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Night Vale impressions
Sep. 12th, 2013 06:34 amOne of the people I follow on Tumblr listened to a bit (a few episodes) and found Night Vale seemed to her like a list of things that were weird, not an actual story.
I think that's not unreasonable as an impression to get.
I picture the narrative structure sort of like a large quilt made up of squares. Each square is a little vignette of weird. Mostly the squares are unique across the quilt. Some have a theme going.
Each episode is a separate quilt.
As time goes on, the squares that didn't seem connected to the others start to connect to themselves. If you were to line up pictures of that square across episodes, it too would start to animate.
Night Vale is not everyone's cup of tea and that's ok, but now I really want a Night Vale quilt.
I think that's not unreasonable as an impression to get.
I picture the narrative structure sort of like a large quilt made up of squares. Each square is a little vignette of weird. Mostly the squares are unique across the quilt. Some have a theme going.
Each episode is a separate quilt.
As time goes on, the squares that didn't seem connected to the others start to connect to themselves. If you were to line up pictures of that square across episodes, it too would start to animate.
Night Vale is not everyone's cup of tea and that's ok, but now I really want a Night Vale quilt.
