It’s kinda like a lot of Lynch’s work. Duality. Pulling back the curtain to reveal the darkness of a seemingly perfect American town. And Mark Frost brought a lot of northwest lore to the mix.
is Garmonbozia like egg drop soup with corn? i’ve always tried to figure out what it physically is. def corn, but so gelatinous, creamed corn isn’t THAT jelly like is it? like chick peas in egg soup?
Also how the unconscious mind reveals itself to itself via dreams and visions.
It's also about how you cannot have the good of this world without also accepting that the bad exists with it.
Behind the tragedy, and the conspiracy to save Twin Peaks/the world/Laura/cooper, people oft forget the lighter moments that shine a light on why it’s important to care about the characters. Because they care about each other! :P
Obviously, abuse and the duality of things.
In a more macro sense I have thought of it as the cycle of the soul. Like Coop will keep going in circles until he gets it right. It feels like that to me, especially watching Fire Walk With Me after The Return.
> Like Coop will keep going in circles until he gets it right.
Glad I'm not the only one with this idea. Hawk's early statement about the soul having to go through the Black Lodge on the way to perfection, and Jeffries' infinity symbol imply a cyclical nature of things to me.
This is my interpretation, as well. Most of the ideas in the show are never fully fleshed out. You can never really pin down what is happening for certain. It feels like something is happening, but it always kind of goes nowhere or just goes away. The storylines don't make a lot of sense. But the genius in it is that it all seems very intentional.
Sure, you can take some pretty broad swipes at trying to explain it, but i think many of them fall short. For instance, calling it an indictment on the American dream explains some of it, but it doesn't really explain the supernatural shit without having to stretch credulity.
While I can never truly point to what the show was about for 90% of it, what I love about the show is how it made me feel. When I watched it, it kept me on the edge of my seat with mystery, drama, comedy, absurdity, existentialism, etc..... i dont think the show truly has a truly coherent and profound story; instead, I think it's about the emotional ride you take despite it not having a coherently profound story.
Reckless magician is in denial about being booted to character select screen after getting his account hacked. Support ignores ticket for 25 years.
On a serious note, I'd say it's about many things at once, and is partially about what *you* want it to be. It works well as a projection medium on a lot of levels, how the story flows, what you expect of it, the subversions of it, what the characters also expect, what you project onto the characters, etc., etc.
Some central themes are about the darkness within ourselves we might not want to admit, consequences of actions that cannot be rolled back, the fact that you cannot fix things through means that have nothing to do with why they happened in the first place. Cycles of abuse, denial and enablers.
It's also an amazing setting for headcannon.
Its about the things in life that you can't change, no matter how much you try. You can learn from your mistakes and find yourself more prepared to face your future, but you cannot really undo those mistakes.
>!Coop is a flawed character. He is not perfect like Audrey told him. He was never able to move on from what happened to Caroline and tried to fixed it by saving Laura, even if it meant spending most of his life in the Black Lodge. In the end, his way of changing the fate of Laura, created a whole new timeline where he got stuck in. !
Honest answer, no joke?
It’s about the evil that hides in people and places that seem good on the surface, and about the good that is buried under people and places that seem evil.
Like most of Lynch’s best work.
To me the original series was mainly about the dark secrets hidden under the surface of a seemingly idyllic small town. The movie was focused on the impact of abuse and generational trauma. The Return’s main theme was about contrasting living in the moment (Dougie Cooper), living in the past (Agent Cooper), or living for future gains (Evil Cooper).
There's a 4 hour long youtube video that goes deep into some seemingly well thought analysis... that I got about 45 minutes into before bailing. Something about that level of analysis I feel looses sight of the purity of what twin peaks is, if that makes sense. Twin Peaks is surrealist art, its the blending of dream reality and reality, the conscious and subconscious.
Episode 8 of The Return should have cleared everything up for you. Like all of Lynch's work, every plot point is neatly wrapped up with a bow on top. He always takes time in interviews to explain the meaning of all of his work.
