Parsec Awards - We NEED your help!

Kc · May 10th, 2011, 11:15 AM

Ok, so we're nominated for a parsec award. To be eligible to be a finalist we need to submit the following:

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30 second introduction + Full episode(s) totaling no more than 1 hour
Can contain 1 Parsec-specific introduction and up to 6 sample segments

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Here are some more submission guidelines: http://www.parsecawards.com/general-...lity-criteria/
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So what should we submit from Season 2? I'm checking to see if it's one full episode and then segments.

What Chapter or part would you choose?

Here's the winners from last year: http://www.parsecawards.com/past-awa...ers-finalists/

Help us out and let us know-

**AdrianHD** · May 10th, 2011, 11:49 AM

Yikes. Honestly, it's hard to pick from season 2. If it's absolute full episodes, I'd probably go with the Angel and Kalani trip to get the MREs.

**mush_rooms** · May 10th, 2011, 11:56 AM

Looking back, I really loved the escape from the Colony. But in regard to the artistry of it, the "almost-rape" was so intense and powerful that I was visibly cringing. However, I think something with lots of action, such as the Colony escape or the MRE mission as AdrianHD suggested is more representative of the show as a whole. I just always think back to the almost-rape because it affected me so much.

Idk man, I'm glad I'm not the one picking!

**Ra1th** · May 10th, 2011, 11:57 AM

If you can submit a full episode I'd say chapter 17-2 is a good bet. The scene where Angel and Kalani are at the army base, and they realize they are being hunted is amazing!There's also the scene where they get cornered by the behemoth. And to make it even better that same episode had Michael/Pegs/Kelly found signs of other survivors (the colony).

There's a lot of zombie action here, and there are some really dramatic moments too.

**ObamaCat** · May 10th, 2011, 12:23 PM

Congrats first off on the nomination!

The first thing that popped into my head for a great episode to submit would be 19 - 3, though I'm not sure if the emotions from following Michael and co for so long and celebrating the victory they achieve as they escape would carry over to the judges :/

I'll have to re-listen to pick another to submit.

**Ra1th** · May 10th, 2011, 12:43 PM

See the judges wont have the background or the emotional ties we have to the characters though. So the rape scene, although moving to us, because we know and care about lizzy, is moving. To the judges however, it might just come off as disturbing, and once again, the show is about a zombie outbreak, the clip should have zombies in it.

I think the same thing applies to 19-3, we love that scene so much because it gives us the pay off that we'd been waiting for after 2 chapters of sitting around the colony. To the judges that really doesn't have anything to do with zombies at all. it's a number of people escaping from a group of survivors. The judges wouldnt even know why the colony is such a bad group of people.

**ObamaCat** · May 10th, 2011, 12:50 PM

Perhaps we could submit clips of the Colony that build up to the escape? Same goes for the rape scene. Give it some context and enough of an emotional backdrop to make them feel the same way we do.

**smalls kenobi** · May 10th, 2011, 12:56 PM

Originally Posted by Ra1th

If you can submit a full episode I'd say chapter 17-2 is a good bet. The scene where Angel and Kalani are at the army base, and they realize they are being hunted is amazing!There's also the scene where they get cornered by the behemoth. And to make it even better that same episode had Michael/Pegs/Kelly found signs of other survivors (the colony).

There's a lot of zombie action here, and there are some really dramatic moments too.

totally agree

**Osiris** · May 10th, 2011, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by AdrianHD

Yikes. Honestly, it's hard to pick from season 2. If it's absolute full episodes, I'd probably go with the Angel and Kalani trip to get the MREs.

Seconded. My favorite chapter. Angel is hysterically funny in it.

**Ra1th** · May 10th, 2011, 06:05 PM

Originally Posted by ObamaCat

Perhaps we could submit clips of the Colony that build up to the escape? Same goes for the rape scene. Give it some context and enough of an emotional backdrop to make them feel the same way we do.

but even if we give them some background on how bad the colony is and some background on who MPK/VHT are, they wont have the same emotional ties to them as we do. We built that up over a long period of time, you'd have to fill the judges in pretty quickly. Which is why I say go for something less emotional, and heavier on the action, especially zombie action because that is the core issue of We're Alive.

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