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July 13, 2025 17 mins

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Journey with me through the complete series recap of Remembrance, where we unravel the digital tapestry that connects human memory with ancient technology. This finale episode pulls back the curtain on every thread we've woven throughout this story—revealing character motivations, plot connections, and even the alternate ending that nearly came to be.

Discover how Unathur evolved from my original concept into the mysterious system that captures echoes of reality. I share the pivotal revelation that makes our protagonist special: he and the system are one entity, creating a powerful symbiosis where "whatever happens in the system happens in him, and whatever happens in him happens in the system." This connection explains why he alone could fulfill the role others couldn't.

During this candid discussion, I open up about how personal tragedy informed episode seven's emotional hospital scene. Recreating my own experience of losing my mother to cancer seventeen years ago made this perhaps the most challenging sequence I've ever written, requiring dozens of takes to record through raw emotion. These authentic moments ground our fantastical digital universe in very human experiences.

Perhaps most fascinating is my revelation about the story's almost-ending—a darker conclusion where our protagonist would have crumbled under pressure, allowing the Red King to take complete control. I explain why I ultimately chose a different path, one where balance prevails over total victory. "In life, in systems, in everything, there has to be a counterbalance," I reflect, considering how a known enemy creates more storytelling possibilities than an unknown one might.

Ready to join me for the next adventure? I'm developing a new series called either "Silver Spoons" or "Golden Spoons" about someone who receives everything and what happens to their life as a result. Connect with me through the podcast chat feature, email at anthony@gentsjourney.com, or on Instagram @my_gentsjourney. Remember: you create your reality.

"True mastery is found in the details. The way you handle the little things defines the way you handle everything."

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome to the Gentleman's Journey podcast.
My name is Anthony, your host,and today we are doing this
complete series recap ofRemembrance.
I do this pretty much twice ina series, one in the middle of
it and one at the end.
So let's go ahead and let's getinto it.

(00:24):
First off, I want to say thankyou so much.
You made it Okay, not justthrough the threads, not just
through the recursion, butthrough the part of the story
where most people stopremembering.
You know, this is the finalrecursion, the place where
everything gets revealed.
Right, there's gonna be a lotof stuff we're going to go over,
and this is where we kind ofturn around and look back and

(00:45):
realize how far we've actuallycome.
So what I want to do is I wantto kind of go through episodes
here and kind of explain to youhow this all starts.
So episode one was called theLink and it all started with a
message from the dead.
You know a friend who was longgone, you know sending a link he
shouldn't have had time to sendright and with it something

(01:08):
ancient opened up which wascalled Unather.
So to kind of give you abackground about Unather, this
is something I've been havingfor a while, right, a character
or a system I didn't know how toput into essentially a series.
Right, when I originally cameup with Unathur, it was going to

(01:30):
be actually completelydifferent, and it still might be
.
It was going to be a completelydifferent series, talking more
of like not left-handed pathsbut very mythical, ancient
discussions about magic andpower and those kind of things.
Right, and that still mayhappen.
But that's kind of where itstarted.

(01:51):
But as I started this, it justfit into him being an ancient
technology and it just workedwell.
So that was kind of episode one.
Right Now with episode two,like the signal through the
static right when now we'regoing into, where essentially

(02:16):
the voice are being repeated,words are being recorded, stuff
that shouldn't be recorded orhappening is now happening.
Right, you know this is abouthis childhood, this is about
where she's knocking on the door, you know with.
You know they're giving himaccess to future events and you
know one of the things we startto figure out, or what you'll

(02:38):
see later, you know, as itunfolded, is that the signal
wasn't coming for him, it wascoming from him.
And that's what I always liketo do is like when you start to
read these again, or read these,watch, or listen to these again
.
I send these little clues towhere, when you go back, like,
oh my gosh, okay, so he wasactually telling us right in the

(02:59):
beginning.
Now, this nickname right,episode three this is where the
threat appears.
Now the nickname only his, youknow mother used.
And this is where we starttalking about you know,
remembering right, because whatwas happening is that you're
starting to notice is thatthere's echoes in the system and

(03:20):
echoes in him that him and thesystem were one in the same.
That's what made him the chosenone, right.
And obviously, when you go backand listen, you're like, oh,
okay, so whatever happens in thesystem happens in him, and
whatever happens in him happensin the system.
They're one in the same.
That's what made him sopowerful.
Okay, now you see me, I got totalk about this character, so we

(03:47):
had to give him somebody thatwas real right, because his
friend dies.
He's at a job he hates Well, twojobs that he hates really, and
he's not really.
I mean, he has the mentalbreakdown, right, we talked
about that in the beginningwhere he has the mental

(04:07):
breakdown.
He had it all, loses it all,but then you figure out.
It's just a part of the process, right, so you have to have
some kind of love interest.
Also, this guy is just one ofthose guys sitting with too
tight of a T-shirt and no pantshanging on his mom's bedroom.
You know what I mean.