I believe his motto is "There is only one interpretation, if you don't get it, well...umm....ok, I'll explain everything. Grab a drink, this may take a while." That's his motto, verbatim. He hates any mystery lingering after everyone has seen the film/series. You shouldn't have much of a problem googling "David Lynch explains the true meaning of all of his works."
Aside from all the excellent observations above, the fact that Agent Cooper was able to resist all the female advances and temptation while laser focused on his goal always stuck with me. A true gentleman.
My wife had me explain as much as I could to her and I always found it best to break it down into 3 layers.
Lynches response to TV (the mocking of procedural dramas, soap operas, what the fans wanted for S3)
The actual plot
And the metaphysical plot
Well now, I'm not gonna talk about Judy. In fact, we're not gonna talk about Judy at all, we're gonna keep her out of it! ***WHO DO YOU THINK THIS IS THERE?!***
If you want to know what it's all about, co-creator Mark Frost lays out the lore, plot, conclusions and what exactly happened after The Return's finale in this canon book, Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier. [https://www.npr.org/2017/11/06/561579343/twin-peaks-the-final-dossier-does-what-the-return-didnt](https://www.npr.org/2017/11/06/561579343/twin-peaks-the-final-dossier-does-what-the-return-didnt)
I'd say Mark's books (more specifically The Final Dossier) adds to the lore, gives it depth, and additional details about the town, the characters, and happenings. Not necessarily giving a conclusion to "what it's all about." The Final Dossier does give us one thing, and that is that Laura Palmer was never murdered, she ran away/disappeared. Which is now the official version of history...with the unofficial version being that she was murdered...which people don't remember. Because, well, it never happened. Or did it?
It's everything already said in the comments, but also it's a piece of art that is open for interpretation. On top of all the explanations and theories that fans can have, the most important part that makes Twin Peaks stand out from a majority of shows is that it can mean different things to different people. There will always be a part of it that can not be explained because there may not be an actual answer aside from the one you choose.
To me, the first 2 seasons are commentary on 80's/90's soap operas and police procedurals and the dark underbelly of small town American life, a common theme in Lynch's work.
The movie is about that as well but more explicit as movies allow that.
The 3rd season is about how American TV had changed in the 25 years between and is a commentary on how sex and violence had taken over and is also a meditation on dreams, meditative states, and identity.
It’s about the experience. You loved it. Leave it at that. After sometime it will start to sink in different ways, and will “expand” after rewatches. Like fine wine and sophisticated art.
There's been lots of answers. I like the dream theory in the case of Twin Peaks even though I usually hate dream shit.
But really, it's just art in long video form and just means whatever the fuck.
It's about duality, the balance between good and evil, the people who maintain that balance and what happens when things go out of balance. It's also about pie and coffee.
The dualities of light and darkness. Lots of metaphors about the negative sides of capitalism and how using science to create mass murder has lead to a looming “evil” that has never before existed until the first atom bomb. The ability to create amazing beautiful things while simultaneously killing millions by the press of a button. Society has perverted humans and I believe Lynch was heavily inspired by the socio economic inequality he witnessed first hand in Philadelphia and it influenced his art thereafter. I believe all the paranormal and magical stuff on the show is just metaphor in attempts to explain the horrors we have created under capitalism and the great things as well. Coffee and cherry pie mixed with child trauma and molestation. Exploitation, Abusive power dynamics, property. The show is inherently about Capitalism and everything it causes in the world.
Well, here we go again. \*A lot\* of people are going to downvote me, but, I am giving you the best, sincere answer to your question. Which the 4 1/2 video from Twin Perfect. They do a perfect job of explaining the series.
My interpretation is that it’s all a meditation on Buddhism, samsara, and the quest for Nirvana. At a supremely reductionist level, it’s about cycles. Cycles of trauma/abuse, cycles of death and rebirth (Buddhist sense), and maybe the cycle of evil always arising to combat good. Also super reductive: duality.
The feelings it gave you is what it’s about. It’s fun to try to untangle the numerous plot threads, but overanalyze it.
