Play It Again Summer - taking requests

[Gregg]

Would Tis the Season work as a summer release? Part of the logic behind this is, even though far more people hear our work now than when we used to confine ourselves to the stage, we only do these things once... some scripts do deserve a second kick at the can. There are some good suggestions here. Red Panda: Dead or Alive is a good one too.

I don't know about the "old school" Red Panda episodes, but if we do any we won't do more than one. Fight that out amongst yourselves and if someone comes up with something particularly poetic, I might be swayed.

[stephensmat]

May not be my place, but speaking for myself I'm voting against the old school Panda episodes.

We don't know them nearly as well, we don't know the voices nearly as well. It makes the Play It Again less of a special release, and more of a straight up AU. Not nearly as much fun.

[ElvenBookwyrm]

	Quote:	Gregg
	Would Tis the Season work as a summer release?

As long as you release it on or near the 25th of July, that being Christmas in July...

	Quote:	Gregg
	I don't know about the "old school" Red Panda episodes, but if we do any we won't do more than one. Fight that out amongst yourselves and if someone comes up with something particularly poetic, I might be swayed.

Challenge Accepted.

My vote remains in favour of Death From Above. It's a hillarious screwball comedy episode, complete with badly imitated French, Australian and Dutch accents, ridiculously awful puns, cheezy commercials, and a talking dog. It's also smack dab in the middle of World War II, as (I assume) Earth-Prime Red Panda will be when these are released. It'll be like some sort of crazy cliffs notes version of the season's events thrown in a blender with that dream I had after eating a peanut butter sandwich before bed.

And that's the way it should be. Remember Slick Bracer and the Giant Nap? To me, that did to Black Jack Justice what I hope the showcase version of Death From Above will do for Red Panda, more or less. That sentance was a lot less complicated before I wrote it, but I think you get the general drift of things... The summer showcase is a place to go nuts and laugh at ourselves, and I think redoing Death From Above would give the fans the opportunity to do just that.

Of course, the fans shouldn't have all the fun, which lends more weight to Death From Above. Out of all of the Earth-2 episodes, Death From Above contains the greatest variety of characters to work with, and have fun playing. As I said before, Death From Above contains a Frenchman, an Aussie, a Dane, and a Golden Retriever. It also contains a Nazi Android Pilot, an Innocent Canadian Scientist, a Domineering Spymaster, an Insane Prime Minister, and an Announcer. Oh, and a certain masked hero that I'm sure you wouldn't be interested in hearing about. (In all honesty, though, and with no offence to Gregg, it seems like the Red Panda would actually be the least interesting character to play in this episode!) Plus, IIRC, there's some inarticulate German background shouting at some point that could be recorded and reused in the regular episodes. Waste not...

Furthermore, as was previously stated in the thread, not a lot of people know about the Earth-2 episodes. While they don't exactly add to the current storyline, I do think it's helpful to have heard the episodes at least once, and introducing people to them through this particular episode ought to get them interested, at least.

There's my two cents. Did it win anybody over?

[Solid Granite]

[QUOTE=stephensmat;24859]May not be my place, but speaking for myself I'm voting against the old school Panda episodes.

I totally agree. The "old school" RP shows belong to another genre, and really can't even be considered alongside the "new and improved" RP or BJJ episodes. On a 1-to-10 scale, the "old school" shows rate less than a 1, while the current episodes rate a 10+. I'll probably catch some heat for saying this, but IMHO, the old school shows kinda suck. I never would have become such a huge DRT fan if those were the only shows I heard.

I'd be pleased to hear any of the "new" RP and/or BJJ shows done in Gregg's suggested format, but please...let's leave the "old school" RP shows on the shelf where they belong...tucked away in a dusty and forgotten closet somewhere.

[dreibel]

no no no! DO consider episodes of the original pilot season of the Red Panda! It was these episodes that first fascinated me about the series and the character - and you could imagine my excitement when Gregg decided to do more.

here' my nominations:

original RP: Death From Above
current RP - Duality, The Dream Factory, Trial By Terror
Black Jack Justice: No Justice, A Midsummer Night's Noir, The Purloined Format Caper
Summer Showcase: Blaze Bing, Rodeo King!

[ScottyMoyle]

On further consideration, I vote for anything that lets me play the Flying Squirrel opposite Lesley Livingston as the Red Panda.

[pbsbelle]

I'm still refining my list. I am leaning toward Ghost Ship, if for no other reason than to hear a pirate episode. Arg!

[Undrave]

	Quote:	ScottyMoyle
	On further consideration, I vote for anything that lets me play the Flying Squirrel opposite Lesley Livingston as the Red Panda.

Now THAT is a BRILLIANT idea Scotty

"Kent Baxter, behave yourself!"
"Yes m'am..."

[Janice]

	Quote:	ScottyMoyle
	... anything that lets me play the Flying Squirrel opposite Lesley Livingston as the Red Panda.

I'd pay to hear that one.

-Janice

[krale]

I have to put my two cents worth in too and a suggest "the Black Hand" and "The Gathering Storm" for the Red Panda and "the Purloined Format Caper" for Black Jack.

plus, a complete gender switch with all characters sounds like a fun show too