Why did they keep going once we found out about the murderer? It all feels so redundant and tacked on. Did they aim for a third season?
shareI think the fallout from how the murder mystery was solved was meant all along to be part of the story. So episodes 14 to 16 set the stage for that.
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"Complications set in. Yes, complications."
--Margaret "The Log Lady" Lantermen, Twin Peaks
Windom Earle was mentioned early in the series (episode 8) though not emphasized, so they obviously intended to introduce his character later on. Not to mention, BOB himself needed an explanation and further exploration.
After finding out that it was BOB inside of Leland that committed the murder I would imagine anyone interested in the show would want to know more about his origins.
Not really.
shareWhy wouldn't it be BOB all the way down?
Actually the series does offer some ideas about where BOB, as an idea represented by a man, might be found.
(Fun movie nerd game: trace Twin Peaks connections to the Somerset Maugham story quoted below. My big hint: it's been adapted for the movies more than once. Then consider whether there's anything more to the fashioning of that set of connections, or some way to use that kind of story construction.)
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"I'm sorry, for everybody in the world, I guess."
--Sadie Thompson, Rain (1932)