Subject: "How's Annie? How's Annie?! How's ANNie?!?"
From: robertj@unreal.uucp (Young Rob Jellinghaus)
Date: 1991-06-10, 23:18
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

SPOILERS!!!!

He fucking nuked the place!!!

As always at great moments in Peaks history, half the people will hate it
and bitch about how they were ripped off, and the other half will babble
senselessly raving over it and trying to make sense of it all!

The Giant and the Dwarf--one and the same--

Doppelganger--

Watch out for my cousin--

Leland and Laura and BOB inside them all--

Annie/Caroline... Giant/Dwarf... Windom/Coop... engine oil/coffee...
Laura's face reflected upside-down in a cup of joe....

Windom a victim of his own hubris, toying with BOB....

You all know Lynch doesn't believe in happy endings.  You all KNOW that.
Somehow, looking back, I think I would have been disappointed in anything
any less shattering than the image we all hated and feared, Coop looking
into the mirror at BOB.

Coop seems to have saved Annie this time, but at the cost of his soul...
or was it just a doppelganger?  Laura said "I'll see you again in 25
years," and it wasn't a doppelganger talking when she said it....

"Wow, BOB, wow!"

Of course more questions than we could ever hope to answer, and more fear
and death than we ever expected--holy shit, I forgot about Audrey's and
Pete's and Andrew's death by Jonathan's bomb... might as well take out a
few bystanders in the general carnage....

Gratuitous?  Yes.  Style over substance?  Unquestionably.  Disappointing?
In many ways.  And yet Lynch seems to me to have achieved the grand effect
which he was building up towards all along:  that love, in the end, is
simply not enough.

Do you need to brush your teeth?

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