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Twin Peaks Saga
A horse is a horse...of course, of course?
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[QUOTE="Jordan Cole, post: 2927, member: 282"] Episode 8 has a lot of great stuff but the real final thing that exploded my brain was hearing that horse. And so distant, and in the pitch black desert...Terrifying. It's the first time it hit me that the horse was not a good thing. I guess what inspires this post is it seems to me like the horse is the only thing in all of Twin Peaks that people reduce to just a symbol and don't treat as if its literally there, and ask questions about why its there in the story. I got torn apart on the reddit for saying this! People thought it was ludicrous that the horse wasn't just a symbol or Sarah's imagination (yes, even after season 3), as if the show just did that sort of thing all the time. Just saying its there because it represents death...to be frank, I...don't even think Twin Peaks or Lynch's storytelling functions that way at all. I may be forgetting something, but there's not usually just visuals put in to just represent something else...usually what you see is what you are getting and there's a firm foundation in the story, the mythology, and reality of that world/s, even with the use of metaphor and symbolic references to various things. Things don't just sort of float in to represent things and then go away. I'm always surprised when the horse is talked of in this way, even by some of the most mythology-obsessed Twin Peaks fans! After season 3 I'm pretty firmly in the "the horse may have represented death early on, but it no longer does" camp. It's a lonely camp! I really think the idea behind the horse evolved way past the "death" thing starting around FWWM, and was fully figured out by season 3, much like many aspects of the show kept evolving and were built upon after small hints and early ideas. [/QUOTE]
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