Twin Peaks - Love Endures

Big Ed never wavered in his love and adoration for Norma, despite the agonizing distance of time that separated them from truly being a “couple”. Their affairs despite the spouses tied to them like nagging attachments, parasitically feeding off the joy that could exist if they could be together all official-like could only give them brief visits to paradise instead of space and time to enjoy it with any real degree of fulfillment. Then can Episode 15 of the Return, when Ed is told by his long unstable wife that he deserves to be happy and that she could no longer deprive him of that. Ed cannot get to that diner fast enough, only to be shooed away by Norma while her “business associate” gets her full attention. The devastation in his face and the defeat Ed has as he plops down in a chair…it is just like a cold bucket of water splattered all over you. Then Norma sends that business associate on his way, not giving in to what he thinks is a proper decision to run her diners as he thinks she should. Ed contemplates what lies ahead for him and then you see those soft hands come off screen, caressing his shoulder. Ed turns and there is his beloved, their faces displaying relief and euphoria. This nirvana cannot be overstated…it was decades in the making and we as Twin Peaks fans finally got to see these two given their paradise, not to be a short-lived visit any longer.