Why not load them up here? Regardless, I was still figuring that wasn’t quite enough in length terms. After all, this being advertised as the “Black Arms Season,” we sure haven’t seen much of them so far. Using that escape sequence to cram in a quick and intense look at this alien planet, as well as the full gamut of Shadow the Hedgehog enemies and weapons, was a natural conclusion. To give them a reason to fight, Shadow needed to escape and be chased down. The base of the episode already gave us an action-focused introduction to the character and power set of Luna, but Saturn didn’t have the same, even though, him being the fighter of the two, him getting something like that was probably more important. I just had to ask myself what would’ve been missing otherwise. Figuring out what to put in that space turned out to be simple enough, however. Black Gladius would’ve been waiting for Shadow right where the Black Manta landed, and that would’ve been the cliffhanger ending of the episode. In this original script, there would have been no final chase sequence, no gauntlet of boss fights. Then I sat down to start writing and realized that I only had half an episode planned out. So yeah, with this episode basically being a done deal in my mind, I wasn’t too concerned about ironing out the details as the time to actually write it approached. In TV terms, half an hour rather than an hour. ![]() In fact, as far as early episode plans go, this one was quite possibly the most thoroughly planned and scripted out of any of them-planned and scripted to last the length of a standard episode back in Season 0: less than half of the average these days. I know I say it a lot, but we have another very early episode idea here.
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