The Guild Season 4, Episode 1 “Epic Guilt”

Jul 13, 2010

Yay – After months of waiting!

Felicia Day and The Guild have had an enormous influence on us wanting to make web video. Ever since I started blogging I have been a fan of just how much Felicia has achieved. She really is an inspiration, a role model and all-round nice person. I frequently write about The Guild and people connected to it on my blog, the last geek bus home, because they are very newsworthy – and today the news is – EPISODE 1 OF SEASON 4 IS OUT NOW! Here it is:

Behind The Scenes….

One of the reasons we did the “Behind The Scenes of The Guild Season 4 with Higlet” series was because the idea really really amused us. But there was something else. The Guild is released on MSN/Xbox Live first and only onto YouTube later. That doesn’t stop people searching for The Guild on YouTube, though, and usually it goes to RickRolls (I’m looking at you, “watchtehguild”) or rips from MSN. The Guild is sponsored by Microsoft and the views need to be counted by them because it helps funding.

How does the Higlet stuff help?

When people search for The Guild Season 4 on YouTube now, our videos come up near the top. I’ve updated all the information on the videos with a direct link to Season 4 Episode 1 and an annotation that directs people to watchtheguild.com. Hopefully people will find our videos and then click off to the real Season 4 of The Guild.

The REAL Behind The Scenes

And if you want the real deal in Behind The Scenes of The Guild, you need to be listening to the Knights of The Guild podcast, the Official Fan Podcast for The Guild. Each week they are going to be doing a CompanionCast stuffed full of snippets, info and gossip direct from the set – the actual, real set. The first one is out tomorrow, so look out for that!

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tonewaugh • Jul 14, 2010 @1:53 am

Higlet, it is so cool to learn your BTS is not just funny, but is serving the Public Good, or at least the Knights of Good and their Productions and RobotKittenGiggleBus Entertainment. That might sound sarcastic, but it’s not – I really think it’s great, because I love The Guild too and want it to continue to succeed. To live long and maybe even prosper. I’m one of those folks who buys every version of every DVD (especially since I don’t trust DVD-R and never will, but buy it anyway cause I don’t want to wait for the DVD), and I’m bummed I still don’t have a copy of the original toon keep-case cover of the S1 DVD-R.

You have some great videos on YouTube – your ELE processing office handling the written application from Katey is fanastic, and your Skype interview manged to elicit that non-stop “Midwest grin that she’s famous for” (though I don’t know why Buns and Chou Chou thought the Midwest was involved, but whatever).

Okay, by-eee.
admin • Jul 14, 2010 @7:43 am

Thank you, Tone! It was something that struck me on YouTube last year and it seemed like a good way to get around it and have fun, too.

My original toon case of Season 1 is one of my prized possessions, especially as Felicia signed it for me before she sent it. I wonder if you can pick one up anywhere? I hope you find one.

Thanks again for your support – it means a lot!
tonewaugh • Jul 14, 2010 @9:00 am

Thanks, I have an alert set at ebay but so far no luck. Guild Season 1 search also and only pulls in the Season 1/2 combo. I did find one copy just after Farpoint earlier this year; someone auctioning off an original that he got signed there, which he might even had bought there – Felicia might have brought some of those with her? – but the autograph increased the bidding and I lost. My bids just pushed some other bidder, so in the end I lost by $.50. They seem to be pretty rare. Now, if I had been willing to operate in the rarified bidding range of the 2nd Codex staff, or the charity lunch at Farpoint, or even 1% what those went for, I’m sure I’d have that DVD version now, and to get it I’ll probably have to bid something crazy next time I get a chance.