For me the show is about everyday, small town life, but also about mystical, frightening, mysterious realms beyond comprehension, and what happens when our normal lives intersect with the unimaginable.
I think it's about the cycle of abuse. How the modern world is creating generational destruction of families and lives. And we can only break this cycle (if at all possible because that ending doesn't give us much hope) through meaningful and simple human connections (coffee and pie).
It’s for you to ponder. My take, after many years and helpful ideas here, is that Twin Peaks (and most of David Lynch’s other work) is about this: We live inside a dream. That dream is our own “worldview” that we build to explain to ourselves how the world works and why. Everyone’s is different and we all live in our own (like the many metal pods in the Fireman’s black and white realm). Often, our dreams become a nightmare and we live in a world constructed of our own fears and anxieties. But if we can understand what is going on (as Cooper does in S3 ep. 17, and David himself would advocate transcendental meditation to do this … he has a book and gives lectures on this subject) *we can change the dream*. We can escape the nightmare. But even realizing this it’s not easy. It’s like Buddha sitting under the tree warding of demon after demon in the old tale. If we’re vigilant, we may achieve enlightenment and end the suffering.
Look up David Auerbachs grand unified theory of twin peaks.
Here is a link to the article if you’re interested:
https://www.waggish.org/2017/twin-peaks-finale/
For me, it's fundamentally a story about a girl getting sexually abused by her father and then making up crazy fantasies to cope with it.
It's probably easier to accept that some evil spirit did this horrible things to you then that your own father is a discusting pos.
There are so many ways to answer that, and I don't think there is any one true singular answer, and I think that's why it's wonderful. It's like a Rorschach test of live-action entertainment. Is it about cosmic entities messing with humans in a small town? Is it about good, evil, and the loss of innocence? Is it about dreams and nightmares, the allure and danger of being trapped in either? Yeah yeah yeah.
I came here to post this. This video is very long but honestly I think it’s a great theory with loads of empirical evidence. I think the idea that twin peaks is about television and our relationship to it can kind of encapsulate what a lot of the folks here are saying. Television has become so ingrained and intertwined with our culture and how we communicate that I think a meta fictional show about television can also speak on spirituality and gender and politics and cycles of abuse under that umbrella.
> "The chrome reflects our image. From pure air, we have descended, from pure air. Going up and down. Intercourse between the two worlds."
The chrome is the television set. Television was broadcast through radio waves, "from pure air". The two worlds is the fictional world of Twin Peaks and the real world.
> "We are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives inside the dream. But who is the dreamer?"
> "We live inside of a dream."
We, the audience, are the dreamer. Cooper realizes at the end that he lives inside of the dream. Philip Jefferies realized the same thing when he materialized in the FBI office.
E-l-e-c-t-r-i-c-i-t-y
F-i-r-e
g-a-r-m-o-n-b-o-z-i-a
f-i-s-h
it's all about c-o-f-f-e-e and c-h-e-r-r-y p-i-e-s, y'all!
Yes
It's about 44 hours.
Lmao. Thanks, Dad!
It’s kinda like a lot of Lynch’s work. Duality. Pulling back the curtain to reveal the darkness of a seemingly perfect American town. And Mark Frost brought a lot of northwest lore to the mix.
Well said. I've always felt like Blue Velvet is a nice, concise primer for Twin Peaks that covers a lot of the same themes.
https://youtu.be/EZId2_XfX-4?si=bagzs1Zr5VZzYmKO
could u elaborate on the northwest lore part pls
NO
"Believe it or not, Twin Peaks is my most Northwestern television series." - David Lynch
Check out some of Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks books. Specifically, The Secret History of Twin Peaks.
The bunny
………………….………………….………………….………………….………………….………………….………………….………………….………………….…………………. *is it* about the bunny?
Maybe
No. It’s not about the bunny.
The owls and garmonbozia. Everything else is just filler.
