Felicia Day

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I’m late on this post! I’m kinda throttling back this week after 4 straight months at full-speed run. Yesterday I actually had NO PHONE CALLS, NO APPOINTMENTS! I actually RAN ERRANDS! Bizarre feeling. I took the last few nights off to play video games, meant to play WOW but I got hooked on Trials HD, an Xbox Arcade game where you drive a motor cycle through crazy courses, it’s addictive and awesome. SO much so that I bought a leather jacket today for the first time ever, not realizing the subtext. Oh well.

Episode 6! Each episode this season makes me laugh more and more, we just locked episode 10 and I swear I think it’s the funniest episode we’ve ever had, but that’s in the future. Episode 6 has one of the core scenes I wrote the season around: Wiggly being incompetent. If you’ve ever JUST started playing a game you know the feeling of being lost and overwhelmed by the controls, I LOVE LOVE how incompetent Brett Sheridan plays Wiggly, and how Clara doesn’t care AT ALL, even making him play on the trackpad, which is AWFUL for gaming.

Like I’ve mentioned before, this script was MUCH different in previous drafts, I reworked everything from episodes 6-10 about a zillion times, moving whole sections and storylines around over and over. I can’t believe it’s turned out so great. The biggest lesson I learned is don’t do a 140 page draft when it needs to be 100 pages max and then expect it to be easy to cut. Noooooo.

I really love the scene between Codex and Riley as well, for a while that scene had been cut from the script because we were running long, but it kept pestering me in the back of my mind. So great we added it back, Michelle plays such a fine line with being a psychotic and sexy, she’s sooo good. The slight tension thing has definitely…gotten a lot of comments I can’t wait for you guys to see next episode, Vork has one of the funniest scenes ever.

Ok, I have some blog posts lined up so I’ll be doing that more frequently in the coming weeks. Also, back to the comic writing! Got a draft of the first issue back from notes, of course…I’m long Cutting hurts so bad, it’s better to let it sit for several days, get objective, then go in with a machete and start chopping stuff out. For some reason distance helps. As does playing motorcycle games

Oh, also just uploaded the finale to Season 2 to YouTube. Best comment ever: “wish they would have kept the production values a bit lower…its starting to just be another random youtube show.”
WHAT!?! Oh gosh, I love the internet! ?

Just got back from New York from doing Jimmy Fallon (and a LITTLE relaxing, much better attitude now that I’m home, I was getting REALLY NEGATIVE from all the stress ). Little late with this embed, but here goes:

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So, I really really love this episode. I always knew this sequence would be in the season, but the idea of a contest came later. And then all the legal stuff to be able to DO a contest came up and kinda mucked up the plan, but thankfully the “people” figured it out so we could do it in time! If you were around for it, we didn’t publicize the contest THAT widely, and we also lied and said it would ONLY by for the DVD, because I didn’t want people to get spoiled for the season, that maybe we’d lose a Guild member along the way. There were SO MANY funny entries, there will be several on the DVD that aren’t here because they didn’t work in the cut, but were just hilarious. I hope you guys enjoyed them as much as we did screening them, the “READY TO RAID” guy just made me laugh SO HARD. I want it on a animated .gif loop.

The rest of the episode is really funny as well, all actors play their parts perfectly. The center of this script, episodes 5-9 were VASTLY reworked over and over by myself, there were originally 13 looser episodes(which is 1 more than we needed), and I kept reconfiguring and moving sections to be able to restructure up to a week before shooting. The happy accident of denying a place to Riley actually came AFTER George joined the Guild in a few drafts, which seems crazy because it’s perfect the place where it is, but sometime it takes a long time for something to fall into place.

I also expressly wanted Codex to grow a bit of a spine this year, so here’s a chance she gets that seems natural for her to take a stand, one that was actually fun as an actor as well. Michelle is sooo funny and yet still likable in this part, a hard line to walk but she does it with perfection, especially considering what a sweet person she is in real life. And Vork…I can’t wait for next episode, he just gets funnier and funnier.

Also, there’s a small 2 page preview of the comic linked on AICN you can check it out if you want! Working hard on the first 22 page issue now, yikes is it a different format of writing! And I think I’m late on the deadline. UGH!!!!! MUST WORK!