DERELICT

This is the best audio drama I’ve ever listened to. Fans of “We’re Alive” will love this.

I was so loving it, the depth of the characters is dizzying, they’re all so well written… there is a problem hearing dialogue at times in action scenes, a lot of background noise, but they’re working on fixing that… then in “my pain, your pain” someone said “eck cetera” and I lost faith. It’s all well and good to write 17 white-hot geniuses figuring each other out against certifiably insane computers but when you mispronounce something so basic, I remember you’re an actor and your whole job is saying things convincingly. And then I think of how mistakes proliferate and how we have real AI actively making people more stupid already, auto-mistaking things, and oh look, I’m pulled out of the story. If you can get over things like that, it’s great, but I’m already angry that we have succeeded in making intelligence uncool, so I wish people cared that it is “et cetera,” and that “et” means “and” and led to the creation of the ampersand, which is itself a misunderstanding of “and, per se and” and don’t get me started on “per say…” Language is cool. Getting it right can be even cooler. But the characters really are fantastic. The writing is better than most “good” books. Just…fix that one.

If this were a TV show, I’d have the subtitles on because the sound effects drown out a lot of text. Cool story for the 15 mins I could stand, but sadly unlistenable as a podcast.

I have spent the last 2 days listening to the first season and since the first minute, I’ve felt like I’m watching a fantastic show. The sound effects and voice actors are incredible and it is so well done. I have already pledged for the next season so we all get to hear the ending!!!

I’m trying to enjoy the storyline, but the sound effects and voice distortions are way overdone. Can barely understand the actual words. Almost like the sound effects guy really wants to steal the show.