...if she "remembers everything", both at the Sheriffs Station and outside of the portal to the Red Room? I feel like I missed something.
An additional question, is her nails being painted black and white, combined with her red hair, supposed to only be a visual reference to the Red Room? Or something more? Sorry if this wasn't worth tagging for spoilers.
Posted Aug 11, 2018, 5:49 AM UTC
I think in the Station he's wondering if she remembers the plan.
In the "curtain call", he's probably checking if she remembers the "unofficial version" after he changed the past.
I consider the hair a fairly important reference. But answers will vary.
And he's asking if she remembers everything from before, when she was Naido and all that.
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It might or might not also be related to alchemy. Nigredo, Albedo and Rubedo stages, that kind of thing.
Because usually when the world changes into the actual one, memory fails.
Considering that Diane seems to know almost as much as Cooper about his plan at the end of 17, it’s open to interpretation what they’ve been thru together, if this is indeed some sort of time loop (like the 2:53 the clock on the Sheriff’s office wall seems to be stuck at) that Cooper has done before with varying results and Diane has always played a part in it. After all, Andy says “she’s very important and people want to kill her” but at the end of the show, it kind of isn’t clear exactly why Naido/Diane was so important. It seems to be about the sex ritual and helping Cooper cross over to Odessa to get Carrie, but maybe there’s more to it that is purposely left open to interpretation. Or maybe she had some sort of knowledge or experiences before she was imprisoned or hidden wherever she was before that was valuable to Cooper. He certainly didn’t seem to know who Naido was the first time he met her, so who’s to say.
I think it’s supposed to be vague whether her hair is supposed to be a sign of the Black Lodge, but probably so. Tulpa Diane’s hair was white, just like Leland’s turned after he killed Jacques and BOB seemed to take full control of him and I definitely don’t think that was an accident. Cooper has also been marked by the Black Lodge though, as we see him control the curtains before he leaves in the reset timeline and seems to have a predetermined sense of purpose which he didn’t have when he left as Dougie. So it wouldn’t surprise me if both he and Diane have become changed by their experiences with the Black Lodge and Diane’s hair/nails are just one indication of that. They definitely don’t seem like normal people anymore.