Template:Episode updated V.2"The Outbreak — The History of the Village" is the seventh episode of the fifth season of the animated television series Lovely World and the 196th overall episode. The episode first aired in the United States on the children's programming network Children's Avast Television on December 13, 2014. It was directed by Ollie Stewart and written by Maxim Andrews. The series centers on the main character, Edward, and his friends Michael, Leo and Kamila, who embark on new adventures in search of sources to extend their "worlds", discover new species, and strive to achieve their own objectives.
In the episode, After the adult understood that his town had been destroyed, the group and the adult discovered a sequence of journal entries belonging to the adult's mother, which relates a tale before the events. The rest of the episode focuses on the circumstances that led to the village's destruction.
The episode was developed alongside "The Templates" and director Ollie Stewart, who wrote the initial screenplay, commissioned writer Maxim Andrews to write it. The script underwent very few alterations and remained in its original draft. The episode received mixed to negative reviews from critics, with the writing being criticized. It was watched by 1,934,119 million households and over 2,268,239 million viewers.
Plot
The young adult broke down in tears upon realizing, to his utter horror, that the villager he had known and loved for a long time had been entirely destroyed. Leo, with the cooperation of the gang, explores the town in search of any remnants of artifacts or indications of life. He discovers a journals that a villager had built. According to the journal, a gang of zombies has been occupying the village and forcing the residents to survive. Actually, the devastation had been caused by the zombies breaking in and attacking the house. Then, after looking throughout the area, the adult discovered that there were many more diaries that connected a tale and were written by the adult's mother. The young adult's mother had planned to travel to meet her own mother, but because to a forecast of major zombie breakouts, she is obliged to stay at home. Meanwhile, in a flashback to earlier events, "Z" is revealed to be the creator of the zombies. Meanwhile, the zombies assaulted the community, and her final written words were: "Love you, my son," before being bitten to death.
It is revealed that the young adult was abducted on the same day as the incident, but he almost forgets everything that happened since the "evil villagers" replaced half of his original brain with a dead villager's brain inside of him, much to the confusion of the group. A flashback revealed that the "bad villagers", after kidnapping the young adult, had approached the "Z" guards and threatened to assault them, but some were abducted and used for the machine that "Z" was developing. Thanks to the group's support and his partially working brain, he was able to get the other brain to function and retain all of the information through a little brain surgery. Despite their anxiety of what may happen next, the group opted to embrace the young adult. Despite this, the young adult refused to go, and after days of looking, the gang eventually discovered a community for him. The episode concludes with the young adult being taken in and the gang departing the hamlet to embark on a new journey.
Production
"The Outbreak — The History of the Village" was directed by Ollie Stewart and written by Maxim Andrews. The episode was created concurrently with the previous episode "The Templates," with filming commencing in May 2014. The concept for the episode arose while Ollie Stewart was directing one of Future's episodes, "The First Big Minigames — The Hype and the Stress — Part Two," when he began developing an idea for an episode about the "bad villagers"; he had previously heard about the "bad villagers" and had watched one of the episode's previews for an idea on the people. Due to his interest in the theme of the "evil villagers," he began writing a draft for the episode, which was originally titled "The Bad Villagers." However, due to plot issues and trouble establishing the story's key purpose in the arc, the script was scrapped and a new draft was prepared, with a larger emphasis on the gang. The screenplay called for the gang to accompany the adult to his town, where it is revealed that the hamlet has been destroyed; the previous episode mentioned narrative elements at the start of this episode.
Unlike most of the episodes produced for the fifth season, this episode's screenplay was nearly identical to the original draft. Later, in a 2017 interview, Maxim Andrews expressed regret for not reworking the screenplay, stating that he could have postponed the episode to provide far greater writing and character development. The ending was initially intended as a "far more dismal" sequence in which the gang would have left the adult inside since they had nowhere else to take him. However, the plan was shortly abandoned owing to Andrew's dislike for the conclusion and his desire to entirely modify it in order to foster character development in the group. He finally stated, "It was the best decision that we as a group made." The episode, like "The Templates," had to run on December 13, 2014, and the animation was apparently "rushed" to get it out before the original release date. The episode was finalized on December 3, 2014, 10 days before its release.
Broadcast and reception
"The Outbreak — The History of the Village" first aired in the United States on the children's programming network Children's Avast Television on December 13, 2014. The episode was watched by 1,934,119 million households and over 2,268,239 million viewers, which was a increase from the previous episode "The Templates" that had similar ratings of 2.2 million viewers.
"The Outbreak — The History of the Village" received mixed to negative reviews from critics, with the writing being criticized. Andrew Cunningham criticized. the writing, claiming "the writing was more jumbled than "The Templates," and describing this episode as one of the worst. Finley Hughes gave the episode a 5 out of 10, praising the animation and character development but criticizing the narrative, pace, and unclear storyline, stating that "the plot was more incomprehensible than those who I can hardly grasp."