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Forum Name: Symphony of the Sword/The Order of the Rose
Topic ID: 343
Message ID: 20
#20, RE: First Dates and Firefights
Posted by Gryphon on Jun-16-13 at 02:15 PM
In response to message #7
>* The way the battle for Tau Ceti was handled was different. Normally
>when we get to Big Fight Scene/Episode we tend to follow the leads
>into the scrum, whereas here we really don't for half or more
>of the story. We see the scrum (it seemed anyway) mostly second or
>third-hand via news reports and reactions from characters on B6. It's
>an interesting change of pace.

That was the basic idea, yeah. One of the reasons this episode hung fire for so long was that I didn't want to just do Another Big Fight Scene Episode. We'd seen it before, in Valiant Rose and The Revolution Will Be Televised, and heck, even on Tau Ceti before in Hunter Rose. What happened in the return to Tau Ceti did have to be presented - it'd been all set up and it was an important point in the overall storyline - but I wasn't satisfied with my early attempts at presenting it straight. It was a bit stale.

I believe it was Phil who suggested that we do it the way it ended up being done, with most of the actual operation viewed from new, outside or semi-outside perspectives. Certainly his positioning of the DSMP characters and their situation provided a ready-made carrier wave for that approach to be transmitted on.

--G.
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