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Good question. What happened was this, Season one (very very low budget) was done primarily by Dan Dor and I running the creative, along with the third Co-Creator Nelu Ghiran. Because there were a lot of suits (6 from the Canadian broadcasters alone plus execs from the French Co-Producers and UK Co-Producers and some of the funding parties there were bringing a lot of interventions which amounted to an accumulation of censorship. When we went to do Season Two, we had refined the story and we swore that we wouldn't be beholding to the multitude of people screwing with the creative, thus we brought in private money in greater proportion. Good idea except there was a power struggle for control of the show, with some of the folks who were supposed to be supporting us. We began to notice what I'd call "stuff we didn't want to be associated with" happening on the business level, and made the very hard decision to leave the show, around episode 206. After that the creative arc whent a bit all over the place. Michael Pare's contract was scrubbed by the people who took over,the Raiders who were supposed to be developed into thought "Hell's Angels in space, became the Metrosexual baddies of the age, the Great Murray Melvin was removed as Carrivaggio, which was bad enough, but worse his character was sanitized sothat instead of being acrebic and running pithy observations, he became this "we just give data and answer questions to to the characters" guy. We lost a great dramatic character, but as much as there were many amousing and cool things in Season Two, my opinnion was that the whole season lost its edge in dialogue and plot. Yes we backi shot Michael, Tanya, Murray and Heidi (Penny Montana) among others, but how that effects the arc.... well, "that would be telling".

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The greatest challenge was to convince people we should do this, because no live action series has ever done this kind of reverse engineering of a series before. When we finally found investors who believed we had a good idea, then the challenges became creative, how could we reconcile facts established in some episodes with things that were out of continuity in the action of another episode, we could re-voice an actor, we could put new information in the special effects, we could re-shoot some actors (like Murray Melvin) with totally corrected scripts for all 22 Episodes of Season Two. What was fun was the writers getting together with the editors and VFX folks to work out solutions that brought exciting insight to us about our own show!

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Of course Stephen, that's what people tell me all the time. Those monologues are not out. The will come to people from another from another dimension.

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First thanks Deodwyn! Season Three (Starhunter Transformation) is definitely happening, financing for us independents take time, but the early success of Starhunter REDUX is helping, and we have awesome scripts and creative folk getting involve. Season three physically can't air before March 2019 at earliest, fingers crossed!

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Hey Hi, and thanks for your support over the years! It feels great, the reason it feels great is because it is clear that there are people I've never met saying they're enjoying the show and the changes. We get to interact with the audience, and if the audience tells us that we're doing something right,l that's Wow! IT's also helpful when audiences say something they'd like to see changed, expanded, I spend a lot of time when I have breaks checking out feedback, you guys are our lif'e blood!. Another thinks that's cool is remembering all the people whon said this can't be done. YEAH, In your face we did it!