# Kolchak Returns **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 15, 2005, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolchak-returns/294579 "2005-03-15T03:31:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolchak-returns/294579/61 "2005-09-30T16:25:01Z")
I was intrigued by the fascination with windows. Kolchak’s house was glass, there were scenes looking out of the office, past an actor onto the city below. The showering mother through a door. Even the pigs on the cartoon looking out of the TV set. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolchak-returns/294579/62 "2005-09-30T16:40:22Z")
If you looked closely in the ransacked house, you also saw a straw hat: another nod to the original. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolchak-returns/294579/63 "2005-09-30T20:52:29Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > I’m also just having a hard time being enthusiastic about a Kolchak who’s young, handsome, works in a big shiny newspaper office, and has a cool, expensive-looking apartment and a new car. I’m pretty sure it’s a house. I’m also pretty sure it’s the same house Tim Allen’s character occupied in Galaxy Quest. Marc ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolchak-returns/294579/64 "2005-10-02T03:39:23Z")
I just watched it and enjoyed it. I wouldn’t arrange my life around it, but I’ll keep it on TiVo. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolchak-returns/294579/65 "2005-10-02T03:56:25Z")
I liked the premise but some reasons I think it’s going to flame out early 1: Zero chemistry between black woman reporter (don’t recall name) and himself. The original Night stalker was a lone act. If she’s going to be his “Scully” (which is where I think it’s going) I don’t see good things in store. 2: Too skimpy IMO with monster reveals. There’s a fine line between showing too much and not enough. Plus special effects (such a they were) were pretty crappy. 3: Wife back story was stupid 4: He’s way too young, and too pretty and he drives fast sexy car and has a nice apartment. He’s also _way_ too sure of himself to the point of annoying superhero style cockiness. The original Darrin McGavin Kolchak at least had gave you impression he was vulnerable and not sure where everything was leading. This Kolchack acts like he’s got it all mapped out. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolchak-returns/294579/66 "2005-10-02T03:59:25Z")
Did I miss something (I wasn’t paying too close attention) or did they ever “explain” what those things were and why they took the girl? I agree it was too dark. I have a small TV (because I don’t have cable and my big TV gets no reception) and it was very difficult to see. I quickly lose interest if I can’t see what’s going on. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolchak-returns/294579/67 "2005-10-02T04:02:23Z")
> [@astro](#): > > 1: Zero chemistry between black woman reporter Eh, too soon to tell, and this obviously isn’t _The Night Stalker_ > [@astro](#): > > 2: Too skimpy IMO with monster reveals. I disagree in this episode. It does go against the theme where McGavin has to figure out how to kill it. See above “this obviously…” > [@astro](#): > > 3: Wife back story was stupid Nah. > [@astro](#): > > 4:The original Darrin McGavin Kolchak at least had gave you impression he was vulnerable and not sure where everything was leading. This Kolchack acts like he’s got it all mapped out. I agree, but it ain’t the same show. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolchak-returns/294579/68 "2005-10-02T04:14:13Z")
> [@Wile E](#): > > what those things were and why they took the girl?. Wile E Coyote asks about werewolves? I don’t think so, you sneak. I think they were whatever creature werewolve legends are based on, and they take fetuses and children to create other werewolves. I hope this will be a continuing arc in the series. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolchak-returns/294579/69 "2005-10-02T04:33:12Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Wile E Coyote asks about werewolves? > I don’t think so, you sneak. > > I think they were whatever creature werewolve legends are based on, and they take fetuses and children to create other werewolves. I hope this will be a continuing arc in the series. Well, _I_ thought they were werewolves but I didn’t recall Kolchack ever saying anything. I never heard anything about werewolf legends involving the taking of children and fetuses before. I thought it was dingoes that took babies … wait, were they weredingoes? [sub]Would that make them a “Mandingo”[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolchak-returns/294579/70 "2005-10-02T11:35:57Z")
I liked it well enough to keep recording it. If it gets crappy I can always fast forward past it. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2005, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolchak-returns/294579/71 "2005-10-02T13:38:19Z")
Stealing children is a standard fairy/monster/legend thing. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolchak-returns/294579/72 "2005-10-07T17:58:34Z")
Anyone watch last night? I thought it improved. Those were some Cree. Pee. Eyeballs. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolchak-returns/294579/73 "2005-10-07T19:23:12Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Anyone watch last night? Again with the windows. Are they symbolic of something, or does the director just like glass? Nice twist to have Kolchak being manipulated, but the “real” Carl would have been able to resist somehow and not needed someone to knife the Creep. That’s a real _Deux e Machina_ or Deux a Spellchecker. There is a resemblance to the series _The Chronicle_. Not necessarily a bad thing, mind you. ---
**Author:** ![Papermache\_Prince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Papermache\_Prince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papermache_Prince)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2005, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolchak-returns/294579/74 "2005-10-07T19:39:22Z")
Oh, good, somebody else watched it. Help me out here, since I didn’t tape it. The first killer saw his father, which was impossible because his father was dead, and his “father” provided the focus for evil-prison-guy to cause the murder. If I am remembering it accurately, throughout the episode, the prosecuting attorney was accompanied by a man we assumed was with the police or the prosecuting attorney’s office. It was this man who spoke the “you know what you have to do” line, correct? And when you remember earlier scenes in the episode, you realize that no one interacted with this man except for the prosecuting attorney, like with the dead character in _The Sixth Sense_. Is that right, or did I doze off and dream those details? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolchak-returns/294579/75 "2005-10-07T19:56:53Z")
I think that’s correct. I don’t think you have to see a dead person. Just makes it more fun for the Creepy Guy. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2005, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolchak-returns/294579/76 "2005-10-07T19:59:12Z")
> [@Papermache Prince](#): > > Is that right, or did I doze off and dream those details? I think that guy was actually a cop, the detective who caught the killer guy. But otherwise, that’s how I interpreted it, too. The stout older guy was the dead partner. I thought that was well done. > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Nice twist to have Kolchak being manipulated, but the “real” Carl would have been able to resist somehow and not needed someone to knife the Creep. I prefer it the way they did it. Carl’s just a guy, and he would be vulnerable. He had more information, so maybe he was able to hesitate. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolchak-returns/294579/77 "2005-10-07T20:17:27Z")
I really liked the old Kolchak much better. He had a lot of Columbo to him. This guy is too smooth, to polished and too sure of himself. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolchak-returns/294579/78 "2005-10-07T20:35:07Z")
I want to know how Kolchak affords that incredible house he has in the Hollywood Hills. That place would cost well over $1 million. Meanwhile all Perry gets is a condo or apartment in Downtown. Although her place looks pretty expensive too. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2005, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolchak-returns/294579/79 "2005-10-10T13:01:26Z")
I finally watched an ep, and enjoyed it, about a serial killer who remotely takes over people’s minds and makes them kill people. It was pretty good … very X-Files. I’ll keep watching. Pretty Boy Lead is no Kolchak, and he’s no Fox Mulder, but Pretty Black Reporter Girl looks like she can match Scully in the sexy dept. We’ll see how she does in the smarts dept. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2005, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kolchak-returns/294579/80 "2005-10-21T15:16:10Z")
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