Was David Wise the only OT writer who tried to build a canon universe?

*CyberCubed* · 08-08-2013, 08:48 PM

As we all know David Wise was the head writer of the original toon, and wrote the shows most important episodes and arcs. He wrote all of Season 1, most of Season 2, and a lot of important episodes from Seasons 3-6. He was also with the show till the very end having done all of Seasons 7, 8 and 9 and then ghost-wrote Season 10 with Jeffery Scott.

I notice that aside from Michael Reeves and a few gems from Jack Mendelson the other writers were very episodic. I assume they were forced to be, because they had to write self contained episodes that could fit in almost anywhere aside from the location of the Technodrome.

David Wise seemed to write many episodes dealing with the history of the Foot Clan or Krang and the Rock Soldiers which I really appreciated. A lot of his stories seem to contain heavy OT canon facts that other writers tended to gloss over. I sometime wonder what it would be like if David Wise had complete control over the series.

08-08-2013, 08:48 PM	#1
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 43,832	Was David Wise the only OT writer who tried to build a canon universe? As we all know David Wise was the head writer of the original toon, and wrote the shows most important episodes and arcs. He wrote all of Season 1, most of Season 2, and a lot of important episodes from Seasons 3-6. He was also with the show till the very end having done all of Seasons 7, 8 and 9 and then ghost-wrote Season 10 with Jeffery Scott. I notice that aside from Michael Reeves and a few gems from Jack Mendelson the other writers were very episodic. I assume they were forced to be, because they had to write self contained episodes that could fit in almost anywhere aside from the location of the Technodrome. David Wise seemed to write many episodes dealing with the history of the Foot Clan or Krang and the Rock Soldiers which I really appreciated. A lot of his stories seem to contain heavy OT canon facts that other writers tended to gloss over. I sometime wonder what it would be like if David Wise had complete control over the series.