Obdigore, on 04 May 2015 - 10:40 PM, said:
First, did you vote in your own poll?
Second, who are you and why should I care about your opinion on this series?
Third, have you done any other work I might have heard of, or is this 'just a couple of people who want to talk about GOTM and made a podcast'?
Fourth, there is no four, but here it is.
Hi I'm Adam the co-host
1. Nope
2. We're nobodies, care or don't care it's up to you, we noticed that there was a dearth of Malazan podcasts (as in literally zero as far as I can tell, and I looked
really hard) and being bid podcast fans we decided to try and do one ourselves.
3. It's #2 although we don't want to just talk about GotM we want to talk about all of Malazan
4. Hope I answered your questions in a satisfactory manner.
worry, on 05 May 2015 - 04:13 AM, said:
I listened to it. Probably better for people who haven't discussed the books to death on this board (at least so early in the series) since it's largely recap and highlights. Best parts are the "things I didn't notice on the first read" which are naturally appealing in the same way Easter Eggs are. If you pick out some more thematic stuff as you go along, like the Tor reread does, that'll probably make it well worth listening to. I know you want to cast as wide a listener net as possible, but making it "first-time reader" friendly may be tying your hands. I dunno. I guess what I'd suggest if you keep that up is to take notes so you can make call-backs to the setups for payoffs that come rolling in eventually.
Yes the spoiler scope was something we struggled with, but one thing that we really noticed on the malazan subreddit is the number of "just started reading the series" type posts and we wanted to make something that all members of the community could enjoy on some level whether they have just picked up the first book or are on their 5th reread. I think we toed a fine line in talking about stuff that doesn't seem important at the time but later on becomes important in hindsight, like Rigga's kick ass speech to Sorry. Hopefully we can successfully make the podcast interesting to old and new alike, but yeah part of me just wants to do something like 'History of Westeros' where spoilers are abundant and they discuss theme's or a characters whole arc throughout the series.
Egwene, on 06 May 2015 - 09:49 AM, said:
Dadding, on 06 May 2015 - 03:19 AM, said:
Obdigore, on 04 May 2015 - 10:40 PM, said:
Second, who are you and why should I care about your opinion on this series?
I don't want to be overly confrontational here, but isn't this forum designed for people with similar interests (namely this series) to get together and share their thoughts and feelings? Shouldn't newcomers be just as welcome as the Old Guard so-to-speak, because of the potential novel ideas they can bring to these discussions?
I'm glad you folks at Malazan FM have put your interests -interests we all share- into creating something, it's people like you that bring life to the series outside of the books themselves.
That being said, if you're just here to "pimp your website" and not contribute to the discussion, I can see where these feelings come from.
I think Obdigore really wanted to make the point that it would have been nice if OP had first said 'hello' and introduced themselves rather than going straight into an advert for their podcast, however topic related it might be.
As you said, Dadding, we'll find out soon enough if there is any interest in interaction or if it is just one-way advertising.
It's a valid concern, the Malazan community I'm active on is reddit, I was put onto the series by recommendation threads on /r/fantasy while slowly going insane from waiting for GRRM to finally finish his next book and I was lucky to discover what is in my opinion an even better series (with an ending and everthing!). Before we decided to do the podcast I made an account to check the podcasts section on this board to see if there were any out there and since there are none and I could see that people on here were at least interested in the idea it seemed like a good idea to let you guys know that we now exist. No harm intended and we have no sponsors/patreon/etc so we are not spamming the board out of greed but rather a desire to share our enjoyment of the series with this community and get some feedback - the feedback is really important, we don't want to waste our time making something that everybody hates. I was thinking we might drop a post once a fortnight when the episodes come out to discuss it, and probably dip into other threads from time to time, but if that's not cool then I understand.
edit: It strikes me that this post might have been better placed in the podcast subforum, so apologies for that.
This post has been edited by Fnarley: 14 May 2015 - 08:13 PM
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