In the end, theories like mine are a parlor game, because the specifics are irrelevant. The big picture, though, is inescapable. Twin Peaks’ greatest fear, its bad dream, is one it shares with Major Garland Briggs: the possibility that love is not enough.
Despite never actually meeting her, FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper loved Laura. Coop loved the whole world, in all its wonderful strangeness. I think his most bone-deep conviction was simply that people should be free to enjoy living, from Twin Peaks to Tibet, from One-Eyed Jack’s to the Black Lodge. He opposed injustice on both a human and cosmic scale, the forces that extinguished Laura’s light, with a pure and passionate intensity, because evil gets in the way of life, of love.
I reviewed the series finale of Twin Peaks for Pop Heist. (Gift link!) This concludes my reviews of the complete Twin Peaks saga, all of which you can find here. Thank you for reading.
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