Talk:The Colour Out of Space

message: The article doesn't mention that there is a german independent film from 2010, Die Farbe, based on this novel. --Duckwing (talk) 11:25, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Film adaptations

message: I removed the image in this article because it depicts a creature from Lovecraft's "The Shadow Out of Time" and has nothing to do with "The Color Out of Space."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vlad the Impaler (talk • contribs) 01:40, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have to agree with V-the-I; it's a swell illustration, but it does not illustrate the subject of this article.  I don't recall "Color" even being adapted in that collection.  Asat (talk) 22:40, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

text: The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the debate was move. —Nightstallion (?) 09:41, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrong Picture

message: I removed the term "mutagenic" from the plot synopsis for a rather simple reason - DNA had not even been discovered during Lovecraft's lifetime, let alone when this story was written. Nice analysis from a 21st century viewpoint, but kind of ridiculus when taken in context. --71.201.77.111 01:23, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  What's the problem with using the word mutagenic?  The glowing plants are mutants.  The mutation is caused by the metorite.  Thus, the meteorite/color from space would be mutagenic.  Merely because Lovecraft himself didn't know about DNA, doesn't mean this article shouldn't use the word.
I think User:71.201.77.111 is confused about the etymology of the word mutagenic.  Mutagenic shares the same Latin base as "mutate," derived from the Latin verb mutare . the -Genic part isn't from "gene" but a suffix meaning "to pruduce."  Mutagen is "something that produces a change,"  and doesn't have anything to specifically do with DNA genes.  Remember also that Darwin had been around long before DNA was discovered, and scientists were looking for the biological basis for "genes" long before DNA and its double helix structure were discovered.  To this day, the word "gene" is for the Evolutionary Biologist an abstract construct, while for other scientists and biologists, gene is the physical DNA. Cuvtixo 18:23, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "Mutagenic"

message: Out of curiosity - and I'm not suggesting that it's wrong - why did he use "colour" instead of "color"? Was it the done thing in his period, or was he very posh, or writing for a British audience? I worry that someone will proofread the article and, given that Lovecraft is an American author, they will retitle it. -Ashley Pomeroy 17:03, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It probably has a lot to do with Lovecraft's anglophilia. I think he used British English spellings in some of his other stories too. --86.135.218.137 (talk) 18:47, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Lovecraft wrote in a very informed, descriptive style. He had an extremely wide vocabulary, and knowledge of such things. Colour must have struck him as a more traditional and refined version of the word, instead of the American "bastardization" of the word. --MwNNrules (talk) 00:58, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Colour