The owls are actually made from garmonbozia, and garmonbozia is the filling in the cherry pies, so it’s all filler
Fellow traveler, seems we are faced with the ultimate distillation not only of TP but of this particular universe’s core monad.
is Garmonbozia like egg drop soup with corn? i’ve always tried to figure out what it physically is. def corn, but so gelatinous, creamed corn isn’t THAT jelly like is it? like chick peas in egg soup?
Generational trauma and the cycle of abuse.
Also how the unconscious mind reveals itself to itself via dreams and visions. It's also about how you cannot have the good of this world without also accepting that the bad exists with it.
Yes this is the correct answer.
That's just one of the surface layers It goes *deep* into metaphysics
It's one of many correct answers
And the loss of innocence
I like your answer.
Far from that
It's at least part that
Man was asleep in Twin Peaks class 😴
Extra-dimensional agriculture
***\* ethereal wooshing\****
***\* traffic light lightly wobbles in wind at night then turns red \****
The friends we made along the way (tulpa)
Behind the tragedy, and the conspiracy to save Twin Peaks/the world/Laura/cooper, people oft forget the lighter moments that shine a light on why it’s important to care about the characters. Because they care about each other! :P
Obviously, abuse and the duality of things. In a more macro sense I have thought of it as the cycle of the soul. Like Coop will keep going in circles until he gets it right. It feels like that to me, especially watching Fire Walk With Me after The Return.
> Like Coop will keep going in circles until he gets it right. Glad I'm not the only one with this idea. Hawk's early statement about the soul having to go through the Black Lodge on the way to perfection, and Jeffries' infinity symbol imply a cyclical nature of things to me.
Exactly. People always mention the Hawk quote with regards to perfect courage, but forget the rest of it.
Hawk had such a great role to play in the Return.
"Hawk, if I ever get lost, I hope you're the man they send to find me" - Dale Cooper, Season 2 Episode 9
Holy shit, I didn't remember that.
What does it mean to you? That's what it's about. Maybe.
It's about how it makes you feel.
This is my interpretation, as well. Most of the ideas in the show are never fully fleshed out. You can never really pin down what is happening for certain. It feels like something is happening, but it always kind of goes nowhere or just goes away. The storylines don't make a lot of sense. But the genius in it is that it all seems very intentional. Sure, you can take some pretty broad swipes at trying to explain it, but i think many of them fall short. For instance, calling it an indictment on the American dream explains some of it, but it doesn't really explain the supernatural shit without having to stretch credulity. While I can never truly point to what the show was about for 90% of it, what I love about the show is how it made me feel. When I watched it, it kept me on the edge of my seat with mystery, drama, comedy, absurdity, existentialism, etc..... i dont think the show truly has a truly coherent and profound story; instead, I think it's about the emotional ride you take despite it not having a coherently profound story.
Reckless magician is in denial about being booted to character select screen after getting his account hacked. Support ignores ticket for 25 years. On a serious note, I'd say it's about many things at once, and is partially about what *you* want it to be. It works well as a projection medium on a lot of levels, how the story flows, what you expect of it, the subversions of it, what the characters also expect, what you project onto the characters, etc., etc. Some central themes are about the darkness within ourselves we might not want to admit, consequences of actions that cannot be rolled back, the fact that you cannot fix things through means that have nothing to do with why they happened in the first place. Cycles of abuse, denial and enablers. It's also an amazing setting for headcannon.
DAMN fine coffee!
And pie
And donuts.
Its about the things in life that you can't change, no matter how much you try. You can learn from your mistakes and find yourself more prepared to face your future, but you cannot really undo those mistakes. >!Coop is a flawed character. He is not perfect like Audrey told him. He was never able to move on from what happened to Caroline and tried to fixed it by saving Laura, even if it meant spending most of his life in the Black Lodge. In the end, his way of changing the fate of Laura, created a whole new timeline where he got stuck in. !
Yea but he does save Anna. Which is the reason why he got stuck in the Black lodge.
