dreamrock wrote:The extra features don't bother me. I especially like History of Science Fiction and Jay Campanella's segments. But Tony meanders something fierce and even on my mp3 player's "fast mode," it's more than I can put up with on average. It's a case of a show that would clearly benefit from the Chapters function of M4A if my mp3 player supported M4As.
I very much agree with that statement, even thought about writing Tony about getting a format with chapters. The facts are:
A. SSS regularly runs top sci-fi stories by top-authors. That's not a 100% gaurantee for story success but it certainly keeps the odds high. The cast runs great stories much more often than not.
B. They get diverse readers who usually also do a kick ass job. Again, more often than not.
C. The episodes are long, the stories are long. Like Goldenrat says, this is good for people on trips or with long blocks of empty-- for me, I like short, for a multitude of reasons.
D. It is host heavy. Tony is someone I'd love to meet. He's a big fan of DC, he's stupendously nice, I always listen to his commentary. But most people I send his way aren't that into it and wanna get to the stories etc. A & B are +'s, C is subjective, D is subjective but can also be helped here w/o Tony changing his style, which many of us like.
It's extra work having chapters and the additional MP3 feed but I feel like we're in the same boat as Tony to some degree, and I don't want anyone to miss out on a good story by Krystine Rusch just because I insist on rapping about fastfood diarrhea beforehand.
