Fiction · Audacious Machine Creative
by Audacious Machine Creative
Adam Blackwell and Amy Stirling met as graduate students in anthropology, both obsessed with studying the same dead language and long-lost culture. Their relationship was always... complicated. They were bitter rivals, ideological opposites, and even went out on a date once - though they’d really prefer if everyone forgot about that last thing, thank you very much. Then, they became the first two people in thousands of years capable of doing magic. Over the next five years, they became global superstars, both revered and feared. Their powers led to a tragedy unlike any the world had seen before. Now, the world's first two magicians of the modern age must figure out the truth of their power, its consequences, and their relationship with one another before they do more damage to the world. The Harbingers is a new fiction podcast created by Gabriel Urbina, directed and sound designed by Jeffrey Nils Gardner. From Audacious Machine Creative.
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Do I love the shade thrown at the current administration? Yes. But I also loved that this urban fantasy tackled the politics and power that wpuld get swept up in the fantasy. Characters are fun if you need some escapism from current events and daydream of a better tomorrow. The plot definitely got me hooked and wanting to uncover the Event for sure.
Listen from the start. It’s a twisty, intricate, complex story with complex characters who aren’t always likeable, but are always interesting. You do have to be able to follow nonlinear storytelling in order to follow the plot. I suspect some of the low ratings were due to the raters being unable to follow along.
I find myself thinking so much more about this show than I expected. It’s a good listen and I appreciate that the main characters are both kind of unlikeable; that makes the stakes more important and realistic, somehow.
I’m enjoying the show! But at times the background music is too over bearing, I’d rather the writing tell me how to feel than the loud background music to tell me it’s an uplifting moment. The folly with other sound effects is also at times too prominent. Otherwise thoroughly loving the story
Honestly, it’s not the worst series, but I listen to it as white noise, and so far there are zero likable characters in the entire series, it’s honestly sad, it’s hard to feel for the story and get into it, when everybody is horrible. The timeline and order of events is also confusing, and it’s difficult to follow the plot when everything is jumping around to the past, the present, etc., and on top of all of that there seems to be a lot of buildup with zero payoff in almost every episode.
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