Episode 43: The Lonely Road

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Plot
The episode begins with the Advisor and Trainer Angus conducting a search party looking for King William in the wilderness. It then shows King William trying to get back to civilization. Rachel goes back to the World of Destiny to pick up Drake. She arrives at the Coliseum and tries to convinces Drake to come back with her to help find the cure to end the plague in Trellutor. Drake refuses.

Drake sees a news report on television about Rachel and Rory searching for King William. Rory comes onscreen to tell Drake to come back. Drake feels guilty, and contemplates his decisions.

Reception
Episode 43 received mixed reception. The average review score is 6.9/10. This episode was praised for its references to Kingdom Hearts, storyline, and entertainment value. It was criticized for the lackluster comedy, and how uneventful the writing was. The voice acting was criticized for not having enough emotion, and the storytelling was also criticized for violating the "Show, don't tell" rule.

Trivia

 * This is the first time artistunknown voice acted for an Adrellia Village episode. He voiced the bear and the news reporter.
 * Thebreadandbutter drew the bag of bacon.
 * The director outsourced a large amount of assistant work for the first scene to Nat29.
 * The second scene was rushed and completed in a few hours, to take advantage of a low-scoring day.
 * There's a deleted scene for this episode that shows King William's life in the wilderness.
 * Several sound effects were taken from Nat's extensive catalog of sound effects.
 * Artistunknown found the background music for the emotional third scene.
 * The episode only took eighteen days to complete.
 * This episode features the most work Nat29 has done on the series.
 * The entire episode just consists of holdovers from episode 42.
 * Nat29 felt the tank was too hard to draw, so MistyEntertainment took it upon himself to draw the tank.
 * This episode was originally going to feature a music to "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day, but Misty decided against it because he felt that people's dislike for the band would result in low-scoring votes and reviews.
 * The video footage in Scene 2 was taken from a YouTube video called "A Midsummer's Night in Pakistan."
 * Misty hesitated to take footage from the video and discussed the matter with artistunknown and Exedor before doing so.
 * This episode neglects to feature an "In the previous episodes..." recap.
 * This episode won Daily Feature on Newgrounds, and sparked a drama-filled P-Bot post with false mass voting allegations.
 * Nat29 provided the coloring of the reporter.
 * Misty made sure to use Audio Portal songs to gain the support of musicians, and to increase awareness for the series.
 * Kingdom Hearts music played in the background of some scenes.
 * Nat29 drew the coliseum, and traced the background for the World of Destiny from one of Misty's original paper storyboards.
 * Drake's bed in the hotel was taken from Playback.

Goofs
None.