I just watched some clips too (it appears the literature is based off of the television series, rather than the usual literature as inspiration for television series thing). Didn't care for it. Seemed too silly for me. But that is because now, as an adult, I see no magic in it, and no attraction. Perhaps if I were a child in the 1990s (and by that, I mean an ACTUAL child, whom the series targets for an audience, and not a teenager), I might have felt different.

But this thing strike me as being about as interesting as the TV series "Dog With A Blog"...which really isn't very interesting or entertaining. Or deep.

But again, just my opinion. Let's just leave this particular tangent at that.

I consider it no great loss that I happened to miss a piece of children's literature which, as I researched this thing, turned also into some obscure (to me) television show. I see no logic in weeping for me over that fact. I've been exposed to many great classics of children's literature in my youth. I am satisfied with that. Since I was an adult by the 1990s, children's literature wouldn't be interesting to me in the least, but for the stuff I had already read as a child (or had read to me). But yes, this is getting a bit off-topic, so...

The Jack Russell Terrier; yeah. Though I think we may be getting a little off-track, so I'm going to hold off commenting further until I've read more of this story.

Are you talking about the dog from the 1990's?

One of the best intros to classic literature any kid could have. I'm crying inside that you never heard of it; no offense.

"Wishbone"?

I never watched the Jetsons one all the way through, but the Flinstones one was actually pretty clever. I won't get into detail, but they actually managed to get the characters' own lives and the story of A Christmas Carol (there presented as a play with Fred as the star) to play out more or less side-by side and harmonize in a way that would have made Wishbone proud.

Exactly. And well-said. Though my latest couple of comments were in response specifically to Hyde's comments, I do appreciate what you said, and I agree totally.

I don't know that I ever had the patience to watch any of the Flintstones or Jetsons specials. After their original runs in the 50s and early 60s, the magic was pretty much gone.

I was kind of coming to that aspect of it, actually. I like that you managed to tie this into the events of the movie rather than trying to invent a special situation just for it like most Christmas Carol interpretations. Although a few do it well (ever seen Flinstones' Chrismtas Carol?), most just come across as forced and hackneyed.

As to the differences in the narrative between Dickens' story and mine, yeah, I tried to shoehorn myself, initially, into a Christmas-themed story. But with dogs, it just didn't seem necessary. Plus, I tried for two years to make a Christmas deadline, and my real life kept getting in the way of that. Finally, I just threw the towel in on the Christmas thing. Additionally, what with the fact that the real serum run took place at the end of January, through the beginning of February, it just seemed better to use Dickens' underlying message about the struggle between classes and just human nature, and play on that.

However, I am pleased it resounded!