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I mentioned the idea to kenz and he agreed. I loved the fact the game came with a little comic backstory and thought it would be cool to include one with Soulless. Trev: the idea came from The Sacred Armour of Antiriad. Where did the idea to include the comic booklet come from? Trev: I always loved the simple 8bit / 16bit backstories to most platformers so I kinda went along those lines. The game has an interesting back-story, who came up with this? I actually only know screenshots from the other two, the player character has similarities though. Georg: Game play wise I'd say the most obvious inspiration is Impossible Mission (searching and puzzle). the art style was defo inspired by Draconus, big bold and colourful. I always loved the search aspect of the game. Trev: Impossible mission was the main inspiration. The game shares some similarities with Draconus, Impossible Mission & Shadow Of The Beast - did these directly inspire the game? The idea came up in the first half of 2011, real work started a bit later. Trev: Oooo now your talking - I would say about 8 months, it took that long because of other projects inbetween. How long did the game take to produce - from initial idea to final release? Or he volunteered? Anyway, he made a great bunch of imagery, and that's when he asked if we could collaborate on Soulless. Georg: I asked Trevor to help out on the Supernatural game tutorial thingy. And like the man from Del Monte, he said YES. Trev: I really loved Joe Gunn and I've wanted to do another c64 game for donkies years so I spoke to Georg and bunged him a couple of mockups of an idea I had. How did your collaboration on the game come about? From the looks there's a bit of Antiriad in there ) Can you tell? I fiddled about with a puzzle idea and SHAZZAM. A couple of my faves were Impossible Mission and Draconus. Trev: That came from me - after playing Joe Gunn it really took me back to those teen years and made me think of the games I loved to play which where basically platform games. Concluding, wonderful episode and a great ending to a very good season.Where did the idea for Soulless come from? Ann Dowd has powerful moments as well but this is Marshall-Green's episode. Acting is dead on from the regulars, and it is agreed that Logan Marshall-Green dominates and brings chills down the spine.

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The interrogation scene is truly chilling, the most chilling one since 'Dominance', and even more so is the perpetrator who makes the skin crawl and their amorality is quite terrifying. The story is riveting for a vast majority of the length, brought me to tears and had hairs standing up on the back of my neck. The dialogue is smart and always intriguing, with plenty of it moving, chilling and provoking thought. The music isn't used too much and doesn't get too melodramatic. The production values are slick and have a subtle grit, with an intimacy to the photography without being too claustrophobic. The direction is accomodating but also alert. It starts off on the slightly conventional side, but once the story really gets going (which it does very quickly) it immediately grabs the attention and doesn't let go. It is episodes like 'Soulless' that shows what prime-'Special Victims Unit' is all about, not one of my favourite episodes of the show or quite a classic but it's close. One elevated to an even better level by especially one of the show's most amoral perpetrators, an amazing guest performance and an interrogation scene to remember.

Luckily 'Soulless' delivers, a great ending to Season 4, a great episode of of the season (towards the better end) and a great 'Law and Order: Special Victims Unit' episode. After Season 4 began so strongly with 'Chameleon', it is hard to not expect a lot from the season finale 'Soulless'. Every other episode though ranged from very good to outstanding, with 'Chameleon', 'Dolls', 'Mercy', 'Desperate' and 'Dominance' being examples of the outstanding ones.

It did have three disappointments, 'Pandora', 'Tortured' and especially 'Disappearing Acts' and also had a few reservations about 'Rotten' too. Season 4 on the whole was a very good season.