#twin peaks fans

[shouldiwearmyhairspray]

Laura Palmer theory...

First of all: RIP David Lynch 🙏 funkiest man to walk the earth

I don't think the real Laura Palmer ever shows up again in Twin Peaks after Fire Walk With Me.

I don't interact a lot with the Twin Peaks fandom, so idk if this is an agreed-upon concept or a concept at all, but it's something I've thought about ever since I finished Twin Peaks. I'd like to discuss it.

Keep in mind that I haven't read the real diary of Laura Palmer or any of the twin peaks books; this theory is based entirely on the original series, movie, and the return.

Ok so, who is the "real" Laura Palmer? The real Laura is the girl we see in Fire Walk with Me, the one who has a dream/vision of Cooper before she dies. I think Fire Walk with Me is the only instance (excluding flashbacks and videos from the series) in which we witness the real Laura in the entirety of Twin Peaks; why? Well, I base this theory on the ending of the movie.

After Laura is killed, we see her in the white lodge (yes, I think she is in the white lodge). She is accompanied by her angels (I like to imagine Cooper was sort of a guardian angel for Laura, irrelevant here tho).

I believe that by being in the white lodge, Laura Palmer finally found peace, and in a more generic way to put it, she went to heaven, and she stayed there forever.

Now, episode 3. When we see a fake Laura Palmer. Why do I think this is a fake Laura? I think the lodge/red room works differently based on the person present there, and in this case, it was Cooper. He sees Laura, but that doesn't mean she is truly there in spirit, even the red man confirms this:

"She is my cousin, but doesn't she look almost exactly like Laura Palmer?"

Even the fake Laura sort of confirms it

"I feel like I know her"

I think this Laura is a manifestation created by lodge identities to "help" Cooper. Is this manifestation created by the black lodge? The white lodge? The arm? The fireman? I dunno, and it doesn't really matter in the context of this theory.

I believe the lodge/red room manifests a lot of things based on Cooper's mind. For example; in the final episode of S2, he sees Caroline and a fake Annie alongside the real Annie.

Like Laura, I believe that only the Annie who doesn't speak is the real Annie. Caroline and talking Annie are both manifestations created by the black lodge to mock and torture cooper based on his memories.

If we look at it that way, we can theorize that the first manifestations we see back in episode 3 were created by the white lodge as they were guiding Cooper. But here, in the final episode, the manifestations are being created by the black lodge to torture Cooper by bringing back his former dead lover and his new lover.

(I know the agreed upon thing reggarding the lodges is that the person/soul stays there. Maybe Caroline, Annie and Laura are stuck there. But I honestly find this way of thinking very boring so I'm choosing to ignore it in favor of my own vision of the rules in twin peaks.)

Anyways, back to Laura:

I still think this "friendly" Laura is a manifestation, and so is the doppelganger Laura. Maybe by knowing more about Laura throughout the investigations, the black lodge created Laura's doppelganger to haunt Cooper based on his new knowledge about her.

Even tho Lodge Laura isn't real, they are based on Cooper's idea of Laura mixed with the lodge's guidance/tauntings.

Now, the return...

Unlike the previous Lauras, this Laura confirms she is, in fact, Laura Palmer.

But she isn't the Laura Palmer we know from Fire Walk with Me. This is the Laura that Cooper rescued from the past; this is Carrie Paige Laura.

Why do I believe that? Well, because of her hair.

In promo material for The Return, we see that Sheryl Lee is pictured with the Iconic long Laura Palmer hair with bangs, but the Laurs we see in the show are sporting shorter hair, the Carrie Paige hairstyle we see at the end of the season.

I know that using the promo material in a theory is a bit flimsy, but I believe it's plausible.

Now, why would Carrie Paige be here? After all, Carrie herself says she isn't Laura Palmer in the final episode. Well, I believe that Carrie-Laura meeting Cooper in the red room is another manifestation created by the lodge to "guide" him; after all, that's what the lodge did back in season 1, episode 3.

"Is it future, or is it past?"

"Is this Laura Palmer, or is this Carrie Paige?"

