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Since Tanis is apparently getting a TV show produced, is it actually worth listening to it? I listened to The Black Tapes all the way through, and went from liking the conceit and promise of what they were setting up until I realized they were just going the LOST path and throwing up a whole bunch of dumb questions they didn't care to really answer, and used the same 5 stock musical backing tracks and 5 annoying sound effects to extremely inappropriate ends. I avoided Tanis for that reason, assuming it'd be similar given the shared universe and thus same producer - is it better than TBT?
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Jurgan posted:A similar note is how many of them are so devoted to the "found footage" concept that they go out of their way to give an in-universe explanation for how the recording was made. Bright Sessions does this a lot- "Wait, why are you recording this?" "Oh, well, I was just thinking..." - and it's one of the very few things I dislike about that show. This is probably the thing I'm most annoyed by that's done in The Magnus Archive. A third of the supplemental recordings in the second season don't have a particularly good reason for being recorded, but they still insist on having Jonathan Sims say "End Supplemental" at the end, instead of him just turning it off, or reflecting on what happened afterwards and then saying it.
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Hoo boy, just started season 2 of Archive 81 today and holy poo poo are those the most immersion-breaking ads I've ever heard.
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boo_radley posted:They're amazing right? Imagine what kind of postage you need to mail things back from the Eldritch hellscape. Thank goodness for :zalgo:stamps dot com:zalgo:. I got in the habit of just fast forwarding through them (I don't usually make a point of it for other podcasts unless I'm in a particularly annoyed mood), but what an intensely pointless devotion to being in character. I thought Tribulations was good, although Stacy's performance in the first episode definitely trends towards cringey. I'm 5 episodes into Steal the Stars, and it's been consistently entertaining. Found out after finishing episode 5 that it's by the writer of LifeAfter and The Message, which explains the solid writing.
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So Steal the Stars's finale was posted today, and hoo boy was it... underwhelmingly lame.
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theblackw0lf posted:Is anyone listening to Sandra, the new podcast from Gimlet Media? It somehow managed to be more disappointing than Homecoming. Nothing happens - the plot barely moves forward over the course of the 7 episodes, and the ending is bewildering in how dumb it is. The lack of forward momentum is frustratingly underscored by the constant commercial breaks prefaced by annoying scene transition jingles. I definitely wouldn't bother.
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