I must say I find it hard to articulate anything about these final few episodes of The Return. Plot wise it's all an enigma, but What I do know is how I felt watching it: it's terribly terribly sad and frightening television. As the credits rolled at the end of part 18 I felt a profound loneliness and hopelessness. Why that is is hard to express. The message I'm taking away from this is that once an evil act has been committed and the damage is done there is nothing anybody can do no matter how hard they try to put things right, it's simply there in history forever.
It seems that Cooper has entered a time loop in order to try to change the past but but by changing the fate of Laura Palmer the mystical force of Judy is awakened and changes the new world so that Laura can never go home. Judy is a force of evil in David Lynch's world, for the real world I suppose it could simply be thought of as the objectivity of time. All we seem to know is that Laura Palmer can never go home. The world can't be put right.
This is all very wacko, and if I was fussed with the details of the plot I'm sure it might not all make a whole lot of sense. However, I had a pretty strong emotional reaction to it, and the feelings I got from it were genuine in the way that one might feel something strong from a great work of art or piece of music without really knowing why. From me, David Lynch can receive no higher praise than that. This was one of the most fascinating stretches of TV I have ever seen.
It seems that Cooper has entered a time loop in order to try to change the past but but by changing the fate of Laura Palmer the mystical force of Judy is awakened and changes the new world so that Laura can never go home. Judy is a force of evil in David Lynch's world, for the real world I suppose it could simply be thought of as the objectivity of time. All we seem to know is that Laura Palmer can never go home. The world can't be put right.
This is all very wacko, and if I was fussed with the details of the plot I'm sure it might not all make a whole lot of sense. However, I had a pretty strong emotional reaction to it, and the feelings I got from it were genuine in the way that one might feel something strong from a great work of art or piece of music without really knowing why. From me, David Lynch can receive no higher praise than that. This was one of the most fascinating stretches of TV I have ever seen.