The Guild cannot be seen on TV but is the first web series to have its dedicated topic (and more should come
). It appears quite normal on a gamer forum as The Guild is a series "written for gamers, about gamers by a gamer".The gamer in question is my future candidate for roxor TLFer, the living dream of all gamers: Felicia Day
, one of the Whedon's girls (she appeared in Buffy as V and also plays a main role in the great Dr Horrible) but also an hardcore gamer and a great writer as we can see it watching The Guild. The story wants that after a two years addiction to WOW Felicia Day decided to use her experiences in the writing of a sitcom where she would break the stereotypes about gamers and show their variety without missing their defaults 
In The Guild she plays Cyd Sherman, a gamer who goes under the alias of Codex, her healer character in a medieval fantastic MMORPG she is addicted to. She is a member of her guild, The Knights of Good which also counts (from top to down and left to right on the picture up there):
- Bladezz (Vincent Caso), the guild rogue,
- Vork (Jeff Lewis), the guild leader,
- Zaboo (Sandeep Parikh), the guild warlock,
- Tinkerballa (Amy Okuda), the guild ranger,
- and Clara, the guild's Gnome Mage.
- Simon,
- Herman Holden,
- Sujan Balakrishnan Goldberg,
- ... Tinkerballa ... as far as the other members of the Guild know
- Clara.
The characters of Zabou and Vork have been written for Sandeep Parikh and Jeff Lewis who Felicia Day already knew from the Empty Stage Comedy Theater, a sketch comedy and improvisational theatre in Los Angeles. The rest of the cast was filled through auditions.
The dvd for season#2 has just been released on amazon.com but you can watch all the 2 seasons for free:
- on watchtheguild.com
- on X-Box Live with HD downloads for season #2
- on Youtube on watchtheguild page
- on effinfunny.com, founded by Sandeep Parikh, where you can also watch the very funny The Legend of Neil
- on iTunes,
- ...
Not convinced yet ? Well, take 3'59 and watch the very first episode
Now that several hours have passed and you've watched the two seasons in a row ... you'll be happy to know that season #3 has been announced today and we should see a preview of it on August !
A very impressive success when you know that after having filmed the three first episodes (in two and a half day) the crew had run out of money and that episodes #4 and #5 have nearly only been paid through a Paypal donation link !
As it is really a precursor and an inspiration for many shows to follow, I gladly mark The Guild with a great 6/6 and can't wait for my dvds to arrive !
resistance is futile 
