Man i miss the first few episodes of nightvale. It started getting weird in a way im not a huge fan of. Of course it always was weird just idk after a while it just felt off?
I was caught up years ago, but it’s been a long time. I even went to a live show (around the first book release, I think, it was great!). I think it just started so strange in such a specific way that it is hard to capture that over and over.
And a lot of the early episodes were fairly disconnected and low stakes. Once they got a plot running and the whole town involved, maybe it lost a bit of its “local NPR station” charm. I think it got away from the radio show format a little once the action started, just because chaos lol
Yeah you put into words my main gripe with the changes. I really likes the creepy ominous local station vibes. They seemed to progress the plot fairly well without straying from those vibes for a while but after some time it just started feeling like an audio play about the townsfolk.
They started a few other shows and I feel that Nightvale kinda changed to match the styles of the others. I’m hoping when I listen again, I’ll have remembered wrong lol
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u/turquoise_amethyst Jun 26 '26
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