User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/It's that time again--another LTDI preview/@comment-1221823-20110523025910/@comment-1874924-20110524024635

The Muskies are merely the Killer Bass relabeled. As I mentioned in my very first LTDI preview--it was over a year ago, so I'm not surprised that you forgot, if you even saw at the time--I never liked the name, "Killer Bass", and I didn't want to change one team name and not the other, so LTDI's teams are the Killer Muskies (short for "Muskellunge") and the Screaming Eagles.

Brett's interaction with his mother mainly serves as episode breaks, with the scene above being the end of episode #1. In The 1,001 Nights, which is LTDI's structural model, King Shahryar did not interrupt Sharazad (Scheherezade) when she was telling her stories, and saved his comments/questions for the end of each story. Brett will do likewise.

The reasons the Muskies' hunters liked the idea of using the plane is that (a) they'll be able to cover much more ground than they could on foot, and (b) they expect that the other team's "deer" will be easier to spot from the air. There's also the surprise factor, to which Beth alluded--the Eagles' "deer" presumably wouldn't even dream that they might be attacked from the air. Of course, you'll just have to wait and see whether the Muskies' assumptions turn out to be correct.