When the sixth season of Felicia Day’s The Guild ended earlier this year the finale brought around what many fans felt was an end of the adventures of Codex. No announcement was made about the future of the show but when Geek and Sundry recently published their second year programming lineup, The Guild was noticeably absent.
During a Reddit Q & A to promote her International Tabletop Day (a new event showcasing the best table top gaming), Felicia Day herself has ended speculation and confirmed the series is officially over.
“The Guild is still owned by me, so no one told me to stop, but I felt in THIS incarnation, doing more wouldn’t really work beyond this season. The budget has gotten too big to keep everyone together, and people were interested in moving on. I felt wrapping up Codex’s story by finding a job and getting her friends was a great arc and came full circle, she was healed a lot in a way by healing others. I still love the characters and can do whatever I want with the world, but if I do something else it would be in a different format in a different way. And after I do something new, because I want to invent a new world I just don’t know what that is yet.”
Whilst this is undoubtably sad news for us fans, we can all take comfort in the fact that there is plenty of new content and great shows on Geek and Sundry so we won’t have to look too far for our fix of Ms Day. Speaking as a massive fan of The Guild, personally I think the series is ending at the right time as it’s always best to leave us wanting more. For the full lowdown on The Guild and the legacy it leaves behind, why not have a read of this rather brilliant article.
Farewell The Guild, you will be missed.
UPDATE 07/09/13
Speaking to paidContent.com Felicia Day confirms that the guild is “100% done”. This final confirmation coincides with the release of the Guild’s official Companion book.
Felicia Day, when asked about a seventh series states –
“If I woke up with an amazing idea for season seven, then booyah, I would have done it,” she added. “But six years of one show? That’s more than most shows ever get. It was such a peaceful decision that I knew it was the right one.”
When speaking about the new book, Day goes on to say
“It was very therapudic — we tried to be very open about our struggles,” Day said of the interviews she, producer Kim Evey and others did with Abbie Bernstein (the book was edited by Omar Khan). “There are a lot of things in the book that I didn’t even really remember, and reading through the cast member’s experiences gave me more perspective on how they approached the show.”
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