Much Fangirl Love for The Guild
Much Fangirl Love for The Guild
Mar 19OK, so yesterday, within the course of about an hour, I became a huge frakkin’ fan of The Guild. My only question is, why didn’t any of you tell me about this before?! It’s totally something I would like. Maybe you did tell me and I just wasn’t listening. I’m sorry. I was probably thinking about how Summer Glau would look with the Battle Angel Alita haircut.
Anyway, here’s a description for those of you who, like me, are slow to catch on: The Guild is a very funny geek life web serial about a gang of online gamers who interact via a World of Warcraft-esque MMORPG. It is written and produced by the adorable Felicia Day, who also stars. You might remember Felicia as Buffy Slayerette Vi, aka The One with the Hat. One of my favorite things about The Guild is Felicia’s portrayal of girl gamer Codex, who is sort of pathetic, yet still extremely easy to relate to (“So, it’s Friday night and…still jobless, yay”). The show kind of recognizes her pathetic-ness without being mean-spirited — it doesn’t make fun of her, which I think is sort of key when you’re aiming your geek-themed entertainment directly at the nerds you’re trying to portray. Also, it is just really awesome to see such a realistic portrayal of a fangirl — she’s neither caricature nor impossible-to-believe fantasy figure. And I love that she’s the central character, not the sidekick.
So go watch it, and if you like what you see, I believe you can still vote for the show in the YouTube Awards and the Yahoo Video Awards. Also, it will interest probably a lot of you to know that Felicia is part of this.
Anyway, next time, let me know about these things sooner, so I can at least pretend to know what’s up when they win big-ass awards at South by Southwest.
Thank you so much for this lovely blog post! The best thing about these competitions is that we’re getting new fans of the show who weren’t aware of it before. The internet is a big place, and it takes posts like this to get our show noticed, so thanks again! 🙂
XOXO
Felicia
I know I’ve seen Felicia’s blog before, which I assumed was through you Sarah, but I was in the dark about the series as well. That’s some funny stuff – “Put my wizard staff in your mana pool” made me snort pop through my nose. Ow.
One of the reasons I waited so long to start watching was because of the way most shows usually deal with anything geeky. It seems like anytime a computer or a video game is involved, the culture’s usually looked down on or mocked, even it’s unintentional. And the people who use them are either extremely pathetic teens and ridiculously hot women. For something so mainstream, it’s amazing that it’s taken this long for gamers to be accurately portrayed.
It also helps that, unlike most shows that deal with the subject, this one’s actually funny.
I love all the characters. I see the people I play (yes mmorpg) with in each of them, even Clara. Thank you for such a funny and sweet portrayal of a “gamer girl” I’m waiting with baited breath for season 2.
Dretza.
Careful Bissrok! You almost imply that Felicia isn’t ridiculously hot.
What a sexy blog, love the theme, what are you using?