New Buffyverse series on Audible with a focus on Spike

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Dracula said:
It's not a book. It's like a TV show - just without images.

The first Buffyverse season that you can legally fully "watch" while driving a car.
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I have been listening to some Doctor Who audios and I actually like this genre! I think it will be fun! And hopefully it goes well and we get a second season—or animated series!!
 
Skanky Vamp said:
So if you are paying for the whole thing/book why is it being distributed in episodes? Is it cooler? or easier to consume? It would irk me. Do the other ones do it the same way?
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It doesn't say anything on Audible UK about episodes - just this:
PLEASE NOTE the word "Audiobook" (those who keep telling me "it's not a book").

Dracula said:
It's not a book. It's like a TV show - just without images.
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Oh...like radio? 😏

This is what it says for Sandman (Act.1):
I've also got Acts 2&3 - 2 is almost 14 hours. 3 is slightly longer than 1. IIRC (and it's a big "if") Book 1 (Act 1) = Absolute Sandman Vol.1. = 1-20 of the original comics.

And I've got Alan Moores' Jerusalem. But that's narration of an original book (not performance; not Audible Original). It's 60 hrs 43.
The point I'm making is - these were originally very big texts and were never chopped down to "episodes" - and they were all 1 Credit (£7.99). If BtVS is "Episodic" it could be in the same way Sandman is episodic. If, OTOH, it's released in hour long chunks and it's priced as 1 credit...well - all I can say is fools and their money are easily parted.
 
Skanky Vamp
Skanky Vamp
It did say somewhere about there being multiple parts to it.
If the length is anything like the 11 hours listed for The Sandman, perhaps I won't just listen to it in the car! I'm not spending that sort of time driving at the moment.
 
TriBel
TriBel
I listened to it while out walking during lock-down - which is a contradiction in terms. :D It was great - hot weather; minimum traffic and just a few people walking dogs.
NotASlayer said:
If the length is anything like the 11 hours listed for The Sandman, perhaps I won't just listen to it in the car! I'm not spending that sort of time driving at the moment.
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I've read somewhere it's supposed to be 9 hours that are essentially episodic installments. So 1 hour or so for each "ep".

I think it's technically an audiobook by classification on audible but it's going to be more a radio play sort of thing. We'll have to wait and see. I think it'll be like listening to audio of the show, but instead of seeing someone punch someone else, the narrator will say so'n'so punched so'n'so. Which is, arguably, just a book read aloud.
 
NotASlayer said:
If the length is anything like the 11 hours listed for The Sandman, perhaps I won't just listen to it in the car! I'm not spending that sort of time driving at the moment.
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That's a week going to and fro work for me. Maybe I should investigate audio thing/books.
 
NotASlayer
NotASlayer
When I was doing more driving, I used to listen to a lot of audio in the car, rather than the radio.
Btvs fan said:
Agreed the pre Disney Starwars stuff is legendary and pretty timeless.
It's why people still watch Disney Starwars, even though it's terrible, and it's blatant they've milked it to death because of the vague hope that Timeless Quality of what came before will come back.
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I think those fans are either too gullible or hoping in vain. More likely, Disney's strategy is to appeal to casual Star Wars fans or moviegoers. I know I personally have not watched any of Disney's Star Wars since the first one, "The Force Awakens," by J.J. Abrams, which was such a lazy re-tread of Episode IV without any substance or logic to it. I was calling it out back when that was still very popular and I was in an extreme minority. But by the next movie in the trilogy, most people had come to realize they had been duped.

It's just nostalgia-bait. Nobody really needs or cares for a Boba Fett tv show or a Obi-Wan tv show, if you think about it. Realistically speaking, there's more potential for something cool to happen in an original character who isn't bound by what has already been written into the canon. The writers have more freedom to do something original and compelling. With Obi-Wan, yes, people who hear the name and don't think about it get excited, but it's totally obvious there's not much of substance in that setting. We know how he got there (Clone Wars/prequels) and we know where he's going (Ep IV and Force Ghost) and now he's just stuck in a desert as a weird old hermit hoping to avoid the eyes of the Empire, look over Luke, and perhaps do some jedi training with Qui-Gon's ghost. Doesn't really sound like compelling tv.

And also writers today can't write. A lot of them, anyway.

But Hollywood of the last decade, perhaps more, is a totally risk-free environment of milking established IPs on brand name alone, and the general movie-going audience falls for it every single time. It is very rare for a revival or a reboot to live up to the magic of the original, yet somehow people still flock in droves to anything with brand name.

