Talk:Walt Longmire
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"smallest county in smallest state"
[edit]The section on the novels began like this:
- In "The Cold Dish", it is mentioned that Walt has been the Sheriff of "the smallest county in the smallest state in the United States" for 24 years and plans to run for his sixth reelection the following year.
Nowhere in the novel is this stated. Source: http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/The.Cold.Dish/preview.html Could it be you read this on your copy's dust jacket or in an otherwise unconnected advertorial text?
Since Absaroka is fictional, it could well be Wyoming's smallest or least populated county, and since Wyoming is the least populated US state, the quote could well be "true". But please provide a source. Could it be in a later book? CapnZapp (talk) 13:21, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
- Sorry, I just looked it up, and the quote (which is actually in "Death Without Company") reads "[Vic] is the under-sheriff of the least populated county in the least populated state in the union". The part about being Sheriff for 24 years and plans to run for reelection was from "The Cold Dish".Little kingsfan2005 (talk) 18:49, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
- Don't be sorry. Thank you for correcting the claim and confirming it is from another book. CapnZapp (talk) 20:46, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
Age and chronology of Walt Longmire
[edit]First off, Walt is considerably older in the books than on TV. To graduate 1966 book-Walt needs to have been born in the 1940's making him well over 60 years old in the 2010's. Robert Taylor, on the other hand, is born in 1963.
This means that book references can't be used to back up tv claims, and vice versa.
Even so, there are some fairly incongruous claims made in each section separately.
- The book Walt is claimed both to have become sheriff in 1988 and to have been sheriff for 24 years. But this would mean book-Walt appears in 2012 even though The Cold Dish came out in 2004! Nothing suggests Craig Johnson set his Wyoming sheriff in the then-future, so something's off here.
- The TV Walt is claimed to be born in 1953, which I don't think we have a source for at all. The claim he graduated college in 1981 certainly doesn't jive with that. If OTOH we assume TV-Walt is about Robert Taylor's age, it fits, though AFAIK this can only be speculation.
What I'm going to do is to take out all these unsupported age references. Please feel free to add them back in iff you can source it either to the books or the TV episodes. CapnZapp (talk) 11:44, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
Move TV series details from the Novel article to the TV series article.
[edit]As far as I can tell, there are three articles connected with Longmire. The two main articles - one each for the novel and the TV series - and the list of TV episodes. Some of the information inevitably appears in more than one article, but the novel article includes a substantial section devoted to the TV series. I think there is a good case for two major changes:
- Remove the bulk of the TV series section from the novel article to the TV series article.
- Subsequently rename the novel article to identify it as exactly that.
I've copied this to the talk page of the two main articles for comments and in case somebody else wants to do some work on them before me.Twistlethrop (talk) 15:50, 27 December 2017 (UTC)