Joining the Night Vale love

[telophase]

The Welcome to Night Vale podcast has been leaping up all over my f-list in the past few weeks, and I thought I'd just add my voice to the cries of "Listen to this! Listen to this now!"

Short version: it's a podcast that purports to be a newscast from the fictional desert town of Night Vale, where the weird and uncanny exist side-by-side with the residents. It's horror-like, but not especially scary. As someone else said, give it a few episodes: if I'd just listened to the first, I'd have been thrown off by the narrator's voice as I felt--at first--that it would have worked better with a more news-reporter sound instead of the Storytelling Voice that he employs, but within a few episodes they develop the character of the narrator, so he becomes Cecil, the news reporter at the community radio station, and I forgive him the voice because it's a community radio station and not, say, NPR. :D

kate_nepveu has a good, nonspoilery intro to the show.

Comments

[onthehill]

Thanks for the link! I've been pimping this to some friends, but I'm so lazy - it's much better to just point them to that post \o/

[telophase]

I"m glad she posted it, since I'd have ended up posting incoherent squee-age if I tried to explaoin it any further!

[lady-noremon.livejournal.com]

And Carlos with his perfect, perfect hair~

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes! XD

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

I feel like the community radio thing works with Cecil -- makes it okay that he is sometimes completely charmingly unprofessional and then it's that much more winning when he pulls it back together.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yeah--once I made the connection that this was community access radio, with the general level of amateurishness that implies, and Cecil's character started being developed, it worked ofr me. The first two episodes were rough going, though, as his voice was driving me nuts!