So... ever thought of going back to writing a "What I Would Have Done With Tomline" summary? Or something? :0
I decided that nobody actually cared about this, but maybe that’s not true?
SO HERE GOES, in brief:
Tomline Season 2 was to be split up into “arcs”. Arc 2A was “reDUCKS”, and Arc 2B was “Toms”. When we left things off at the end of arc 2B, Tom3 (Tom from season 1 of Tomline) had been killed off, Tom1 (Tom who claims to be the original, evil no glasses Tom with hat) was still at large, and Tom2 (the version of Tom who never experienced Tomline season 1) was alive and had kind of taken Tom3′s place. Also, it’s revealed that Chris (namely Chris1, the version of Chris from Tom1′s timeline, but this wasn’t revealed yet) was involved somehow and working with the ducks.
I had this whole mythology spun out about one of the ducks being an elder god called The God Who Ruled The Sky, who wanted to wipe out all creation but wasn’t able to intervene directly and needed to play Tom and Chris against each other as part of an evil plot.
Arc 2C was called “Another Time”. It would have filled in the gaps in Tom2′s backstory. He’s an alternate version of Tom who, instead of popping around June 2011, popped forward to “Another Time” when all humankind had been wiped out by the time anomaly. He would have met up with “Chris2″, the only other surviving human. It was at this point that the God Who Ruled The Sky backstory would be spelled out, with Chris2 explaining to Tom that in the last days of humanity many humans had joined its Cult.
Tom2 and Chris2 would have cooked up a plan to avert the apocalypse by creating a “stable field” localizing the effects of the time anomaly to a particular room in a particular month–thereby causing Tom NOT to jump forward to the future but instead to bounce around June 2011 (as seen in Season 1). At this point you would see the other end of the weird phone call from Twenty-Fourth of the Month, Chris2 on the line.
However, Chris2 would then realize that there was no salvation for him because fixing the problem created an alternate timeline and he was still screwed, at which point there would be a weird surreal scene where he goes crazy and succumbs to the influence of the Ducks. I was thinking of maybe using the song “Komm Susser Tod” from End of Evangelion in this scene.
Arc 2D would cover the origins of Tom1. In this timeline, Tom1 and Chris1 have a falling out (the “feud” storyline from videobloggery would be retconned to be an “echo” of this same conflict in our own timeline). Separately, they team up with the Ducks and acquire weird powers, causing the time anomaly to be created in the first place. The Ducks’ plan goes wrong and instead of wiping out all creation, the Time Anomaly causes a “stack” of different universes to be created, so they tell Tom1 lies to manipulate him into traveling around the timeline and absorbing/killing the other Toms, destroying universes in his wake.
Arc 2E would be the big final confrontation and would finally return to “our world”. I hadn’t really planned it out that well yet but it would have involved Tom1 and Tom3 teaming up against the Ducks and Chris1 (and Chris2 who is now their zombie slave or something?). Tom3, Chris1, and Chris2 would all die, and circumstances would lead Tom1 to regret the feud with Chris and then turn the power of the time anomaly against the Ducks, destroying/defeating them. I was gonna use the song “Day of Destiny ~ Spirit vs Spirit” from Dragon Ball Z in this scene.
Finally, there would be a coda, where Tom1 (the only remaining Tom) goes and visits Chris3 (who has never been involved in any of this up to now but is the only remaining Chris) and tries to reconcile with him even though Chris3 has no idea what’s going on.
Anyway, that’s it. I did a little bit of filming for Arc 2D with Chris but things never progressed much further than that. There came a point where my motivation to film it kind of fizzled out. I think the bizarre escalation of the mythology would have been kind of fun but I ended up realizing “jeez this would be a lot of work to make” and at some point it started to seem like it wasn’t worth it. In retrospect I can see that this was kind of a low point in terms of depression/anxiety which I am sure didn’t help.
Hope that explanation makes sense!
