The Guild

I just started watching the popular Web series written by Felicia Day - The Guild. It’s funny in a very dorky way and it’s easy to watch as each webisode lasts from 3 to 7 minutes tops. You can watch it here.

The Guild is about a group of online gamers, written for fans of massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) by an avid gamer herself (Felicia is said to be “addicted” to World of Warcraft). Well, I’m not a gamer but I can enjoy the comedy. So far I like the way she writes her characters (Codex is my favorite, of course). It’s a good thing that each episode is so short that I don’t need super high-speed Internet like Hughes Net to be able to watch them at once. On the other hand, if this sitcom will inspire me to try online gaming, then maybe I’ll need something like HUGHES NET in the future. But, no, I don’t think I’ll get into that. That I cannot imagine where I’ll get the time is the biggest reason.

Seasons 1 and 2 of The Guild are even available on DVD. Fans are still waiting for announcement of a third season. This Web series actually served as a pattern for Joss Whedon when he created the now massively popular Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, which incidentally is being rumored to be jumping into the wide screen soon. Felicia Day also stars as the love interest of Dr. Horrible and his arch-nemesis Captain Hammer.

Anyway, although it will be some time before the Web can truly supersede the more popular, and not to mention accessible, form of media like television, a few notable series like these two I mentioned are paving the way for this new form of entertainment. For people with an idea for a show but cannot get a network to back them up, creating an independent Web series on a limited budget, and then using the available medium like YouTube, for example, provides them with the opportunity to reach an audience. Felicia Day and Joss Whedon are proof that this is very possible. I probably would need Hughesnet, though, if I’ll get hooked with watching online series.