Station Eleven on OTC
Was super excited to see an OTC for Station Eleven but gee what a let down.
Perhaps I am biased because I absolutely love the show, the characters and acting, themes, back and forth integrated story arcs and general story telling, non conventional format.
The first 5-10 mins of OTC was comparing S11 to The Leftovers. I get people have compared the two but thought this podcast was about S11, not why The Leftovers is so much better. Would have preferred a discussion on this show.
Loving Amanda Whiting’s Vulture episode recaps and The Watch podcast episode deep dives on the themes and characters as a companion piece (would highly recommend both to those peeps that are into this show) so was hoping for move of the same on OTC rather than dismissing anything about the actual show and nit picking on semantics like background detail on how do people feed themselves and why isn’t there more world building.
First podcast in 5-6 years I had to turn off half way through. Maybe I’m in too deep on this show / just my opinion.
Perhaps I am biased because I absolutely love the show, the characters and acting, themes, back and forth integrated story arcs and general story telling, non conventional format.
The first 5-10 mins of OTC was comparing S11 to The Leftovers. I get people have compared the two but thought this podcast was about S11, not why The Leftovers is so much better. Would have preferred a discussion on this show.
Loving Amanda Whiting’s Vulture episode recaps and The Watch podcast episode deep dives on the themes and characters as a companion piece (would highly recommend both to those peeps that are into this show) so was hoping for move of the same on OTC rather than dismissing anything about the actual show and nit picking on semantics like background detail on how do people feed themselves and why isn’t there more world building.
First podcast in 5-6 years I had to turn off half way through. Maybe I’m in too deep on this show / just my opinion.
Comments
I think my big bone of contention - and Aron acknowledges this - is that I think the show isn't concerned with the same things he is. I'm interested in the details it reveals about the fall of civilization or even some of the plot points, but it's not a big deal with this particular show. If you say Kirsten can take out 5 meth-heads, I'll go with it. If you say nobody saw their apartment from outside or didn't care to go raid it, I'll buy that too. Tyler somehow survives on his own - same. In Walking Dead that stuff drove me nuts because nothing about it was as interesting as this show.
Following from that, I think the time jumps are fine because this isn't a show that (imo) is trying to hide things from you, but trying to find the best way to introduce you to characters and let you know more about them as you go. It's also not like Lost which is deliberately asking you to ask plot questions and how things happened, and then pulling back in the final season and being like "sorry this is about the characters". I don't know that I'd be interested in seeing those scenes with Clark and Arthur and Miranda without the modern day context. Clark especially.
I think Jeevan goes onstage out of an urge to help and that's all you need to know about him. To me the idea of him being a paramedic and not having supplies is interesting for an episode of E/R or something like that, but wouldn't work here. Or it would be a different vibe. I saw it as an early clue the kind of person he is. It's why you buy that he cares about Kirsten enough to stay with her.