[Twin Peaks] Chapter 14: "The Calm Before The Bomb"
014 - A Twin Peaks The Return Essay to read between Parts 7 and 8. - A Skeleton Key To Twin Peaks, 2nd Edition
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When the bad guy gets shot and dies, everything is set right in the world of the crime procedural. For most of the history of serial drama, death has been the equalizer of justice. However, in this dangerous dream layer of Twin Peaks The Return, the whole world blows up to reset itself when the bad guy gets shot.
Cooper’s battle for his soul will intensify while nearly everything in this dream is against him.
Cooper’s shadow escaped from prison into the night, accompanied by a man with valuable knowledge. Ray Monroe has committed to memory the location of the coordinates that I believe serve as the exit of this dream in every layer. The Palmer house. And Mr. C very much needs (not wants) this information, despite his earlier posturing.
The Palmer home is the site of Laura’s torment. It is the last place she was safe during her life. In this fiction, Laura Palmer suffered tremendous trauma, and she died. There is no saving Laura in any stable timeline of this drama.
From the perspective of a murder investigation, it doesn’t matter if the victim has an angel when the case is solved. And yet, Dale Cooper cannot let this go. His obsession with changing time and his narrative reality to save a dead girl has driven this character into schizophrenia.
Dale Cooper is at war with the writer’s room, and he pulls us into his madness through what is displayed on the screen.
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