CRAZED RAMBLINGS

This is a 22-episode TV series built from the 14 points of view of Vampires SMP. The first episode "premier" is 1.5 hours long, and the others are an hour. I've been working on this since shortly after the SMP concluded as a way to explore building narrative through video editing.

I have finally made episodes 1-4 public. Since YouTube doesn't allow me to make edits to a video after releasing it, I've struggled to figure out when they're "done" enough to make public. I'm probably going to keep coming back to this stuff and massaging it for myself for years as I have new ideas and build more skills.

The rough cuts are complete for the whole thing, however. I'll release the rest as I'm ready to let them be set in stone.

Episodes from the original are broken out in to increasingly more TV episodes as time goes on and the action gets more dense. Starting with episode 4, each episode from the original is takes two passes through the timeline in this series: once for the town and once for the castle. This is to keep the sense of the two groups being separate communities that each develop their own sense of what is happening. Still, watch them in the order I numbered. The non-linear storytelling tricks are designed for that view order.

Like as someone who collects quotes like shiny objects, it’s got so many stupid (or philosophical) and quotes??????? Like:

“HEEEEEEY WE’RE IN ARIZONAAAAAAA!!”

“WHAT THE FUCK INDEED MY FRIEND”

“I COULD TURN YOU INTO AN ICE CUBE AT THE DROP OF A HAT!”

“Well the jokes on you because you’re not wearing a hat”

“WHY IS THERE YELLING NOW?????”

“JJJJJJJJJAILBREAK MATHAFAHKERS”

“Leif says don’t worry about the tear gas”

“The tear gas????”

“FLOOR IS LAVAAAAA”

“LAZER SAAAAAAW”

“How can they be our enemies when they created square dancing?”

“Lazer saw… >:}” (again)

“Tita for the love of GoBLAHDHSJJDDBE-”

“Kitty, she has punched that horse right in the face”

“Sometimes the best way to skin a cat is to kick down the doors of the edible arrangement building and start shootin’”

(Also a moment of silence for Suffragette Effie)