orb looks like Laura, that the orb isn't actually Laura. . . also, some people have theorized that the golden orb is, in fact, a big 'ol gloop of garmonbozia, which is acting as bait for the evils of BOB et al.
Personally, I could see her as a sacrificial lamb in a sense - a force of good that attracts the evil and is corrupted by it. It would explain the tearful goodbye by Lady Dido. Not weeping with happiness, as much as weeping because of love but recognition of the sacrifice about to be undergone.
Of course, as Mark Frost suggests, the motivations behind the Fireman and his kind are abstract and likely unfathomable to us.
Partly posting b/c, WTF, the last post on this thread happened. . . 48 years ago?!!! Timeloop warning. . .
Beware of the big 'ol gloops........
My reading is that the scene in Part 8 occurs "after" the scene when Laura disappears as Cooper is leading her through the woods. They are near the spot by Jack Rabbit's Palace, that's where she disappears to, and then the Fireman deposits her in alternate reality Odessa, TX (in Part 8). I also think this corresponds to her being sucked out of the Lodge toward the beginning of The Return. The lodge-spaces are 5th dimensional, or something like that, so the relation of these events to ordinary time is strange. I don't think they are outside of time, or that everything is predestined, though.
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