The Writers and Mike Scully: The Slow Transformation towards Homer

It's highly a mystery how with many writers there was a slow transformation towards Homer in their work, except in Mike Scully, where it did not bloom until his eventual appointment as executive producer. I would call Mike Scully a weak victim of eventually Homer oriented writers: Perhaps, if he had been a slightly stronger ex. prod., the ranting and overly wacky Homer of most of his writings would have stayed in the background and eventually dissappeared. But, the writers, slowly becoming Homer oriented and twisting of his true persona, took the chance of using Scully's minorly ranting Homer and took it all the way into a new and evil creation. In many writers, you notice a slow Homer blossoming, such as Swartzwelder, Appel, Meyer, and Collier. It is the slowly changing staff and Scully's weak control that doomed the Simpsons for a period, not Scully.