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AUTHOR'S NOTES: I love this story. Why? Most stories I write, I have to puzzle out the plot points, figure out the chain of cause and effect, determine who says what and does what. All that jazz. It can be very frustrating trying to wrap my brain around all of that and getting everything to come together and make sense. This story virtually wrote itself. My original idea for the plot went like this: Scraplets infest the playroom. SILVERBOLT TAKES CHARGE and flies everyone to safety. That was it. It took me a little while to figure out where to start, but even that fell right together once it got going. Where did the last story leave off? Well, the kids couldn't transform. So it only made sense to have them trying to transform when the second story opened. And since Silverbolt needed to be able to transform by the end of this episode, it seemed important to initially stress the kids' inability to do so. Cheetor's line, "I AM TRANSFORMED!" should be an obvious poke at the Beast Machines cartoon. Cheetor's suggestion that everyone build Magnablox towers, though, was merely a throwaway idea, something to segue into the next scene. Besides allowing Cheetor to break up the transformation game, I didn't plan on doing anything further with the Magnablox. Yet it only made sense to base the second scene around the tower-building contest, and it made sense to have that scene focus on Mechanicat, the most engineering-inclined of the 'bots. When I wanted to introduce the Scraplets, it only made sense to me that they would draw attention to themselves by attacking the towers. By the time Firebot got involved (the choice of his character may have had something to do with my just having purchased his toy), my story had begun to diverge from the original two-sentence summary. Now it was just two 'bots in danger, not the whole group. But how was I to have Silverbolt rescue them? I had originally intended him to fly everybody to higher ground and safety. But where would that 'higher ground' be in the playroom? I had no idea. I didn't really worry about it too much though, because as soon as Silverbolt began giving orders, my fingers typed out the command "Everyone move their towers to the center of the room!" without even thinking about it. I'm serious. It wasn't until AFTER I typed that that I got the idea for Silverbolt to climb the towers -- except, of course, Silverbolt couldn't climb the towers: he has turbines for hands and wheels for feet. But Gorillabot could do it; I mean, he's a monkey, right? And that was that. The epilogue was a little trickier (think of something clever and robotic that B.L.T. could stand for) but the last couple sentences, as always, came naturally. I never would have guessed that ending each episode with a couple of "warm fuzzy" lines would be so easy. But there you are. I think most people who've read the first two episodes in this series like the first one better. (And that's fine.) But from the standpoint of writing it, "SILVERBOLT TAKES CHARGE" just blows the other one away. [ go back ]
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