ATOM #207 - "Camping with the Enemy"
My second A.T.O.M. episode aired in Europe a few months ago and hopefully it'll air in the United States sometime soon. In the meantime, I just got to see the episode online. [note - At this very moment, it's online in three parts. Don't know how long that link will be up.]
Like everything anyone ever writes, there's stuff there that I love - and there's stuff that makes me cringe and wonder if I shouldn't take up a new line of work selling pencils or something.
But I think the original script was one of the best things I've ever written - and I think the story editors, director, animators, actors, and everybody really outdid themselves in bringing it to life.
A few behind-the-scenes trivia for you-
-The first minute setting up the situation wasn't written by me - my script started out with them driving to the park. Also, the last visual gag at the end of the script wasn't me. I think those're the only two changes from the script that I turned in.
-There was a running gag with Shark packing too much stuff on the camping trip that got cut for time purposes. He was supposed to be struggling all episode long with having brought multiple backpacks and extraneous stuff. You can see hints of it remaining in the episode - such as why he brought two rafts on the trip.
-I got a GREAT note about the cougar. My story editors (bless them!) shared the note with me, where someone was worried that our heroes might be seen as anti-mountain lion and wanted it made clear that our heroes were "pro-mountain lion".
-The high-tech weapon that Axel uses was given to us to use and was described as "the boxing arm". However, the boxing arm didn't actually do any boxing - it shoots a laser. So why call it a BOXING arm? My story editors and I ended up dubbing the weapon the BATDAB - Boxing Arm That Doesn't Actually Box.
-My favorite scene is the exchange between King and Lioness at the beginning of Act 3. It's one of those scenes where, as I wrote it, I knew there was a really good chance that it'd get cut. There's no action, there're no jokes, it's just two people talking - a character baring his soul isn't going to sell any toys. I was so GEEKED that the scene stayed. If I meet the director, I'm giving him a big hug.
Like everything anyone ever writes, there's stuff there that I love - and there's stuff that makes me cringe and wonder if I shouldn't take up a new line of work selling pencils or something.
But I think the original script was one of the best things I've ever written - and I think the story editors, director, animators, actors, and everybody really outdid themselves in bringing it to life.
A few behind-the-scenes trivia for you-
-The first minute setting up the situation wasn't written by me - my script started out with them driving to the park. Also, the last visual gag at the end of the script wasn't me. I think those're the only two changes from the script that I turned in.
-There was a running gag with Shark packing too much stuff on the camping trip that got cut for time purposes. He was supposed to be struggling all episode long with having brought multiple backpacks and extraneous stuff. You can see hints of it remaining in the episode - such as why he brought two rafts on the trip.
-I got a GREAT note about the cougar. My story editors (bless them!) shared the note with me, where someone was worried that our heroes might be seen as anti-mountain lion and wanted it made clear that our heroes were "pro-mountain lion".
-The high-tech weapon that Axel uses was given to us to use and was described as "the boxing arm". However, the boxing arm didn't actually do any boxing - it shoots a laser. So why call it a BOXING arm? My story editors and I ended up dubbing the weapon the BATDAB - Boxing Arm That Doesn't Actually Box.
-My favorite scene is the exchange between King and Lioness at the beginning of Act 3. It's one of those scenes where, as I wrote it, I knew there was a really good chance that it'd get cut. There's no action, there're no jokes, it's just two people talking - a character baring his soul isn't going to sell any toys. I was so GEEKED that the scene stayed. If I meet the director, I'm giving him a big hug.
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