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I'm not sure this is a fair question to ask, but here goes anyway:  Why was the episode "The Hound Of Ulster" so inaccurate in terms of the original legends -- in which, among other discrepancies, "the Hound of Ulster" was not an actual dog, but a nickname for Cuchullain himself?
	Especially considering that one of the writers for that ep was Diane Duane, and I KNOW she knows better than that?
You seem to know Diane pretty well.  What's her excuse?  :)
	Are you sure that Cuchullain and his "hound" weren't actually combined and confused in the legend?  Are you sure our version wasn't the true truth? :) :)
	To be honest, I'm not that familiar with the Cuchullain legends, so I didn't double check Diane, Peter and Michael's version.  Also I asked for some changes from their early drafts.  They told me they had problems with some of the changes, so we compromised.  (Or at any rate, we found something that I liked which they didn't object to.)  Maybe they compromised too much, I don't know.  But I do take full responsibility for what got on the screen.
	Ultimately, I was the guy in charge of story, so the buck stops with me.  I just wasn't aware we were making serious errors.  I'm still not.  Where did we go wrong, besides adding a gargoyle beast to the legend (a logical extension in our series)?