10 Things We Learned From Twin Peaks: The Return Part 8
5. Have We Seen The White Lodge?
After the Mother gives birth to BOB, Lynch leads us through another cosmological wormhole, in which he uses a red and black colour palette reminiscent of the Red Room.
This image bleeds into an expanse of ocean. On the horizon, rising from the depths, is a tall rock formation at the top of which lies what might be the second implied visual representation of the fabled White Lodge. In the original series, we saw Major Garland Briggs sat on a throne in what was the first. This - if either or both were/are meant to represent it - has been retconned. This Lodge is a far less obvious presence of otherworldly benevolence.
It literally exists on an island, far removed from its own evil doppelgänger(s). It is bathed in white light, into which there are three minuscule entrances - an indictment, maybe, of the evil manifest in the human realm and a symbol of the elusiveness of all things good. In it live The Giant - or ???????, as Carel Struycken is now credited - and "Seniorita Dido", played by Joy Nash.
This almost vintage Hollywood aesthetic (with which we know Lynch in enamoured) is removed from Windom Earle's description of it. There are no gamboling fawns - but Lynch loathed the Earle character and is not beholden to it.
Aesthetically dissonant from the original notion of the White Lodge, the behaviour of its two spirits nonetheless suggest a benevolence befitting of it.