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Hey guys, here’s the plan for the months ahead –

In June, we’ll continue covering Westworld Season 2, with S2E07 Explained, S2E08 Explained – but there’ll be no S2E09 video. Instead, we’ll do a Patron-only livestream about S2E09, then a big special Westworld S2 Finale Explained video after S2E10. This video will wrap up the whole season, to see what sense we can make of it all. Whether the finale is a masterpiece or a disaster or both, an analysis of the whole story will be super satisfying 🤖

In July, we’ll take a break. There’ll be no new Alt Shift X videos, and we’ll pause the Patreon so no one is charged at the end of July. There might be some side-projects and things, so stay tuned…

After the break, there’ll be a Patron vote to choose an ASOIAF video topic – e.g. the Doom of Valyria, Euron Greyjoy, Melisandre. We’ll also hold a Patron vote for a non-ASOIAF topic – we could do a current show like Legion, the OA, or Dark, or an old classic like Dune, Watchmen, the Matrix, etc. If we can handle Westworld and Annihilation, I reckon we can do videos on just about anything – so think up some good topic ideas (:

As ever, thank you for your support! As Patrons, you make this possible. And I believe our best videos are ahead of us.

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Rikke Holmberg

Sounds like a plan. And maybe. Just MAYBE you will find it in your heart to give Schwift his motor functions back long enough to make a teeny tiny episode to celebrate the facebook Schwiftysquwad one year anniversary on june 17th? The realm would be eternally grateful if you did. Just saying.

Rikke Holmberg

And I already said it elsewhere, but I’ll do it here too. The way you did that ad in the previous video was freaking glorious. Smoothest razor ad in the history of mankind.

Hayes Hine

Love your videos. The style is great and unique!

Kelly Theobald

Aw we’ll miss you in July, but I’m glad you’ll be taking a break! I’d love to see more ASX variety. Someone earlier mentioned Donnie Darko—that’s perfect for an explainer

Samantha K Enriquez

YES I am so glad you mentioned The OA!!! I'm so sick of the tin foil hat theories on the subreddit, and would deeply appreciate REAL analysis and theories. That show is so incredibly beautiful.

Fred Jones

I second that! The Schwifty Squwad is in desperate need of something from its Lord Commander. Please!

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2026-09-17 12:00 I love your style and (selfishly) would enjoy seeing a video about the techniques you use to create your style of videos - i.e., the basics of how you zoom and move, decide on layout, and what educational/training tools you used to learn how to use AfterEffects the way you do.
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MegglesRuth

How about Battlestar Galactica??!! The original mind fuck fantasy series. Original or remake is fine by me.

Matt S

If you are going to do a poll in order to determine which video series you will do next, may I suggest a ranked-voting poll? Where each eligible patron gets to vote for 1st 2nd and 3rd place, and then 1st place gets three votes, 2nd 2 and 3rd place 1 vote. Then the topic with the most votes overall wins. This is because I love many of the suggested topics that you mentioned. Sorry if I explained ranked-voting unnecessarily. Thanks for all the videos, they are outstanding!

Alt Shift X

Yeah it'd be cool to do a how-to / tutorial video. But I'm reluctant to spend time on something that would only be of interest to advanced After Effects users...

Alt Shift X

Yeah The OA is so strange and wonderful, I'm not sure an Explained video would really do it justice… But more than willing to try (:

Alt Shift X

Good idea. The Patreon native vote feature doesn't support ranked voting, but I suppose we could hold the vote on an external site..

Samantha K Enriquez

I'm all for it being a long explained video! There really is way too much that goes into it, and I'm confident you'll have better insights than what's currently out there on YouTube and the subreddit.

Kiki

I'm still in the process of converting people, but if you ever get into The Magicians, I'd give just about anything to see you cover that show. It didn't really hook me until the last episodes of season 1 and I had been binging it out of boredom before that. It's wild and one of the most unique shows I've ever seen. It's the only thing I might love more than Game of Thrones lol. It's slow work, getting people to watch, but they end up die-hard fans :D. Also, I really love the Dune and Children of Dune miniseries, so that would be amazing to see. And I've wondered if you'd ever do Star Trek, Discovery maybe but any would be awesome. Stargate too (if only there existed a new actual series of that you could do!).

Alt Shift X

Have heard some good things about The Magicians... Dune is very possible.. And yeah Stargate is something I've always wanted to watch, but I suppose it's too old (and long) to be worth making a video about. Thanks for the suggestions Kiki!