Talk:Carpetbag Booker

This one really made me cringe. There are series like Detina where it's puns all around, and those are fun. But when you've only got one punny name, the humor really gets drained out of it fast. (Not that having such a labored and joyless pun helps any; was "Hey, books have pages!" really the best he could come up with?) The HoD setting is clearly otherworldly, but with place names and geography and all the historical details we get suggesting it's essentially our world (unlike TCotTSD), I would have preferred real names for people too.

Now HT didn't want to do that, but he found a clever workaround. Booker and not-Gibson are the only quasi-historicals who actually appear onstage (I think), but lots of others are alluded to. None of them by their real names, but all of them by nicknames (in some cases lesser-known ones, like Larrupin' Lou) or partial names or just descriptions, like "that loud fellow in Europe" who had commandeered the use of the symbol of the hooked cross. It was brilliant: You could believe the people hinted at were actual historical figures if you wanted, or you could believe they were alter egos if you preferred. But this guy really ruined that for everyone.

Although the Major League teams sort of did the same. Why couldn't the Archdeacons have been the Gashouse Gang, or the Highlanders, Murderers' Row? Turtle Fan (talk) 07:42, September 6, 2018 (UTC)