On Sun, 3 Dec 1995, Jeanne Hedge wrote:
Charles Lewis <clewis@virtu.sar.usf.edu> wrote:
On Sat, 2 Dec 1995, Julian Fong wrote:
<snip>
When BGC started, it had a lot of social commentary going on. It
wasn't about superheroes and super villains. The main characters were
_mercenaries_ --- first, and foremost. They killed when it wasn't
necessary.
They did? I must have been watching a different BGC 1-4 from you. I don't
remember them killing anybody but boomers and Mason in those eps (and, IMO,
it was necessary to kill Mason).
Mason had been decisively beaten. He was killed for two basic
reasons: 1.) He had seen Sylia's face and 2.) For general revenge.
Neither reason holds up particularly well in superhero canon. I liked
that. The usual superhero/do-gooder type would have cringed at the idea
of killing an effectively unarmed person. After all, to do so would, in
effect, be stooping to the level of the _bad_guys_!
<snip>
By episode eight it
seemed indistinguishable from American Saturday morning fare (as I
understand it, the original plot had Priss dead in #6, and the series
over at #7).
I believe BGC was originally planned as a 13 episode series. Killing Priss
(possibly coming to a mailing list near you in the far-future) in ep 6
wasn't planned from the beginning of the series, it was something that
developed because of Oomori's contract problems. And the producers changed
their minds about doing that at, apparently, the last minute. (A discussion
NOT for this ML is how, when, and where they were going to do it <g>)
Agreed -- but my original point is that the plot and feel of the series
changed around ep. 5, or so and, and here's the fanfic part, my hope has,
and is, to write something which approximates the feel and mood of the
early, rather than the later, episodes.
CHL