It's absolutely lunatic to think that skills honed in one kind of writing don't translate to another.
Since everyone wants to attack my ideas, what the hello!
Sure skills do, but like the article itself said the guy is all over the place and needs to focus. Maybe it was just bad humor, but skills in writing may improve, but genres don't always mix.
Pan's Labyrinth is pretty good thing to emulate ideas from for Feywild, but I doubt the Chinese zodiac that JCA was about with the added Chan-antics will translate over that well.
So again I repeat, the article probably did things wrong and focused on the wrong things, and rather than just giving a list of writing credits; the article should have got some focus and narrowed down to specifically what was done for MotP and the Feywild and what connections they had.
I had to delete an entire post about the latest podcast because it went a bit far about something said in it, I don't think what I said here is over the line for a critique of the interview presented.
Maybe the article should have just focus on the draft of Transformers, and the rewrite of Rush Hour 2 to give more credibility to the author, and not add things that would make you question it. I think Jackie Chan was mentioned just because of his name in the cartoon. This doesn't help the author that much for people who haven't seen it and only know the name Jackie Chan. Most people have heard of the new Transformers movie and probably seen Rush Hour 2 and would get a greater sense that the author was good at story from just those.
I mean a lot of these interviews give out too much information sometimes that makes you question what are they really trying to sell you in them?
It was just my preference about what to read in an interview. That is why I stated that Rush Hour 2 was good. I also didn't say JCA was bad, but just not something for D&D to build on from unless it is a new Oriental Adventures.
Maybe the interview is just highlighting the wrong things for you.
Note where I said that in my first post in this thread. So don't think I am knocking John, but just the interview itself and what it presents and how. But that is a part of the problem I have with WotC and the information and way it gives out said info right now.
I didn't even mention the Story Hour stuff on here, because I don't go there or even really know what that section of the forums is, so leave it alone and safe from me and my opinions.
Maybe Morrus can interview John for ENWorld for things and get a better more focused article on his D&D work, than what seems like just a snippet of his resume.
Now, no more questions to me...how about people say what they think about the interview itself.
Yes. I have a kid.
Each episode involved binding a specific, named demon back in some other extra dimensional prison plane. There were bad guys trying to free them. And there were coins, one for each animal in the Chinese zodiac, that granted a power to the person who held them. They were instrumental somehow, I forget exactly.
One thing that I liked about it was it was a finite series. There was 1-2 shows for each demon plus an intro and a finale. After the last show the story was over and the questions were answered.
That was the second part. You missed the first part where Shendu was not yet released form his imprisonment and Jackie was still collecting the talismans while fighting the Dark Hand under Valmonte?
Also I am surprised you would ask me it I saw JCA when two posts included Uncle's catchphrase of "One more thing..." :/
It was fun, and we enjoyed watching it, but I took my notes using wikipedia. 
