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Subject: Gadget's personality
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 92 3:08:43 CST
From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)


Date: Sat Feb 22 20:14:32 1992
From: (Tad Stones)
Subject: Gadget's personality
 
When writing the show, our feeling was that Gadget was raised by a couple
of tech-heads, inventors, engineers, chemists...who took great joy in their
work.  Gadget absorbed this atmosphere that was distinctly lacking in social
skills.  I'm sure it was just as common to find a screwdriver or wrench next
to your plate as it was to find a knife or fork.  Mealtimes were at odd hours
since inspiration does not wait for the stomach.  Who knows?  Maybe they ate
over the sink a lot.
 	The point is, there wasn't a lot of training in social skills at the
Hackwrench household.  So when Gadget went to high school (lower grades having
been taken at home) she felt lost.  That's why she's shy except around those
she lives with.  That's also why she feels most comfortable while tinkering.
I tried hard to make Gadget, not absent minded, but extremely focused.  She
has tunnel vision when she's working on something.  Most of the time, she 
doesn't even realize that the boys are making a play for her.
 
The voice of Sewernose was played by Pete somebody.  I forget.  If you've seen
Terminator 2 - he's the guy who owns the biker bar who comes out on the front
porch with a shotgun.
 
Note of interest: When we started, we thought Zipper would steal the show 
because he was so cute.  But when we started writing scripts it was extremely
hard to give him anything to do because of his relative weakness and lack of a
voice.  Sometimes he was hardly in a script and we just told the storyboard
artists to work him in where we could.

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