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Post by Zagreus on Feb 20, 2017 21:01:55 GMT
Dark Shadows: Phantom Melodies: In a Broken Dream
(Amy Jennings - 1984?)
Like In the Twinkling of an Eye, I found this one very hard to get into initially. Something about the shifts between dream and reality, and the lilting music, wandering around, dragging my attention away with it.
Placement is a little unclear. Something has happened with David, and he and Amy aren't together anymore. I don't think there's enough time for this to take place during Tainted Love, as it'd have to go in between the July and August segments of that, so I'm thinking something happens during Bloodline, given how vague they're being about whatever it is that's happened. That and I'd like to think that Amy needs more than a week to move on and start keeping an eye out for a new man, but perhaps there's supernatural shenanigans going on. Or not. Who knows. All will become clear in time.
It put me in mind a little bit of This World Our Hell, with Amy wandering Paris and the talk of strange little statues in the shop stalls along the market, all while something strange and sinister stirs in the background, troubling the sleep of the regulars. Démon de Babylon indeed.
A nice tale to round out the set. Will need to give it another listen or two though.
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Post by Rob Morris on Feb 20, 2017 21:36:16 GMT
Gosh, you powered through those didn't you?
In a Broken Dream is actually set after Bloodline. The BF website confirms it on the Behind the Scenes page.
Thanks for the kind words about Last Orders!
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Post by Zagreus on Feb 20, 2017 22:34:05 GMT
Well it is a work holiday, for some, so this was the perfect treat to wake up to today  |
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Post by omega on Feb 20, 2017 23:14:04 GMT
Gosh, you powered through those didn't you? In a Broken Dream is actually set after Bloodline. The BF website confirms it on the Behind the Scenes page. Which makes the fact we still don't know when Bloodline will be released a weakness of this story. There's a feeling that things got bad between David and Amy, if only because she went to what is a traditionally a romantic city without him, not to mention she's more upset about another guy because he might supernatural! It feels a bit Marvel with how some endings of delayed events are revealed in other titles before the event can finish.
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Post by bobod on Feb 20, 2017 23:47:26 GMT
Gosh, you powered through those didn't you? In a Broken Dream is actually set after Bloodline. The BF website confirms it on the Behind the Scenes page. Which makes the fact we still don't know when Bloodline will be released a weakness of this story. Or an added strength. |
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Post by Zagreus on Feb 21, 2017 0:03:24 GMT
Which makes the fact we still don't know when Bloodline will be released a weakness of this story. Or an added strength. I'd argue the former. We now know, thanks to this story, that the wedding, which BF have been hyping for a couple years now and is one of the few concrete details we had about Bloodline, isn't going to work out. Which isn't to say it's a bad story, it's not, quite good, but it does rather spoil that aspect of Bloodline for us. |
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Feb 21, 2017 0:05:29 GMT
It's all one big collage of non-linear storytelling. I am downloading Phantom as I write this.
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Post by bobod on Feb 21, 2017 0:10:05 GMT
I'd argue the former. We now know, thanks to this story, that the wedding, which BF have been hyping for a couple years now and is one of the few concrete details we had about Bloodline, isn't going to work out. Which isn't to say it's a bad story, it's not, quite good, but it does rather spoil that aspect of Bloodline for us. And, should that reading be correct, do you now wonder why and how? Added intrigue... Remember Return to Collinwood... |
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Feb 21, 2017 0:23:43 GMT
I'd argue the former. We now know, thanks to this story, that the wedding, which BF have been hyping for a couple years now and is one of the few concrete details we had about Bloodline, isn't going to work out. Which isn't to say it's a bad story, it's not, quite good, but it does rather spoil that aspect of Bloodline for us. And, should that reading be correct, do you now wonder why and how? Added intrigue... Remember Return to Collinwood... And thank you for reminding me that I've never heard Return to Collinwood. I just ordered it. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 1:17:31 GMT
Downloading on my phone tonight, if all goes to plan. Can't wait!
