Original Commentary

We've got a David in Spare Parts too. And with a similar hair color. This is entirely a coincidence, honest. In the early drafts, he was named Robin. But it didn't work with that name, so I changed it. We didn't notice the similarities until today - Terrence

Modern Commentary
Huh. He's not based on Spare Parts David?!?
That's...weird. So if the plan wasn't for him to maybe rope Brisbane and Friends into a random creative pursuit, what was it?

In Spare Parts, David is a leader and a dreamer. He'd show up with half a plan, like making a horror movie or releasing a video game and rope everybody into it.

He had no idea what he was doing, no experience, and no resources. He'd get a ragtag band of students to create something by sheer enthusiasm.

But sometimes you need more than enthusiasm. There's a reason why people go to film school, because all the technical bits of making a movie, all the language of storytelling, all the business knowledge that's involved in actually getting your film in front of an audience - those things all matter.

But here we are, not entirely self-taught but mostly figuring things out ourselves as we go. So we're coming at it from a place of sympathy.

If he wasn't initially based on Spare Parts David, then he kinda fell into it because there wasn't much else there for him. - Terrence