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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 248099" data-attributes="member: 23">Things got even more meta in the fourteenth episode of Season Two, after the Blackwoods destroyed an historic hut on their land in an attempt to cover up their convict lineage.And so the man who created the man who became Matt McGregor actually met Matt before he created the Man. It&#039;s like TV&#039;s Constance MacKenzie revealing that she used to sell books to&nbsp; Grace Metalious before she wrote Peyton Place.Banjo isn&#039;t the only real-life historical figure to cross paths with the McGregors.&nbsp; Alison From Melrose Place&#039;s Sister garnered interest for her sterling journalistic work writing articles about the people of the town for Kathleen&#039;s local paper and sending them to her father using a male pseudonym (daddy was a big cheese in American newspapers who refused to employ female journalists). This resulted in her father being convinced enough to offer her an enviable position and her being head-hunted by American Associated Press, leading to her inevitable departure from the series and sadness for young Rob since the two had fallen for one another.Being ill-informed of such things, I randomly Googled to see if Ruth Whitney was based on a real journalist and it turns out <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Reinke_Whitney" target="_blank">she was</a>. Albeit with a great deal of dramatic licence (the real Ruth&#039;s father, for example, was a gravestone designer rather than a bigwig in American press circles).Now I find myself wondering how many other characters are based on real people.On an unrelated note, I can&#039;t help being slightly concerned about filming conditions. In a great many indoor scenes this season, I&#039;ve noticed that I can actually see the frosty breath of the actors. Is this an added touch of realism, or a sign that they were filming in a particularly harsh winter without adequate heating?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 248099, member: 23"] Things got even more meta in the fourteenth episode of Season Two, after the Blackwoods destroyed an historic hut on their land in an attempt to cover up their convict lineage. And so the man who created the man who became Matt McGregor actually met Matt before he created the Man. It's like TV's Constance MacKenzie revealing that she used to sell books to Grace Metalious before she wrote [I]Peyton Place.[/I] Banjo isn't the only real-life historical figure to cross paths with the McGregors. Alison From [I]Melrose Place's[/I] Sister garnered interest for her sterling journalistic work writing articles about the people of the town for Kathleen's local paper and sending them to her father using a male pseudonym (daddy was a big cheese in American newspapers who refused to employ female journalists). This resulted in her father being convinced enough to offer her an enviable position [I]and[/I] her being head-hunted by American Associated Press, leading to her inevitable departure from the series and sadness for young Rob since the two had fallen for one another. Being ill-informed of such things, I randomly Googled to see if Ruth Whitney was based on a real journalist and it turns out [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Reinke_Whitney']she was[/URL]. Albeit with a great deal of dramatic licence (the real Ruth's father, for example, was a gravestone designer rather than a bigwig in American press circles). Now I find myself wondering how many other characters are based on real people. On an unrelated note, I can't help being slightly concerned about filming conditions. In a great many [U]indoor[/U] scenes this season, I've noticed that I can actually see the frosty breath of the actors. Is this an added touch of realism, or a sign that they were filming in a particularly harsh winter without adequate heating? [/QUOTE]

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