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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
I just caught you! You say it is dangerous, but you would have to have seen an episode or two to know about the periscope and coffee pot listening device . . . .
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My previous "Papa Bear calling Goldilocks" bit didn't give that away?
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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Actually, I don't worry about comedy so much as I do about drama. Drama can look like reenactments, where comedy is usually so outlandish (the Hogan's Heroes things that you mentioned are examples) that people know not to believe that it is real and they will take everything that they see with a grain of salt.
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I don't really worry about any of it, to tell the truth. I give readers a bit more credit when it comes "believing everything they read." I'm no rocket scientist and I know better than to take anything mentioned in historical fiction as a sight-unseen fact. I suspect most other readers do too. And for those who don't (know better) ... I don't suspect a dearth of historical fiction in their formative years would have made them turn out any less gullible and/or dumb.
That and the fact that I don't really worry about trying to save others from their own stupidity. Especially not by eliminating plausible sounding fiction that might "trick" those poor unsuspecting brain-dead
readers of books.