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Northfork: The worst place in America

posted 9 years ago by jonathanrspalding
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Northfork was the worst place in America to live at the time. It had no train, it was dry and hot, no arts or culture and the peacful Lucas McCain had to kill around 120 people in the course of 4 years or so to keep it safe. Sheriff Torrance was the worst lawman in American. When you consider how many people the people lucas killed they had killed, and how many he took care of, they literally almost killed the equivalent of the adult male population of the town.

[–] liscarkat (19416) 3 years ago

I remember an episode in which Lee Van Cleef played a gunfighter who wanted to retire and live in peace. When he said he chose North Fork because it was so peaceful and quiet I almost busted a rib laughing.

[–] MAGolding (1240) 5 months ago

I have a theory that in a episodic tv series almost every episode happens in an alternate universe of its own, different from the alternate universes of other episodes. Of course if one episode is a sequel to another episode they have happen in the same alternate universe.

So after Lucas and Mark moved to Northfork millions and millions of alternate universes branched off from that one, and only about one or two hundred of those alternate universes had events interesting and violent enough to make tv episodes about.