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Post by cannonlongshot on Oct 20, 2016 11:10:32 GMT
Did I miss the significance of the lighter? Was the lighter delivered by Breekon and Hope? If so, was the table delivered by them as well?
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Post by Oneiros on Oct 20, 2016 12:00:10 GMT
Did I miss the significance of the lighter? Was the lighter delivered by Breekon and Hope? If so, was the table delivered by them as well? Correct - both entered the Institute when Breekon and Hope visited at the end of MAG #35.
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Kate
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Post by Kate on Nov 4, 2016 10:48:40 GMT
I have had time to properly digest the finale, and so now I can say- thank jugs of juice for that! I was becoming very worried that the podcast was becoming too internalised- too meta for those who want to listen for pleasure. After all, not everyone is going to have a inboard with string, and most podcast listeners are looking for entertainment. Jon has created that in spoons; spooky situations, ground-falling-away factoid hour, a gravelly (oh so listenable- oh, shuttup) voice to read it in. But too many in-references can also serve to alienate people not into plotting the whole thing inside and out- the story arch and episodes should support each other and themselves across a week-a-time timeframe. Too much 'cleverness' and it starts to lose it.
The last one or two-but-one I honestly felt were starting to get too much self-involved. Listened, I attempted to place their context in the wider narrative, but mentions of names and places in the first few weeks had slipped my mind, as I attempted to grapple with the apparent import of such dropped too-casually into the current episode.
I would like to think I'm flying the flag here for narrative coherence- the enjoyment factor over a number of weeks worth of a show. It's a pragmatic approach, but entirely in character. Remember how toy asked a while back, Jon, for tales of supernatural-ness from the listeners on here? I must be an anti-supernatural zone. I'm like the mutant in X-Men who nullifies other power. I have never seen or felt anything untoward. I love creepy stories because I'm totally on board with the potential of as-yet unproven stuff that might be proven in eras to come (this is, of course, the basis of scientific theorising. The maths might look promising, but the current ability to prove something could be beyond the thinker. It's the possibility of genuinely unexplained phenomena I like: the boarder of playfulness around reality's plane); and I do believe in the quantuum power of narrative; decisions made create new narratives spinning off from our own... But I have never felt or seen it myself. Pragmatic. Yup.
So here's the pragmatic critique: thank goodness you pulled this one together and pulled a heck of a thumper out of the hat. And for the next series; watch the meta just a tad, yeah?
Good show, old man.
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Post by spooniermist on Nov 5, 2016 8:47:17 GMT
i see what you mean, Kate, but I'm not sure that TMA is too self referential, if that's what you mean? I think, without this forum, I would listen to a lot of them as stand alone tales, and I don't think too many refer to other episodes explicitly, other than with the Jane Prentiss piece, which makes sense because it's the series story arch.
For example, the one with Sarah Baldwin can be read as a one off if you don't realise she's in it earlier.
That said, ep 38 was getting a bit tied up with the overall meta plot, but I don't think that's a bad thing. Most seasons of TV or what have you seem to do something similar before sorting everything out for the the finale.
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Kate
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Post by Kate on Nov 20, 2016 22:57:09 GMT
Some good points Spooniermist. Perhaps I have been bamboozled by the fan activity and triple-checking on the forum here to think truly objectively. Now would be a good time to go back and listen with clearer ears. Having the entire series saved does mean that one can go back and binge- perhaps the coherence will come from that.
Very much looking forward to series 2. Now the podcast has cut its teeth and been mentioned by iTunes and websites of note, onward and upward and into even grander narrative schemes, I hope!
I know what you mean about the last few episodes before a series ending become rather entangled in a show's own meta. I was catching up on ITV's 'Jekyll and Hyde'- not as awful as some fantasy TV out there- but it was bleeding' obvious by episode 8- here comes the finale! Better get the Big Bad out of storage and bring in ALL the heroes into one place!
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Post by cannonlongshot on Jan 19, 2017 16:02:54 GMT
I've ONLY JUST got the significance of Tim's last name - how did I miss that all the team are named after horror authors?!
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