So other than the Windom/Bad Cooper or Bob-possessing-people storylines, what direction could the show have gone in to make the second half of Season 2 and a potential Season 3 and beyond viable?
Or, assuming they had kept a lot of that stuff in, what else could they have done as well as that? And I know about some of the proposed ideas for a potential Season 3 - creamed corn planet, red-headed Laura - but this thread is more meant to discuss storylines you'd have liked to have seen them do or ideas you would have come with had you been writing the show and found yourself forced to fill 22 or more episodes after solving the Laura Palmer murder. Would you have had another murder mystery? Kept Windom in or ditched him? Continued on with Bob, the lodges, gone in another direction?
Can't wait to hear your ideas. I'll formulate some of mine and come back to this later.
Edit - I was reading the thread about the least favourite storylines
(link - http://www.dugpa.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 9&start=15)
and it got me thinking about this thread if we could just choose alternative storylines for each one to make that mid-season stretch of episodes in Season 2 more palatable as well as picking new storylines that might have been used in the rest of Season 2 or 3 or beyond? (Or storylines that could be used in the middle stretch and then carried forward for longer.)
These are the storylines we got in mid- (and some in late-) Season 2:
- Little Nicky
James/Evelyn Marsh Storyline
Ben Horne Civil War
Audrey and John Wheeler
Nadine in High School
Packard/Eckhardt Battle
Josie as a maid
Leo as a vegetable
Donna and her true father
Donna and James season two
Milford/Lana
Windom Earle before his last stretch when he's still wearing his disguises and playing the flute (although I happen to like the stuff in the cabin with Leo) (adding this one they tried to add in the other thread but couldn't)
Miss Twin Peaks storyline (added this one too as it's mentioned in a comment on the other thread)
(This thread is mainly about the original series but if there are storylines you'd like to add to The Return or have had in place of other storylines, feel free to mention them too.)