I couldn't resist the YouTube nonsense. LOL. If Kolchak did take place in the present, as the Moonstone comics do, I can imagine him making cracks about the weird name.
That's very interesting. So in spite of you running around trying to figure out if certain things were used/said/whatever in a certain time period (as you mentioned a message or two up that you do), you relate to them better in the past. I'm probably strange in my own way, too; I find it extremely difficult to even write period pieces because I get so depressed thinking that the characters would be dead and gone now. It's nice to think of them as being immortal since they're fictional, though! I try to think in those terms too, but I then tend to start thinking of them in real-time terms anyway.
Yeah, I agree that the circus made him happier. This time I wasn't so much analyzing him as I was analyzing the writers' way of bringing out whatever it was they were trying to. I think under the circumstances he was totally justified in wanting to go back to the circus, even with the wedding upon them. I mean, I don't know how he could settle down and enjoy the ceremony when he knew he'd sold his circus to crooks and they were kicking out all of his friends. And I just don't think the writers brought that point out very well, since the only other character's reaction they really showed was the girl's and she didn't seem to think he should be worrying about his friends if he was going to marry her. I think they should have brought out a counterpoint to her point-of-view, instead of just trying to make it look like it was as cut-and-dried as the circus making him happier. Since the circumstances were so complex, I feel they should have taken that into consideration more. They probably just wanted a quick way out of the problem and didn't really stop to think about how they were presenting it.
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That's very interesting. So in spite of you running around trying to figure out if certain things were used/said/whatever in a certain time period (as you mentioned a message or two up that you do), you relate to them better in the past. I'm probably strange in my own way, too; I find it extremely difficult to even write period pieces because I get so depressed thinking that the characters would be dead and gone now. It's nice to think of them as being immortal since they're fictional, though! I try to think in those terms too, but I then tend to start thinking of them in real-time terms anyway.
Yeah, I agree that the circus made him happier. This time I wasn't so much analyzing him as I was analyzing the writers' way of bringing out whatever it was they were trying to. I think under the circumstances he was totally justified in wanting to go back to the circus, even with the wedding upon them. I mean, I don't know how he could settle down and enjoy the ceremony when he knew he'd sold his circus to crooks and they were kicking out all of his friends. And I just don't think the writers brought that point out very well, since the only other character's reaction they really showed was the girl's and she didn't seem to think he should be worrying about his friends if he was going to marry her. I think they should have brought out a counterpoint to her point-of-view, instead of just trying to make it look like it was as cut-and-dried as the circus making him happier. Since the circumstances were so complex, I feel they should have taken that into consideration more. They probably just wanted a quick way out of the problem and didn't really stop to think about how they were presenting it.