I mean a Super Mario movie? The video game that is famously all game and no story? I didn't even know there was one previously in the 90s, but apparently they had to take a lot of creative liberties to make it work for a movie. The new one is just videogame cutscenes, from what I can gather. Doesn't make any sense as a movie. Makes perfect sense as a business movie to profit off of brand name recognition.

It gets so ridiculous that the best picture of the year in sales is Barbie. Wtf? There's even a Hot Cheetos movie?

You'd think they're scraping the bottom of the barrel by this point.

On a more optimistic note, I highly recommend the recent Star Wars video game from a few years back, Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order. It's not just the best thing to come out of the franchise since the Clone Wars tv show, but it actually is genuinely great in its own right, both as a game and a movie. Something that feels like it's from the "pre-Disney" era. I think the sequel to it came out earlier this year but I haven't tried it yet. There's also another game called Star Wars: Outlaws from Ubisoft set to come out soon that looks very promising.
 
Andor and Ahsoka are both top tier television.

The Mandalorian seasons 1 and 2 were pretty decent, season 3 wasn't.

The Book of Boba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi were straight up trash.

As far as animation goes Clone Wars, Rebels, Tales of the Jedi, and the Bad Batch are all really, really good too.

The movies are pretty staggeringly bad, though. Rogue One was pretty good and Solo was passable I guess, but the prequels and the sequels are all awful.
 
famicommander said:
Andor and Ahsoka are both top tier television.

The Mandalorian seasons 1 and 2 were pretty decent, season 3 wasn't.

The Book of Boba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi were straight up trash.

As far as animation goes Clone Wars, Rebels, Tales of the Jedi, and the Bad Batch are all really, really good too.

The movies are pretty staggeringly bad, though. Rogue One was pretty good and Solo was passable I guess, but the prequels and the sequels are all awful.
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Ahsoka is not top tier television not by any stretch and trust me they stretch things out a lot on this show. Filoni is a hack writer whose claimed credit for other people's achievements.
It's nostalgia bait and side quests and nothing makes the slightest sense once you give it a seconds thought.
 
Btvs fan said:
Ahsoka is not top tier television not by any stretch and trust me they stretch things out a lot on this show. Filoni is a hack writer whose claimed credit for other people's achievements.
It's nostalgia bait and side quests and nothing makes the slightest sense once you give it a seconds thought.
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I strongly disagree. The show is essentially Rebels season 5 and it makes perfect sense.
 
alrightwithmoo said:
I've read somewhere it's supposed to be 9 hours that are essentially episodic installments. So 1 hour or so for each "ep".

I think it's technically an audiobook by classification on audible but it's going to be more a radio play sort of thing. We'll have to wait and see. I think it'll be like listening to audio of the show, but instead of seeing someone punch someone else, the narrator will say so'n'so punched so'n'so. Which is, arguably, just a book read aloud.
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I could see a couple of ways they might do this. A narrator saying most of what happened, with the actors speaking the lines. Or something with full-on sound effects, as well as narration.
 
NotASlayer said:
I could see a couple of ways they might do this. A narrator saying most of what happened, with the actors speaking the lines. Or something with full-on sound effects, as well as narration.
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The Doctor Who audio stories are like listening to an episode without seeing the action. There’s no narration, it’s just the voices and sound effects. You can hear struggles, and no one is narrating them. Your mind imagines what is happening.
 
NotASlayer
NotASlayer
It's been a while since I've listened to anything audio-wise that wasn't factual in nature.
Skanky Vamp said:
That's a week going to and fro work for me. Maybe I should investigate audio thing/books.
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Most of my friends changed to audio thing/books a few years back. I use public transport more than the car and it's great for that. That said, I have some old skool CD audiobooks/radio productions in the car.
NotASlayer said:
I could see a couple of ways they might do this. A narrator saying most of what happened, with the actors speaking the lines. Or something with full-on sound effects, as well as narration.
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I've heard both. Sandman is b). Gaiman sets the scene and interjects if there's a drastic shift. It works really well. However, Gaiman adapted his work for Sandman and he's integrated the narration. His interjections are often based on notes he gave the artists and he's working with the award winning Dirk Maggs (who conjured the term "Audio Movies" and is renowned for his adaptations of Batman etc.). I think much of the success of BtVS will rest with the production team.
 
TriBel said:
Most of my friends changed to audio thing/books a few years back.
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But I like to zone out and not pay attention when I am driving. I don't know how easy that would be to do with an audiobook. Would feel like I would actually have to listen and pay attention.
 
NotASlayer
NotASlayer
I've managed it, but it's certainly easier on motorway journeys than urban driving.
Just one week to go until the 13th season (with the real actors) in the Buffyverse.
 
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