Do
you remember writing the She-Ra episodes "Sweet
Bee's Home" and "Assault On The Hive?"
Man,
that was more like seventeen years ago. I remember vaguely
writing episodes by those titles but I wrote a lot of episodes
since. I will have to check your page to refresh my memory
on them before I can possibly answer any questions. If then.
I'll try to get back to you on this. No matter what the
date says, I know it was longer ago than that. I don't think
my son was even born then, and he's fifteen now. I can barely
remember the episodes, though the pictures help with "Sweet
Bee's Home."
The
main comedy in this episode appears to be Frosta's crush
on He-Man, was it fun to write the dialogue?
Oh
sure. Especially because I knew Tom would carry through
the expressions onscreen. You weren't always guaranteed
of that in Filmation cartoons. Fact is, Tom and I both thought
Frosta was the hottest-looking female in the series and
we wanted to do a show like this to satisfy our post-adolescent
lust. This is the truth, and the sole reason for the show.
Which answers some of the questions below.
Tom
Tataranowicz did an awesome job of directing. Were you pleased?
Oh
sure. But he has a pencil test of Bow and some female character
whose name I've forgotten that would have gotten the show
thrown off the air. Filmation had this one excellent female
animator who for some reason just threw lust into everything.
I believe she did the Frosta scenes too. Tom used her for
everything where he wanted passion, including the Bravestarr
movie kiss scene.
In
"Assault On The Hive" you brought back Skeletor,
why was this, is he a favorite?
Man,
I barely remember. I'd have to see the show.
Also
in this episode we see Sweet Bee, but He-Man shows no love
interest, was it just that you'd used that whole plot in
"Sweet Bee's Home?"
Probably
just lousy continuity. :)
What
about Bravestarr? That was good!
Bravestarr
is rather a painful memory. I thought the movie was good,
and many of the series scripts were. But Filmation decided
to hold off on releasing the movie until the series was
out to generate "word of mouth." And then they
basically crapped out the series. Their directors were old
and uninterested in quality, and the animators were bogged
down by the Filmation stock system. The series bombed, the
movie went almost direct to video, and I quit the company
in disgust.
That
panning shot of the crowd in the movie, who were the obvious
people in the crowd?
Those
were Tom Tataranowicz's fishing buddies from his hometown
in Michigan. I always felt it was a rather blatant shot,
but what the hell.
Thanks
for your time.
Best
I could do. I'll be talking to Tom next week -- I'll pass
your comments along.
