Hey, the finale is finally here!
The True Hero S1E7: "At an End"
After being nearly finished for about four months, episode seven of season one has finally been released! Overall I really enjoy this episode because we see a new side of Evan that his character has really been lacking which is his flaws. It's a short finale I know but I wanted to wrap up season one in a way that would make season two even better storywise. Now if you'll bare with me I want to discuss the season as a whole.
The first season is mostly meant to, as arguably bad as it was done, introduce the characters of Rob and Evan and to experiment with creating and finishing a dramatic-comedy series. I realize there are plenty of problems with the season's story as it jumps around far too much but there are reasons for that.
When I began the season I had all of my voice actors around, they all had enough free time to get me their lines in on time. After episode two that became a problem, even Jon, my co-director and writer, wasn't able to turn his lines in for Evan on time. Then I couldn't get in contact with the actor for Officer Wilkins, aka Thomas Rall Jr. And to top everything off the voice actor for Guardian, a shady character we meet in episode one, went off to join the Air-force. This caused enough problems for me to rewrite the season from around 22 episodes, down to the seven we have now.
I also ran into subconscious issues with the writing. As epic and funny as Jon can be his voice simply did not meet that of a comical sidekick, instead he became the badass, which is not what I had envisioned. Originally Alejandro Saab (KaggyFilms) was meant to voice Evan as he did in the original series in Halo 3 however we had somewhat of a falling out for a little while, which has since been resolved. That resulted in me turning to Jon to voice my second protagonist.
Now I know I've touched on plot points in the series that have not been concluded or followed up on, which is usually a big no-no when it comes to writing however I like the idea of having small hints and previews at a larger story spread throughout several seasons, which the main characters are unaware of. In season two some of the plot lines with Guardian and Wilkins are further explored but still not in the magnitude that will follow with season three and four.
Overall I can't say I'm necessarily proud of the season on a grand level, however I am very happy that it's done and people enjoyed it. I really like the episodes on their own, but not when I tie them together. I hope you're all as excited for season two as I am but for now I have to get to work on a movie script for something top secret for Mind Fusion that I can't talk about!
-Brady
