Post by pinkhamster on Mar 17, 2011 1:46:37 GMT -5
Just wanted to drop a line and say that I was really impressed by the "Googies" preview posted recently.
To be honest, I have been struggling with HG World in the last episodes because the show is so expansive in scope in terms of the ambitious number of characters and locations and the time frame of the story has taken jumps in the chronology at times. It's hard for me to keep track of some of of these shifts in an audio drama format, where there are fewer queues for indicating shifts of time, place, and reality, than in a visual medium. The example that comes to mind most was the fantasy sequence with McInnes imagining himself piloting a jet and bailing out and then singing a song. This sequence occurred shortly after the story had taken a major jump in time (from the time when McInnes was at war with these people to him being their ally) and for me it was too jarring of a shift to be getting a fantasy sequence that wasn't really happening on top of the already disconcerting dislocation of characters and their relationships. Just my opinion, of course. For me my feeling of relationship with the story was severed a bit at this point.
In that context, it would seem strange that I'm praising a story which is yet another large leap forward in the HG World chronology. But for me this really worked because all of the complications of the existing storylines were set aside and everything was reduced down to one man telling a story, and that story was very effective in writing, acting, and audio presentation. Basically it worked in every regard for me and I thought it was excellent.
Hope my thoughts in the second paragraph above aren't offensive, just offering my point of view, not suggesting it's the correct one, and as always I remain impressed with the ambition and scale of this project and the amount of work that's been put in.
I guess this message may not even be read because I take it that all of the discussion of this show has moved to Facebook and Second Life given the lack of posts in several months here. I used this forum to post these thoughts rather than Facebook as I noticed that the Facebook forum is set in such a way that all comments there are archived by Google, and I didn't like having to think about my words being archived for the public record under my own name when I was joining in the discussion on that page. Second Life doesn't really float my boat either, so thought I would post here and hope the thoughts are discovered eventually. (Maybe it doesn't matter if they aren't!)
Keep up the good work...
To be honest, I have been struggling with HG World in the last episodes because the show is so expansive in scope in terms of the ambitious number of characters and locations and the time frame of the story has taken jumps in the chronology at times. It's hard for me to keep track of some of of these shifts in an audio drama format, where there are fewer queues for indicating shifts of time, place, and reality, than in a visual medium. The example that comes to mind most was the fantasy sequence with McInnes imagining himself piloting a jet and bailing out and then singing a song. This sequence occurred shortly after the story had taken a major jump in time (from the time when McInnes was at war with these people to him being their ally) and for me it was too jarring of a shift to be getting a fantasy sequence that wasn't really happening on top of the already disconcerting dislocation of characters and their relationships. Just my opinion, of course. For me my feeling of relationship with the story was severed a bit at this point.
In that context, it would seem strange that I'm praising a story which is yet another large leap forward in the HG World chronology. But for me this really worked because all of the complications of the existing storylines were set aside and everything was reduced down to one man telling a story, and that story was very effective in writing, acting, and audio presentation. Basically it worked in every regard for me and I thought it was excellent.
Hope my thoughts in the second paragraph above aren't offensive, just offering my point of view, not suggesting it's the correct one, and as always I remain impressed with the ambition and scale of this project and the amount of work that's been put in.
I guess this message may not even be read because I take it that all of the discussion of this show has moved to Facebook and Second Life given the lack of posts in several months here. I used this forum to post these thoughts rather than Facebook as I noticed that the Facebook forum is set in such a way that all comments there are archived by Google, and I didn't like having to think about my words being archived for the public record under my own name when I was joining in the discussion on that page. Second Life doesn't really float my boat either, so thought I would post here and hope the thoughts are discovered eventually. (Maybe it doesn't matter if they aren't!)
Keep up the good work...