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Episode Review: Beast Wars S01 Ep19 - "Call Of The Wild"
We’re into the final stretch with our look back at the first season of Beast Wars. Episode 19 sees series story editor Bob Forward return to writing duties once more with Call Of The Wild so I was expecting something special… Call Of The Wild – Story Summary Cheetor is having nightmares… He finds himself dreaming about being a wild animal chasing down prey before being surrounded by fire then…
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Next classic BotCon video: Highlights from 1998. Thanks again to David Minter for sending these files my way!
This video is essentially just recordings from the various panels: BW writers with both Bob and Larry, Hasbro, a packed VA panel and script reading with live DiCola music, an MSTF skit starring Doug Dlin, Robert Jung, and M Sipher, comics panel with Furman Wildman and Tokar, and finally G1 cartoon story editor Bryce Malek.
There is also a cameo by Metalhawk Guy in one of the montages of stills!
Mutant Academy: X-Men Evolution "Strategy X"
Welcome to Mutant Academy, a new weekly series where I will explore the ups, downs, and huge doses of teenage angst in the 2000-2003 X-Men Evolution animated series that originally aired on Fox Kids. This cartoon, along with the Spider-Man, X-Men films, and Dark Knight trilogy, helped get me interested in superheroes and comic books.…
Mutant Academy: X-Men Evolution “Strategy X” was originally published on Nerds on the Rocks
The BraveStarr episode I did was different, though. I believe it was the first anti-drug show I did, and I wanted to do it because a childhood friend had died from a drug overdose. So I talked Lou Schiemer into letting me do it. That one was just a kid getting high, getting hooked, and spiralling down into death. Not even the hero could save him. Because I was personally affected by that one, I actually used some stories provided by the family; of stealing money from the family members to buy drugs, etc. It was grim, and I was proud of the script, though I felt the final animation left a lot to be desired. Still, it was my first one, and may have been the reason why I kept getting assigned more of them by other studios. I only watched the episode once (and no, I'd rather not watch it again, thanks!) I had very much wanted the show to be better than the Filmation average, but unfortunately no matter how much massaging I tried to give it through production, Filmation was a place where almost everyone simply did the minimum amount of work needed to keep their jobs - and of course the writer isn't someone with clout in a production. No one cared - it was just another episode to them, and I suppose I was just too emotionally invested.
Bob Forward on writing 90s antidrug cartoons
Captain Planet was a production mess -- I don't remember writing an anti-drug script for that show, though I may have. To be honest, I've written or completely rewritten well over a thousand animated episodes, but since there are no residuals in animation, the original writer usually got the credit even if I (as story editor) ended up tossing everything up to and including the title and doing it myself. Moneywise, it was all the same, and I considered it part of my job as story editor. In the case of Captain Planet, I may have written a draft that had numerous changes once it got into production, and Doug (Molitor), whom I believe was on staff, may have ended up rewriting it so much he got the credit for it. Drug episodes could be very touchy, and the Captain Planet people were notorious fiddlers.
Bob Forward on writing 90s antidrug cartoons and Captain Planet
You need to understand that these were the days when studios were committed to doing huge numbers of shows, (65 episodes, 130 episodes; we were putting through 5 scripts a week during C.O.P.S.) and there was no time for lots of back-and-forth. An anti-drug show might get attention but it was just one of many, and everyone was very busy, so they just trusted me as an experienced writer to do the best job possible within the parameters of the show.
Bob Forward on writing 90s antidrug cartoons & the apparently breakneck pace of the industry
I believe at least one (The Headman from GI Joe) ended up becoming a toy.
Bob Forward, on his 90s antidrug cartoon characters
