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It's unfinished, as its creator sadly died when he was only a short way through it, but for a while I was reading an absolutely fascinating analysis of Season 3 of Twin Peaks.
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The theory (discussed at FindLaura on Reddit) literally went through every scene of every episode, picking out visual, aural and behavioural echoes between different events/places/people/times, under the thesis that >!basically everything we see is actually a series of abstractions of the same core thoughts, created by the internal state of Laura Palmer's subconscious as she tried to cope with the appalling trauma she had been subjected to in her life. And in fact that she was alive, not dead.!<
It sounds (and was) ambitious in the extreme, but it was deeply thoughtful and persuasive too. And most of all, its creator, Lou Ming, was humble and generous in discussing aspects of his theory with the community - a far cry from some other attempts at an overarching theory I've seen.
It was wonderful to read and discuss, and (on top of the sadness over his loss) it's so sad that Lou was unable get through the whole season and fully flesh it out.