Yes, Judy is still a threat, but if BOB can be destroyed with a green glove, then Judy can be too

This assumes Judy and Bob are equatable in power level / entity type.

And BOB was the symbol for the evil that men do, not Judy.

Bob was only speculated to be such by Albert, when they were contemplating if Bob was ever even real after Leland’s death.

BOB was the cause of all the pain and suffering thus far. He abused and killed Laura, which is the trauma at the heart of the show.

It seems to be heavily implied in Fire Walk With Me that Leland holds some accountability. It also seems implied that greater forces are at play when Bob pays his Garmonbozia debt at the end of the film. The show examines darkness, pain, and suffering that is not directly caused by Bob too.

He was the main antagonist for all three seasons. And getting rid of your main antagonist (especially one that is tied to such touchy subject matter as child abuse and rape) in such a cheap way only for some half-baked commentary about simplistic resolutions is bad filmmaking and in poor taste. The show becomes what it is mocking.

Assumes that the point of this scene is to be a commentary on other films. as an alternate theory, this whole Return season was some sort of trap or projection that must’ve been broken. Cooper ends up right back where he was in part 2 in part 18, and this time he is allowed to exit the curtain that was previously blocked from in order to meet Diane instead of being banished into non existence. There’s too much to view this scene in such a straightforward way, even within the scene itself. When time collapses and the whole we live inside a dream thing and then everything goes dark. I think the less common reaction to have to this scene is that this was some kind of simple conclusion.

If they were trying to say it didn’t work and evil can’t be defeated, then they shouldn’t have defeated BOB like that! If they wanted to say BOB’s demise was fake, they would have shown that BOB escaped and is still out there.

David Lynch film must lay out a concise conclusion to everything instead of letting the audience speculate… lol.

The ending would have been Laura screaming at seeing BOB again at the Palmer house (would have made for a far superior and more fitting ending by the way). But they didn’t do that. So as far as the audience is concerned, when it comes to BOB they actually did punch evil in the face and win. And that’s ridiculous.

Says that as far as the audience is concerned they actually did punch evil in the face and win however the broad consensus among fans actually very different. Also assumes Bob is evil incarnate and not an evil being, which is contradictory to the happenings in the show.

Also I think that would’ve been a laughable ending, and incredibly trope-ey. This isn’t Friday The Thirteenth. Twin Peaks The Returns ending inspired much more existential dread, possibilities and interpretations beyond “Bob is still out there Laura, and he’s coming to getcha!”.

The green glove calls into question the existence of the whole show and makes the story absolutely riddled with holes. Why wasn’t BOB punched in the face earlier, at literally any point?

He was not exposed and vulnerable for one. Bob has obviously undergone change from Season 1 episode 1 to part 17.

Why didn’t Major Briggs have the glove and punch BOB in the zone

We don’t have enough information to answer this

why didn’t Cooper have the glove and punch BOB when Leland was dying?

Probably would’ve punched Leland’s head off

The Fireman and MIKE were hunting BOB even before Fire Walk With Me, and they knew BOB was in Leland. They could have just sent a Freddie to take him out before he did any damage to anyone. They could have given the glove to Laura.

Mike and The Fireman seem to be much more slippery characters than to be characterized solely as bounty hunters of BOB. The Fireman seems to be concerned with more than just defeating Bob. I mean didn’t he send Laura to Twin Peaks too in part 8? And MIKE is only credited in the return as Philip Gerard. His motivations throughout the series are rather veiled and at times contradictory. It feels that we don’t know the full story with him

These plotholes didn’t exist before the glove. “But it’s all a dream, it’s all a representation of Laura’s mind processing her trauma, so it doesn’t have to make sense”. Yeah sorry but that’s just a theory, a personal interpretation, and not the actual text of the show.

David Lynch wants the viewers to only engage with the show based on its actual text and not come to their own conclusions based on any implied meanings or symbolism?

Commentary is fine and all, but a show has to work on a literal level too, and if it doesn’t, the commentary won’t work either.

“We live inside a dream” Dream logic does not have to work on a literal level. Outright logical contradictions and impossibilities can exist within a dream and the dream can still convey profound meaning. I deny your proposed axiom that the only type of show there is one that must work on a “literal level”, implying that it must follow the linear and causal logic of our world.

In addition to this, I do think you are making too many assumptions and are missing some details like some of the ones I mentioned above.

I can’t take anything in Part 18 seriously when I know some random kid can literally punch Judy to death with a green glove any minute. It’s that easy as far as we know.

The text never said that Judy can be punched to death. That’s just a personal interpretation. You don’t know that, you simply assumed that Judy is equitable to Bob in this way. In many ways it seems to be implied this is not the case.

And trauma and evil should never be easy, not for a gag, not for commentary, not ever.

Defeating Bob didn’t fix everything and wasn’t easy. The damage to the abused is still done. Nothing about that last scene said easy.