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Current Talk '07 I / Re: the gang in 1795...
« on: June 28, 2007, 06:38:41 PM »
I think part of the idea was that Collinsport, Mass/Maine was SO out-of-the-way, so much of a backwater, that time had stood still a bit, and given a weird enough newcomer to the community, witch-paranoia could be revived. I really hope everyone does know that the ideas of witches and with-trials were a century (and a half??) out-of-date by this point.
This was the United States and we even had the Constitution by this point, so no sloppy vague patchwork of states or communities with their own laws anymore.... I would think that there was zero possibility of any backwater thinking it was on firm legal ground, having a damn witchcraft trial. But this one of the few storylines that works, sort of, so let's not dismantle it please....
I'd call this a spoiler re 1840, but I think it's better to brace for these things... if you didn't like the improbable 1795 witch-trial, just stay tuned for 1840....
I'm getting very disillusioned lately, re DS. It's my circumstances probably. I'm not picking up on the atmosphere of it, and the holes in plots are more apparent.
This was the United States and we even had the Constitution by this point, so no sloppy vague patchwork of states or communities with their own laws anymore.... I would think that there was zero possibility of any backwater thinking it was on firm legal ground, having a damn witchcraft trial. But this one of the few storylines that works, sort of, so let's not dismantle it please....
I'd call this a spoiler re 1840, but I think it's better to brace for these things... if you didn't like the improbable 1795 witch-trial, just stay tuned for 1840....
I'm getting very disillusioned lately, re DS. It's my circumstances probably. I'm not picking up on the atmosphere of it, and the holes in plots are more apparent.