Post 2172985 by ink_slinger@mastodon.club
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(DIR) Post #2172979 by Shadejackrabbit@mastodon.club
2018-12-21T07:28:56Z
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God just trying to find more narrative fiction podcasts to get into and thinking of how frustrated i got with one set of shows getting super formulaic despite them being totally my shit
(DIR) Post #2172980 by ink_slinger@mastodon.club
2018-12-21T14:41:57Z
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@Shadejackrabbit That's how I've been feeling about Welcome to Night Vale for a while now. I still listen, but it no longer goes to the top of my queue as soon as a new episode is out. They've become more and more repetitive and formulaic. I may unsubscribe if it doesn't get better in the New Year.
(DIR) Post #2172981 by Shadejackrabbit@mastodon.club
2018-12-21T15:24:16Z
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@ink_slinger i quit Nightvale around when they started doing live shows, both cause i didn't find the Cecil/Carlos plot very interesting, and cause the creator started taking a super arrogant tone. ("We personally saved podcasts", that sort of thing)I find the town super interesting so I've always wondered whether I'd enjoy looking through the episode list and picking specific ones
(DIR) Post #2172982 by ink_slinger@mastodon.club
2018-12-21T16:56:37Z
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@Shadejackrabbit Did he seriously say: "We personally saved podcasting"?LOLIf anything, that credit probably goes to Serial, at least if we're talking about reviving the format in the popular/mainstream consciousness.
(DIR) Post #2172983 by Shadejackrabbit@mastodon.club
2018-12-21T17:13:57Z
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@ink_slinger i think if i recall correctly his wording was more "revolutionized this new medium" which was weird because early in Nightvale he gave credit to radio plays (literally all it is). I think the self-congratulatory speech I'm thinking of is in the first episode of Alice Isn't Dead.I mean, they're a good writer, better than most weird horror writers for sure, and they certainly have accomplished a lot. But i think "Great Podcast" History is a bad way to track the medium's development
(DIR) Post #2172984 by Shadejackrabbit@mastodon.club
2018-12-21T17:14:50Z
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@ink_slinger likewise i would say serial didn't revolutionize podcasting so much as podcasting was heading in a direction where something like Serial had to inevitably emerge
(DIR) Post #2172985 by ink_slinger@mastodon.club
2018-12-21T17:20:33Z
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@Shadejackrabbit Yeah, I don't think Serial itself was especially revolutionary. It came along at the right time and captured enough people's interest that podcasting (which had boomed and busted before, on a smaller scale) came back into the public consciousness in a way that it hadn't really been for a number of years. But I think it was more of a "right time, right place" thing than anything else.
(DIR) Post #2172986 by craig@sealion.club
2018-12-21T20:56:11+00:00
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@inkslinger @shadejackrabbit As we've seen from seasons 2 and 3, and also S-Town, Serial can be a good extended version of This American Life. That was a nice evolutionary change. The boffo part was that they lucked into a fractally weird story in season 1. My sister is *still hooked* on one of the podcasts that started up based around peripheral S1 investigations.
(DIR) Post #2174002 by ink_slinger@mastodon.club
2018-12-21T21:15:55Z
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@craig @Shadejackrabbit Season 2 was super boring, IMO, but 3 (that's the current one, right?) and S-Town were, as you say, good extended versions of TAL. Season 1 was excellent, but I've basically come to the conclusion that Adnand did it, but also probably shouldn't have been convicted based on the evidence they had.
(DIR) Post #2174003 by craig@sealion.club
2018-12-21T21:44:39+00:00
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@inkslinger @shadejackrabbit That was my eventual conclusion, but my obsessed sister half-convinced me that Hae's new boyfriend's alibi was not very good, for reasons which involve going even further down the rabbit hole. Someone needs to do something like the Star Wars Episode 1 fan cut to S2. Oh well.