"Laura is the one"

One interesting thing we see Carrie-Laura do is remove her own face, and inside there is light.

Unlike in season 1 episode 3, where the white lodge was helping Cooper, this time it's the black lodge, wearing a mask of familiarity and a fake Laura, repeating dialogue we already know to trick Cooper and us. This Laura isn't here to help Cooper, she is here to confuse him, to taunt him. She gives the impression of being the real Laura, but Laura Palmer is dead.

"Find Laura."

During the vision shown to Andy by the fireman, we see Laura Palmer surrounded by angels. Meaning that the real Laura is in heaven since the ending of Fire Walk with Me. But cooper doesn't know that.

The series ends with a blackout. In the lodge, Carrie-Laura removed her face, and we saw light, but it was a lie; in the end, Carrie Paige only caused a blackout.

Cooper goes back in time, creating a new timeline where Laura didn't die and became Carrie Paige. But that didn't solve anything, it was useless. And when Cooper returns the one he thinks is Laura to her old home, the one he thinks is "the one". Nothing happens, because this isn't the real Laura, and the real Laura is not coming back.

This "theory" isn't all that polished so there may be some holes in it. I'd like to hear other twin peakers thoughts on it.

[tapeworrmart]

A collection of my Twin Peaks art from the past few years in order to express that I'm absolutely devastated to hear about Lynch's passing. His works, as for many people, touched me in ways I can't fully express. RIP and thank you for providing amazing stories and characters which inspired, and will continue to inspire, others.

[calivco]

celebrating the life and work of david lynch today

simply had to sketch my favorite girlies from twin peaks <3

[inthedarktrees]

Sheryl Lee | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

[altiegg]

Twin peaks sketch dump

[forecast0ctopus]

I reject absoIuteIy revenge, aggression and retaliation….

[panelkatheartist]

stop making sense. just laura

[dogingiva]

[wingedog]

Happy birthday twin peaks

[beeenini]

“Sheriff Truman you have a call on line 2 … … that’s the blinking one …”

[crabbyhellfire]

I never posted this, but here’s an old Laura

[shouldiwearmyhairspray]

Finished watching Twin Peaks: The Return today, and I wanna talk about it.

Overall, as a project, I found it very entertaining and very thought-provoking to watch; there were lots and lots of moments I loved; old and new characters were a delight to see, and the special effects were amazing to witness. I don't love it nearly as much as the original series (yet), but the return an entire entity on its own, so I don't mind being so different. I think it was a good ending to Twin Peaks as a whole.

Now to the stuff I didn't like:::

Audrey Horne. I didn't mind her not interacting with any old characters, I thought It was a very interesting approach and made her moments stand out. I also didn't mind her having a short screen time, nor did I mind her acting unlike how she was in the first two seasons. But I was immensely disappointed with how... bland the scenes felt. Sure, I know some theories go to deep, dark, and meta places, but it was still so empty for such an important character. Tbh, it felt like she was underused for the sake of those scenes, and maybe that was the point, to show how some people change forever and are never the same again and that complaining about it like I am won't do anything. But still... it was weird, but not the usual twin peaks weird. Audrey felt more like a one-scene character, like the screaming car lady. Sure, not all old characters had a lot of relevancy (Jerry, Nadine, Ben, etc). Maybe it's just my Audrey fan bias showing off, but why did we need another fuckass normal storyline and not more Audrey screen time??? It's like S2 all over again. It would be cool to see Audrey have her own separate journey, trying to solve a mystery like her young detective wannabe was. To see her come face to face with some sort of self-fulfilling prophecy and some other weird David Lynch Photoshop animation.

Anyway, keep in mind these are just my thoughts after finishing the season for the first time; I didn't have a lot of research time, so maybe I'm misinterpreting everything. Maybe in the future I'll change my mind and see S3 Audrey in a different light, maybe I'll adore the concept behind her, who knows.

[tapeworrmart]

Inside 🌲🦉

[teastarfall]

back on my bullshit

[inthedarktrees]

Sheryl Lee | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

[mleelunsford]

Twin1

Wanted to practice with something outside my wheelhouse. So, I drew comic pages of this scene from Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces.