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"And I'm from Earth"
Mar. 27th, 2014 01:56 pmThe subject is relevant to the entry though it's also a bit misguiding because it might make you believe I won't mention The Musketeers this time around when I, in fact, will do. To be honest, I have a Musketeers thought pretty much every day these days and have to share.
Let's get the Musketeers talk out of the way before I segue into another recent discovery (although it's anything but new as it's been existing since 2005 but I'd never heard of it before, so.)
I've been reading quite a lot of The Musketeers fic the past couple of weeks (there are some really nice ones out there, the fandom has kept me happy so far[1]) and the last story I started made me think about ( an event that occurred in the show premiere )
Onto Teh Discovery now. A couple of weeks ago I stumbled by accident upon a podcast that I'd never heard of before (admittedly, prior to getting into Welcome to Night Vale, I lived in complete ignorance of the podcast world on iTunes), namely Thrilling Adventure Hour, a "staged production in the style of old-time radio". It has different segments which follow different narratives every time but with the same main characters for each segments. It deals with sci-fi, supernatural, noir stories, historical plotlines etc.
It's very funny (I've been known to laugh out loud in public much more than I used to thanks to them) and pretty clever as it plays with genre codes, pop cultural references and even historical ones. It also has some nice guest stars, including Nathan Fillion who happens to be the main character of one of aforementioned segments, namely Jefferson Reid, Ace American, proud member of the American Victory Commission who fights against Nazis... who sometimes time-travel. As you do.
My favourite segments are "Beyond Belief" about Franck and Sadie Doyle, two socialites who happen to be mediums and whose favourite pastime is a) drinking and b) solving mysteries involving ghosts, vampires, werewolves etc. "Jefferson Reid, Ace American", the story of patriotic soldiers of the AVC during WWII, "Amelia Earhart, Fearless Flyer" who tells the story of brave and intrepid Amelia after she faked her death to be able to secretly fight the nazis. You go Amelia! And I'm slowly warming up to "Sparks Nevada, Marshal on Mars" which is a western! Set on Mars! In the 31th century!
As timing goes, believe it or not but turns out they're doing a crossover with... Welcome to Night Vale on Saturday \o/
Anyway! Is anyone following TAH? I know I'm late to the party (almost ten years late omg) just, bear with me, alright? lol And for those who'd be interested, you can get the episodes over there.
[1]Lol I meant to write "the fandom has kept me busy so far" but I guess "happy" works as well ;)
Let's get the Musketeers talk out of the way before I segue into another recent discovery (although it's anything but new as it's been existing since 2005 but I'd never heard of it before, so.)
I've been reading quite a lot of The Musketeers fic the past couple of weeks (there are some really nice ones out there, the fandom has kept me happy so far[1]) and the last story I started made me think about ( an event that occurred in the show premiere )
Onto Teh Discovery now. A couple of weeks ago I stumbled by accident upon a podcast that I'd never heard of before (admittedly, prior to getting into Welcome to Night Vale, I lived in complete ignorance of the podcast world on iTunes), namely Thrilling Adventure Hour, a "staged production in the style of old-time radio". It has different segments which follow different narratives every time but with the same main characters for each segments. It deals with sci-fi, supernatural, noir stories, historical plotlines etc.
It's very funny (I've been known to laugh out loud in public much more than I used to thanks to them) and pretty clever as it plays with genre codes, pop cultural references and even historical ones. It also has some nice guest stars, including Nathan Fillion who happens to be the main character of one of aforementioned segments, namely Jefferson Reid, Ace American, proud member of the American Victory Commission who fights against Nazis... who sometimes time-travel. As you do.
My favourite segments are "Beyond Belief" about Franck and Sadie Doyle, two socialites who happen to be mediums and whose favourite pastime is a) drinking and b) solving mysteries involving ghosts, vampires, werewolves etc. "Jefferson Reid, Ace American", the story of patriotic soldiers of the AVC during WWII, "Amelia Earhart, Fearless Flyer" who tells the story of brave and intrepid Amelia after she faked her death to be able to secretly fight the nazis. You go Amelia! And I'm slowly warming up to "Sparks Nevada, Marshal on Mars" which is a western! Set on Mars! In the 31th century!
As timing goes, believe it or not but turns out they're doing a crossover with... Welcome to Night Vale on Saturday \o/
Anyway! Is anyone following TAH? I know I'm late to the party (almost ten years late omg) just, bear with me, alright? lol And for those who'd be interested, you can get the episodes over there.
[1]Lol I meant to write "the fandom has kept me busy so far" but I guess "happy" works as well ;)
