Marvin D. wrote:Friends, Romans, ToOers, lend me your eyeballs.
That made me laugh.
I haven't read this whole thread, just the first post. So forgive me for ignoring some 60 posts, and likely saying something someone else already has.
I had a thought to share, with this last paragraph especially in mind:
Marvin D. wrote:Has our beloved radio drama Adventures in Odyssey gone downhill? Many disagree, saying that the Green Ring Conspiracy has brought it back up (more on that too, later), but with what we know of Album 54, it could be headed back the same way. With no good old characters to keep (except for Connie, Eugene, Whit, and Wooton—and Whit’s weird, Wooton’s out of the picture, and Connie and Eugene both have changed), lots of new kids, and a total new revamp, some might say that it’s definitely losing the original feel it had. Starting even before the relaunch, there’s been a considerable decline in the history of AIO. Will it ever be able to work its way back to the prime days of the show? Only time can tell.
And with that, I shut up for now, having ranted enough to bore you to sleep.
After every hiatus the feel of the show changes. The 1997 Odyssey was markedly different from the 1996 one, and the 2009 Odyssey was different from the 2007 one.
This is not necessarily a bad thing. Just as AIO's golden years to me are the ones prior to 1997, and AIO's golden years for someone 7 or so years younger then me are the years from 1997 to 2006ish, so this new era will be the golden years for people who are 5 to 9 years old and beginning to listen to the show. That's just the way it is.
Bear in mind I haven't listened since the most recent hiatus ended--real life became too full. But as long as things aren't like the spring of 2000, it's just change and not really a bad thing.