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FrankerZ
So, umm, I have some feedback about last night's episode. I know it was a bit special so there was no way everything would go swimmingly but I feel like what I'm gonna say is important enough. Not taking away from last night's success with the donation drive either (people should still donate today!)
Last night's episode was long, like way longer than anything before (and man even Giant Bomb's podcasts don't go on for that long). I understand the donation drive may have distracted from timeliness and structure but I want to cover this before it gets out of hand later. The Google doc to have everything laid out is good, but the amount of content covered is crazy. It doesn't seem like a lot on the doc, but as soon as you guys get into a deep discussion about something, that topic seems to stick for 30-50 minutes at least.
I like the deep discussions and everything, love them, but I don't think it's good for a podcast (or stream show) to be going for 4 hours. And part of the problem is because, so many weeks can go by between episodes (from either two weeks to three or possibly four depending on how busy you guys all are) so there's a lot to talk about. Last night had so many things to talk about... I feel like you need to set a line on things.
In the doc, for example, you guys had Apex discussion on there. That's good! Having the good, bad, ugly, etc about it. Then you had the Evo donation drive and the speculation of Smash at Evo w/ Skisonic. Yes, those two things are definitely connected and made sense for this episode.
But then you have Genesis 3 there... and we barely know anything about it at this point. I feel like the discussion for that, assuming there wouldn't be anything else until the next episode, could have been saved for Episode 5. You know what I mean? You have to set a line somewhere. You can't have these episodes going on for so long. They have to be progressively getting shorter as you guys start to get more concise and less off topic. And that will come naturally, for sure.
The next thing is about call-ins... I'm not sure how these things are ever going to work out, lol. Placing them near the end of the episode causes a problem where Scar, Prog, Sheridan, and Cactuar all want to leave because they've said everything they need to say in the episode. Placing them in the middle of the show, like last night, slows things down considerably (Skisonic didn't get on the show until like 10:15 PM EST or something). So I'm not sure what to suggest but they do slow things down because you guys have no idea how long x person wants to talk. Or what they want to talk about until they message you on Skype. That's a bit of a problem. It's just something I'd like you guys to be aware of that is causing you to slow down and lose track.
Previous episodes didn't have this problem (for good reason) but you guys were jumbled last night lol. Went from Apex, to Evo discussion/speculation, back to Apex, then to AZ about the smashboards aquisition, then back to Apex with leffen about the pausing and chanting, etc. Everything about Apex should have been at the beginning, the first hour of the show. The second hour should then have been about Evo with Skisonic (you guys then wouldn't have had to suddenly have him leave). And then the last 30 minutes could have been call-ins or questions from the chat about anything that has been discussed within the episode. And you'd be strict about the 30 minutes, not lax. Just an example of something that could have been done. That'd be a 2 and a half hour show instead of nearly 4 hours.
Just some feedback I felt you guys still needed.
Other than that, the show still was entertaining last night despite the clear distraction the donation drive caused! Keep it up! MIOM is good for the community.
Last night's episode was long, like way longer than anything before (and man even Giant Bomb's podcasts don't go on for that long). I understand the donation drive may have distracted from timeliness and structure but I want to cover this before it gets out of hand later. The Google doc to have everything laid out is good, but the amount of content covered is crazy. It doesn't seem like a lot on the doc, but as soon as you guys get into a deep discussion about something, that topic seems to stick for 30-50 minutes at least.
I like the deep discussions and everything, love them, but I don't think it's good for a podcast (or stream show) to be going for 4 hours. And part of the problem is because, so many weeks can go by between episodes (from either two weeks to three or possibly four depending on how busy you guys all are) so there's a lot to talk about. Last night had so many things to talk about... I feel like you need to set a line on things.
In the doc, for example, you guys had Apex discussion on there. That's good! Having the good, bad, ugly, etc about it. Then you had the Evo donation drive and the speculation of Smash at Evo w/ Skisonic. Yes, those two things are definitely connected and made sense for this episode.
But then you have Genesis 3 there... and we barely know anything about it at this point. I feel like the discussion for that, assuming there wouldn't be anything else until the next episode, could have been saved for Episode 5. You know what I mean? You have to set a line somewhere. You can't have these episodes going on for so long. They have to be progressively getting shorter as you guys start to get more concise and less off topic. And that will come naturally, for sure.
The next thing is about call-ins... I'm not sure how these things are ever going to work out, lol. Placing them near the end of the episode causes a problem where Scar, Prog, Sheridan, and Cactuar all want to leave because they've said everything they need to say in the episode. Placing them in the middle of the show, like last night, slows things down considerably (Skisonic didn't get on the show until like 10:15 PM EST or something). So I'm not sure what to suggest but they do slow things down because you guys have no idea how long x person wants to talk. Or what they want to talk about until they message you on Skype. That's a bit of a problem. It's just something I'd like you guys to be aware of that is causing you to slow down and lose track.
Previous episodes didn't have this problem (for good reason) but you guys were jumbled last night lol. Went from Apex, to Evo discussion/speculation, back to Apex, then to AZ about the smashboards aquisition, then back to Apex with leffen about the pausing and chanting, etc. Everything about Apex should have been at the beginning, the first hour of the show. The second hour should then have been about Evo with Skisonic (you guys then wouldn't have had to suddenly have him leave). And then the last 30 minutes could have been call-ins or questions from the chat about anything that has been discussed within the episode. And you'd be strict about the 30 minutes, not lax. Just an example of something that could have been done. That'd be a 2 and a half hour show instead of nearly 4 hours.
Just some feedback I felt you guys still needed.
Other than that, the show still was entertaining last night despite the clear distraction the donation drive caused! Keep it up! MIOM is good for the community.
