Subject: TP:FWWM -- The meaning of the last scene From: bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) Date: 1992-08-29, 11:37 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks Not really spoilers ahead, because you won't be able to make sense of the following until you've seen the movie, but I'll put a red curtain here just in case... I think the very last scene is meant to answer the question: "How's Annie?" and, as such, it actually provides a really nice ending to the whole series. Read on if you want me to explain (spoilers ahoy): Get ready for a LOT of reading between the lines. :) I think the final scene takes place after everything else in the movie and the series -- that is, it'd fit in after Cooper back at the Great Northern is bashing his head against the mirror and asking, "How's Annie?" The angel in the final scene is, I think, Annie. She said earlier (in bed with Laura) that the good Dale is trapped in the Black Lodge, so that means that that's the good Dale in the final scene, along with the good Laura trapped there. She was also bloodied in the scene where Laura found her in bed, so this might mean she'd struggled to escape the Black Lodge, but that her purity finally saved her. Cooper didn't make it out because he wasn't completely pure; after all, he'd been in love with Catherine Earle, and he'd been maybe dabbling a little too much in mysticism. Laura in the Black Lodge is obvious -- the scene in the movie where she leaves James shows that the good Laura still exists deep inside her, but of course Bob's already got her, without question. So this means that Bob's won, mostly. The Cooper in the real world is now owned by Bob, and he's got the real Cooper and Laura back in the Black Lodge. I don't know what's happening with Annie in the real world -- Truman said "She's okay," but maybe he was only saying this because he didn't want Cooper to have to deal with news of her death, or maybe he just didn't know her condition. I think Annie's real body will either die soon or become a vegetable (no, not creamed corn ;-). But Annie managed to escape the Black Lodge, and my guess is that she'll go to the White Lodge, so even though the whole tale of Twin Peaks ended like a good Shakespearean plan (with dead bodies all around), there's still that one glimmer of something having gone right. Poetic justice. :) What do you think? << Brian >> -- _/_/_/ Brian Kendig Macintosh Jedi Live never to be ashamed _/_/ Starfleet Captain Oracle Employee if anything you do or say _/ Intrepid Adventurer Saturn SL2 Owner is published around the world bskendig@netcom.com Twin Peaks Junkie -- even if what is published Princeton '92! BSE/CS Writer/Actor/Singer is not true.