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How Did I Get Into SWAT Kats?

The Fateful Day...

I was hooked on SWAT Kats from the minute I stumbled across an episode while flipping through channels back in 1993 (the year the show first aired - though I was two months late to have seen its premiere).  The times for the show kept changing and I kept looking for it.  It was just my kind of cartoon - science fiction and action.  Not to mention the characters (in my opinion) were excellently developed.  As opposed to the thousands of cartoons at the same time and in the years to follow that had great concepts and fascinating action plots, but the good guys were either bland stereotypes or a band of bickering hotheads with deep, dark pasts who just barely got along well enough to stop the villains and spent most of their time having pity parties.

By the time the second season of SWAT Kats was aired the fall after I "found" the show, me, my brother, and my dad were hooked.  We watched every episode together and, after watching them, I ran off with the video tape (the show was aired on Sunday mornings and, as we attend church, we had to tape it) and paused scenes to draw.

The show stopped airing in the summer of 1995.  Two years later, I was sure the show was dead (I was not able to get Cartoon Network, so I had no idea they were airing it.) I found the Internet fandom in December of 1996 and got involved in it in 1997.  In 1997, I found a girl hoping to start an RPG (Rikki Feral of the America Online SWAT Kats RPG) and the fanfiction archive.  I joined the RPG and fixed up a story I'd written based on the SWAT Kats to be posted on the Archive, realizing for the first time that I wrote "fanfic" as they called it.  From there,.... I was hooked and I've been involved ever since.

Choosing Favorites

As far as favorite SWAT Kats go...  I don't have one.  I love the two of them and think it was their friendship that made me come to love the show.  Now, when votes are taken on forums and other fan communities, since there's rarely a "both" category, I've always voted for T-Bone in the hopes of evening things out since it has traditionally seemed that the fandom swung 80% in Razor's favor. And, I'm a sucker for an underdog... er... underkat. Granted, this trend seems to have reversed itself in some communities lately; maybe I'll start voting for Razor.

Mushy Stuff

If we must discuss romance, which I don't really think had much of a place in the action-based show, you can probably tell that I lean toward pairing Chance and Callie... because a survey of the episodes shows him being the one more concerned for her safety in most cases.  Not that Jake wasn't too, Chance just seemed to get more upset.  And, then there's the fact that I honestly thought the show was trying to set them up together in my early days of watching it... and it soooo annoyed me because I didn't want any romance crud in my favorite cartoon.  But, I warmed up to it a bit.  I'm still not much of a romantic though.  And, I don't mind doing pics of Chance and Felina or Jake and Callie and such.  I'll defend my opinion as having some validity, but it's not that I can't see other ideas working or like I'd go to war with someone for thinking Chance and Ann Gora would make a cute couple.  I don't do the OTP (One True Pairing) thing (though you might catch me somewhere jokingly declaring T-Bone/TurboKat my OTP).  I'm not that in love with my theory.... as I think all SWAT Kat romances are just that...  Theories.  The show barely hinted at romance; it certainly didn't set any particular couple in stone.

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