An Interview with "Sir Flicker"

                                    

                                          


                          
Dear Readers,
                          
Firstly, let me say how glad I am that you've read and enjoyed my stories!
                          
The interview below wasn't always in my plans.  However, someone I know and trust suggested the idea.  Their logic was that my readers might enjoy learning a little bit more about my opinions about my stories and other subjects.
                          
At first, I dismissed the idea because I thought it might seem a little too self congratulatory. (It is my hope that it does not actually seem so to those reading this now).  However, this trusted individual persisted in their quest.  And persisted.  And persisted some more!
                          
So it was that I decided to agree to the interview below.  It was actually a good deal of fun answering my friend's questions...and they had some very excellent questions lined up!
                          
When the time came for my friend to provide me with the transcript of the interview, I paused.
                          
Now, there was nothing wrong with the interview itself.  On the contrary, I found it entertaining enough that I read it over several times.  But...I wondered.  Did any of my readers really want to know any of this?  So I filed it away and there it sat for a bit.  That might very well have been the end of the story right there.
                          
But, one day, I reconsidered the idea.  I thought "If I knew Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had an interview talking about his stories, would I be interested in reading it?"  Not to truly compare my stories to those by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by any means, but the answer was an inevitable yes.
                          
So without further ado, here is the interview.  My thanks to my friend for suggesting it!  I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I came to enjoy giving it! 
                          
"Sir Flicker"
                          
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An Interview with "Sir Flicker":
                          
Interviewer (Int):  So, before we get into the questions here, thanks for sitting down and agreeing to do this.
                          
"Sir Flicker" (S.F.):  Welcome, but I'm not really sure people would be all that interested to know about what I think about this or that.  [Smiles]  Hope you're not wasting your time.
                          
Int.:  Well, people have read your stories and appear to have really enjoyed them.  I think they might want to know a bit more about what you think and what inspired you to create your stories.
                          
S.F.: I think it's great that people have enjoyed the stories.  That's really the goal.  It was a great, albeit short lived, cartoon.  It had some unusual aspects to it and yes it was a lot of fun to build new directions for these characters.
                          
Int.:  Ok, yeah, that's actually a good place to start.
                          
S.F.:  What do you mean?
                          
Int.:  What attracted you to write a continuation of the Blazing Dragons cartoon?  I mean, it's kind of a strange choice, really.  I think it was off the air for, like, what was it? 20 years or something by the time you wrote your stories.
                          
S.F.:  Oh, I see.  No, not quite 20 years...at least not when I got around to writing them.  Probably close though.  But, to get to your main question, the main thing that I always found very intriguing about Blazing Dragons was the very compelling way the romance was treated between the characters of Flicker and Flame.  It's funny, because here you have a cartoon show trying to be a little bit edgy and putting so much energy into turning elements of traditional fairy tales and ancient legends on their heads....and the funny thing is that none of that was what made me watch.  What drew me back to the whole of the first season episodes was the interesting dynamic of Flicker and Flame's romance.  A lowly squire and a Princess, probably one of the oldest, most well trodden story devices in the history of storytelling...and yet somehow, this series really created something truly special from that.  Something really unique.  It was very compelling and...somehow...a breath of fresh air.