The project for episode 15
So it’s done! And what a happy ending for everyone! Mission accomplished!
Just kidding. What else could The Company actually lose, besides each other. Which they already have. The Kyrgan seems to be totally lost, Ahab and Clyde are nowhere to be found, and Bernie is in the smoldering wreckage of not only a ship but his homeworld as well.
Where do they go from here? I think at the end of the day that’s a question best answered in season 2. I’m already knee deep in writing that out, so I’ll keep you updated here.
This show finishing is really a breath of relief for me. I’m no longer capable of ruining it or giving it up. It’s all, all 15 episodes, out and live and just there for anyone who wants to hear it. We ended the season at ~700 downloads total on all platforms. It’s about 650 more than I expected but twenty million fewer than I want.
There were some mistakes through the season, and I think chief among them is that the show wasn’t always a quality listen. After the midpoint of the season you could almost hear the story grind to a halt as everything built up from the solo episodes is put aside for future storytelling and instead we go all in on crow-folk times but very slowly. I’ve learned a lot of good lessons from these failures to press the story forward, and I don’t think you’ll hear as much of that in season 2. No more 8 minute hold you over episodes where two people look at a hole and say it looks spooky the end.
I’m going to make a real effort to try and take the story forward every week, even at the cost of some of the banter. I expect, knowing how I operate, that I will overcompensate for this at some point and we’ll be getting 40 minutes of uninterrupted plot motion where no one talks to each other.
But maybe not.
If you’re reading this, thank you. This was largely for my own benefit and to record my process throughout the making of this season, but I hoped someone would make it here, and see how much this cast really cares about this show. Because we do— so much. For many of us, our first love was acting but it fell by the wayside with the advent of adulthood and the necessity to make money.
So this is a chance to be a person who does this things but also to still hang onto a little piece of a dream we had once that we could make people care about a story, even if its a silly one.
Thank you. See you soon.
Credits:
Ahab - Ryan Sheehe
Bernie / Fork - Morgan Stewart
Clyde - Derek Huss
Kyrgan - Katie Pappas
Narrator - Jake Roberts
Guests -
Honeymooner - Breanne Hollis
Honeymooner 2 - Ian Lawrence
Space Cop Commander - Samantha Marten
Crow King - Tyler Quick
Music:
Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
SFX: Various libraries