Audio Drama...
Message:...I can only speak for myself, but I have hundreds of hours of full-cast audio dramas I'm working through, and enjoy them greatly. Red, I know you think the visual design of a Doctor Who Dalek is cheesy, but in audio media, when those bastards start slaughtering hundreds of civilians... Or burning the eyes out of a guard so they can use his retina print... Ugh... Laura isn't a big fan of audio drama, but even she got sucked into Dalek Empire. A beautiful combination of big, bold, bat-guano insane ideas (the Daleks terraformed frigging Jupiter just to set up a trap. JUPITER!) and small-scale character drama. How sad for the two lovebirds to spend nine one-hour episodes (and over a decade of in-story time) apart only for Suz to be forced to kill Alby to save the galaxy. I was shocked. Mark McDonnal's choking out as Alby died was just...horrible.
In my theater days I used to say audio was the cheapest way to add production value, and take some real pride in some of my mixes - like the production of Dracula where they had me remix the SFX of the vampire brides feeding on an infant... Yup, I creeped out the director with the sound effect of an infant choking on its own blood when its throat was ripped out. And the horse in Henry V which caught the edge of an explosion and screamed until a knight put it out of its misery ten seconds later got two actresses to cry and one of them told me I was cruel. Yup, sound effects of non existent creatures got visceral emotional reactions. Good audio drama is just good drama. If those discs weren't still in a Cali storage unit I'd be uploading a couple of clips here. I have some sea battles I've mixed Red would have loved for Cutlass Tales. Oh, that poor bastard in the crow's nest when the main mast is blown out from under him...
The NPR radio version of Star Wars has a much better version of how Leia got the Death Star plans than Rogue One. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is superior in its radio incarnations to the books, TV show and movie.
I haven't caught up on Outlands tales yet, but they're in the queue, and I actually look forward to seeing what Cat brings to the table. She's a solid actor and I'm sure she'll add much to the story.
Yours,
IronMike
29-Sep-2022