The Twin (Universe) Paradox, Part One

I hear it all the time: "Yes, yes, you've assembled a mind-boggling catalog of syncs over the past 17 years, but what does it all mean? Where is it all going?"

That's an excellent question, and today is an excellent time to start to tackle the ultimate meaning underneath all the synchery. 

Why?

Well, today is Twin Peaks Day - the 35th for those who keep track of these things. Which makes for an auspicious signal to dive into this recurrent Twinning motif that keeps popping up in our research. 

Be advised that this may well lead us ask the ultimate question: does this have something to do with a Twin universe? 

And might someone or something in that Twin universe be manipulating events in order to communicate with us? 

Now, don't you scoff until you've seen all the evidence.

Twin Peaks: The Return will take a very long time to fully unpack, but there is a school of thought that it that the revival series took place across parallel dimensions. 

And there is another school of thought that has it that the Black Lodge and/or Red Room is the portal into a evil twin universe, a topic that's been making the news in the past year or so.

Twin Peaks Day was chosen to observe the date in which Agent Dale Cooper rolls into town, and announces the date to Diane on his trusty pocket recorder. 

So it may be significant that both Dale and Diane were replaced by Black Lodge Twins in the revival series.

We've seen a lot of indications which could lead a sensible person to believe that the Black Lodge is a Twin universe, and that its ultraterrestrial entities can cross over to our own and as disembodied beings, inhabitate human (and nonhuman) bodies.

There's also the Search for the Zone website that was created for Twin Peaks: The Return, and designed to melt the hearts of 90s nostalgists with its vintage Geocities/Angelfire design.

But for our purposes here, the subject matter written into the site is something we should take note of. I think you'll agree. 

Twin universes were clearly a subject that David Lynch and Mark Frost were processing.

I don't believe this was intentional, but Lynch and Frost chose the same date in which the Cocteau Twins premiered "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops" to bring Coop to Twin Peaks.

This feels especially significant, given that Lynch seemed to be referencing the cover to the "Pearly Dewdrops' Drop" single with the scene on the right from TP:TR Episode 8. 

We'll get to why this is especially significant in another post, but suffice to say that Lynch may have come see the Sibyl in the same context that I do.

It's not that wild a claim, especially if read my post on Lynch's decades-long obsession with the Sibyl. 

If you haven't read it yet, click here.

 

Twin Peaks Eve is another highly-resonant date as well, being the birthday of DNA Scully, as played by Gillizabeth Anderfrase. 

Twin Peaks obviously had a massive influence on The X-Files, and Chris Carter not only soaked up the Pacific Northwest Noir vibe for his show, he also virtually raided Lynch's Rolodex for any number of actors. 

One of which was the late Don S. Davis, who played Scully's dad on TXF, and then went on to have a major role in the inexplicably long-running Stargate SGI. 

And all three franchises dealt with alternate realities and twin universes, didn't they?

And Carter would lift his male lead - who played a crossdressing FBI agent (redundant) - from Twin Peaks.

No one can quite figure it out, but Carter had his own Twinning fixation, as we saw throughout the life of the series. Starting with DNA Scully's thesis reinterpreting Einstein's Twin Paradox, which featured into the Theory of Relativity.

Carter gave us virtual twins (two best friends who were born on the same day) in Syzygy in Season Three. Note that the term syzygy has significance in both Astronomy and Gnosticism. 

We also saw superpowered fraternal twins in "Kitsunegari" and "Surekill." Note Patrick Kilpatrick on the bottom left - he'll figure into it later when we see what Minority Report has to do with everything.

Carter also had multiple Twins and doppelgangers in the off-his-meds cringefest "Fight Club." That episode had some cockamamie quantum physics foolishness pasted over the plot, but it also had not only one but two frigging Kathy Griffin's, making it the undisputed worst episode of X-Files ever made.

Bonus Factoid: The Mulder and Scully doppelgangers are played by the lead's photo doubles.

Always one to kick a hornet's nest, Carter brought back the doppelgangers for "Babylon", the magic-mushroom-themed fever dream sent fangirls and shitlibs into paroxysms of rage. 

I sympathized somewhat, until I recently rewatched it and realized it was a work of cracked genius. Having that spunky little ginger Lauren Ambrose on hand didn't exactly hinder me from coming to that change of mind.

Unchastened, Carter did all over again with "Plus One" in the final season, which had yet another set of superpowered fraternal twins summoning doppelgangers to ice their Earthbound counterparts. 

Clearly something about Twins and Twin universes bugging that guy. What exactly has never been made clear.

Also on Scully's birthday/Twin Peaks Eve is the release of Annihilation, which we've been over before and are going to need to dive back into again. The film may be the key to unlock this puzzle, or at least one of the big keys.

But suffice it to say it all ends up with Natalie Portfrase's character fighting an alien Twin.

Annihilation also co-stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, who showed up in Twin Peaks: The Return. Leigh's character got her ticket punched in Las Vegas, as you might remember.

Leigh really made her mark with Single White Female (1992), in which she played a psycho obsessed with her roommate. 

Lynch clearly pulled a few ideas from that film with Diane and Rita's Twinning in Mulholland Dr.

Scully and Annihilation share a birthday with Caledonian cupcake Kelly Macdonald, who made her first big splash in Trainspotting, alongside Ewan McGregor. 

Kelly is what we call an UHFF*, in case you were wondering.

Of course, McGregor went onto play the young Obi-Wan Kenobi along with Natalie Portfrase in the Star Wars prequels.

And bringing it all full circle, "Pearly Dewdrops' Drop" is the closing theme to the Netflix series Halston, in which McGregor played the title role.

And then there's Color Out of Space, which is based on the same H.P. Lovecraft short story that Annihilation draws heavily on, was released Twin years and Twin days after the Natalie Portfrase vehicle. 

Like Annihilation, Color Out of Space signals the fact that its female leads are possessed by otherwordly intelligences with their weird, glowy eyes. 

What a nutty idea, right? Where'd they come up with that one?

That actress is Madeleine Arthur, who'd previously appeared in - you guessed it...

... The X-Files, where she played William's Betty Fraser-eyed girlfriend. 

This shot is from the season finale.

Gillian Anderson has so much in common with Elizabeth - particularly their wild youths - that I'm wondering if they're alien doppelgangers.

So the fact that Scully's baby is played by an actor whose very name is rampant with Cocteau Twins syncs does not surprise me one iota. 

The Guthrie and Robbins are a cinch, but even that Tomalin figures in:

Tomalin is an English surname that means "little Tom" or is a variation of the name Thomas, which means "twin".  

 

And then there's this, bringing me back to the crazy 2017-2018 days of The Secret Sun. 

We'll get into this in a future installment, but here's a taste:

"Willow’s performance on this benchmark is astonishing," Google Quantum AI founder Hartmut Neven wrote in a blog post announcing the chip. "It performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10²⁵ or 10 septillion years."

  

 "This mind-boggling number exceeds known timescales in physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe," he argued. "It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch."

Willow, you say? What's the siginifcance of Willow?

Well, that may have been Jeff Buckley's pet name for Our Lady, if the song they wrote together is any indication.

So is there a Twin Earth? If so, where is it? 

Are beings there trying to communicate with us? Is that what all this symbolism is pointing to? 

If so, what do these theoretical beings want from our Earth?

We'll see what the syncs might tell as this series proceeds. Don't you dare miss it, Pilgrim.

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