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Code Name: Heero Yuy writes...
What is your general views on clipshows? I know when you worked on Starship Troopers, they did a few to make up for the slow production and episodes airing in the wrong order?
Greg responds...
No, that's not what happened. On Starship, they did a few clipshows as replacements -- to save money so that they wouldn't have to produce the expensive last three episodes (that ended the war) -- allowing them to ultimately deliver 40 "episodes" as required by their contract.
Occassionally, a clip-show can be mildly entertaining. The Simpsons have done a few good ones. Friends did one that I kinda liked. But generally, I dislike them. And I particularly didn't care for the Starship clipshows. But I'm biased, as those last three episodes (that didn't get made because of them) were mine.
Aaron writes...
Hope this gets through in time. The annual ritual of consulting Greg's Oscar picks.
So, who do you like for Best Picture? Actor? Actress?
Greg responds...
1. What are my options?
The truth is, I've seen so FEW movies this year, I'd be a lousy judge. Why don't we wait until the nominees come out, then ask me again.
(And did we do this last year? I have no memory.)
Anonymous writes...
Going over various lists of voice actors, writers, producers and such for various TV shows, as is a hobby of mine... And under listings for "Captain Simian and the Space Monkies", there is a writer named Marlowe Weisman. Relation or just a coincidence?
Greg responds...
I know Marlowe. In fact, I once hired him to work at Disney, when I was an exec here. But we're not related.
Anonymous writes...
Were you or Disney aware that one of the villains in a new Star Wars novel is called Xanatos? Is this legal?
Greg responds...
I wasn't aware. I doubt Disney is. And I'm not a lawyer, so I have no idea if it's legal or not.
Jim R. writes...
Why did Goliath never attempt to unmask that weird hunter guy in the episode "Generations"? You know, that guy that had the cool, stealth-cloaking suit...Who was he? And what was your reasoning for leaving the audience in suspense by not telling us who he was?
Greg responds...
I had nothing to do with "Generations".
I left the series after "The Journey".
matt writes...
what is the one thing you wished you could have kept a secreat about longer in the series?
Greg responds...
Among the original 66 episodes. I don't have too many story regrets there. Can't think of anything off the top of my head.
Joxter writes...
Seeing as how its December when I write this (who know when you'll see it tho...) I thought I'd ask...
What do you think of fruitcake? (The "food")
Greg responds...
Not much.
Duncan Devlin writes...
I liked the proto-names people came up with. Will I get into any trouble if I use the names that didn't nake it for some of my general fiction (which may make it into publication).
Greg responds...
I'm no lawyer, but I wouldn't be too quick to appropriate names that you didn't come up with yourself into your published fiction. At the very least, it won't look to good should it ever be revealed.
Aris Katsaris writes...
Concerning Zot! you said:
<<I'm just sorry that it's over. Do you know if he has any plans to continue? >>
Just today, Scott McCloud wrote the following in the Zot! Message board:
Haven't worked out the details yet, but check back here and on the Zot! Main Page occasionally during the next week or two for announcements regarding further Zot! Online stories.
It is a distinct possibility!
<<It's also too bad that you never got to see the original color and Black & White Zot comics. They're amazing! >>
Yeah, too bad... I also have to wonder: Seeing how Scott McCloud is able to use the potential of a pageless online comic, it might seem weird to me to see him restrained into a normal page-by-page comic. Heh...
Greg responds...
Eh, it was still great storytelling. ZOT! RULES!!
YEAHHH!!!!
Sapphire writes...
You said that a gargoyle in the past has converted to a human religion, what religion did that gargoyle convert to?
Greg responds...
I was being general, assuming that over the course of centuries of human/gargoyle interaction, that there had to be at least one in the whole group that converted. I didn't have something specific in mind.
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