(04:28):
That's the kind of character hecould become.
So, you see, me is kind of hismotivation, right, to kind of
get up and keep going, right,and then, with his mom getting
sicker, it was the same thing.
Events were happening to wherehe just couldn't sit back and

(04:49):
lull in his depression, right,and that's why you start to
notice that towards the end he'snot vaping as much.
Towards the end, there's a lotmore movement in the story where
he's not really going to hisjob anymore, right, because this
is taking anything andeverything for him to do, right,

(05:11):
so that's like the biggestthing.
Now, episode five, section fourArilla Moss right, this is where
she really comes into play.
Now, as I was writing this,right, something I was doing I
always say this on every series,but I don't, I don't like to

(05:31):
write weak women.
That's just my personal opinion.
Right, they have to havemotives, they have to have
reasoning, they have to be ableto stand on their own right as a
character.
And with her, you know and westart to reveal this later she
was the chosen one.
She did everything like thinkabout it.
She did everything correct,correct, and she still, they

(05:54):
took it from her and obviouslyyou find out later that that was
the Red King's fault.
But with Arella Moss, what Iloved about her is her tenacity,
the fact that she was willingto go to the end.
And when she found out that shewasn't chosen, what did she do?
She, yes, she's obviously upsetabout everything, right, but

(06:23):
she still did the right thing.
That was the biggest thing forme.
Now let's go into, uh, six oractually no, it's because we
already talked about six.
Let's go into seven because wewere really just five and six
were kind of the story of Aurela.
Now, episode seven, thecollapse.
Right, this is where the momcollapses.
She goes to the hospital, allthese different things, and then

(06:45):
everything fractures right Now.
This, right here, I'm going tobe honest with you guys.
This right here, was one of thehardest things for me to write
and for me to play out, becausea lot of what happened there

(07:09):
with his mom collapsing, havingcancer, that was pretty much my
life 17 years ago.
You know, have my mom, um withcancer, her collapsing suddenly
and then two weeks later she'sgone.
You know, and that was reallyhard for me and you know there

(07:30):
there's points in time where itthat that episode really fought
me, because there's probably 30,40 takes in that episode.
You know, cause I'm really, I'mliterally dealing with it

(07:50):
myself when I'm going through,when I'm, when I'm talking, you
know when I'm going writing thisand then playing it out.
You know it was I was like Iwas really there because that
that stuff really happened.
Now, episode eight, and was wasreally when the echoes began,

(08:14):
you know, really waking up,right when unithur begins
rewriting stuff, right when hislittle hacker world, you know
zero trace, starts to split.
You know the glyph is crowned.
You know reality is reallyconverging into one truth, right
, and that kind of goes into.
You know Orilla Moss and howthe Red King really screwed her

(08:38):
right.
And then you see that Unithurup until that point was scared
of Red King.
You know, because,realistically, the Red King,
what I love about his characterin general is that he's very
conniving, he's straight and tothe point, but he's just quote,

(09:04):
unquote one of those guys.
He's just an asshole, I mean, Idon't know how else to say it,
but that's just what he is.
But at the same time, you canunderstand why he's pompous,
he's crude, but he was also thefirst.
He was the first.

(09:25):
And Unathur let him be who heis now.
And, if you think about it,that's the Red King, the reason
why he exists, because Unathurcouldn't step up.
And then, when we go into 9,this is where this kind of ties

(09:47):
everything up together the RedKing rewrote Moss.
She was broken on purpose.
She was rejected because,realistically, if the Red King
didn't do that, moss would havetook him out.
If she would have become theone, moss would have had the
gall and essentially balls to doit, and that's why he

(10:08):
intervened to make sure that shewasn't granted unither status.
That she wasn't granted unitherstatus and you know,
realistically, you know, youknow tying them up like in
episode 10, part one of part two.
This was okay.

(10:29):
I'm going to be honest with youguys.
Right, this was the hardestthing, because what I originally
had was going to do is I wasgoing to have him fail.
And let me show you where, howthat was going to work.
I'll.
I'll read it to you actually.
So here was the alternate endingfor Remembrance, right?

