Hello one and all, and happy Audio Drama Sunday! I’m gonna be so busy this week, someone pray for me. Good thing there’s podcasts!
📎 This week’s episode of @sditepod is GENIUS. I’ve heard a bunch of actual plays and improv shows try to do the “what if dnd characters roleplayed office jobs,” and none of them have ever come CLOSE to how good this is. I think because it takes it’s premise seriously and it has a little plot direction (railroading, if you will), it ends up with better jokes in the end than other attempts. That, and this cast is just legendary. Shoutout to writer Stephen Indrisano, hi Stephen, good job buddy. I cackled.
🪱 Star Trek: Khan continues to be worthy of its premise. How easily they humanize Khan, how much you hope for him and Marla, how suspicious you suddenly become of Kirk! I am really interested in where the story goes from here—a historical account analyzed by a biased historian through an unreliable narrator. It is fascinating.
🦊 Can we TALK ABOUT THE BARDIC HEARTH? What a frikkin series finale. The Bardic Hearth is so good at building backstory and foreshadowing that not only is this episode an earned ending, it’s an ending that feels like the only possible way things could be. It’s perfect. And the music made me tear up.
⏳ Both stories of @monstrousproductions’ Travelling Light this week were excellent, but I was absolutely struck by the first one. A culture that celebrates, embraces, and in some ways enforces temporariness is one that fills me with utter fear, but this story showed me just how beautiful it is to be ephemeral. It’s a precious thing, that this alien chose to share with the traveller, and then share with, as far as they knew, the rest of the universe. A beautiful moment.
🦇 DRACULA: 2004 BAYBEEEEEE oh my gosh, @starstrider-productions knocked this out of the park. For obvious reasons, I am mad familiar with the book Dracula, and this felt like a love letter. It’s an incredible setup for what promises to be a very thoughtful and very beautiful adaptation, and I Would Like The Next Episode Plz. (Side note: love that the call to action “please rate and subscribe” bit sounds like they’re holding Jonathan hostage until we give them five stars.)
🔩 GUESS WHAT, from the makers of @re-dracula (you know, me and some cool talented people), it’s Re: Frankenstein!!!!! We are crowdfunding for our next big adaptation, featuring an all-trans cast, some dynamite directors, and some of the best acting you’re ever gonna hear. Help if you can, spread the word, here we come!
That’s all for me, I hope your week is sufficiently spooky in a fun Halloween way and not a terrifying existential way for once. I love you!
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