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I don't think there's really an answer. But I think the little girl who lives down the lane could be either Laura Palmer or Audrey, they've become David Lynch victim girls, raped and maybe murdered, women in trouble. The line could refer to either of them, they both have bad endings. There's some hope that they can come back to life and their story doesn't end there, but as Charlie said maybe that is the end of their story.ThumbsUp wrote:Expectations subverted again!
The question is why she and the Arm both say the exact say thing about the girl who lives down the lane. Thoughts?
Somebody on Reddit pointed out that Audrey fell so far from getting her dream come true (that scene where she tells Donna in the toilets that Coop will whisk her away on a life of adventure and international intrigue). In a way... Audrey's life and future fit that. But in the most messed up way. Coop... as Mr. C... took her to the Convenience Store like he did Diane, and gave Audrey adventure, mystery and intrigue all right. Now Audrey has been trapped in this supernatural mind-dungeon for decades and it seems like she's only now figuring out how it works. The girl who always wanted more excitement than what reality offered finally got it... sigh, very sad, but that's why I was so invested and why the part 16 cliffhanger was such a good one for me.Audrey Horne wrote:I do like though that Audrey still perseveres and gets to the next level of getting out of the trap she's been in for twenty five years.
"I knew Laura better than the rest." - Audrey in season 1. So many dark similarities. We see them with Audrey and Carrie in season 3.Manwith wrote:I don't think there's really an answer. But I think the little girl who lives down the lane could be either Laura Palmer or Audrey, they've become David Lynch victim girls, raped and maybe murdered, women in trouble. The line could refer to either of them, they both have bad endings. There's some hope that they can come back to life and their story doesn't end there, but as Charlie said maybe that is the end of their story.ThumbsUp wrote:Expectations subverted again!
The question is why she and the Arm both say the exact say thing about the girl who lives down the lane. Thoughts?
It is a dark road to go down, but it's possible to see the Diane character, who is suddenly real in this season after being a dictaphone for so long (ambiguous deleted scenes notwithstanding), as a kind of fig-leaf or shoe-in for Audrey.ThumbsUp wrote:Expectations subverted again!
While she didn't get any screen time in the last two episodes, I've made the case in other threads that Audrey remains a vital character that connects all the major players, locations and parallel universes or timelines - or "stories" as she, the Arm, Sarah Palmer and Charlie all refer to them.
I also think there were echoes back to earlier episodes in earlier seasons that loop back to Audrey Horne's fantastic analysis in this thread. Audrey is still trapped, in an even more warped version of a fairy tale.
In the original series, Coop was her knight in shining armor, who rescued her from a dark prison where her consciousness and grip on reality were ravaged - at One-Eyed Jack's, whose decor recalled the Black Lodge's and where Audrey's captors administered her heroin.
This time, the shadow self of that same knight takes her to a dark prison (the Convenience Store) where her consciousness and grip on reality are again warped beyond belief, this time for years, which is tragic.
The question is why she and the Arm both say the exact say thing about the girl who lives down the lane. Thoughts?
There may be something to this. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane is a story about a girl who becomes a murderer to avoid abuse. I saw Charlie as a mixture of Ben, Mr C and the Superego in her head.ThumbsUp wrote:Somebody on Reddit pointed out that Audrey fell so far from getting her dream come true (that scene where she tells Donna in the toilets that Coop will whisk her away on a life of adventure and international intrigue). In a way... Audrey's life and future fit that. But in the most messed up way. Coop... as Mr. C... took her to the Convenience Store like he did Diane, and gave Audrey adventure, mystery and intrigue all right. Now Audrey has been trapped in this supernatural mind-dungeon for decades and it seems like she's only now figuring out how it works. The girl who always wanted more excitement than what reality offered finally got it... sigh, very sad, but that's why I was so invested and why the part 16 cliffhanger was such a good one for me.Audrey Horne wrote:I do like though that Audrey still perseveres and gets to the next level of getting out of the trap she's been in for twenty five years.
"I knew Laura better than the rest." - Audrey in season 1. So many dark similarities. We see them with Audrey and Carrie in season 3.Manwith wrote:I don't think there's really an answer. But I think the little girl who lives down the lane could be either Laura Palmer or Audrey, they've become David Lynch victim girls, raped and maybe murdered, women in trouble. The line could refer to either of them, they both have bad endings. There's some hope that they can come back to life and their story doesn't end there, but as Charlie said maybe that is the end of their story.ThumbsUp wrote:Expectations subverted again!
The question is why she and the Arm both say the exact say thing about the girl who lives down the lane. Thoughts?
