This has always bugged me, but I guess I have never paid close enough attention to really figure it out. Tonight I.... um...well, it still doesn't quite seem right to me, but I got a little closer to being able to live with it.

Marianne Hagan played Kara Strode. She is supposed to be a college student with a little boy, but the little boy isn't really THAT little. He looks like he's about nine, to me, although they say he's supposed to be six.

So, this has always just seemed vaguely OFF, and wrong, to me. I don't know if I've ever sat down and googled my way through my questions, it just seemed messed up for a college student to have a son whom I thought was nine-ish. What is this, Yemen?!? Actually, in Yemen, I'm pretty sure young women don't go to college. But I digress.

Anyway. OK. So. The son Danny is supposed to be six, not nine. I disagree with their casting of a kid who looks as old as this kid does, but, whatever, I can live with it.

Tonight, watching this, and actually trying to pay close attention, I noticed that the asshole father in the Strode family clearly says that Kara had been away from home for FIVE YEARS before returning to live there again, with her son. Five years. OK, now we're getting somewhere. So, if she had just finished high school when she moved away, then she would be twenty-two. Of course, it is certainly very possible that she ran away from home when she was younger than seventeen. Happens all the time. But, let's just imagine that she was seventeen when she left home, and twenty-two when she returned. Maybe she is even a little older in the movie... suppose she has been home for a few months, long enough to turn twenty-three, and her father is just still being an asshole to her because he's an asshole, and that's what assholes do.

Anyway.... what the hell am I talking about... oh yeah, I wanted to mention Kara's friends at college. I guess that was never very clear to me. For one thing, Tim is supposed to be Kara's BROTHER. Younger brother, probably. And, the character Beth is supposed to be Tim's girlfriend. They are probably supposed to be regular, college-age people, in their late teens or early twenties. I can live with that. Sometimes when they are shown walking together with Kara, I'm like, wait, what? Kara, just seems too mature to be hanging out with these wild kids. But, whatever, OK.

I guess they are are all students at Haddonfield University. I guess it is supposed to be some kind of local community college, where people can get an associate's degree. Something like that. OK, I'm fine with that.

Anyway, I guess I am just venting here. There are just a few scenes where I just can't wrap my mind around the characters. I just don't buy it. I guess I must have a crush on Marianne Hagan..... She just seems way too poised, composed, thoughtful, mature, calm, maternal to her son, intelligent, etc to play a character with what must have been a pretty wild past, and to have such wild friends. She (Marianne Hagan) was about twenty-eight or twenty-nine when she played the character, which isn't THAT old, of course. But, she seems to have depth and maturity to her personality... it just feels wrong, to me, to see her calling Kim Darby "Mom," and living at home, and hanging out with the characters Tim and Beth, and so on.

Probably this will not make any sense at all, to some of you, but I can't be the only one who has had these thoughts. I just wanted to try to sort them out a little.

So. Yah. Had to share.