10 Things We Learned From Twin Peaks: The Finale

9. Necessity IS The Mother Of Invention

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As far as a replacement for David Bowie goes, the gigantic monochrome teapot introduced in Part 15 was suitably Lynchian, in a sort of parodic fashion. It worked almost in spite of itself, but up to a point. It was only going to be adequate, truthfully - until Part 17 at least, in which Lynch toyed with this beguiling new development to skin-crawling, blackly comic effect. As Jeffries, profoundly confused as ever, opened a time portal to 1989, he let out the words "It's slippery in here."

The mental image conjured, of Bowie's physical form and or spirit sliding around the enclosure of his new vessel, was an abstract delight. Lynch's use of sound design throughout The Return has been sensational. This was another triumph, with Lynch evoking the suffocation of drowning through squeaky, muffled echoes. Faced with the virtually impossible task of replacing the most elusive Peaks character played by the most iconic figure in 20th century popular culture, Lynch crafted a mundane object writ Lynchian through disturbing sound and idiosyncratic, indefinable humour.

At least one of the characters ended up fulfilling William Hasting's scuba diving dream.

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