I really wonder why TMP is choosing to do the sound that way. No doubt some of it is because the sound folks are working with first-class headphones in quiet rooms, and are already familiar with the dialogue, so they're not noticing how incomprehensible they're making it. But are they not getting feedback from listeners, or are they ignoring it?
Anyway, I'll give it a while longer, as you recommend. I am enjoying it in a lot of ways, although I'm not particularly attached to any of the recurring characters yet.
And thanks for the good wishes re: covid. I'm as vaccinated as I could possibly be, so hopefully that will help.
ETA: I just listened to Protocol episode 9 and then read the transcript, and, wow. I knew some of the sound stuff had narrative implications (specifically, sounds being muffled because they're farther away from whatever's recording them), but I had no clue how much narrative work they're trying to do via sound alone. There was a lot I missed in that episode. Some of it could be me--I'm a words person, and so I tend to focus on that and not really pick up on much else--but I think they may also be being a bit too subtle for their own good. The whole final sequence had me going "I guess. . . there's somebody there?" and then in the transcript there's a trapdoor and a key and etc. etc.
It makes me sympathize more with the Malevolent podcast's decision to just narrate everything, even though I couldn't stand listening to it.
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Anyway, I'll give it a while longer, as you recommend. I am enjoying it in a lot of ways, although I'm not particularly attached to any of the recurring characters yet.
And thanks for the good wishes re: covid. I'm as vaccinated as I could possibly be, so hopefully that will help.
ETA: I just listened to Protocol episode 9 and then read the transcript, and, wow. I knew some of the sound stuff had narrative implications (specifically, sounds being muffled because they're farther away from whatever's recording them), but I had no clue how much narrative work they're trying to do via sound alone. There was a lot I missed in that episode. Some of it could be me--I'm a words person, and so I tend to focus on that and not really pick up on much else--but I think they may also be being a bit too subtle for their own good. The whole final sequence had me going "I guess. . . there's somebody there?" and then in the transcript there's a trapdoor and a key and etc. etc.
It makes me sympathize more with the Malevolent podcast's decision to just narrate everything, even though I couldn't stand listening to it.