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I am so obsessed with this show. It continues to have great and very likable characters, a compelling story, and tons of wilderness survival and heroism and creeping dread.
Season three launches with a new set of characters exploring a different area. This team is also international, but with a quite different character and mission. They're academics plus one guide tasked with exploring a remote area of Patagonia where some strange glyphs have been found, in order to do an archaeological survey and also see if it's suitable for tourism. There's two Spanish-speaking professors and two grad students, Eva and Simon. Eva is fluent in Spanish, Simon is hilariously not. There's also a linguistics professor from China who thinks a recently discovered site in China may be relevant; everyone else seems to think she's a brilliant crackpot.
At this point I realized that her Chinese site is covered in one of the bonus episodes, Imperial, and backtracked to listen to that. Afterwards I understood why everyone who gets her report on the Chinese site thinks it's a hoax.
Similarly to season one, it took me a couple episodes to get into this, though for a different reason. There's a wind effect in I think episodes 2-3 or so that makes it very difficult to understand what people are saying when they're shouting over the wind. Thankfully that goes away soon.
This season has an interesting set of challenges that I thought were handled very well. Unlike seasons 1-2, at this point the listeners know much more than the characters. There's much more of a "No! Don't go in the cave! Don't touch the statues!" vibe, because we already know something about their discoveries based on similar ones made in the earlier seasons by different characters. (The Patagonia characters don't know about the Svalbard characters.)
But what you gain in dramatic irony, you lose in freshness. We already know what the heartbeat means, and that the statues move. This season introduces some new bits of creepiness to preserve the element of surprise and the unknown, most prominently bugs. FUCKING BUGS.
Then episode five has a reveal that literally made me scream aloud. (With glee, not terror). It was all up from there, though all down for the characters.
SO EXCITED for season four. Consulting with the timeline, I will listen to the bonus episode Iluka first.
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Season three launches with a new set of characters exploring a different area. This team is also international, but with a quite different character and mission. They're academics plus one guide tasked with exploring a remote area of Patagonia where some strange glyphs have been found, in order to do an archaeological survey and also see if it's suitable for tourism. There's two Spanish-speaking professors and two grad students, Eva and Simon. Eva is fluent in Spanish, Simon is hilariously not. There's also a linguistics professor from China who thinks a recently discovered site in China may be relevant; everyone else seems to think she's a brilliant crackpot.
At this point I realized that her Chinese site is covered in one of the bonus episodes, Imperial, and backtracked to listen to that. Afterwards I understood why everyone who gets her report on the Chinese site thinks it's a hoax.
Similarly to season one, it took me a couple episodes to get into this, though for a different reason. There's a wind effect in I think episodes 2-3 or so that makes it very difficult to understand what people are saying when they're shouting over the wind. Thankfully that goes away soon.
This season has an interesting set of challenges that I thought were handled very well. Unlike seasons 1-2, at this point the listeners know much more than the characters. There's much more of a "No! Don't go in the cave! Don't touch the statues!" vibe, because we already know something about their discoveries based on similar ones made in the earlier seasons by different characters. (The Patagonia characters don't know about the Svalbard characters.)
But what you gain in dramatic irony, you lose in freshness. We already know what the heartbeat means, and that the statues move. This season introduces some new bits of creepiness to preserve the element of surprise and the unknown, most prominently bugs. FUCKING BUGS.
Then episode five has a reveal that literally made me scream aloud. (With glee, not terror). It was all up from there, though all down for the characters.
SO EXCITED for season four. Consulting with the timeline, I will listen to the bonus episode Iluka first.
( Read more... )
