Subject: RE: Final episode (speculation)
From: castiglionec@merrimack.edu
Date: 1991-09-25, 09:07
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

 Just a few speculations on the last twenty minutes of the final episode...

1) Cooper's bleeding- 
   The Black Lodge supposedly transcends time and space, right? So cause and
   effect don't neccesarily follow chronologically. The wound could therefore
be from Earle stabbing Cooper near the end of the sequence; remember that
immediately following this, time reverses, and Earle removes the knife. No more 
wound! With time running backwards, this works. 

2) Was Cooper in the Lodge after all?
   Cooper may very well have entered the Black Lodge, but lost his way. Recall
   that while he's in the Waiting Room, the dwarf says,"The next time you see
   me, it won't be me," or words to that effect. The next time Cooper sees the
   dwarf, the dwarf says,"Wrong way," and Cooper leaves that room. But,
   according to the dwarf himself, that wasn't him, and so Coop was mislead.
   I personally feel that his fate was sealed from then on.

Feedback of (nearly) any kind is welcome.
                                  
                                    Speculatively yours,
                                    Chris