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TALES OF AUTUMN SPRING (ToAS)

by Richard Mandel

based on characters and situations

copyright (C) 2019-2023, all rights reserved

Episode 1 - "Prelude"

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If you'll look in the driver's seat of the Hansen family limo you'll see our beloved friend Carlton the butler there. In a cut line from this episode we would have learned that he's covering for the regular chauffeur, who is sick with the flu. BTW and per the original series Alan has a full house staff given that he comes from a wealthy family, and they went with him out of loyalty when he moved to Middleton in his younger years to start his law practice. Carlton was a background character in the second and third seasons but quickly became important enough to get featured not only in certain scenes of selected episodes, but to even get a second season episode centered around him ("Servants for a Day"). In another cut part from this episode we would have learned that he's since been nicknamed "Carlton the Ageless" given his youthful looks compared with everyone else, to which he would have calmly replied in his hard-learned British accent (he's originally from Milwaukee), "Ma'am, were I to let my hair grow, it would be the greyest of us all." Carlton shaves his head out of long-standing habit, you see.

Miss Ingram - Kerry Ingram, better known to all of you Autumn Spring fans as the nosy local television reporter back from Brandy's younger days who was definitely of the "in your face" reporting school (wink). We first saw her in the Season 2 episode "Brandy's Big Chance," and she also reappeared a few more times at important points in later Season 2 and Season 3 episodes of the original series. Kerry Ingram was played by Kinzie Kensington from the Saint's Row video game series. I used the Saints Row IV version, which ThePWA ported and rigged for XPS use and which you can get here:

She's mild when compared to what I normally have to deal with - They don't call them the paparazzi for nothing, folks.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paparazz…

You might remember Alan and Jodie Hansen from the original Autumn Spring series. For those of you just tuning in, Alan was the newest attorney at DCH Associates where the younger Brandy worked as the series began, and Jodie was both her friend and one of the legal assistants who also worked there. How Alan and Jodie eventually hooked up and got married is one of the secondary continuing plotlines of the original series. It's roughly three decades later, perhaps a bit more, and both of them are in their early sixties now (both were somewhat older than Brandy back then), hence their aged appearance. They're also the proud parents of Matt Hansen, the husband of Brandy's daughter Nancy. Needless to say all three have remained good friends and stay in touch as much as they can. One can also safely assume that Alan is now a local attorney with many years of experience as opposed to the last time we saw him and also a respected member of the Middleton community, although that's all I'm going to say there. I'll let your imaginations fill in the rest of the blanks for now. Alan is played by an unknown and unused cutscene character model from the "Flash Back" scenario of Resident Evil Outbreak File 2, the same I gave the name of "Mr. Ted" or "Theodore" as a point of reference at the time; while Jodie is being played by the Citizen Joey stock character model from Valve's Half-Life 2 series. I aged both of them for their reappearance in ToAS. I've got a link for the original Outbreak series version of "Mr. Ted" but none for Citizen Joey (all long dead), but she's easy to rip along with everything else from any of the HL2-based games (the tools are widely and freely available). Anyway, here's that link for "Mr. Ted" if you want to create your own custom Autumn Spring Alan Hansen model. Just do a head swap with any suitable "suit body" out there, make sure you retint the skin tones of both head and hands to match, and there you go! Oh, you'll have age him yourself for how he appears in ToAS, unless you prefer his original youthful version ....

Oh, be quiet/Yes, dear - Just like an old married couple, eh? XD

Notice in the last panel that Brandy still wears her wedding and engagement rings inverted, with the engagement ring to the inside instead of to the outside as is the Western norm. The reason for this is explained in "Wedding Bells," the first episode of Autumn Spring's Season 3. Here's a direct link to the scene in question from that episode:

Description

TALES OF AUTUMN SPRING (ToAS)

by Richard Mandel

based on characters and situations

copyright (C) 2019-2023, all rights reserved

Episode 1 - "Prelude"

PREV --> FIRST --> NEXT -->

--------------------

COMMENTS

If you'll look in the driver's seat of the Hansen family limo you'll see our beloved friend Carlton the butler there. In a cut line from this episode we would have learned that he's covering for the regular chauffeur, who is sick with the flu. BTW and per the original series Alan has a full house staff given that he comes from a wealthy family, and they went with him out of loyalty when he moved to Middleton in his younger years to start his law practice. Carlton was a background character in the second and third seasons but quickly became important enough to get featured not only in certain scenes of selected episodes, but to even get a second season episode centered around him ("Servants for a Day"). In another cut part from this episode we would have learned that he's since been nicknamed "Carlton the Ageless" given his youthful looks compared with everyone else, to which he would have calmly replied in his hard-learned British accent (he's originally from Milwaukee), "Ma'am, were I to let my hair grow, it would be the greyest of us all." Carlton shaves his head out of long-standing habit, you see.

Miss Ingram - Kerry Ingram, better known to all of you Autumn Spring fans as the nosy local television reporter back from Brandy's younger days who was definitely of the "in your face" reporting school (wink). We first saw her in the Season 2 episode "Brandy's Big Chance," and she also reappeared a few more times at important points in later Season 2 and Season 3 episodes of the original series. Kerry Ingram was played by Kinzie Kensington from the Saint's Row video game series. I used the Saints Row IV version, which ThePWA ported and rigged for XPS use and which you can get here:

She's mild when compared to what I normally have to deal with - They don't call them the paparazzi for nothing, folks.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paparazz…

You might remember Alan and Jodie Hansen from the original Autumn Spring series. For those of you just tuning in, Alan was the newest attorney at DCH Associates where the younger Brandy worked as the series began, and Jodie was both her friend and one of the legal assistants who also worked there. How Alan and Jodie eventually hooked up and got married is one of the secondary continuing plotlines of the original series. It's roughly three decades later, perhaps a bit more, and both of them are in their early sixties now (both were somewhat older than Brandy back then), hence their aged appearance. They're also the proud parents of Matt Hansen, the husband of Brandy's daughter Nancy. Needless to say all three have remained good friends and stay in touch as much as they can. One can also safely assume that Alan is now a local attorney with many years of experience as opposed to the last time we saw him and also a respected member of the Middleton community, although that's all I'm going to say there. I'll let your imaginations fill in the rest of the blanks for now. Alan is played by an unknown and unused cutscene character model from the "Flash Back" scenario of Resident Evil Outbreak File 2, the same I gave the name of "Mr. Ted" or "Theodore" as a point of reference at the time; while Jodie is being played by the Citizen Joey stock character model from Valve's Half-Life 2 series. I aged both of them for their reappearance in ToAS. I've got a link for the original Outbreak series version of "Mr. Ted" but none for Citizen Joey (all long dead), but she's easy to rip along with everything else from any of the HL2-based games (the tools are widely and freely available). Anyway, here's that link for "Mr. Ted" if you want to create your own custom Autumn Spring Alan Hansen model. Just do a head swap with any suitable "suit body" out there, make sure you retint the skin tones of both head and hands to match, and there you go! Oh, you'll have age him yourself for how he appears in ToAS, unless you prefer his original youthful version ....

Oh, be quiet/Yes, dear - Just like an old married couple, eh? XD

Notice in the last panel that Brandy still wears her wedding and engagement rings inverted, with the engagement ring to the inside instead of to the outside as is the Western norm. The reason for this is explained in "Wedding Bells," the first episode of Autumn Spring's Season 3. Here's a direct link to the scene in question from that episode: