X-Men - Xavier's School for the Gifted [Off Topic] #25: Because we have the marvellous ability to argue even about the weather! - Page 2

**PhoenixRising** · 05-23-2018, 07:25 PM

I agree, sum1. The only reason I think Riverdale is the exception is because it's really well written and it's basically Twin Peaks meets Archie Comics. It's pretty good neo-noir.

sum1 · 05-23-2018, 07:26 PM

Twin Peaks? Complete with a bad second season?

**PhoenixRising** · 05-23-2018, 07:58 PM

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Twin Peaks? Complete with a bad second season?

Hey, Twin Peaks' second season may have sucked, but that first season is still legendary.

And Twin Peaks inspired a lot of other shows, like Bates Motel, Pretty Little Liars, and Riverdale.

sum1 · 05-24-2018, 06:39 AM

Still had a bad second season.

Make Them Laugh · 05-24-2018, 09:12 AM

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The CW. disappointed me ages ago. Smellvile, Vampire Diarrhoeas, etc. All

ed up. CW shows tend to lack class and depth.

what didn't you like about Smallville...

Never saw Twin Peaks guys

sum1 · 05-24-2018, 10:31 AM

Cheap writing, bad handling of characters, the wreck it became in later seasons, the writers' worship of Lana, etc. Smellvile went wrong to an incredible degree.

**wickedrum** · 05-24-2018, 11:46 AM

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Hey, Twin Peaks' second season may have sucked, but that first season is still legendary.

And Twin Peaks inspired a lot of other shows, like Bates Motel, Pretty Little Liars, and Riverdale.

I can understand how Twin Peaks could influence those shows, apart from PLL. I don't see the similarities, what are they?

Make Them Laugh · 05-24-2018, 01:45 PM

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Cheap writing, bad handling of characters, the wreck it became in later seasons, the writers' worship of Lana, etc. Smellvile went wrong to an incredible degree.

I wasn't a fan of Lana either

How was your day Alex

**PhoenixRising** · 05-24-2018, 04:52 PM

Hi, sum1!

Hi, Dave!

Hi, Rita!

I've never seen Smallville so I can't comment.

You should at least check out season 1 of Twin Peaks and the first half of season 2, Dave.

That's before the show went downhill. After they solved Laura Palmer's murder it just wasn't worth it. That was ABC meddling with the show. And Lara Flynn Boyle sabotaged the Dale Cooper/Audrey Horne relationship because she was dating Kyle MacLachlan(Cooper) at the time and she felt the Cooepr/Audrey relationship was getting all the attention and it was undermining her character, Donna Hayward, who wasn't getting a good enough storyline.

And my day was okay, thanks.

I need longer days.

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I can understand how Twin Peaks could influence those shows, apart from PLL. I don't see the similarities, what are they?

Well, PLL was based on young adult novels, but you could see some Twin Peaks influences on the show, especially when the story went to Ravenwood. There was always a murder mystery, film noir references, surprise twists, weird surreal imagery, and Rosewood was made to look like a modern gothic-noir town like Twin Peaks and Riverdale.

Being from outside of Philadelphia myself I admire the showrunners attention to detail.

Make Them Laugh · 05-24-2018, 04:56 PM

longer hours at work or just more hours in the day to get stuff done?

**PhoenixRising** · 05-24-2018, 05:02 PM

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longer hours at work or just more hours in the day to get stuff done?

More hours in the day to get stuff done.

I need the Earth to rotate just a bit slower to give me 32 hours a day instead of 24.

sum1 · 05-25-2018, 03:06 AM

Make Them Laugh · 05-25-2018, 09:57 AM

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More hours in the day to get stuff done.

I need the Earth to rotate just a bit slower to give me 32 hours a day instead of 24.

yes...a lot more people want more hours in the day... but like posting on FF - it's time management and prioritizing what's important to you/ what needs done first/ 2nd, etc...

then there are those "Homers" who say "I wish I had more time to spend with wife/ kids" -- and they spend like 1 hour or so at a bar after work

sum1 · 05-25-2018, 10:30 AM

Homer is the guy who wrote the Iliad and the Oddyssey.

**wickedrum** · 05-25-2018, 10:30 AM

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More hours in the day to get stuff done.

I need the Earth to rotate just a bit slower to give me 32 hours a day instead of 24.

isn't it slowing down though? Like a second every few years or something


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