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Wait, I just thought of something.

Maybe the bug is Judy-- ultimate evil--and it crawls into Sarah's mouth in Ep.8. Maybe Sarah needed to get to that level of darkness herself, so by the time the events of this season roll around, Sarah has enough negative energy from all the horrible things in her life to conjur Judy and her powers. And maybe that's how she kills that man at the bar. It's clear Sarah has a history with the supernatural, unknowingly or not, because she's been visited by the Pale Horse several times in the original series, witnesses BOB multiple times, and also has her face superimposed on the Electrician guy by the Convenience Store.

 

semi related, I love this

 

I don't have much to elaborate on this atm, but I think Audrey is "Tina," the mother of that one character from the Roadhouse who said she was in the "nuthouse." Maybe in the timeline/dimension where Coop is Richard and Laura is Carrie Page. Idk what significance that has to anything, but something I've been thinking about.

I'm not really set on what my final take is on everything, and don't plan on having a fully-formed theory on everything until I rewatch it in a shorter timeframe. So, maybe once I do that, I'll be able to connect the dots better and find significance in the above theory, or I'll figure out I'm completely wrong lol.

 

Im 99% certain that she is possessed by Mother. I never thought of that bug as being Mother but after Sarah ripped that dude's throat out, I'm fairly positive she was the child who swallowed the frog moth

 

Still not sure how I feel about this finale, but I will say, ever since I was a kid, this sort of ambiguity has been my favorite type of horror. I used to watch the episode of The Twilight Zone all the time where the dude survives the nuclear holocaust and has all the time in the world to read but then his glasses break. It would always make me feel incredibly lonely and depressed and I get a very similar feeling from this ending. But what I can't figure out is if this is our good ol Coop lost in time or someone else. I understand that in this universe there is a Richard, but did Coop become Richard or are they co-existing?

 

Who is Mother? Is Mother the creator of BOB from Ep. 8? Or is that Judy? Are Mother and Judy the same entity?

 

I believe so. Mother is the experiment. It's not confirmed that it's Judy but it seems likely

 

Yeah, 90% sure Judy, Mother and the Experiment are the same thing.

Also, After a couple days of thinking/ reading about this, my current thought is that the entire series was a fantasy of Laura's. I'll need to rewatch it all to develop this a bit but I think it fits ok. Its my understanding that something similar to this happened in several other Lynch films so I think its plausible.

 

I know this could very likely be it, but man do I realllllly not want that to be it.

 

Yeah, it's fits Lynch very well and its my interpretation at the moment, it's the most fitting and interesting to me.

 

I really don't think that's it. It's hard for me to imagine that a teenage girl would have imagined all of these separate plot points that span across decades. I get that Mullholand Dr was a dream but so much of that movie stuck close to the vest with Naomi Watts' character. I also don't think Lynch would use the same device twice. I believe that they live in some sort of a dream world but it's not all a dream

 

Both Lost Highway and Inland Empire (may have) used something similar to this as well. But as I said, I need to rewatch with this lens to see if I actually think that

 

I'm not fine with it all being "just a dream." I like the idea of Coop maybe transforming it into a dream so she could live, if that makes sense. I'm bad at articulating my thoughts on stuff like this lol. But I get the feeling what's happening here is darker than that either way.

 

First thing I thought of during the Richard/Linda note reading scene was Lost Highway.

 

Episode 18 in general was super Lost Highwayish.

And although I do think that the series was Laura's dream, I dont think it was 'just a dream' if that makes sense. I think there is another layer to it that I dont understand yet. There usually is with Lynch

 

I think that all of Lynch's original work takes place in a dreamlike world, with Mullholand Dr being explicitly the main character's dream/escape from reality. I have a hard time believing that this is all a dream, especially considering the fact that The Secret History/Final Dossier exist. With that said, I don't think everything that happened was literal. Audrey's scenes, for instance, I believe were going on in her head.

 

Idk, dreams can get pretty complex and that also answers why so many things have no resolution. I see it as her mind creating all these crazy things to distract herself from a life she hates, coming up with an evil entity possessing her father to explain his abuse towards her and then her mind just running wild with it before finally being pulled back to her reality at the end.

I don't think there is an "it" though, just interpretation and what people take from what was presented to us. I find this the most interesting and affecting idea that I can think of and its the one that makes the most sense to me. I like the idea of this all being about the mental state of a troubled young girl than it being about different dimensions and timelines and evil beings.

 

My friend was offering me that theory this morning and I actually can't say I believe it was all a dream. Then again, who knows? One prevalent theme throughout this show is that dream and reality are equally valid realms of existence.

 

Absolutely. I don't think it being a dream would make any of it any less important. I think it might even add more symbolic meaning to a lot of things.

 

I agree that there's probably not an "it", at least, not one that Lynch will let us be privy too. I also don't think that it being entirely a dream would mean that it was all for not, I just don't buy into that interpretation for my aforementioned reasons given. I will say though, it seems as Lynch definitely gave is the "correct" ending as people will be discussing this forever.

 

But it also poses a lot of problems-- like if the town ever existed, or the characters, or any of the events taking place in FWWM? Did Leland actually meet BOB at a vacation house near Pearl Lake? Could it really be possible the whole show is a manifestation of trauma taking form in the brain of a young girl who is molested every few nights by her own father? I couldn't say... but I honestly doubt it.

 

We'll never know for sure. I think there is enough evidence that points to it not all being a dream, at least, not in the sense that we know it. Lynch talks about interpretation here though and goes into the fact that, no matter what your interpretation is, it's true if it works for you. But god dammit I want to know what his interpretation of it is.

 

Exactly and I feel like that's whats so great about it. I just feel sad that some people aren't even trying to think about what it could mean or why it ended the way it did and just think he's trying to piss people off which I think is the only wrong interpretation.

 

I think the whole town and everyone in it are real people in Laura's life, only they're slightly exaggerated versions in the show because they're part of her dream. I think FWWM is the closest the show came to being real life and its also the part that feels the most real to me but I think even that is probably a slightly exaggerated version of how she lived and then obviously the murder is the nightmare that gives way to the dream.