I note that the TV series, in which Kolchak becomes something of a monster specialist, doesn't seem to have any Matheson involvement.
Yes, and the amazing coincidence of him running across supernatural cases all the time became just as hard a sell after awhile as Scully being an eternal skeptic. ; )
There's one detail, however, in which Fox Mulder differs from Carl Kolchak. Mulder is someone who wants to believe--he's predisposed to seek supernatural or esoteric explanations, and one gets the feeling he'd be pretty disappointed if they ever had a case where Scully was able to solve everything with rational, mundane explanations.
Very true! And corrrect me if I'm wrong, but I think the series eventually forgot to address what he actually planned to DO with proof if he got it, whereas Kolchak's one goal is to get the news out. I think that's a lot of where The X-Files lost me, when it began to show Evol Gov't Agents and aliens every week, and Mulder doesn't ever go "okay, that's it" and just start publishing. As Carl would say, this is NEWS.
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Date: 2006-11-10 09:30 pm (UTC)Yes, and the amazing coincidence of him running across supernatural cases all the time became just as hard a sell after awhile as Scully being an eternal skeptic. ; )
There's one detail, however, in which Fox Mulder differs from Carl Kolchak. Mulder is someone who wants to believe--he's predisposed to seek supernatural or esoteric explanations, and one gets the feeling he'd be pretty disappointed if they ever had a case where Scully was able to solve everything with rational, mundane explanations.
Very true! And corrrect me if I'm wrong, but I think the series eventually forgot to address what he actually planned to DO with proof if he got it, whereas Kolchak's one goal is to get the news out. I think that's a lot of where The X-Files lost me, when it began to show Evol Gov't Agents and aliens every week, and Mulder doesn't ever go "okay, that's it" and just start publishing. As Carl would say, this is NEWS.