Comments on: Episode 223: Who Goes There?

By: Smuggins

Smuggins — Thu, 26 May 2022 01:37:52 +0000

I had this moment of “they must have talked about this episode before, ’cause I really remember this title,” but then my brain caught up and was like “no, you watch one of the adaptions annually!! You love this story!” Great version of “Who Goes There?” I will look this up every Halloween going forward and add to my spooky consumption.

By: Doug

Doug — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 17:03:09 +0000

Edge of my seat the whole time.

By: James d Birch

James d Birch — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 01:56:50 +0000

Best. Episode. EVER! …If not for the show, for the commentary. It was so great to hear Eric so happy about a show – and especially one based on a movie I love, which he’d never seen! Eric, PLEASE, ya gotta watch the movie (I’m partial to the John Carpenter version). It’s got Wilford Brimley!!! (That ought to seal the deal right there.) It’s awesome and has all the chaotic and thrilling elements you enjoyed in this radio presentation. Yes, there’s some gore, but it’s worth it to sit on the edge of your seat as the paranoia unfolds! I’m beggin’ ya – go watch it!

By: David Daley

David Daley — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 07:06:43 +0000

Spoiler Alert! This was great to listen to and quite enjoyable. To Joshua’s point about the action scenes being confusing: I wasn’t clear why the last two fellows burned the guy in the shed. I thought they were going to administer the test to him. They were talking with him through the door about the test and then they were crashing the wall down and setting the building on fire. Eric why weren’t you complaining about the inconclusive ending this time? It worked, but like Eric often says these ambivalent endings can feel incomplete at times and for me it did here despite being *very* good overall.

By: David Thiel

David Thiel — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 21:47:17 +0000

I enjoyed this a great deal. It does a great job of packing the entire novella into a half hour.

As you note, the original story as written ends with humanity saved by a close call, when the alien is torched just as it prepares to use the anti-gravity harness it’s been tinkering together to escape to the outside world. This adaptation definitely appears to be drawing from the final scene of the 1982 film.

By: David Thiel

David Thiel — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 21:42:13 +0000

In reply to Eric. Seconded. It’s “Doctor Who” does “The Twilight Zone.” There are two Tom Baker stories that draw heavily on “Who Goes There?” “The Horror of Fang Rock” is about a shape-shifting alien blob lurking amongst a small group of survivors trapped in a lighthouse. And “The Seeds of Doom” pretty much rips off the 1951 “Thing” for its first two episodes, with alien seed pods found in the Antarctic permafrost and defrosted at an isolated research base.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 14:22:43 +0000

You were speaking about dr who you should watch the episode titled “midnight” it is legitimately frightening like this episode with the idea of unseen horror.