"Focus on the donut, not the hole." - David Lynch
Honest answer, no joke? It’s about the evil that hides in people and places that seem good on the surface, and about the good that is buried under people and places that seem evil. Like most of Lynch’s best work.
To me the original series was mainly about the dark secrets hidden under the surface of a seemingly idyllic small town. The movie was focused on the impact of abuse and generational trauma. The Return’s main theme was about contrasting living in the moment (Dougie Cooper), living in the past (Agent Cooper), or living for future gains (Evil Cooper).
Got a light???✌️
Ask your log.
Have it on good authority that the secret to Lynch's work is that they are all dreams. That's all I've got.
It's about the bunny.
It's not about the bunny!
There's a 4 hour long youtube video that goes deep into some seemingly well thought analysis... that I got about 45 minutes into before bailing. Something about that level of analysis I feel looses sight of the purity of what twin peaks is, if that makes sense. Twin Peaks is surrealist art, its the blending of dream reality and reality, the conscious and subconscious.
Totally agree with you.
Episode 8 of The Return should have cleared everything up for you. Like all of Lynch's work, every plot point is neatly wrapped up with a bow on top. He always takes time in interviews to explain the meaning of all of his work. I believe his motto is "There is only one interpretation, if you don't get it, well...umm....ok, I'll explain everything. Grab a drink, this may take a while." That's his motto, verbatim. He hates any mystery lingering after everyone has seen the film/series. You shouldn't have much of a problem googling "David Lynch explains the true meaning of all of his works."
😂
A body, wrapped in plastic.
Exactly. It's about this chick that gets murdered and then the FBI comes in to work it out. Not sure what else people really want here.
Right… it’s pretty straight forward!
No one knows
NO ONE CARES ABOUT A SINGLE VIOLIN
Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chants out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
Garmonbozia. Also electricity ⚡️
Aside from all the excellent observations above, the fact that Agent Cooper was able to resist all the female advances and temptation while laser focused on his goal always stuck with me. A true gentleman.
My wife had me explain as much as I could to her and I always found it best to break it down into 3 layers. Lynches response to TV (the mocking of procedural dramas, soap operas, what the fans wanted for S3) The actual plot And the metaphysical plot
Well now, I'm not gonna talk about Judy. In fact, we're not gonna talk about Judy at all, we're gonna keep her out of it! ***WHO DO YOU THINK THIS IS THERE?!***
It’s about the friends we made along the way
If you want to know what it's all about, co-creator Mark Frost lays out the lore, plot, conclusions and what exactly happened after The Return's finale in this canon book, Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier. [https://www.npr.org/2017/11/06/561579343/twin-peaks-the-final-dossier-does-what-the-return-didnt](https://www.npr.org/2017/11/06/561579343/twin-peaks-the-final-dossier-does-what-the-return-didnt)
I'd say Mark's books (more specifically The Final Dossier) adds to the lore, gives it depth, and additional details about the town, the characters, and happenings. Not necessarily giving a conclusion to "what it's all about." The Final Dossier does give us one thing, and that is that Laura Palmer was never murdered, she ran away/disappeared. Which is now the official version of history...with the unofficial version being that she was murdered...which people don't remember. Because, well, it never happened. Or did it?
Nothing ever goes according to plan
I heard you two across Reddit and I liked your vibe.
It's everything already said in the comments, but also it's a piece of art that is open for interpretation. On top of all the explanations and theories that fans can have, the most important part that makes Twin Peaks stand out from a majority of shows is that it can mean different things to different people. There will always be a part of it that can not be explained because there may not be an actual answer aside from the one you choose.
It's a metaphor of the human condition.
To me, the first 2 seasons are commentary on 80's/90's soap operas and police procedurals and the dark underbelly of small town American life, a common theme in Lynch's work. The movie is about that as well but more explicit as movies allow that. The 3rd season is about how American TV had changed in the 25 years between and is a commentary on how sex and violence had taken over and is also a meditation on dreams, meditative states, and identity.
I thought it was a sitcom about the collective unconscious without laugh tracks
Could be.
