Week Fourteen : Sci-Fi Parody and Satire
I am NOT an auditory learner. My brain finds it so difficult to listen to podcasts. Even when listening to my favorite podcasts, Gimlet’s The Two Princes and Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor’s Welcome to Night Vale , I find myself immediately tuning on the captions option. I always need something visual to accompany it. For this final week, I listened to I Think We're All Bozos on this Bus by the Firesign Theater and Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (but I’m only on ch.18 at the moment). The sound design was excellent for both. I felt like I was swept into the story. Out of both radio dramas, I definitely prefer I Think We're All Bozos on this Bus . It felt as if Welcome to Night Vale and Jack Stauber had a baby. Even though it is a Sci-Fi Parody and Satire, I also sensed a bit of surrealism which I really like. I love the description of the ‘bus’. The ‘bus’ isn’t like a bus that we are familiar with today, the ‘bus’ is an all-terrain vehicle tha