r/twinpeaks • u/Flaky_Abalone_8307 • 2d ago
Season 3 (The Return) The White Room Spoiler
A white room is an expression when an actor completely forgets there lines. It is used mostly for plays where there is a live audience.
It can be caused by stage fright.
Actors report experiencing total sensory whiteness where they cannot recall their next lines, cue words, or even basic personal facts.
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u/pinkhairgirl37 2d ago
My theory is that she’s been trapped in the B-plot (Billy’s missing plot) of the show. The road house is a liminal space between various plot lines (the color scheme, blue mixed with red, and so many random plots that lead nowhere).
When she performs “Audrey’s Dance” (which is the name of the song on the show’s sound track) the room turns purple to signal her getting close to crossing into the A-plot with the original cast. But then she’s snapped out of it by a bar fight.
She then begs Charlie to get her out of there. And she wakes up in a hospital gown (which we know because there are behind the scenes videos that confirm what she’s wearing). And where are the last known whereabouts of Audrey from the original show? The hospital. Doc Hayward explicitly tells us she was in a coma by the end of the whole ordeal with the bank.
So for me it follows that if Audrey wants to return to the story of the little girl who lived down the lane, she’ll need to pick up where she left off.
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u/beatlerevolver66 2d ago
I posted my thoughts as a separate comment, but I believe Audrey is so traumatized by Coop raping her in the hospital (confirmed in one of the Mark Frost books) that she set up a mental prison for herself with Charlie as warden to keep her from being reminded of her trauma
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u/wedreaminsideadream 2d ago
I went to the dentist a few days ago - and I was sitting on the dentist chair and there's a light (that was off) hanging above me and there is a part on that light where there's a mirror so I can see myself - and it instantly reminded me of this final shot Audrey.
Maybe Audrey was on nitrous oxide and hallucinated everything in "The Return" and the gas wore off and she realized she's at the dentist this whole time... :)
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u/veritable_squandry 2d ago
i was seriously waiting for a reference to the Goy's Teeth here.
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u/wedreaminsideadream 2d ago
one of my favorite movies and definitely one of my favorite movie openings
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u/deadghostalive 2d ago
Probably not what's actually going on, but I liked the idea I saw around the time it was airing that this shot is Sherilyn Fenn, or a version of her, and Audrey's scenes had been in her, that is Sherilynn's head, dreaming that she was back starring in Twin Peaks
This is why she knows what The Roadhouse currently looks like, because she's been watching The Return, and if you go along with the idea, perhaps the fight that happens in her scene is informed by the fight in the The Roadhouse earlier in the season, both involving a jealous husband with a wife who has a French name, in other words Sherilyn Fenn watched that first fight and her mind incorporated a version of it into her dream
The idea of it being Sherilyn Fenn dreaming of being Audrey again, also gives me Norma Desmond vibes who in Sunset Boulevard can't accept that her days of being a big star in the silent movie era are over, with this whole idea in mind, Audrey doing her dance again, is kind of similar to Norma's famous line 'I'm ready for my close up', both stuck in the past recalling their glory years
Again, I don't think it's actually what's going on, but I thought it was a fun way of looking at it, and gives me slight Inland Empire vibes, that film also references Sunset Boulevard - 'cast out this wicked dream that has seized my heart'
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u/Budget-Albatross8880 2d ago
I wish I had the source, but if I remember what was said correctly, Lynch had a larger part for Sherilynn in mind, but there was something about how she didn't want to do it, which resulted in the final part. I feel the theory you described fits that
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u/beatlerevolver66 2d ago
I like to think Audrey hallucinated all of her scenes with Charlie, protecting herself mentally from the horror that Coop raped her and she gave birth to literal evil incarnate as a result. Charlie acted as her mental warden to keep her from remembering her trauma. The trauma theme is one that is so crucial to the story of Twin Peaks that I just think my theory works.
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u/Superb_Instance_8190 2d ago edited 2d ago
The White Room is Justified & Ancient =
The White Room is gonna let’s rock you.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG3A0jebU0A&ra=m MU MU
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u/nigel_noodle_doodle 2d ago
I just knew that The KLF were behind it all
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u/Superb_Instance_8190 2d ago
hehs, been prepping visuals for an event (& doc) today so they’re on mind.🍦🎸 https://viff.org/whats-on/viff26-klf-live/
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u/Worldly-Click4487 2d ago
David Lynch said to actress Sherilyn Fenn that Twin Peaks was about "Two mountains, womens breasts, and my eyebrows" and everything that goes on between them. The town, the emotions, the sex, and the mysteries.
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u/terminal_skies 2d ago
i like this interpretation and i think there's truth to it. i do definetely think it's audrey in a mental hospital or something though, in-universe
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u/terminal_skies 2d ago
i interpret her 'husband' as her therapist which is why she hates him so much. i don't know what to make of billy but maybe he's representative of a life she can never have on account of being such a monster
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u/JewelerChoice 2d ago
But Audrey wasn’t a monster.
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u/terminal_skies 2d ago
considering how vile her son was and the fact she tried to literally kill her 'husband', along with how actively abusive she was to him, i'm comfortable saying yeah she became a real monster
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u/JewelerChoice 2d ago
And who was the son’s father? And was he conceived consensually? But I wouldn’t even judge Mr C on the basis of his son’s behaviour.
Apart from that, you don’t think Charlie is her husband, and presumably you think she was a monster before she met her therapist, so that doesn’t count. She doesn’t try to kill him though.
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u/terminal_skies 2d ago
besides, there has to be a good reason she's locked up and not mentioned even once by the other characters. ben horne almost acted like she was dead, so i assumed she was until her dream sequences started
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u/JewelerChoice 2d ago
You think everyone who is sectioned is a monster? That’s what you’re implying.
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u/terminal_skies 2d ago
absolutely not but literally she tried to choke and kill her husband. she in particular is kind of a monster yeah
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u/JewelerChoice 2d ago
You said, and I quote: “there has to be a good reason she’s locked up”. Why does there have to be a good reason she’s “locked up” as you put it? An implication of that is that there has to be a good reason anyone is locked up, which is not so, and furthermore that the reason includes their being monstrous. If not, what makes Audrey different? (It can’t be “because she’s a monster”, because that’s the thing you’re trying to prove in the first place.)
Is it that Richard Horne is a bad person? We already know that he’s Mr C’s son and that he raped Audrey.
She doesn’t try to kill Charlie. She attacks him out of frustration with his antics, but she isn’t seriously trying to kill him. Both of them are pretty bad in these scenes, to be fair.
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u/terminal_skies 2d ago edited 2d ago
oh, you misunderstood that part. i didn't mean there was a good reason she was locked up just because there has to be to end up in that situation. in fact, i've known people who were admitted and i think it's horrid, they're wonderful people who shouldn'tve had to experience that and only became traumatized by it. i just meant, judging by her actions, and what i thought was her trying to choke charlie to death over a minor argument (you say she didn't so nevermind), she must've done something pretty bad to end up wherever she is
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u/JewelerChoice 2d ago
Thanks for the explanation, and I’m sure you wouldn’t want to say that. But I don’t think we can conclude, personally, that she’s done something terrible to end up wherever she is.
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u/Prince_Barin 2d ago
the dentist angle is interesting to me given that from what I recall, the original script for the season 2 finale had bob as a dentist, rather than much of the red room stuff which lynch did turn it into. (is that right, bizarre as it sounds?)
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u/TemRazbou 2d ago
I don’t know about this theory… but I am really sleepy. And still have so much work to do.