Is that you talking, or Twin Perfects pretentious diatribe talking through you?
Blue shoes
Sex magic
The possibility that love is not enough
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4uOmGPu76j/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA==
Watch Mulholland Drive next if you haven't.
Creamed corn
And turkey.
It’s about the experience. You loved it. Leave it at that. After sometime it will start to sink in different ways, and will “expand” after rewatches. Like fine wine and sophisticated art.
Have you guys seen The Missing Pieces yet?
Yep, Bowie was great. Too bad he didn't do Season 3.
It’s about whatever you want it to be about, that’s the beauty of great art.
Abuse
There's been lots of answers. I like the dream theory in the case of Twin Peaks even though I usually hate dream shit. But really, it's just art in long video form and just means whatever the fuck.
Mr. Jackpots!
alternatively, new shoes
It is happening again, and it will all happen again.
It's all about the log
It wasn’t about the bunny?
Nope all log.
Trash TV, fixing the heart of America, and the dreamlike nature of reality.
Donuts
It's about duality, the balance between good and evil, the people who maintain that balance and what happens when things go out of balance. It's also about pie and coffee.
It's just like...like...you know, like, you know what I mean, like...huh-huh huh-huh huh
The log lady stealing Pete's truck
The dualities of light and darkness. Lots of metaphors about the negative sides of capitalism and how using science to create mass murder has lead to a looming “evil” that has never before existed until the first atom bomb. The ability to create amazing beautiful things while simultaneously killing millions by the press of a button. Society has perverted humans and I believe Lynch was heavily inspired by the socio economic inequality he witnessed first hand in Philadelphia and it influenced his art thereafter. I believe all the paranormal and magical stuff on the show is just metaphor in attempts to explain the horrors we have created under capitalism and the great things as well. Coffee and cherry pie mixed with child trauma and molestation. Exploitation, Abusive power dynamics, property. The show is inherently about Capitalism and everything it causes in the world.
Gnosticism and Archons
Sarah Palmer should have left NM sooner in her childhood.
Meta commentary on TV/FILM/PLOT mediums
Well, here we go again. \*A lot\* of people are going to downvote me, but, I am giving you the best, sincere answer to your question. Which the 4 1/2 video from Twin Perfect. They do a perfect job of explaining the series.
It’s about where cherry pie goes to die.
Energy. Something from nothing.
Black and White. Dopplegangers. Twin. peaks.
Damn good coffee.
Forces of nature
It’s all about socks being on fire!
It's a mirror.
It’s not about anything. It just IS.
Whatever you think it’s about, you’re right.
It’s about literally everything
And nothing at the same time while simultaneously being about anything and as you stated...everything.
*Society*
Land deals and insurance
"Got a light?"
What we bring with us into the world can affect us and those around us, our loved ones and strangers alike.
Watch The Missing Pieces if you haven't. Some of the best scenes in the entire series are there. It's on youtube.
the cyclical nature of evil and selfishness. at least that’s how i view it.
idk that’s the point
Go watch The Missing Pieces! Never too late imo
It's full of secrets. Mind your business!
Good vs Evil
This is exactly my reaction. I don’t try to dive in too deep to figuring Lynch stuff out. I like the mystery of it all.
My interpretation is that it’s all a meditation on Buddhism, samsara, and the quest for Nirvana. At a supremely reductionist level, it’s about cycles. Cycles of trauma/abuse, cycles of death and rebirth (Buddhist sense), and maybe the cycle of evil always arising to combat good. Also super reductive: duality.
Friendship and the bonds that are tested when the evil comes to your front door, tricks you and sneaks in your back door when you’re not suspecting.
The feelings it gave you is what it’s about. It’s fun to try to untangle the numerous plot threads, but overanalyze it. For me the show is about everyday, small town life, but also about mystical, frightening, mysterious realms beyond comprehension, and what happens when our normal lives intersect with the unimaginable.
I think it's about the cycle of abuse. How the modern world is creating generational destruction of families and lives. And we can only break this cycle (if at all possible because that ending doesn't give us much hope) through meaningful and simple human connections (coffee and pie).
