Jesus Christ. It's been a long time since I've updated this thing. It's like uncharted territory. I'm kind of nervous I might fuck something up. If you'd been keeping up with the blog back in February, you'd know that the whole layout and design was different from the current one. That's because the previous one, in my opinion, was clunky and just plain awkward. If you liked the old layout, too bad. This is how things are now.
So I plan on this post being a long one, mainly because of the fact that I have a lot to talk about. Just to give you a basic overview, I'll be talking about Bona Fide, Minimum Wage, The Last of Us, and the future of Falling War Shorts. Let's start out with the obvious:
BONA FIDE
Bona Fide is essentially why I created a YouTube channel. I wanted to tell this story in a way that would be somewhat easy and fun for me to do. Granted, I'd have to say the hardest part of it all is actually writing the story. I am currently in the process of writing episode 8. From there I really hope I can push through the final 4 scripts, but I have a feeling that's not happening for two reasons. A) The plot would come off as sloppy and confusing in the final product, and B) I'm not the fastest of writers, hence why it's been nearly a year and I've only gotten half of a season out. With that said, writing for Season One will most likely wrap up late this month to late next month. And yes, I plan on having an anniversary video for the show, and it will be released on September 8. Still no script for that either.
With all that out of the way, the series is going to be taking a
MID-SEASON BREAK. I know what you're all thinking: "FUCK YOU, KYD! YOUR MOM IS A CUN--" Hey! Calm down, guys. Let me explain.
The next episode, "Long Ways Ahead", or episode 7, is already in production. It might not even come out until early-late October. This is because when this episode airs, every episode following it will come out on a
WEEKLY BASIS. That's right! Every Saturday will be Bona Fantastic! It's gonna be hard to juggle with school, and I know I should've been doing this for the summer, but I really believe I'm capable of this. At least let's hope. Once Season One finally wraps, Bona Fide: Misfortune will air, also on a weekly basis. Five Saturdays, then the inevitable wait for Season Two.
MINIMUM WAGE
If you've been keeping up on the Falling War YouTube channel or the Bona Fide Facebook page, you'd know that a new series is in the works called Minimum Wage. At first, I announced this series as a "sitcom" in my update video. After long thinking of how I was gonna pull off the original pilot I'd written, I came up with the idea to scrap what I'd done and start with a completely new tone and concept, well.. sort of.
Minimum Wage was originally gonna be your run-in-the-mill situational comedy following a goofy group of people getting involved in fucked up situations. The series has now shifted to a darker tone, following one character who tries to find his purpose in life by volunteering for minimum wage odd jobs. It will have its comedic moments, but I'd consider Bona Fide to be more uplifting than this, and that show's plans are dark. Release date not final, but it should be out either fall or winter, which is fucking insane as it was intended to be released this summer.
THE LAST OF US
Now I know this isn't one of my "shows", but I really want to talk about Naughty Dog's The Last of Us. Right off the bat, this game is phenomenal. Best game I've played all year. Even better than Infinite, which was, in my opinion, close to impossible to beat for GotY. The only game coming out this year that I could even
remotely see being better than this would be GTA V, and that's only if it's surpasses Red Dead Redemption, which is my favorite game of all time. The Last of Us comes in at my 2nd favorite of all time.
I was thinking of doing a spoiler talk for the game, but it's a lot of work to put together a review/talk of anything. So if you have played, or watched someone play, The Last of Us, please comment below. We need to talk about it immediately!
FALLING WAR SHORTS
I have literally been trying to come up with an idea for a new Falling War Short since April. The three I have released so far have, quite frankly, not been that great. I guess "Always Motivating" poked fun at sports, which never fails to be funny, and "Office Tour" had some comedic takes, but "Motherfucker Jones" really didn't need to be done. When I was watching Horrible Bosses, I have no fucking idea where the idea of recreating that scene in Halo: Reach came from.
I really wanted to release the rest of Volume One before Bona Fide returns, but I really don't have any ideas for new, original shorts. I plan on releasing some soon, but for now, we wait.
VERDICT
Bona Fide's taking a break, Minimum Wage is darker than Michael Vick, The Last of Us is Game of the Year, and the Falling War Shorts are not so funny.
Hopefully, you got something out of this. It's kind of a lot to take in.
-KydTheKid
