I think the thing with filming a TV show in a real town that you can actually visit attracts people for the same reason it'd be neat to visit the set of a TV show you liked.
Yep.
Twin Peaks/North Bend/Snoqualmie encouraged the travel. I think Roslyn (the NE town) did, too. I know that certain pieces of iconic real estate mentioned the connection in the for sale literature. Because, of course, they had specific visitable exteriors and welcomed the additional tourist dollars. (North Bend/Snoqualmie have morphed into bedroom communities for Microsoft, but in the early 90s, I don't think they had a lot going for them other than pretty, pretty Mt. Si in the background and a big old waterfall with a hotel next to it.)
Forks... Forks is just Forks. People didn't go there willingly if they could help it!
Whereas this place had no particular claim to fame before the Twipocalypse, and now I guess it's pretty much the Mecca of sparkly mormons vampires.
Untrue! I think it was our Rainiest Spot in Western Washington! That's a claim! I mean... it's Forks.
Untrue! I think it was our Rainiest Spot in Western Washington! That's a claim! I mean... it's Forks.
I think that's exactly why she wound up choosing the location. She Googled for the rainiest spots in the U.S.
Of interest:
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Remember when The Blair Witch Project came out? Many fans of the film (who didn't quite understand that the whole thing was made up) descended on the town in Maryland where the movie was set and filmed in and bemused most of the townspeople.
I think Roslyn (the NE town) did, too.
They did, and we still had people coming up and demanding to go to Cicely.
I own a T-Shirt from the Brick. But going to a location is different than going to a place because it was named in a book, because real folks (the actors) were really there.
Although I know there is a HUGE fandom which goes to Prince Edward Island on "Anne of Green Gables" tours. Many of them from Japan, I hear.
Although I know there is a HUGE fandom which goes to Prince Edward Island on "Anne of Green Gables" tours. Many of them from Japan, I hear.
Tourism is a major industry for the Island, so they totally milk Anne for all it's worth.
That in itself sounds like a Maurice project...remember the one with the Japanese couples and the N. Lights?
I also think there is a difference between going into a coffee shop and ordering their cherry pie, and asking to buy the clothes off the back of a stranger. (The stranger being a teenage girl adds to the Craxy, but pretty insane even if the person approached was an adult.)