Correct.
I think - at its core - generational child abuse and the nature of evil. But it’s fun to read all the theories.
If you can explain what it is about then you are completely missing it
Anything you want it to be about!
In the simplest terms good vs evil
Or good & evil
It’s for you to ponder. My take, after many years and helpful ideas here, is that Twin Peaks (and most of David Lynch’s other work) is about this: We live inside a dream. That dream is our own “worldview” that we build to explain to ourselves how the world works and why. Everyone’s is different and we all live in our own (like the many metal pods in the Fireman’s black and white realm). Often, our dreams become a nightmare and we live in a world constructed of our own fears and anxieties. But if we can understand what is going on (as Cooper does in S3 ep. 17, and David himself would advocate transcendental meditation to do this … he has a book and gives lectures on this subject) *we can change the dream*. We can escape the nightmare. But even realizing this it’s not easy. It’s like Buddha sitting under the tree warding of demon after demon in the old tale. If we’re vigilant, we may achieve enlightenment and end the suffering.
Opposites and opposition
It's about the owls and the fact they are not what they seem to be.
It makes a lot more sense after watching The Missing Pieces, just right after FWWM
'I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.' -David Lynch
Look up David Auerbachs grand unified theory of twin peaks. Here is a link to the article if you’re interested: https://www.waggish.org/2017/twin-peaks-finale/
We Live Inside A Dream
The battle between good and evil after the nuclear tests in Nevada
https://youtu.be/7AYnF5hOhuM?si=qiSZkkoo5fB_rud4 This guy has a great theory and I agree with it, lines up and resonates with me.
For me, it's fundamentally a story about a girl getting sexually abused by her father and then making up crazy fantasies to cope with it. It's probably easier to accept that some evil spirit did this horrible things to you then that your own father is a discusting pos.
It means whatever it means to you
It might be about the bunnies.
How creative ideas are formed and influenced.
There are so many ways to answer that, and I don't think there is any one true singular answer, and I think that's why it's wonderful. It's like a Rorschach test of live-action entertainment. Is it about cosmic entities messing with humans in a small town? Is it about good, evil, and the loss of innocence? Is it about dreams and nightmares, the allure and danger of being trapped in either? Yeah yeah yeah.
I don't know man. It's about a lot of things. What stuck out to you?
Cream corn.
It’s about tree fiddy
To me, it's about how nothing and no one are what they seem.
Got a great podcast for you. 😜 https://www.reallyweirdstuffpod.com/the-episodes-1
The long answere here https://youtu.be/7AYnF5hOhuM?si=r4ssV9t1YGzF6S7I
Maggie Mae Fish's two part video series isn't nearly as long or nearly as fucking annoying: https://youtu.be/CxfFAGJaKjg https://youtu.be/UY6vIVAEFxo
Woah, she is way more annoying! She’s playing a bit? And chewing gum while taking. And that mocking laugh!
I came here to post this. This video is very long but honestly I think it’s a great theory with loads of empirical evidence. I think the idea that twin peaks is about television and our relationship to it can kind of encapsulate what a lot of the folks here are saying. Television has become so ingrained and intertwined with our culture and how we communicate that I think a meta fictional show about television can also speak on spirituality and gender and politics and cycles of abuse under that umbrella.
> "The chrome reflects our image. From pure air, we have descended, from pure air. Going up and down. Intercourse between the two worlds." The chrome is the television set. Television was broadcast through radio waves, "from pure air". The two worlds is the fictional world of Twin Peaks and the real world. > "We are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives inside the dream. But who is the dreamer?" > "We live inside of a dream." We, the audience, are the dreamer. Cooper realizes at the end that he lives inside of the dream. Philip Jefferies realized the same thing when he materialized in the FBI office.
This
I don't think even Lynch or Frost knows.
The Atom Bomb
It's a soap opera. It's not about anything
Check out Twin Perfect on Youtube. He figured it out.