What is the Purpose of the Red Room in Twin Peaks?
The Red Room is one of the biggest mysteries in Twin Peaks. Back in the older seasons, the Red Room was seen as a huge threat. The Red Room was first introduced in Twin Peaks when Dale Cooper was first investigating the death of Laura Palmer. He finds himself in the Red Room during a dream, and then he is able to enter the Red Room in the real world in season 2. He ventures to the Red Room when he learns that a woman that he had fallen in love with had been taken to the Red Room, by a serial killer that had been hunting Cooper for a long time.
This turns out to be Dale's biggest mistake, and he is stuck in the Red Room for 25 years straight, and a doppelganger takes his place. In the new season, the Red Room no longer appears to be a threat to either Cooper or anyone else.
The Red Room comes off as a problem solver in season 3, creating doppelgangers to take the places of particular people in the real world for their own purposes, and they even offer to help Cooper with wanting to go to another timeline to save Laura. My theory is that the Red Room wasn't never supposed to be seen as a dangerous supernatural realm. It still definitely is, but at least this realm wasn't as bad when the Black Lodge had taken over for a bit in the older seasons.
I think the Red Room was only dangerous in the old seasons, because several entities from the Black Lodge had been present in the Red Room, determined to stop Cooper, who had taken the place of Laura Palmer to battle the evil entities.
The Red Room appears to be seen as the waiting room between the two realms of the Black and White Lodge, so maybe the Red Room became a danger, because several powerful and evil entities had taken over the Red Room, determined to defeat Cooper, which they unfortunately succeed.
Of course, I could be completely wrong about all of this, because the Red Room is never outright explained. However, I love how David Lynch gave enough away for fans to come up with their own theories, and it's both cool and scary how we still don't have all the answers.
And we probably never will.
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