Beating your head against objects is not productive

Though it is what I have been doing most of the night and well into the day. You see, my next blog was supposed to be all excited about how we have the season mapped at last-all 22 episodes picked and ready to be fleshed out and written. Well, not quite ready for writing, but you get my point.

I went over the votes. I figured out which ones had the most votes, whilst narrowing down the many episode ideas that involved targeting certain main characters. I found a nice order to put them in that made sense with the story and character arcs. I posted it, and was quite proud.

Then I was reminded of a very important detail I forgot. The introduction of a character that is very important to the season, and really needs an episode in itself to introduce him. Can't be a B plot sort of thing. It needs to be a standalone episode as this character will carry the story of that episode. So now I have to find a way to fit him in without throwing off the character and story arcs, which is a lot harder than it sounds.

The other thing causing me to beat my head against objects such as my laptop would be assigning writers. We have episode preferences from each writer. We know their strengths and weaknesses. We know who came up with which episode as they get first consideration. Should be a done deal, right? Wrong. It's much more difficult than I thought it would be. Every writer has strengths and weaknesses, and pairing up compatible writers to balance those out and produce the best possible season is quite tough. We want to give everyone the chance to write, as this is a collaborative effort. The question now is how we do that.

If I hit my head against the laptop enough, I know the solutions to these problems will come to me. Oh yes, it will.

Or loss of consciousness.

Comics and a full season decided

Happy New Year, everyone! Welcome to 2008! 2008 is pretty much the year for the Blood Ties VS, as this is when the episodes will be written and "aired." We are deciding this week on the final selection of 22 episodes (cause after all, that's what we'll be getting when the official season 2 is aired). The writers and the whole crew have put so much into this, and the ideas they've come up with are just fabulous, they really are. It was hard to narrow them down since we had a list of almost 40 episode ideas! There are so many questions to answer. What is Henry going to do? How will he deal with his broken heart? Where does Mike turn to now that he has given up Vicki and lost his job? Those two things alone made up his world. And Vicki...what to do with poor headstrong, heroic, self sacrificing Vicki now that the demon that has had a hard on for her over the past year is out and about...Which also leads us to Astaroth. Chances are obtaining Vicki wasn't his only goal. He knew what she'd choose, and he knew that would leave him free to roam about the earth. Once we get the website up and running (which will probably be around the time we are ready for the first episode to air on it), we'll be teasing you guys with episode descriptions for the upcoming episodes. You guys are in for a real treat. I'm part of the team heading this up and I have to remember to take my fan hat off while planning instead of just saying "Oh!!! Write that soon, please!! I want to read!" I think that's a good sign.

We are working on the comics as well. *Ahem* Excuse me. Graphic novels. Our resident graphic novel artist is working hard on the first bit to go with the premiere. It's not so much that we will be seeing Henry's published works so much that we'll have a nice window into his drawing area where we can spy on what he is doing. Anyone care to take a guess at what his sketches will be like immediately after Deep Dark? I think the title of that episode is an understatement for Henry's thoughts.

We are going to be closing the forum to new members here soon, as we already have a nice sized group of people and it will cause too much confusion to add people to the mix afterwards. However, we are already talking about going for another season and throwing ideas out there for that, so when the time comes we will open registration back up for new people to join.

Those are all the ramblings for now! Here's to a happy 2008 full of lots of Blood Ties-virtual and official!