Podcast: The Far Meridian
Jan. 6th, 2020 06:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flamebyrdThis podcast was recommended by auroracloud on the friending meme, and I was excited to check it out because I love lighthouses and it promised to be strange and thoughtful, so I was expecting something a bit like Tides.
In short, I enjoyed it, but it's more like Night Vale than Tides because it's unsettling and things are largely left unexplained. Also, a la this Tumblr post I came across while browsing for fan content, it has queer representation!
You can listen here: The Far Meridian @ The Whisperforge, or wherever you download podcasts.
Spoilers follow.
Somewhere around episode 1.08 the rising tension and creepiness was getting to me, so I decided to read some reviews to get a feel for the tone going forward. This also led me to the TV Tropes page, which I decided to read and not click on any spoiler tags.
Me: That's weird, Peri's brother's name isn't a spoiler.
Me: *clicks*
Me: ...Benny?
I then remembered that the podcast has a complete set of transcripts so I decided to abandon the search and just read the thing.
Me: Benny remembers his family and he has multiple siblings, so how can he be...
Me: When is this reveal coming, because so far it isn't making any sense at all...
Final episode of Season 2: *Ends*
Me: ...Benny is not Peri's brother, WTF?
So I ended the podcast more confused than anything, and it was not even the podcast's fault.
TV Tropes possibly-fake spoilers aside, I enjoyed it, and I think I will go back and listen to the rest of the episodes now that I know where things are going. It has some nice, complex relationships between characters, creative strangeness, and the finale was really neat. I'm looking forward to Season 3!
auroracloud on the friending meme, and I was excited to check it out because I love lighthouses and it promised to be strange and thoughtful, so I was expecting something a bit like Tides.In short, I enjoyed it, but it's more like Night Vale than Tides because it's unsettling and things are largely left unexplained. Also, a la this Tumblr post I came across while browsing for fan content, it has queer representation!
You can listen here: The Far Meridian @ The Whisperforge, or wherever you download podcasts.
Spoilers follow.
Somewhere around episode 1.08 the rising tension and creepiness was getting to me, so I decided to read some reviews to get a feel for the tone going forward. This also led me to the TV Tropes page, which I decided to read and not click on any spoiler tags.
Noodle Incident: How Peri's brother, _____ became missing is something of a mystery. Besides it having something to do with the Eldritch Location trope and that, whatever it was,something in it was "calling him home"
Me: That's weird, Peri's brother's name isn't a spoiler.
Me: *clicks*
Me: ...Benny?
I then remembered that the podcast has a complete set of transcripts so I decided to abandon the search and just read the thing.
Me: Benny remembers his family and he has multiple siblings, so how can he be...
Me: When is this reveal coming, because so far it isn't making any sense at all...
Final episode of Season 2: *Ends*
Me: ...Benny is not Peri's brother, WTF?
So I ended the podcast more confused than anything, and it was not even the podcast's fault.
TV Tropes possibly-fake spoilers aside, I enjoyed it, and I think I will go back and listen to the rest of the episodes now that I know where things are going. It has some nice, complex relationships between characters, creative strangeness, and the finale was really neat. I'm looking forward to Season 3!