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Post by omega on Feb 21, 2017 3:43:12 GMT
I'd argue the former. We now know, thanks to this story, that the wedding, which BF have been hyping for a couple years now and is one of the few concrete details we had about Bloodline, isn't going to work out. Which isn't to say it's a bad story, it's not, quite good, but it does rather spoil that aspect of Bloodline for us. And, should that reading be correct, do you now wonder why and how? Added intrigue... Remember Return to Collinwood... That was, at the time, a glimpse into the far future. Meanwhile In a Broken Dream gives away what is, at the moment, a major event of something we've been left hanging on for at least eighteen months with very little news. While the how may be intriguing and a Dark Shadows couple falling apart isn't unexpected, this is one part of it that is now a foregone conclusion. I feel that if the recording sessions allowed for it, that In a Broken Dream should have been swapped for another story. It's like the Marvel Secret Wars event from a couple of years ago, or Civil War II (aka Minority Report 2: Electric Bugaloo or The Captain Marvel Plug) last year. Through titles meant to go after they finished, but launched before they finished due to delays in the event readers already had a good idea of who would survive, die and the general state of play. Imagine if one of the post-Bloodlust dramatic readings had been released during its release, but before it had concluded. |
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Post by chapwithwings on Feb 21, 2017 11:18:39 GMT
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Post by Zagreus on Feb 21, 2017 17:17:05 GMT
In a Broken Dream is actually set after Bloodline. The BF website confirms it on the Behind the Scenes page. I think in that case I'm going to group it with A Face From the Past, which is set in 1986. |
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Post by bobod on Feb 21, 2017 18:13:39 GMT
And, should that reading be correct, do you now wonder why and how? Added intrigue... Remember Return to Collinwood... That was, at the time, a glimpse into the far future. Ah, but I'm not talking about at the time, we should remember it NOW... |
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Post by Zagreus on Feb 21, 2017 18:22:23 GMT
That was, at the time, a glimpse into the far future. Ah, but I'm not talking about at the time, we should remember it NOW... But, it's still like 20 years out from Bloodlust. There's two whole decades between them. Yeah we've got a smattering of audios set in the interim, but still the furthest thing out is The Night Whispers in 1995, with no surrounding context, and before that is The Path of Fate and Confession. And I'd like them to fill in the 1973-1982 gap before they start putting meat on the 1990s, personally. |
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Post by bobod on Feb 21, 2017 18:32:11 GMT
I rather like Audio Watchdog's It's great fun for me that we get all the right stories but not necessarily in the right order (as someone once said). We're always getting hints of what's to come - sometimes what's to come is in the future, and sometimes it's in the past. |
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Post by omega on Feb 21, 2017 18:33:31 GMT
Ah, but I'm not talking about at the time, we should remember it NOW... But, it's still like 20 years out from Bloodlust. There's two whole decades between them. Yeah we've got a smattering of audios set in the interim, but still the furthest thing out is The Night Whispers in 1995, with no surrounding context, and before that is The Path of Fate and Confession. And I'd like them to fill in the 1973-1982 gap before they start putting meat on the 1990s, personally. True, after Carriage of the Damned, set in 1974, the next chronological story is The House of Despair, set in 1982. |
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Post by Zagreus on Feb 21, 2017 18:39:56 GMT
But, it's still like 20 years out from Bloodlust. There's two whole decades between them. Yeah we've got a smattering of audios set in the interim, but still the furthest thing out is The Night Whispers in 1995, with no surrounding context, and before that is The Path of Fate and Confession. And I'd like them to fill in the 1973-1982 gap before they start putting meat on the 1990s, personally. True, after Carriage of the Damned, set in 1974, the next chronological story is The House of Despair, set in 1982. And while Shurafa and Deliver Us From Evil are about stories from 1973, they're framed in 1983. Like, I think Deliver Us, with it's past bits taking place at Christmas 1973, is the furthest we've chronologically gotten into the 70s. We know Hallie & Stiles go do the Tony & Cassandra thing for a while, but we only hear about that in Tainted Love, we haven't actually experienced any of it yet. Hearing more about Barnabas and Julia's travels with Stokes, getting Quentin's wanderings during that lost decade, having a body snatchers plotline to accompany the real life space race of the time, getting more from pre-Trask Hartswood, and of course the story of the fall of the house of Collinwood and Strix's invasion... there's so much that could be fleshed out from that time period. |
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Post by Rob Morris on Feb 21, 2017 19:57:25 GMT
Don't think of In a Broken Dream as giving any insight into Bloodline at all. It's just part of the inevitable timeline.
"After Bloodline" doesn't mean "following directly from Bloodline" after all.
And I think it's a lovely piece. Again Penny manages to do someting quiet and personal and elegaic with a surprising outcome.
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Post by Zagreus on Feb 21, 2017 20:24:14 GMT
Don't think of In a Broken Dream as giving any insight into Bloodline at all. It's just part of the inevitable timeline. "After Bloodline" doesn't mean "following directly from Bloodline" after all. And I think it's a lovely piece. Again Penny manages to do someting quiet and personal and elegaic with a surprising outcome. That's fair enough. In that case I just wish it would have been a bit less vague about the timeframe involved. As you said though, still a lovely story. |
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