From missing basic social cues to being largely ignored by the town around her (a place in which she grew up, and where her sister runs a popular business) she is marked off as distinctly ‘Other’ from the start. The evidence of Annie’s oddness adds up quickly. Cooper decides to help Annie face her fears, and comes to a few realizations about himself in the process, just in time for Windom Earle to kidnap Annie and use her as bait to get Coop to Glastonberry Grove and into the Black Lodge. It’s a timely message for Agent Cooper, who for most of the second season has been hell-bent on avoiding the pain and hurt of his own past, even as it totally surrounds and threatens to consume him. He predictably falls for her almost immediately.Īs her story unfolds, we discover that Annie made an attempt on her life some years prior because of a relationship gone bad she left Twin Peaks for the convent, and this is where she’d stayed in order to heal herself, mentally and spiritually, until the moment she realizes facing her fears in the place where they came true is the best path to true healing. She arrives in town the next day, to very little fanfare, except insofar as Coop is concerned.
At this point, all we have is a general impression of a troubled young woman, obviously seeking comfort from family in a time of great need. Upon ending the call, Norma makes a pointed observation to co-worker Shelly Johnson that Annie always seemed like she was from “another time and place”, which struck us as an odd thing to say and becomes eerily prescient as the story continues. We learn that Annie has been away at a convent for an unspecified period of time, and we hear Norma reassure Annie that everything will be all right as Annie cries on the other end. But what if that wasn’t simply bad, uncreative writing? What if the design of Annie’s character came from within the world of the show itself, instead of from without ?Īnnie is introduced in Episode 23 through a conversation between Annie and her sister, Norma Jennings, during a brief phone call. It still struck us that Annie seemed to be designed for one purpose, which was to make Dale Cooper fall in love with her. Our indifference to Annie became intrigue a few years ago during a rewatch in which we tried to make sense of her purpose on the show. She was merely a damsel in distress, nothing more and nothing less. Harley Peyton was very clear on this point when he answered the burning question behind Annie’s purpose on the alt.tv.twin-peaks Usenet board back in the day 2. Being writers ourselves, we knew that she was the kind of character we have long been warned to avoid if the writers of Twin Peaks broke that rule, they must have had a good reason for it. But she seemed too convenient, too bland, too much like a plot device or, even worse, a dreaded Mary Sue 1. There was nothing about her (initially) to turn a person off. We wanted to like Annie from the start because we wanted Cooper to have some semblance of happiness in his life. Alas, any Cooper/Audrey romance was kiboshed mid-way through Season Two.īut Cooper always needed a love interest -the endgame required it- and with Audrey out of the picture and few available women in Twin Peaks fitting the bill, the writers of the show turned their collective eye outward, introducing Annie six episodes before the end of the series’ run.
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But while we didn’t want to see a romantic relationship develop immediately, we had high hopes that the friendship - replete with smoldering chemistry and very clear mutual attraction - would grow and blossom into something more as the series went on this was, after all, what the creators of the show intended to happen, and were it not for the (supposed) behind-the-scenes drama, it almost certainly would have happened. When we at Bickering Peaks first watched Twin Peaks, we were big fans of Agent Cooper and Audrey Horne’s budding friendship. Speaking personally, our relationship with Annie is a bit fraught.
Love her or hate her (but really, how can you hate her?) Annie is an integral part of the Twin Peaks mythos. And yet her name is the last word uttered on screen at the end of the harrowing cliffhanger Season Two finale. We know from her first appearance how her story is going to end because we’ve heard it so many times before there is nothing new or particularly noteworthy about Annie. She arrives right out of central casting, appears in only a handful of episodes at the very end of Season 2, is very quickly shuffled through the plot in which she was planted, and we go through the motions along with her. Initially conceived as a late-Season Two romantic partner for Agent Cooper, she has turned into something of a lightning rod for fans of the series. Few characters in Twin Peaks have inspired as much discussion and debate as Annie Blackburn.
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