Subject: finale (SPOILERS!!!)
From: larryy@Apple.COM (Larry Yaeger)
Date: 1991-06-10, 22:58
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Well, I've already gotten a piece of email from someone who didn't like the
finale.  To bad for them.  I liked it!  The ending still disturbs me, as Coop
was an awfully important hero to me, but, there were a lot other things to
like about the episode.

I can't believe I didn't find the important location on the petroglyph/map.
Sitting right there next to the circle of trees is a sign that looks almost
like a yin/yang symbol, though the black and white halves are not
intertwined in this one.  The Black Lodge and the White Lodge.  It actually
even looks sort of spatially correct for the two sides that Cooper kept
running between; I wonder, now, if the show was consistent about one of
those rooms belonging to the White Lodge and the other belonging to the
Black Lodge?  Guess I'll have to rewatch it!

So did Cooper really let BOB in when he agreed to surrender his soul in
return for Annie's life (even though BOB said WE couldn't make that exchange,
he didn't say *he* couldn't!)?  Or did the doppelganger Cooper merely overpower
Dale and make it back to physical reality in his place?  I wonder if TP would
have taken this particular plot twist if Lynch et al hadn't needed a bang-up,
shock ending for the series climax?  If the show picks up again in some form,
will Coop struggle from within against BOB, or is the good Coop still back
in the Lodge?  Will the good Coop only appear in visions and through owls?
Will he really have to wait 20 or 25 years to escape?  Will he age in the
meantime?  Aaaaggghhh... I don't want the show to be over!!!

Is Annie really okay?  "How's Annie?"

Lots of other thoughts and questions.  Looking forward to those of others.
-- -larryy@apple.com "You wouldn't recognize a *subtle plan* if it painted itself purple, and danced naked upon a harpsichord, singing, 'Subtle Plans are Here Again'." - Edmund Blackadder