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and now, the funny dystopia
Mar. 23rd, 2020 09:13 pmI've started listening to Stellar Firma, a Rusty Quill sf/comedy-ish series starring Ben Meredith (the voice of Elias on The Magnus Archives, and Zolf and Grizzop and the archaeologist guy on RQG) and his brother Tim Meredith. I wasn't expecting to like it, because I didn't find the trailer funny at all, but I like it a lot.
A little background for those who haven't listened to it: the titular Stellar Firma is a custom planet-making company serving the galactic .01%. Some hundreds of years before our story begins, it happened to rescue the human survivors of environmental disaster on earth, and their descendants are its "citizen employees." One of them is Trexel Geistman (Tim), who designs planets. Badly. Trexel has a clone assistant, David 7 (Ben). Rounding out the cast, at least thus far, are Imogen Harris as I.M.O.G.E.N. the supercomputer and Jenny Haufek as Trexel's line manager, Hartro Piltz.
The show is semi-improvised: listeners submit prompts for planets and each episode Trexel and David design one, more or less, and hope to avoid the wrath of Hartro Piltz.
So far, it's like the darker bits of Red Dwarf crossed with the darker bits of Blackadder crossed with the workplace-dark-comedy bits of The Magnus Archives. It is, you might have guessed, dark, and it is generally very funny.
Content warnings: (ALMOST) ALL THE CONTENT WARNINGS. Seriously. A list for the first thirteen episodes under the first cut ( here )
Pretty much all of this awful stuff is, in context, funny and very much not funny at the same time.
( Some thoughts under the cut, spoilery for character development and backstory, through episode 13, and also spoilery for Rusty Quill Gaming )
Moving on to The Magnus Archives: the S5 trailer is supposed to drop today, and the first episode of S5 will still release on April 2 (April 1st if you're a Patreon supporter, as I am). *bounces with excitement and terror*
I keep thinking about ( a thing that is HUGELY spoilery for character stuff through the end of S4, so avoid if you haven't listened that far )
A little background for those who haven't listened to it: the titular Stellar Firma is a custom planet-making company serving the galactic .01%. Some hundreds of years before our story begins, it happened to rescue the human survivors of environmental disaster on earth, and their descendants are its "citizen employees." One of them is Trexel Geistman (Tim), who designs planets. Badly. Trexel has a clone assistant, David 7 (Ben). Rounding out the cast, at least thus far, are Imogen Harris as I.M.O.G.E.N. the supercomputer and Jenny Haufek as Trexel's line manager, Hartro Piltz.
The show is semi-improvised: listeners submit prompts for planets and each episode Trexel and David design one, more or less, and hope to avoid the wrath of Hartro Piltz.
So far, it's like the darker bits of Red Dwarf crossed with the darker bits of Blackadder crossed with the workplace-dark-comedy bits of The Magnus Archives. It is, you might have guessed, dark, and it is generally very funny.
Content warnings: (ALMOST) ALL THE CONTENT WARNINGS. Seriously. A list for the first thirteen episodes under the first cut ( here )
Pretty much all of this awful stuff is, in context, funny and very much not funny at the same time.
( Some thoughts under the cut, spoilery for character development and backstory, through episode 13, and also spoilery for Rusty Quill Gaming )
Moving on to The Magnus Archives: the S5 trailer is supposed to drop today, and the first episode of S5 will still release on April 2 (April 1st if you're a Patreon supporter, as I am). *bounces with excitement and terror*
I keep thinking about ( a thing that is HUGELY spoilery for character stuff through the end of S4, so avoid if you haven't listened that far )
