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Subject: Re: Why Boise?


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Date Posted: 08:30:37 05/17/01 Thu
In reply to: TechnoAtheist 's message, "Why Boise?" on 13:12:05 05/16/01 Wed
 >Budget reasons. It cost too much to do the story in
>San Francisco. Of course, having never visted Boise I
>have no idea what it looks like. So I modeled it after
>a mid-sized West Coast city I have been to frequently.
>Although it may have several features that are roughly
>similar to another better known tourist destination,
>every effort has been made to make the city appear to
>the casual observer as Boise (provided that the
>location budget was limited to about $100 an episode
>and the casual observer has a history of glaucoma.)

Boise is a great place because there are actually very few people who have actually been there. ;) I hope the City Council doesn't fry me for that one. Seriously, though, as far as setting choices, it's up to the author. Just from TFOHG & CFAP, we have two great examples. JIM went for a small (fictitious?) town. Steve-o went exactly the opposite. With respect to metropolises (metropoli?), the author can feel safe that it's sufficiently large that the characters and storyline can likely get lost in the city. That is to say that you never have to worry about, why wouldn't the mayor take note of this? or something like that. There's a million other things going on. On the other hand, when JIM wanted to bring in the mayor of Maple Ridge, he got to make the character up entirely.

Also note that the only validity my analyses contain is that my father and my grandfather were English teachers. As far as I can tell, that's only instilled a compulsion for proper grammar in me. I exempted out of college English in high school, and I'm a computer programmer. So take these comments for whatever they're worth.
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Re: Why Boise?TechnoAtheist12:19:30 05/17/01 Thu
Re: Why Boise?JIM13:06:31 05/17/01 Thu
Re: Why Boise?ApolloXVIII20:51:36 05/17/01 Thu

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