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equalseleventhirds · 4 years ago

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also night vale’s particular format of (weird) community radio is great for when shit hits the fan in Plot, bcos night vale tends to drop tiny details that gradually coalesce into plot, which could be easy to miss as ppl listen to the podcast casually/while doing other things (especially with how soothing cecil’s voice is, and how many other weird details there are)

except cecil can bring it up over and over again, either bcos there’s been a new/recurring event to do with the thing, or just conversationally (’john peters, you know, the farmer’ but for plot details) in episodes leading up to Big Plot Event or even during the event

and shows like tma or victoriocity also do it a little bit bcos the characters are actively making those connections at the same time the audience is, but the fucking art of wtnv and the friendly voice reminding u of past details? i enjoy that so much

#algie's podcasting opinions #algie's podcast marathon #rly is just turning into a podcast analytics tag lmao #but yeah they make good use of it!! less forshadowing and more reiterating details #which could be boring in a different format but WORKS for wtnv #it helps that there are other Extremely Weird details that get thrown around a lot #(they also lampshade this in eps like 'there is no part 1: part 2'#where cecil acts like he's been bringing this up the entire time and we have no idea what he's talking about #but that's. u kno. on purpose.)

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