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Originally Posted by Cipher

I'm still scratching my head over it. Either Murphy didn't realize the gravity of the original story, or he really wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to present an (even more) environmentally conscious episode to kids. And maybe a more upbeat one.

Again, it's a cartoon for little kids... and Murphy was a gun-for-hire. The actual "Sons of the Silent Age" story would make little tykes want to slit their own wrists (or at least that would be the corporate/demographic way of thinking) so he delivered something that... wasn't like that.

It would be one thing if Murphy was tasked with, "Hey, deliver us your definitive version of the 'Sons of the Silent Age' comic book story in script-form for the screen"... but he wasn't. What he was tasked with, like I would imagine every writer on the show, was, "Hey, deliver us a version of the 'Sons of the Silent Age' comic book story... but make it age appropriate, real kid friendly and all that. Oh yeah, and here's a bunch of notes from Playmates about stuff you need to include."