The Guild (Webseries, Seasons 1 – 6)
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chuckroFelicia Day, before she was a nerd goddess icon, was apparently addicted to World of Warcraft. This experience inspired her to create a webseries revolving around the adventures of Codex and her guild, the Knights of Good.
The entire series of this is on Netflix, with each season run together as an episode (the actual episodes are 5-minute Youtube shorts, so this makes sense.) Each season is also a plot arc that resolves, so watching them marathon-style works better than I suspect watching them individually would.
Felicia Day is adorable, but the first season is pretty much all wince-comedy and laughing at the social misanthropes. As the series goes on, we learn that they have a bit more depth...and in that depth is terrible, childish infighting and backbiting. And poor communication. Codex and Zaboo grow as characters. Tink, to some degree. Vork, Clara and Bladezz get depth and backstory, but remain exactly as terrible as when they started.
Honestly, everything Bladezz does and most of the things Tink and Zaboo do can be attributed to their ages and relative immaturity. While exact ages aren't given, Bladezz is still in high school, Tink is a college junior, and Zaboo is an extremely-sheltered recent college grad. Vork and Clara are just irredeemably terrible people who make poor life choices. Hilarious ones, but you don't really feel bad for their misery.
The budget for the series clearly increases for the later seasons (more characters, more locations, more costumes, more CGI...); also the preponderance of celebrity cameos at the con in the fifth season is more indicative of the series' success than anything else.
Oh, and I spent the entire sixth season wanting Codex to grab her boss's phone and take over reading hatemail and forum posts for him, because they obviously make him insane and that would represent a massive improvement to his mental health.
I find it randomly amusing that most of the cast has made a cameo appearance on Brooklyn 99.
Overall: While this never bowled me over with its brilliance and the seasons were uneven, I thought it was entertaining and had some very funny bits. And it's much more of a “loving parody” than anything The Big Bang Theory ever did.
The entire series of this is on Netflix, with each season run together as an episode (the actual episodes are 5-minute Youtube shorts, so this makes sense.) Each season is also a plot arc that resolves, so watching them marathon-style works better than I suspect watching them individually would.
Felicia Day is adorable, but the first season is pretty much all wince-comedy and laughing at the social misanthropes. As the series goes on, we learn that they have a bit more depth...and in that depth is terrible, childish infighting and backbiting. And poor communication. Codex and Zaboo grow as characters. Tink, to some degree. Vork, Clara and Bladezz get depth and backstory, but remain exactly as terrible as when they started.
Honestly, everything Bladezz does and most of the things Tink and Zaboo do can be attributed to their ages and relative immaturity. While exact ages aren't given, Bladezz is still in high school, Tink is a college junior, and Zaboo is an extremely-sheltered recent college grad. Vork and Clara are just irredeemably terrible people who make poor life choices. Hilarious ones, but you don't really feel bad for their misery.
The budget for the series clearly increases for the later seasons (more characters, more locations, more costumes, more CGI...); also the preponderance of celebrity cameos at the con in the fifth season is more indicative of the series' success than anything else.
Oh, and I spent the entire sixth season wanting Codex to grab her boss's phone and take over reading hatemail and forum posts for him, because they obviously make him insane and that would represent a massive improvement to his mental health.
I find it randomly amusing that most of the cast has made a cameo appearance on Brooklyn 99.
Overall: While this never bowled me over with its brilliance and the seasons were uneven, I thought it was entertaining and had some very funny bits. And it's much more of a “loving parody” than anything The Big Bang Theory ever did.
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Date: 2017-11-23 02:30 am (UTC)