I've always thought so too, ever since my first viewing. I just feel that it looks like she does.Mr. Reindeer wrote:Do people think Margaret sees the Giant? My impression has always been that she does.
It seems consistent in all the Giant's appearances that he can't overtly lead Cooper anywhere. He even tries and fails to communicate what he means, what with his almost uncharacteristic 'No, bro, no,' at Annie joining Miss Twin Peaks; as easy as it is to chalk that up to Lynch not being on-script or on-set, it's interesting to consider.Mr. Reindeer wrote:Even before TR, I questioned the Giant’s motivations in bringing Cooper to the Roadhouse instead of helping him prevent Maddy’s murder. Axxon N. pointed out in the Episode 13 thread how the spirit realm may involve a “greater good” analysis (the Fireman sent Laura to Earth to suffer Jesus-style so the world can ultimately be a better place). Did Maddy have to die for some greater purpose, even if the Giant/Fireman could have easily sent Cooper to stop it? Is there simply some code among the Lodge spirits where the Giant wasn’t allowed to interfere directly with Bob’s garmonbozia-gathering? I have no answers, but the Giant does look genuinely sad in the moment when he fades away. Perhaps his position boils down to what Judge Sternwood said: “We have hard jobs.”
Disregarding the Giant, Maddy's death might have more to do with BOB's mechanations, if we're to ascribe to it a deeper intent or a tying-in with the overall plot as of S3. Perhaps it's necesarry for BOB to get what grief he can out of Leland, Maddy, Cooper and everyone the death effects on his path to disposing Leland and angling to get into Cooper. It's borne out by Cooper's autobio that Coop's long been on a course to TP, being drawn in some way all along to a terminus we now understand as BOB posession.
Laura-as-martyr is something I definitely don't think comes into play until FWWM. So Maddy's death I think is more accurately read on its own terms, and it's always seemed rather meta to me. Maddy as a character has struggled to break free of the shadow Laura casts on her, while she finds her identity come into question as she don Laura's image and gets sucked into the mystery of her. And of course, ultimately, tragically and fittingly, dies in the same way as her. But it's almost as if, Laura being reduced in her death to being the plot device that offers the mystery, the real tragedy of Maddy is she dies and is reduced to being the plot device that reveals the answer.
It's interesting, though, to consider what purpose Cooper's Roadhouse experience has when considered against later events. I always got the feeling it was important, for some reason, that Cooper experience the odd environment of sadness in the Roadhouse. It has something to do with the building of his intuition, which he later demonstrates by intuiting the killer. But it feels like something more broad; he's touching into the deep vein of sadness that exists in the universe in a cosmic sense.
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