Comments on: Episode 110: The Thing from the Sea

By: Smuggins

Smuggins — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 03:22:13 +0000

We gave this a Historically Sig rating just because of the story Eric wrote.

Can patreons be called Morls Support?

By: Patrick Monaghan

Patrick Monaghan — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 10:24:01 +0000

In reply to David Daley. Dude

By: Patrick Monaghan

Patrick Monaghan — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 10:22:34 +0000

Good god

By: David Daley

David Daley — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 08:16:22 +0000

Two major points here: 1) your overall dislike of the story was warranted for many reasons but the bashing expressed in your discussion was too ham-fisted to duly honour the aspects that worked. It was good to hear Joshua mention the surreal nature of the lack of character-driven reactions that Eric doesn’t like. The description of the horrible sea woman that was dreamt of was delightfully creepy and other-worldly. Ramping up criticism can diminish appreciation. 2) to measure any work on whether it “stands the test of time” can fail to appreciate the qualities and value old stories have that speak to the eras they came from. I presume you seek universal value in the stories as an english teacher looks for timeless values in Shakespeare, but sometimes your “test of time” judgements reads as reductionary as “once good/now bad”. Many things in OTR horror/strangeness have qualities that worked then but don’t work now and that’s not always a bad thing. To me it often provides much of the appeal of something old, like the relics buried in old cities that have been built overtop of, when they are discovered and examined they speak volumes to the era they’re from and have great value.

By: Bill Teeple

Bill Teeple — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 00:33:51 +0000

Kind of looks like King Moonracer from Rudolph. Come to think of it, having them wander onto the Island of Misfit Toys might have been a better story.

By: Susie

Susie — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:26:50 +0000

Actual story was dumb but commentary hilarious. One of my fave podcast episodes!

By: Dave Potts

Dave Potts — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 05:34:54 +0000

I was one of the people who voted for this one, so: You’re welcome. — No, actually, I’m so sorry. [Insert David Tennant GIF here.]

I was looking forward to this, because I was hoping for something as hilariously awful as “Spawn of the Sub-Human” and “The Demon Tree.” Instead, this one was just really, really poor.

By: David Feldmann

David Feldmann — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 02:23:26 +0000

That was pretty awful. Colleen and I were pulling for The Mysterious Traveler but at least with this one I got to hear Tim allude to my favorite HPL story, “The Whisperer In Darkness.”