#but is also a bit psychologically wonky due to the fucked up shit (e.g. the events of the first episode)

[daevite]

idk why exactly but i don't like eskew seemingly attempting to explain (at least a portion of) its weirdness so soon, or in the manner that it's doing it. not really sure which part of it i don't like. it's not the simple matter of explanation itself because on one hand i do think in many cases it's enough in a horror story to simply allow a place or a situation to be fucked up without any "backstory" for why it is fucked up (hill house kinda did this in a disappointing way, wish they went more with "what if a house was just fucked up and evil" w/o giving any reasoning or backstory behind the fucked up and evil-ness), but on the other hand night vale kinda did this with the huntokarr arc but the way in which they did it very much didn't feel like. giving things too much solidity? it felt gratifying and interesting to listen to. and then there's the guy who's like 18 or 19 giving this complex backstory to the development and existence of the backrooms making all this incredible "found footage" using blender and that's fun to see. idk what it is exactly about the riyo episodes of eskew that are turning me off in terms of apparently laying out some reasons why eskew is the way it is.

#it speaks #eskew liveblog #still really liking it so far though. i like the concept of a horror protag who very much knows that shit is fucked #but is still appalled by some of the fucked up shit #but is also a bit psychologically wonky due to the fucked up shit (e.g. the events of the first episode) #maybe that resonates with me as it reminds me of the cycle of living in a fucked up household ig