[Judas]

Season 7 for me all over - I was clutching at every word. Season 3 was also really good, but for me since Season 9 they have been going downhill. After the news that we STILL won't be getting Season 12 for abit I feel utterly lost. I really don't know if I can read this season, I just feel like it's all been drawn out... and like it will never be at the snowy peaks of Season 7 again.

I know alot of members here our huge fans, but do you think Season 12 can be as good as the previous seasons?

Simon, Pete and Iain from Season 11 though

[Stu]

They're all equally magical in their own way.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

is this a piss take if so how ****ing dare you -stabs in the nuts-

[Sticks]

As the author, the ones that stand out for me are actually the Tales, as they focused mainly on one individual.

Tales Volume One: Rebecca's Journey was a spin off from season six, it was an exercise in pathos as an innocent caught up in various unpleasant aspects of life. Tales Volume Two was also an exploration of those caught up in major events, after the action has shifted elsewhere.

These two tales then fed into season seven, which for me was very heavily researched on the aspect of the Soviet Space programme.

Tales Volume Three - A Kobold's Quest, was also interesting as one had to put oneself in the shoes of an alien visitor witnessing our world through their eyes. Normally you have a human making their way in a fantasy world, that story line inverted it, with what in Dungeons and Dragons is a sword fodder monster being the hero making his way in our world on a mission.

If things were going down hill, the problem was that in the real world, my access to PC's to do my writing got limited. First, where I was working, I would have periods where I was in what we call non productive time, when I was waiting for work, I would pass the time working on the scripts. They then brought in a no memory stick from outside rule. For Season Nine I would have to email scripts forth an back from webmail accounts.

Then they announced we were closing, and the memory stick issue was relaxed.

Where I work now, I do not even have time to check my emails during the day, so all writing has to be early evening when I can fit it in, which may also have left to the erratic publishing of episodes for season eleven.

Any hue, Season nine, tales three and season ten were all part of one giant story arc called "The War of the Realms" and Season Ten was supposed to have been the grand finale, as the then existing production house decided it was time to call time. However a brand new production house wanted to revive it for Tales four and then Season eleven, now why does that sound so familiar

[Judas]

If we are bring tales into this question, it's a whole different story. Rebecca's Journey was heart wrenching - every new situation she was thrown in was like a journey for the reader, aswell as a favourite character of mine, Rebecca. However, A Kobold's Quest is really up there - although I'm not sure of the lasting impact it had on the series.

Sticks, do you think there is a chance of the series reaching into new mediums - I would love to see some expressive dance (ideally based on A Kobold's Quest) or some poetry interlaced into the seasons. For me, I really feel we need something new in this season to really freshen the gripping tale up.

[Sticks]

Like a vote to save instead of a vote to evict - oh wait, I'm thinking of something else

A Kobold's Quest was the middle act in a three act play, to quote what someone said of "The Empire Strikes Back"

I had been working on a new concept for Season Twelve before it got spiked at short notice. Still waiting a resolution there

[Judas]

Could we have a mini read please, tonight. I'm thinking 'Mystical Realms on Ice' where they relocate to a sparse frozen lake, occupied by one solitary shopping trolley, or a relocation to Lundy Island? I think this would be a tribute to the author and a thrilling read to see the characters in these locations.

[Shaun]

tbh I think Sticks sold out after series 3. It was all about the fame and the tits after that

[Sticks]

Sometimes when I write these there is a plot twist even I did not expect when I began them.

In Season Eight - The Threads of Life and Death, one plot twist was about the Character Celeste, who was introduced as the daughter of the Spirit of Death,

Spoiler:

Celest had been recruited by the main human villain, Sir Sidney Gerald when he imprisoned her father, and for a time was his lacky. However Sir Sidney never really trusted non humans and betrayed her like he had done to her father.

During the season, we saw how as she was carrying out her father's duty of collecting the souls of those who were due to die, she rebelled, and in one case saved the life of a young boy by using her ability to heal others. In the end, she discovered that as her mother was one of the fates, who like her father was a Major Spirit of Necessity, Celeste was actually a Major Spirit of Virtue, the Spirit of Second Chances.

Celeste switches sides and becomes a key character in season nine and ten, where she gains a human soul and falls in love with a technician, who also falls in love with her. By season eleven, they are married with a baby daughter.

When I introduced her in season eight, I would not have called that

The end of season eleven had another plot twist I did not realise when I began it

Spoiler:

Janine the PA to Sir Sidney Gerald in Season eight, was actually his daughter, as her mother was a Czech student that sir Sidney in his MI5 role had extracted sexual favours when he discovered she had been ordered to spy on her fellow students.

In the end it is Janine who dispatches her own father, on the orders of others unknown

Away from plot twists, quite a number of the stories the main villains turned out to be humans rather than the entities from the Mystical Realms.

[Judas]

OMG I'm so shocked!! :O I love Celeste, can't believe that bitch was just gonna be in Season 8 I think you should do a prequel on her, to see more about what goes on in her mind.

[Stu]

Judas this is just sublime.
























Your love for Sticks prose, obviously.

[Sticks]

Originally Posted by Judas

OMG I'm so shocked!! :O I love Celeste, can't believe that bitch was just gonna be in Season 8 I think you should do a prequel on her, to see more about what goes on in her mind.

There was a brief scene in flashback about her personal history in Season Ten

[Sticks]

If Season Twelve started would some mind if there were erratic intervals between posting? December got more busy than I expected.

[Sticks]

Getting back to Season Eight, as well as the previously mentioned plot twist regarding Celeste, there was another darker turn that even I did not know of until the character revealed it to another character of an event that took place between the end of Season Seven and Season Eight.

Spoiler:

When Sue Lim returned to Earth in the Space shuttle, there was an administrative foul up and she was detained in an immigration centre awaiting deportation to Russia. As her mother was Vietnamese she was targeted by a senior guard, whose brother was killed in the Vietnam war, and he used two other guards to have her beaten up when she was in a shower and raped, out of revenge for the death of the senior guard's brother.

Sue Lim's father, Mr Vee, provided proof she was his daughter and thus an American citizen, but her then boss did not need to use it as she had connections in the right places

The whole beauty of Season Eight, was that yet again it was yet another story line where the chief villain was

Spoiler:

A human and not a Mystical Realms entity

[Sticks]

Season twelve concluded a week or so ago. It took longer because I do not have as much time as I used to to craft episodes. The plan was to bring the whole series to an end in season twelve, due to this time issues.

However

Spoiler:

Season twelve annoyingly became the first part of a brand new story arc, I have no idea when I will get to write it and how long that will take

Why can't these stories behave and do what we authors want?

The next season will add into the mix of two powerful adversaries bent on the destruction of Earth a third group that took part in the War of the Realms story arc

More news on that later.....

Back on topic, I have to say that the best story lines have to be on the human world. Entities are entities, but the way our own authorities behave demands closer scrutiny. Season eleven, even though it took quite a while to write given my limitations, and to some extent Tales volume four, point alarmingly at the way things like national security are used as excuses to invade our privacy and tread on civil liberties. And remember this time it is not magical creatures, but those entrusted with the leavers of power.

Scary thought Did you get that GCHQ, MI5 et al?

[Sticks]

So sorry that I never got to finish season 13, which was to be the end.

I may review 12 and what I did of 13, if I ever get time.