10 Things We Learned From Twin Peaks: The Return Part 8
8. We Have Witnessed The Creation Of A World
We encounter a vast desert scape after Mr Cooper reawakens. A graphic - JULY 16, 1945 WHITE SANDS, NEW MEXICO 5:29 AM (MWT) - appears on the screen.
We hear a countdown from ten and then: a nuclear test explosion, soundtracked, notably, by Penderecki's Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima. The mushroom cloud swells in parallel with the strings. Lynch takes us inside of it. We see grainy film. White dots elongating into daggers dance in a black void, like weaponised stars. Black, sperm-like organisms shake in the inverse to that image. More doubling. Actual intercourse between worlds. Those stars/daggers then flicker furiously, as if powered and illuminated by electricity. We then enter a cosmological wormhole, firing through nebula of blue, orange, purple.
And then: the convenience store alluded to in the original series (and shown, internally, in The Missing Pieces) appears. Those blackened entities dart around and within haphazardly, not adhering to known laws of physics. Through the darkened windows we see tin cans piled on top of one another.
This sequence, as politicised as it is spiritual as it is completely without precedent in television, all but confirms that the evil inherent to nuclear weaponry has created both copious amounts of garmonbozia - and a gateway allowing that evil immediate access to the pain and suffering of humankind.