I'm quoting myself here: ... but adding that the interlude between season 2 and 3 just started, and it's meant to be short - 9-11 episodes, hopefully, although they're long episodes - and while it's got stuff that will make you go OOOOOOH if you've listened to season 1 (since it's set in a different time period, in that world), it's functionally stand-alone. Here's a link! In this episode: they make a city using The Quiet Year. also just LISTEN to the new theme, goddamn: https://notquitereal.bandcamp.com/track/marielda
i have it downloaded! i will listen to it! (when i finish bunch of the other 101 podcasts i'm subscribed to)
hello yes i enjoy this show a lot. i love the ways they play with motifs and language (a show about fallen towers and toppling kingdoms. a show about gods and death and heroes). i love the way they sometimes use the language of TV shows/miniseries, visually and structurally, to describe what's going on. i love the sense of humor that threads through everything (i love dramatic irony. also puns. also the over the top names of the season 2 NPCs (and PCs, come to think of it)). i love the gutpunch moments (i did a fanart of a fave from season 1) and the heartwrench moments (one part of the counter/weight finale made me cry a way i haven't since Harry Potter walked into the forest surrounded by his ghosts) *happy sigh* what a good show (i love the way i hate that austin walker gave me feelings about Lazer Ted) yeah.
oh shit, now I'm sad about Hadrian again! I love that scene. it's funny - the first time the show made me cry was Austin's closing narration at the end of the holiday special, when fisher lacey goes upstairs and finds (spoilers) (spoilers). I also love how they use language, and as a person who watches a lot of TV shows it's so fun the way they use that structure to mediate what they're describing. :D are you listening to the new season yet? it's really fun so far, Janine has consistently been able to make Austin distressed and uncomfortable (in a good, horror-story-successful way) with her narrative flourishes and it's like.. ah, sweet revenge. :P
hee! yes; some of it kinda brushes the edges of my tolerance for body horror, but the turnabout is such fun. on twitter he said something about it all being worth it for the ammo for the next game, so. there's that to look forward to also, you said this already, but I have to second it, the music is amazing
ah! yeah! so many good moments and then... I kinda want to go back and see when Jack uses which pronouns (and if Austin does it too); in the moment I assumed that he was just that used to AuDy. I am several hours in on a painting of Castille + Catstille. she is so good. oh, hey, I should cross post the painting I did of Hedy, it's only on twitter right now...
Yeah, Jack slipped into "they" a lot when describing them during character creation and i, too, wrote it off as gender-neutral pronouns having a surprising amount of sticking power habit-wise. but noooo and omg I would love to see both of those paintings :3 Ali talked on Twitter about how the mission keeps being intense after the episode break, and I'm SO excited.. Thursday, come to me
...they're not your kismesis if you haven't hung from their boots from the back of a train speeding above a city blades in the dark seems to be working really well for their cinematic storytelling approach that resolution was a little bit... (something something pun on god from the machine + already here. maybe also + ineffability. too sleepy for actual wit) but on the other hand it sets up some exciting stakes for the whole interlude arc, so that's neat. im wondering what is up with Austin's narrator; the opening suggested he might be a character. Which is ridiculous, but also it properly rounds out the Six, so. y'know. huh.
new heist! new harebrained scheme! i'm frankly astonished that Hitchcock managed to keep that bullshit train rolling so smoothly for so long. so excited to see what happens now that it's jumped the rails.
fffffff i love emotional whiplash. tho, really, why was I expecting to end on a sweet note, did I forget what show this is. so much tasty, tasty lore. i love the callbacks and the retroactive foreshadowing. i love the twists on what we already know. i love that i was able to guess the gist of both Castille's history and the animation book's future and totally blindsided by the history between Samothes and Samot (and Maelgwn!) (idk yet what I'm going to paint yet, but it'll probably be something with at least two of those three.)
BITTER EXES BITTER EXES I guessed about Castille (although I thought she would be Castille Charter, not Charter Castille) and about the animation book, but something I am newly worried about as of this episode is... Spoiler I assumed the Heat and the Dark was the Erasure. But then we found out Samot thinks cold can hold off the Heat, (presumably) hence his thing for blizzards, and uh, I'm newly worried that the Erasure (which is cold near the center!) is in fact his attempt to stop the heat, and that it might still happen. and yeah, Christ, that ending! :D Remember when this interlude was going to be 9-12 episodes long? Still technically possible, I guess.
oh dang, I'd been assuming the same Spoiler I was taking the talk of keeping things cool more metaphorically, but you're right, Frost Shepherds + Ice Party does point in a worrying direction. and, yeah, I'm kinda thinking/hoping this next arc wraps up the interlude. the six are great and getting a more direct look at what's up with the various gods is so fun, but I am a little antsy to get back to, like, Hella, and Fantasmo, and the consequences of the invasion
AAAAAAAAAAA (THAT'S ME YELLIN) the ending of that episode was so fuckin beautiful and exciting and ominous
*joins you in yellin* the music! Austin's character voices! "nothing flinched"! it looks like i didn't post about it here (have you been to the fan forum? ) but I totally guessed the narrator's identity a couple episodes back when he was talking about how "physicality is me made born". looks like backtracking to verify that the C/w eidolons correspond to the Heiron five gods(/days of the week if I'm right that Apokine is from Kinday) actually paid off beyond inspiring me to design Lazer Ted's pin
