Inside the ExOS: Episode 3 - Nevergreen

Episode 3: Nevergreen is the third episode of Inside the ExOS.

Synopsis
Carth talks about the Original unfinished draft of Forevergreen, written between March 6th and April 5th, 2019.

Story
Oh god, this episode... I had a lot of trouble coming up with the idea for this episode, in fact, there was a half-unfinished draft of the episode that can be read[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i_xHD_kJtZLAJ6iZkrz7_n6F-YLZXe0JZOm0u886dmE/edit?usp=sharing here. ]

Originally, we were going to have Benwolf, Swampfire, Wildvine, and Echo Echo in this episode, but over time, we decided against that.

The whole first scene with Argit and King Enoch still remained in the final in some capacity, just, this version of it never sat right with me. I lost the plot after the cold open while writing this draft. The other writers were busy with their projects, and I was in a state where I didn't feel like writing, but I forced myself to do it anyway.

And the physical abuse Ben receives from Kai is arguably worse than what Omniverse apparently did with her. See, I, Carth, have not actually seen that far into Omniverse, so I have no idea what it's actually like, but I heard she was handled really poorly. We wanted to make sure we didn't make the same mistake the show did and actually give Kai some development. Ethan (EBOmnitrix) is responsible for writing the last scene of the episode between Ben and Kai, with some input from me on certain lines, especially the callback to the "Two words" statement. They aren't going to hook up yet, but there's something in the works.

The start of Act 2 is where things really got rocky. It was such a bad draft of the episode, that I literally stepped away from the project for a while because of how just...wrong it felt. That's why it took us so long to get out the next episode. And I feel much better about what we ended up with. Especially the running joke about Kevin and the dogs, that was really fun to write for.

The unfinished draft only went on for 10 pages, but it feels longer because of how...absolutely poorly it's put together, it was just a drag to write the old version for me.

The final version was actually just slightly short compared to the usual limit we try to reach for an episode, clocking in at 19 pages on Google Docs instead of 22, but I think we made it work, as there's honestly nothing else I really could've thought to add.