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From: chance_at_unix.infoserve.net (Andy Hill)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.swatkats
Subject: Destructive Nature:MCPD?
Next time you check out "Destructive Nature", with Dr. Viper and the
plant thingys, check out the crime-scene tape around the building.
Instead of sayin "Enforcers Only" or something similar, it actually says:
"MegaKat City P.D." (Police Department)
This was one of Lance Falk's eps - it's okay, but some of the lines
really grate. There's a scene where T-Bone lands at MegaKat Space Center
and picks up some rocket coolant, and there's these two ground crew dudes
who look up and say something like:
"If they want to give that much Rocket Coolant to a vigilante, who
are we to argue?"
"Yeah, but there's enough freeze-juice in there to freeze an entire
city block!"
Eyaaaaah...that's where Slappy Squirrel would say "Thank you, Mr.
Exposition" - Lance obviously wanted to get the point across, but I
thought the giant cylinder giving the TurboKat a hernia did that quite
nicely already.
Notice how a lot of the eps focus on Razor? This one, and a few
others, have T-Bone otherwise occupied while Razor takes center stage and
uses T-Bone for errand boy. Also, look at the preponderence of closeups
of Razor, but few for T-Bone, usually in these same eps. In this
"Destructive Nature" ep, usually restrained Razor jumps atop the canister
of N2 and lets loose with a "Yahooooo!" - something he _never_ does, he's
usually Mr. Restrained in his reactions to anything, while T-Bone is
normally the one who does this kind of stuff (i.e., Razor isn't very
likely to throw a can of milk through the Tube when Feral's on, but
T-Bone doesn't think twice about it).
Oh, yeah - another round in the "Furry vs. Humans" argument can be
seen in this ep, and any others with the "Foreign Investors". There's
_no way_ H-B could've gotten away with the stereotypical Oriental
charicature or Mr. Yung and associates if they weren't kitties - can you
imagine the outcry, all the "golf" stuff, and the thick glasses? Oy.
It's hilarious seeing these guys trying to buy up Mkat city at the same
rate they're doing in RL (check "Volcanus Erupts" for example), but if
they didn't purr we'd never have seen them on the tube. Heh!
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"...$%#!!_at_!!, does EVERYTHING have to occur at the speed of MTV?!"
- George Lucas on the cancellation of "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles",
after hearing that viewers expected constant action, rather than a
"gentle history lesson"
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"...$%#!!_at_!!, does EVERYTHING have to occur at the speed of MTV?!"
- George Lucas on the cancellation of "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles",
after hearing that viewers expected constant action, rather than a
"gentle history lesson"
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Received on Sat Jul 01 1995 - 17:42:49 PDT