Re: Stuff for Megakat City Salvage Yard...

From: chance <chance_at_unix.infoserve.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 15:59:08 -0700

> This really gets at something about SWAT Kats, that there are two
>basic potential directions that the series was capable of going in - The all
>too typically H-B style where ultra toony monochromed kats scamper like Fred
>Flintstone to cheesy sound effects, or the gritty, hard edged, more graphic,
>more "radical" kats who absolutely crackle with style in every frame. I tend
>to prefer the latter to the former. SWAT Kats as it stands has, interestingly
>enough, gone a little ways in each direction in a comfortable amalgam.
>Examples? The Kats are drawn a little rounder, a little more toony than usual
>in The Pastmaster Always Rings Twice, but in the same episode the Megasaurus
>Rex attack scenes were ckock full of the hard edge look. The Deadly Pyramid
>had some Razor looking especially diminutive, but it also feautured some
>of the most stunning action the series had to offer, all IMO.

When I was posting all the katstuff to rec.arts.animation that kinda got me
in trouble, I had an argument with someone who was a knowledgeable
animation fan, but dismissed the Kats as "just more toy-driven
action-adventure drek" (or similar). This individual and I had words back
and forth over the issue, then we had this lapse of several months. Out of
the blue, this Kats detractor e-mails me with "I just saw 'Deadly Pyramid'.
Forget anything nasty I ever said about 'SwatKats'".

Also, (and I know this person won't mind an innocuous quote) it seems that
certain production people realized they'd created something head-and-shoulders
above the "ultra toony monochromed" stuff H-B was infamous for:

"No matter what happened to SWAT Kats later on, what we did will probably be
 remembered for quite a while."

I doubt the same could be said for any of the WPT's.

(P.S. don't e-mail and ask who the quote is from please. I can't answer.)
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