Talk:Salem Saberhagen

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Most this was written about the live action TV series Salem; not the cartoon series Salem, or the comic book Salem. A lot of the information is still appropriate, but the copied part is filled with references to the TV show, and not all the fact apply to all the Salems. si»abhorreo»T 02:14, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

In that case, it's probably be a good idea to have an introductory bit about his personality and constant background, with subheadings for each incarnation of the storyline, and move 'The Model' to a subsection under the live-action TV series. —Vanderdeckenξφ 11:21, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Yup. I don't particularly feel like chopping up everything I wrote about the TV Salem though, so somebody else is going to have to do it. si»abhorreo»T 02:55, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Animal treatment and the puppet.

>>The show's creators were very sensitive to the treatment of animals, so Salem was often played by an animatronic puppet rather than one of the 4 actual cats who are used for the non-dialogue scenes. This part was performed by four puppeteers and five or six different animatronic puppets.>>

This doesn't seem to make sense. Of course a puppet would be used for the dialogue scenes. There's no way to force a cat to pretend to talk.

My revision would be "The Show's creators were very sensitive to the treatment of cats. For scenes requiring dialogue, an animatronic puppet would be used, and for scenes not requiring dialogue, four cats were used individually." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Parmadil (talkcontribs) 15:11, 12 November 2007 (UTC)