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Great job of turning this GM epi into BotP. Loved it.

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Wow. Just... wow. What a perfect reinterpretation of the Gatch episode! All of the 'right' parts were left in and all of the 'right' parts were cut out. I'm very impressed! I have to admit I laughed at the part about Jason not hurting Princess more if he'd slapped her. Minor issue... I don't think Kevin would swear in canon BOTP...

Damn, Kevin thought, G-Force shot down the missiles

Also, I'm not able to picture the actual footage in my head (I'll have to go back and watch the ep) but did Jason shoot Bird Missiles? My recollection is that Joe was about to shoot and Princess held him back and said that she wanted to do it. So I'm wondering if the Gatch footage can be compiled in such a way as to make it look like Jason made the shot? I'm slightly surprised that Kevin didn't survive though. This is BOTP, after all...

Good point about the swearing, TJ. With the Bird Missiles, I figured they'd have probably spliced in some other footage for that, since they did do that at least on other time.

Or they could have show Jason walking up to fire the missiles and then cut to the missiles being fired/leaving the Phoenix - make us assume it was him who fired.

One of my fav episodes turned into BOTP!! This was great- and there were several parts that I could hear the BOTP voice actors in my head!

Between adding footage, cutting footage, changing dialogue or sticking in a Zark scene or voice-over, there are ways to change almost anything, I think. It probably could have been possible to keep Kevin alive at the end too, though I think it makes better drama here that he didn't survive. Besides, the BOTP writers killed Strecker in "The Awesome Armadillo," and Colonel Cronus (well, in "Raid of the Red Scorpion," anyway), and Lucy in "Race with Disaster."

Very true, LB. The challenge to this was making it read like BotP and not just a rewrite of the Gatch episode using BotP names. So, I did use Zark, but sparingly (trying to keep him in character and not annoying was almost a challenge in itself). What I found I ended up doing, was focusing on this scene by scene and thinking about what would stay, what would go, and even still there are ideas that I had and scratched, some even before they hit the paper because I felt I wouldn't writing BotP but Gatch-lite. The other challenge was figuring out who the victim of the attempted assassination was and how he fit into this, since he is only seen at that one section, and since I had to figure out how Kevin and Princess knew each other, I cheated, tied them all into together and fell back on a very well used theme: father/son.

Amethyst, 'cheating' or not, it worked for me!