Heimdallr said:
Yes, Twin Peaks is a show that I overlooked for quite a while. Alternate realities, cold-blooded psychopaths, doppelgangers, spirit possessions, and this along with the David Lynch imagery, it is a hidden gem. Too bad it never got a proper ending...
I recently finished watching Twin Peaks and I loved it from the get go. As everyone else has stated already, there are a lot of ideas presented in the series that we talk about on the forum, but to see it so elegantly expressed in this TV series from the 90's was something special and I think the series is truly one of a kind.
SPOILER ALERT
Having said that.. I (probably like many others) felt completely dissatisfied with the doppelganger ending. I just felt like after all Cooper went through, to turn him into the monster that he hated was a cruel ending.
I thought that the show would ultimately come down to a final showdown between Cooper, Bob and Windom Earle, one which he would either die in the process of locking them up in the Black Lodge and find his way towards the White Lodge after it. Or that he would live and find his way to the White Lodge after passing through the Black Lodge as it was foretold in the series by Major Garland Briggs. The Major also said that he'd have to fight himself which I thought was going to be Windom Earl because the series portrayed Windom as Cooper's nemesis/alternate ego. But then an actual doppelganger came out of nowhere and assumably it was the doppelganger that made it out of the Black Lodge - or Bob who has now possessed either the doppelganger or Cooper, and will go on killing not only Annie but many other innocent girls. So that ending made me kind of sad.
There were also so many things left hanging like for example (off the top of my head)
1) What happened to Josi when she disappeared? Did she die? If so, how cause she kind of just disappeared and it seemed like her spirit was forever trapped in that room.
2) What happened after the explosion in the bank? Did Audrey and Pete die too?
3) Leo was left hanging in a pretty bad spot... (though I didn't much care for his character anyway) still... he was just left.
I'm probably not the only person who thought those things. And I think that most likely the writers/developers of the show probably thought they'd be resigned for a 3rd season, but alas that never happened. And disappointingly we got a prequel from the movie instead of a much needed sequel. Oh wells!
Having said all that, I still enjoyed the show immensely and I think it's definitely worth the watch.
One last thing -
When I first saw the episode with Cooper's backwards talking dream with the red curtains, I immediately remembered the Simpsons episode of "Who Shot Mr. Burns" when Chief Wiggum had the backwards talking dream and I laughed really hard. Because all this time I didn't know that part of the episode was making fun of Twin Peaks.
http://vimeo.com/34365791