Talkback: Laird's 2k3 development notes!

[The Big Bad]

These aren't final versions of the scripts, though: they're drafts in what are mostly early stages of production. Consistency and sense, and yes, spelling, are less important than figuring out what works and what doesn't work. While the evidence rather unambiguously seems to show that Laird's touch improved every script, there's also little evidence that they wouldn't have improved without him (and yes, I know that would mean proving a negative).

On another note, I guess we can now safely discard the theory that the drop in quality in the last two seasons was due to Laird's lack of supervision. Right now I'm leaning towards short deadlines myself, especially since both seasons got better as they went along, production-wise.

Also, looking at the info we've gotten for "Obsolete", I'm surprised that we haven't gotten any inkling about Starlee's existence yet. It makes me wonder in what order characters were conceived in. And dangit, we better get official art of her, and Darius. They're the two biggest FF characters we haven't gotten art of yet.