I think the most recent (Ambuscade) episode hit something of a breaking point. According to Reddit, at least, even some of the people involved in the growing RP feel it's getting out of hand. Particularly the long paragraph by Princess Cool, which appears to have gone into a lot of stuff that was just contained in a Reddit thread.
I'm all for the RP and I think it's fun, but I think it should be more or less self-contained to what's in the podcast. I don't want to have to do a bunch of homework reading reddit to get the cavalcade of injokes that are spawning.
Sounds like I need to send in a letter to the editor to express concerns about it. Anyone know the best way to reach Trevor?
Joking aside, the Ambuscade episode is the first time I’ve seriously considered skipping to the future section (knowing I might miss some cool history or lore) when I heard the phrase “two page letter” and it was followed by Adam making the joke about “Guess we get to deal with another one of these” in the Slaughterhouse Six episode.
I’m all for people having fun, but when it possibly goes to the expense of other people’s enjoyment, it’s time to at least reel it back a little.
Yeah, while ironically the original RPing Cult of Gloom folks kept it mostly to the usual light touch levels, everyone else started getting into a little bit of secondhand cringe territory for me. And I say this as someone who used to be enjoying the whole deal when it was a little less overdone.
I agree, it's getting a bit much. A quick introduction, limerick, or silly accent is one thing. Paragraphs of this stuff is really distracting. Some of this is basically fan fiction, and some of it, like Princess Cool's last letter, isn't even fan fiction about Sentinels.
I agree, it's getting to be that I dread the questions section because I know the kernels of actual information will be packed in so many layers of useless fluff.
That first one nearly ended me. It was amazing and easily the best thing to come out of the meta-meta-whatever is going on.
I'll echo other comments - I enjoyed things like the writing in the voice of the Cult of Gloom because (A) it's relevant to Sentinels and (B) it was mostly self-contained. Building up a history of the interactions between letter writers isn't a good thing for people who aren't involved in every facet of online discussion or who just want to pick up an episode here or there on their favorite characters. I feel like the whole thing has gotten way out of hand and it detracted from my enjoyment of the Haka and Ambuscade episodes.
I tried for 2 hours to say this with a limerick, but alas, I have not the skill of Arcanist Lupus Also, blah blah blah, everyone else is pretty right, come on, Princess Cool. A little much (not angry, just everyone else here have a good point.)
FWIW, Princess Cool already promised to, er, cool off a bit on Reddit. I don't want to discourage her too much; I need her to ask all the shipping questions so I don't have to.
Not complaining (as I haven't even gotten to the questions section), but if they were looking to trim something off a three hour podcast, Powerhound has claimed that they've edited parts out of his letters before.
And yet there was like, maybe two Biomancer clones, and they were hilarious, and even a letter distinctly not about meta-plot! Christopher and Adam will fill up podcasts with more lore than we can give them roleplaying!