(10:50):
So he doesn't anchor the system, he folds, he forgets, he
deletes the memory folder, heignores the voice, he blocks out
ICU-93, moss wins Section 4, 4rises and the red king ascends
right and in that he corruptsunithr.

(11:13):
Zero trace is gone, obviously,and remembering becomes illegal
and hackers essentially likeeveryone in this, they're hunted
for restoring memory and echoesbecome weapons and I was just

(11:40):
going to have them really justbecome like a footnote in the
recursion that now loops that.
The Red King, a moment in ourlife where we know exactly what
to do and we don't do it becausewe're tired, because we fought
so long and so hard and we justdon't have it in us.
We've all known that person who, let's say, made $150,000,

(12:04):
$200,000 a year for 5, 6, 7, 8,9, 10 years.
Then all of a sudden they havea nervous breakdown and they
never get to that point.
They end up working some menialjob or you know worse, they
just kind of fall out ofexistence.
That's kind of what this wasgoing to be in the beginning.

(12:26):
Can this guy really handle theweight?
But realistically I couldn't dothat to him not in this.
That's how, originally, thiswas all going to end.
He was just going to crumbleunder the pressure and the Red
King was going to ascend toeverything and have complete,
100% control.

(12:47):
But I think I chose the betterending.
But yeah, that was the biggestthing.
Also, too, him choosingremembrance and not just
choosing one or the other, butactually doing both, was such a
big thing to me because I wantedto show him as in he could take

(13:13):
on anything, because all heneeded was confidence.
And what gave him thatopportunity was the fact that
ICU 93, yes, she was real, butshe wasn't, but it gave him the
confidence to do it.
That ICU-93, yes, she was realbut she wasn't, but it gave him
the confidence to do it.
And now he can.
Even though she's just an Echo,he can go visit her at any time

(13:37):
, and that's why I left thatopen-ended.
But the biggest thing was thefact that he didn't destroy the
Red King.
Now let me tell you why I wroteit that way.
Because in life, in systems, ineverything, there has to be a
counterbalance.
If there's good, there's got tobe evil, because you don't know

(14:00):
one without the other.
That's just how it works.
One without the other.
That's just how it works, andwhat he said there is that a
known enemy is better than anenemy that is unknown.
The reason why he says this isbecause he knows all of Red
King's tactics right.
He has them contained.
He knows all because he holdsall the threads right.

(14:22):
So even if Red King tries to doanything, he's going to be one,
two, three, four, five stepsahead of him right.
And it also, too, it gives itan open-endedness If I want to
come back into this series, ashe's opening up people and let's
say he opens up a corruptedperson and Red King was able to

(14:43):
corrupt this person that itcreates another whole new series
.
So that's another reason why Idid that too.
But, like I said, this was justsuch.
This was probably one of thehardest series I've written so
far, to be honest, because Athere's so much dialogue,

(15:05):
there's so much conversations,there's so much conversations,
there's so many things.
You, you know we have to wrapup and but we did it and I'm
very, very, very proud of thiswork and I'm just so grateful
that you guys knocked out of thepark with you know your
listenership, and I, I just Ican't tell you how much I, your

(15:29):
listenership and I I just Ican't tell you how much I, how
grateful I am, really just howhow grateful I am.
So the next thing, the nextseries we got to talk about this
really quick is going.
It's either going to be silverspoons or golden spoons.
It's going to be one of thosetwo.
Right, it's a I don't know whattitle is going to be.
It's going to be one of thosetwo.
So essentially, this is whatit's going to be and obviously
this will be way laid out more,but it's essentially someone

(15:52):
who's given everything and whathappens to their life.
So, but, guys, we made it tothis and you know I'm recording
this on a Sunday, so Mondayyou'll get the new series coming
out there.
But again, I just want to thankyou so much for listening today

(16:16):
and if you want to get a hold ofme, you want to talk about this
series, or you have someserious ideas, or you're going
through some stuff.
This is what I'm here for.
Okay, there's three ways to geta hold of me.
First way is getting throughthe chat feature on the
description of this podcast.
You click on that.
You and I can have aconversation.
Second way is going to bethrough email.
My email is anthony atgentsjourneycom.

(16:38):
And, last but not least, youcan always go to my Instagram.
My Instagram is my gentsjourney.
So again, thank you, so, so, so, very much for listening today.
And remember this you createyour reality.
Take care Bye.
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