This is a little bit of a spoiler, but for some of your questions, skip to episode 25 (One Year Later).
Also, I'm usually bothered by people dying in droves (a certain major SF movie that came out this year pretty much ended with a city being leveled and yet nobody cared?!) but I think in Night Vale it's just... A thing? Like. I'm usually bothered by gore, but I still laugh at the Black Knight sketch from Monty Python because it's just so absurd? And that's Night Vale, I think - you have to leave your normal expectations behind, and just buy into the concept.
Alternatively! This is a headcanon I've seen floated around: there is no horror happening in Night Vale; Cecil is just a very bored community radio operator who makes shit up because he knows nobody is listening but it really amuses the people of his little town when he uses their names for his outrageous stories. So nobody's really dying - Cecil is just a fantastic storyteller making up stories about whatever crosses his mind.
I don't know - you'd think I'd be bothered by Night Vale but I love it to the point where I'm on my third listen of it, and I love the absurd sense of humor and the slowly building plot lines (there are a couple of things that keep appearing over and over again) and Cecil and also the fact that Cecil's crush on Carlos is totally canon and no big deal at all. ♥
If you haven't yet, I'd recommend "The Sandstorm" (parts A & B) for a bit of Night Vale Does Cool Plot, and 15, "Street Cleaning Day" for actual reactions to the horror (the last couple of minutes), and 13, "A Story About You" for a lot of weirdness and no deaths that I can remember (a distant explosion?) . But mostly - don't think too much about it because none of it makes sense. It's like following the Night Vale Twitter - little doses of lots of weirdness without actual resolution.
Otherwise - there's no rule saying you have to like it. If it's not your thing, it's not your thing. And that's okay too. ♥
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Date: 2013-08-17 08:40 pm (UTC)Also, I'm usually bothered by people dying in droves (a certain major SF movie that came out this year pretty much ended with a city being leveled and yet nobody cared?!) but I think in Night Vale it's just... A thing? Like. I'm usually bothered by gore, but I still laugh at the Black Knight sketch from Monty Python because it's just so absurd? And that's Night Vale, I think - you have to leave your normal expectations behind, and just buy into the concept.
Alternatively! This is a headcanon I've seen floated around: there is no horror happening in Night Vale; Cecil is just a very bored community radio operator who makes shit up because he knows nobody is listening but it really amuses the people of his little town when he uses their names for his outrageous stories. So nobody's really dying - Cecil is just a fantastic storyteller making up stories about whatever crosses his mind.
I don't know - you'd think I'd be bothered by Night Vale but I love it to the point where I'm on my third listen of it, and I love the absurd sense of humor and the slowly building plot lines (there are a couple of things that keep appearing over and over again) and Cecil and also the fact that Cecil's crush on Carlos is totally canon and no big deal at all. ♥
If you haven't yet, I'd recommend "The Sandstorm" (parts A & B) for a bit of Night Vale Does Cool Plot, and 15, "Street Cleaning Day" for actual reactions to the horror (the last couple of minutes), and 13, "A Story About You" for a lot of weirdness and no deaths that I can remember (a distant explosion?) . But mostly - don't think too much about it because none of it makes sense. It's like following the Night Vale Twitter - little doses of lots of weirdness without actual resolution.
Otherwise - there's no rule saying you have to like it. If it's not your thing, it's not your thing. And that's okay too. ♥