The script for Episode 2 can be found here.
This was the first original episode written for the podcast that had no relationship to the comic series or movie, it was fully original material.
In retrospect, if I had been smarter about it, episode 1 would have ended after some interaction with the gladiators instead of at the point of their capture— Episode one is relatively short and is absolutely starved of action. I repeat this mistake in episode 4, but it’s corrected for after that I believe.
This episode Sarah Sheppard and Will Vogler make their debut, while our dutiful and ever upbeat narrator Jake Roberts gets a turn as the heel Gerber. I told him to do the worst wrestler voice he could muster and he delivered in spades as he always does.
Sarah’s part I intended to recur throughout season one, but I didn’t find the space for it. The doctor is canonically alive and could return should the space allow for it. I liked her poetic yet curt bedside manner.
Will, playing Bullhorn also as a terrible wrestler, maybe had too small a part for how big his voice is. If season 2 sees light of day, I imagine he’ll return in some capacity.
This episode was the first major hurdle I had in learning to edit a very large set of sound beds and effects. There’s so much happening here in so many locations— I almost feel it’s still underdeveloped environmentally. There was a lot more that could have been done.
One of the places my sound libraries fails most often is in crowd sounds, or beds of passing people. I only like to use the sounds of feet moving when they’re important to the story. Though they do provide some ambient joy here and there I often find them annoying to listen to. So chalk it up to personal taste, which I’ve never been accused of having a lot of.
Episode 2:
Ahab/Guard- Ryan Sheehe
Bernie- Morgan Stewart
Clyde- Derek Huss
Kyrgan- Katie Pappas
Narrator/Gerber- Jake Roberts
Bullhorn- Will Vogler
Doctor- Sarah Sheppard