#(that's my archive 81 liveblog tag now)

[measureyourlifeincake]

ok i think im gonna liveblog archive 81 now (at least a little)

anyway i just wanna say that i love and appreciate ratty and if anything happened to him i’d kill everyone in this room and then myself

[measureyourlifeincake]

anissapierce replied to your post “something feels kind of off about the pacing of this (especially in...”

I listened in s1 in 2016 n the pacing didnt rlly feel off but on ky relisten it was fast ? But i profoundly prefer it, marcs stated his disinterest in mystery boxes n im w him on tht

ok so my thing with the pacing is this: it’s not so much about the pacing of the mystery itself (which felt a little weird, but in a way that i can accept more easily), it’s about the change in dan. or at least... his acceptance of it, i guess? i mean, we got enough in the show that i could understand what was going on, but i didn’t really feel it. like, the fact that in one conversation he’s like “fuck this i’m leaving” and after basically a few words from his boss he appears to just accept that he Needs to Listen To The Tapes and he is a Different Person Now. And it definitely makes sense, but something about it just felt sudden to me.

now part of this may just be a product of binge listening vs. listening as it comes out, because if you have two weeks to sit with every episode and think about the characters, then your brain can easily fill in the gaps that seem to exist when you’re listening to 8 episodes in a row or whatever

also, again, i’m used to tma pacing where, not only are the seasons about 4 times longer, but also it took a journey of hundreds of episodes for the protagonist to truly understand what/why he was doing/becoming and become comfortable with that (which he still hasn’t? maybe? sort of?). i am. phrasing this badly but i hope you get my point. it’s just different. i’m used to a different thing but it’s similar enough that my brain expects it to be the same