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While funny, I feel this is a bit of a cop-out, I want more proper episodes!
I'm really surprised that people didn't get the part in the beginning where it said that they have a technical issue that needs sorting out and so instead of nothing you get a blooper reel.
It's almost like you guys weren't watching it >.>
Getting extras in-between episodes for Doomsday Arcade made a lot of sense. Their episodes ran quite long, had great production values, and really had us engaged through the process for each and every week, so when they started taking huge breaks and teasing us with extras when the episodes were running even longer while leading up to the finale, we all sort of understood what was going on. This show has only run for three proper episodes before hitting its first major speed bump. When you have an issue of this scale before your show has even come into its stride, you've ruined a lot of early impressions.
The issue is a scheduling error. That kinda sounds like a problem that can happen to anyone at anytime regardless of quality or content. This is kinda like the clip show excuse. We have to make X amount of episodes for this season but had an X problem (money, time, writer idea bucket all dried up) it would be preferred by the audience that no show ever gave into the sexy lure of the clip show episode but things happen and it's a business so we just gotta deal. And that's whats happening right now. Something happened so here's a lesser product. I'm sure we won't get a blooper reel again anytime soon.
Big difference, you would never see a clip show done for the fourth episode. People would just stop watching.
That's not what I was getting at. I used the clip show example as an example of someone having to submit something despite not having the time to create new content.
But these guys had plenty of time to create new content and have a healthy backlog of material in the months between the film festival and when they actually aired.
That is something to consider but in order to discern that we would have to know how much effort and time goes into what they do or what goes into submitting something into the escapist. I do not know how you know they had made lots of episodes between the film festival and there arrival I would have just as easily assumed they had not made anything until they got hired. I also assume if they are under 18 they go to school and do homework or over 18 they have jobs that take up lots of time as jobs do. I also do not know what happens when people's time schedule gets screwed up and what that pertains too.
My thought is to just take there word on what they said and assume that once it's fixed things will be back to normal. This isn't a dig at there ability to produce material or how they should have gained a certain amount of cred before using auxiliary material. It is what it is. A failure to produce material due to an unforseen event that must be attended too while also keeping up with the contract to deliver something at an expected time.
That's the issue with having a contract with the same site that licenses to the likes of Extra Credits and Zero Punctuation. This isn't youtube, the second the Escapist decides to license their work, they're working professionally. If they don't have enough free time to get videos out on a bi-weekly basis, then they should stick to another venue until they have the ability to do so. The Escapist doesn't license videos for the sake of the content creators, but for the sake of their audience's interest.
The escapist is a professional business of sorts (there not like a network or movie company but they probably operate similar to cracked or blistered thumbs) but even then I can't really say how exactly they go about handling there procedures when dealing with submissions and the people who make them. Like I said earlier when it comes to making cartoons or live action shows one may have to resort to using clip shows or blooper reels. We as the audience never like it but it's just how these things go.
There were other, better, far more professionally handled entries to the Escapist Film Festival that lost so these guys could resort to one of those lazy cop outs before their show has even gotten interesting. I'm all for giving slack to guys just starting out, but so far we haven't been offered a thing to make us sympathize with them enough to forgive a blooper reel so early on in production.
If things like that continue to plague this production, it'll do a "I Hit It With My Axe" real quick.
