Yep, listened to Tanis all the way through, think I know how the series could easily continue without having specifically her as the 'bookend' character. Bizarrely it also ties in neatly to Asconch's draft poster.

For those of you who haven't read the script (and it's absolutely brilliant by the way), I need to warn you of:

SPOILERS

Okay, so Tanis becomes the guardian of the Soulshadows because she gets sucked into the magic, cursed book she tried to use to revive her friends, right? She opened the book, read its secrets, was sucked in and taken to the cave which may / may not exist in the real world. The Soulshadows are in a display case, and every episode Tanis picks one out and tells us about it. All fine and dandy.

So, two possible ways to go spring to mind. One is quite specific, although the actual idea came to me pretty quickly and actually nearly fully-formed. BUT it would take the whole first episode of Soulshadows Season 3 to just do, and that would set up the new narrator. Only trouble is, having never watched Tales From the Crypt I didn't know anything about the Crypt Keeper...and now that I've looked him up on Wikipedia I see my guy could be quite similar. Don't know if that would be a problem, but I have a feeling some people would have objections.

The other way to go is actually very simple, and all it really is the transition by which any other character could step into the role. Tanis gets sucked into a book, right? And that's when she is transported to the cave and begins her duty as 'keeper of the secrets'. There's a backstory given for the book in the episode. But (and apologies to Bert for this), what if that backstory was wrong? What if there were other books? Other books all around the world, and other people who'd read them and been sucked into them, only to find themselves in some sort of location (as Bert said, it doesn't have to be a cave) watching over a display case full of possessions? It could be James' Bealulah in a tiny little shack in a never-ending field. It could be an old hermit in a hut in the desert. It could be a woman on an island. Anyone anywhere, also the reluctant keeper of one of those books.

That's the other idea. I don't think you can replace Tanis in the cave, because it doesn't feel right to just have someone take her place without explaining where she went. But if we'd just switched focus to another 'secret keeper', somewhere else...I think that could work.

Thoughts?

Quoted from mcornetto Looks good. I like how you hint at the pentegram with the smoke.  Only thing it needs is a 3D.

Glad you like it, I'm going to go eat dinner but I'll probably finishing tweaking it later tonight.

I think that's a pretty good idea, JB.  It could easily work and maintain the feel and idea of what Soul Shadows has been from the beginning.

Maybe Tanis could even start things off by introing the existence all these other books and "keepers".  Could even be episode one of the 3rd season that focuses entirely on this idea and then segging into the actual new keeper and narrator.

Works for me.

I find this idea that I'm going to give comical but what the hell. Brainstorming.

What if Tanis got promoted from being storyteller and now someone else takes her place? Like a regular job. The next one promoted is the field agent that Cornetto suggested in thread 4.

I also believe that it's time for organization here. The ideas need to be grouped together so everyone has an idea of what people contributed and determine if people like/dislike/or has something new.

Gabe

So when are we thinking of doing this? Some time after the three week challenge?

I'm with Gabe, we should get a list of ideas organised so that people can vote on which one they want.

Wanted to bump this up to find out what's the status of this.

Well, no one is taking charge so that means I will have to, in which case it  needs to wait until I have the time.

Alright.