The New Style

[mhacdebhandia]

He certainly is. He got the D&D cartoon on the air during a time when no studio would deal with TSR (because of the Blumes).

Obviously we're talking past each other. One half-decent cartoon show does not a legendary producer make, no matter how damn hard it was to get on the air.

(After all, Courtney Solomon spent a decade trying to get his Dungeons & Dragons film made; does that make him "legendary"?)

 

[WayneLigon]

D&D had a series finale that was never produced. The script for it is available on the internets somewhere. It's quite good. It was intended to set up a new series of the show where the kids focused on using their own skills rather than their magical gear to succeed.

On the DVD set, they have a 'radio' performance of that final script. The DVD-ROM part also has that script, several others, and the series bible (the document a TV show uses as the common basis for all writers).

 

[coyote6]

The list of writers from the D&D cartoon is kind of impressive: Michael Reaves, Paul Dini, Mark Evanier, Buzz Dixon, Steve Gerber, for a cartoon. I recognize a bunch of those names from various comics & books, too.

(Off-topic, but I just picked up the 25th anniversary Groo comic. 25 years of Groo?!?!)

 

[Celebrim]

The list of writers from the D&D cartoon is kind of impressive: Michael Reaves, Paul Dini, Mark Evanier, Buzz Dixon, Steve Gerber, for a cartoon. I recognize a bunch of those names from various comics & books, too.

(Off-topic, but I just picked up the 25th anniversary Groo comic. 25 years of Groo?!?!)

There are very few things that I think are more damaging to our narrative arts than the fact that we've been conditioned as an audience to pay more attention to the name of the director, the producer, the actors, and even the cinematographer, than we do to the name of the writer. It was a revelation to me when I learned to start paying attention to the screenplay writer and following as best as I could the writer's career.

Paul Dini is a bomb. He doesn't get into his full maturity as a writer until Batman TAS, but wow can that man write.