It makes me wonder if the real Coop was lurking on the astral plane the whole time, watching the TV show at the same time we were!
We've gotten the TV static, and we've seen screens in the Fireman's, I'm willing to bet the Arm spends a lot of time watching the TV show, at least. Cooper I think may have a limited view... mostly I think this due to the Mr. C liability. But if we go a layer up, if we say "Kyle", not Cooper, then that's not an issue. Mr. C knows nothing of "Kyle". So perhaps "Kyle" does, in fact, watch as well as influence the TV show.
"Kyle" "dreams", and Cooper then lives inside those dreams. "Lynch" and Gordon I'd expect to have a similar sort of deal.
Where did Coop's body come from, incidentally?
Dunno about bodies. The "physicality" aspect of the Lodges and the like was always confusing to me. Some entities seem ancient, but some bodies age. With the proliferation of tulpas it doesn't seem that hard for them to create a body. A mind, or, for lack of a better word, a soul, seems to cause them greater issues. But the way I saw it, Cooper and Mr. C had their individual bodies, so Cooper just held on to his when he came to the Black Lodge.
We see the hooded Dweller on the Threshold in the TV show.
Ngl I completely forgot about this guy. I always thought the Dweller on the Threshold was explicitly a given person's shadow relative to them and nothing else, but I can see the Dweller being a general entity in charge of that process.
I took it in the same light as someone saying 'Call the police!' and a policeman turning around and saying 'I am the police!'
Yeah that makes sense, I might be reading too much into it now that you bring up that example. "The FBI looking for me is not a problem, I
am it."
We see the waiting room. Waiting room for what? Was it like a railway station with different 'trains' taking you to different worlds?
The red curtains always makes me think of a stage. I see it as a theater waiting room, before people go to play their respective roles in whatever show that's about to come on. So it works well with your theory and mine. Makes sense that entities stay behind and watch, and also interfere. That's my explanation for what "let's rock!" means, as the whole thing gives me "the show must go on" vibes. I see the Arm as a stage manager, he ferries people around, "is this the story about the little girl who lives down the lane?" When Cooper is really bored I guess he's back to riding worms or overseeing a vault.
There was a movie that dealt with the concept of external actors staging events and also interfering with them to move them to certain conclusions, and like Twin Peaks is a subversion of TV shows, that movie was a subversion of horror movies. It's more explicit but that's pretty much how I see the waiting room / lodge.
There are a lot of questions. Season three feels like it could actually be season 27 of Twin Peaks and that we've missed a huge amount in the meantime
That's very much how S3 felt for me in general. The fools at ABC wouldn't let us have more seasons of the glorious show! But they still happened. So I'd say that checks out. It'd greatly explain Cooper feeling so alien and unfamiliar. Man's been busy and we never knew him in the first place.
Another thing is some of those random time discontinuities. Maybe it's just errors but so many dates seemed off, and Mr. C saying he's 25 years Richard's senior, like the whole thing was shifted off to a different cycle with different dates and stuff. Judy went from being a random woman in Buenos Aires to an... entity. The Woodsmen are covered in ash. Annie's forgotten. It's all sorts of wrong. Who's Billy, yeah.
After the failure of that reunion, Coop no longer has any qualms about erasing the history of his time in Twin Peaks and moving on. Clearly this is a man who has done these things before. He's like a gunslinger who rides into town, takes care of business and rides back out into the desert.
And the whole thing seems to have been degenerating and rotting anyway. Mr. C'/Bob's running around appears to have caused loads of damage, and Cooper would rather see his former friends in another place once he got rid of Bob. Log Lady feels like the world is dying, I am not sure if that's a general statement or she knows Cooper's about to erase it all.
So question, how do you reconcile all this with what appears to be the writers' intent that Cooper "messed with things he shouldn't" and that he failed (in some way)? Similarly Fireman's "you are far away".
I feel like the backstage astral plane managing things and Cooper (or w/e name you give him) being aware and on that level makes a concerning amount of sense, seems hinted at all over the place, would provide for some of the more cohesive explanations of the whole thing... but seems completely incompatible with that message. I'm at a loss there.
Certainly the forces we're dealing with have shown themselves capable of blocking off memories. We still don't know what happened to Major Briggs when he disappeared. When he returned, his clothes had changed, as if he'd been sent somewhere else (the 'Odessaverse'? Another reality?) before being returned.