I've also just realised something. I've mentioned both Audrey and Carrie wanting to grab coats and leaving, and how phones are ringing. And people have mentioned the dead guy in Carrie's. I wonder if that was her "Charlie"? Some Judy crony hellbent on her not leaving (as that would have helped Coop on his Judy-defeat quest). We already know that Audrey hated Charlie and issued her own violence against him when she choked him on the couch.
I'm not sure that Diane isn't still a character inside Cooper's mind though, a projection/disassociation of his memories. There are too many similarities between Diane and Audrey's stories to be a coincidence. Let's not forget in the last episode of the original show he gets Annie and Caroline mixed up.Novalis wrote:It is a dark road to go down, but it's possible to see the Diane character, who is suddenly real in this season after being a dictaphone for so long (ambiguous deleted scenes notwithstanding), as a kind of fig-leaf or shoe-in for Audrey.ThumbsUp wrote:Expectations subverted again!
While she didn't get any screen time in the last two episodes, I've made the case in other threads that Audrey remains a vital character that connects all the major players, locations and parallel universes or timelines - or "stories" as she, the Arm, Sarah Palmer and Charlie all refer to them.
I also think there were echoes back to earlier episodes in earlier seasons that loop back to Audrey Horne's fantastic analysis in this thread. Audrey is still trapped, in an even more warped version of a fairy tale.
In the original series, Coop was her knight in shining armor, who rescued her from a dark prison where her consciousness and grip on reality were ravaged - at One-Eyed Jack's, whose decor recalled the Black Lodge's and where Audrey's captors administered her heroin.
This time, the shadow self of that same knight takes her to a dark prison (the Convenience Store) where her consciousness and grip on reality are again warped beyond belief, this time for years, which is tragic.
The question is why she and the Arm both say the exact say thing about the girl who lives down the lane. Thoughts?
Their stories are, after all, similar: both raped by the doppelganger of the man they adored.
Knowing Lynch as we do, one can image a first draft, quickly vetoed by members of production, in which it was Audrey, and not Diane, that was imprisoned in the Naido form and subsequently sleeps with Cooper in the motel. This would no doubt have been flagged as tasteless and insane. Like I said, a dark road to go down. In this dark fantasy/hypothesis I'm having right now (and which I apologise for) over changed storylines, someone probably pointed back to the age difference and Cooper's reactions to naked Audrey in the original series, and the idea wasn't so much scrapped as saved by bringing in the new character of Diane.
I'm not saying this is what happened, but when you weigh up external factors -- Fenn's delay in signing on, the extraneous and inessential nature of the character Diane as Diane -- then this horrible suspicion gains some traction.
It would also explain why Audrey's actual character then has nowhere to go in the script, and why she is side-lined into her sidebar plot. She has a short story, trapped in a kind of narrative limbo fighting herself and not really knowing who she is or if she is. This can't be sustained for more than a few episodes obviously. In the end she starts to suspect she's not a real person at all, and her hallucinatory world becomes so unstable that it even breaks the fourth wall in calling out the name of a musical piece from the Twin Peaks soundtrack in our world: 'Audrey's Dance'. She goes with it for a short while -- why not, there's nothing else happening for her -- but a sudden eruption of violence regarding relationships with people terrifies her and she pleads with Charlie (who in my mind is the reality principle that keeps resisting her attempts to make the hallucinatory bubble consistent and whole) for release. In doing so, she is pleading for 'an end' to this crazy, pocket narrative, this story that doesn't go anywhere but bends back into metafiction. Then we cut to Sherilyn/Audrey in a blank environment, astonished to see herself in a mirror. This blank unfurnished environment is exactly what you get after a story ends: blank pages. We're either offered a metaphysical glimpse of what happens to characters in Meinong's Jungle when their day is up or this is Sherilyn Fenn in some kind of representation of a non-diegetic dressing room. She's expelled from the story of Twin Peaks and finds herself on our side of the screen, so to speak (or, let us say, more precisely, an onscreen representation of our side of the screen -- which is necessarily blank and unknowable). Her face in the mirror lacks her characteristic Audrey make-up, and made to appear a lot less made-up, a 'naturalistic' look.
I'm so-so about all this. I'm not saying it's what I 100% believe is going on here; maybe 50-50; in fact I'm convinced that there is no one 'correct' version of events. I'm just throwing it out there as another bone to gnaw on.
Ah, sorry, that's what I meant. That she was intended to have a more central/romantic role with Cooper in S2 but got the other storyline instead.Audrey Horne wrote:I don't think she was ever sidelined in season two... if anything was given too much screen time in a rather pedestrian storyline in order to provide time for her as a major fan favorite. But regardless.