I have the feeling almost everyone is going to hate Part 18. I myself hated it, though I can also recognize its artistic brilliance. It isn't just an abstract ending, but one that seems almost totally disconnected from everything that came before. Luckily, Part 17 works well as an ending, if an unexpected and strange one.
The first half of Part 17 builds the tension brilliantly with every plot converging on the Sheriff's Station and everything coming to a head all at once. It's really incredible how all the most major threads dovetailed into this one location at the same moment without it being obvious that it was going to happen. Once everyone is there and the tension has been built to to fever pitch, the whole thing climaxes with the strangest, most intense fight scene I've ever seen. My only real complaint about the first half of the episode is that it moves at such a breakneck pace that all the satisfaction of certain reunions is lost.
The second half of the episode is Lynch at full throttle, delivering surreal and unique visuals back-to-back at breakneck pace, building towards a surprising and ballsy twist that re-contextualizes the entirety of Twin Peaks in a way that I never could have expected. The use of archive footage in the end of this episode is stunning and unprecedented to say the least.
I might never watch Part 18 again. For me, this is the conclusion of Twin Peaks. Though there are plenty of massive loose ends (such as Audrey), Part 17 takes most of the major plots in The Return to their endpoint and closes in a way that is ambiguous but has specific implications.
The first half of Part 17 builds the tension brilliantly with every plot converging on the Sheriff's Station and everything coming to a head all at once. It's really incredible how all the most major threads dovetailed into this one location at the same moment without it being obvious that it was going to happen. Once everyone is there and the tension has been built to to fever pitch, the whole thing climaxes with the strangest, most intense fight scene I've ever seen. My only real complaint about the first half of the episode is that it moves at such a breakneck pace that all the satisfaction of certain reunions is lost.
The second half of the episode is Lynch at full throttle, delivering surreal and unique visuals back-to-back at breakneck pace, building towards a surprising and ballsy twist that re-contextualizes the entirety of Twin Peaks in a way that I never could have expected. The use of archive footage in the end of this episode is stunning and unprecedented to say the least.
I might never watch Part 18 again. For me, this is the conclusion of Twin Peaks. Though there are plenty of massive loose ends (such as Audrey), Part 17 takes most of the major plots in The Return to their endpoint and closes in a way that is ambiguous but has specific implications.