From: upham@cs.ubc.ca (Derek Upham)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: The original plot to BGC6 (was Re: Bubblegum Crisis! Vision.)
Date: 12 Nov 1992 19:27:07 -0800
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umsitho0@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dennis Hai Choon Sithoo) writes:

> I am asking again. What was the original storyline for BGC.  Is it true
>that Priss was supposed to die at the end of BGC eps.6 & was Vision
>supposed to take her place on the Knight Sabers lineup? 

As far as I can tell, Priss was supposed to die in the _middle_ of
BGC6.  Remember the scene on the highway where Largo is choking Leon?
Priss shoots him in the hand, he drops Leon, and then he calls down a
laser strike right on top of Priss.

Priss is tossed from her bike like a broken doll, her visor
shattering, whispering ``Anrie...'' just before the camera...

...cuts back to Largo, who gets back into his car and drives off.
Then who walks up to check on Leon?  Priss, who is apparently in
excellent shape, despite having several megajoules of coherent
electromagnetic radiation dropped on top of her.

My opinion?  Priss was supposed to die in the laser strike.  Celia
would have loaded into the new Typhon-class Motoslave, and she and
Linna (in that Goddamn-Monster Motoslave) would've clobbered the
pseudo-KS bumas.  Then Anrie leaps out to defend (ha!) Largo, and
Celia explains to Anrie what happened to Sylvie.  Anrie has a change
of heart (no doubt helped by seeing Priss die) and takes a blast
intended for Celia.  Celia disables Largo, and Nene and Linna sync up
to knock out the satellite, just like in the OVA.

Vision would then have joined the Knight Sabers as a replacement for
Priss after the events of BGC7.


                             "Leon:     ...and _that's_ how Genom replaced the
                                        entire Mega-Tokyo municipal government
                                        with Buma.
                              Captain:  My life you're clever, Leon.  They'd
                                        certainly taken me in.
                              Leon:     It's all in a day's work.
                              Captain:  With a brilliant mind like yours, Leon,
                                        you could be something other than a
                                        policeman.
                              Leon:     Yes.
                              Captain:  What?
                                  (piano starts playing introduction)
                              Leon (singing):
                                        If I were not in the ADP
                                        Something else I'd like to be
                                        If I were not in the ADP
                                        A baby-sitter, me..."

                              -- From Bubblegum Crisis 2: Born To Kill
                                 (a rejected early draft)

Derek

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Derek Lynn Upham                               University of British Columbia
upham@cs.ubc.ca                                   Computer Science Department
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