I\u2019m going to start off this post by taking back what I said in my previous post. Welcome to Night Vale follows no patterns. In episode 2, which is what the second post was about, I thought I had finally found a pattern in all the confusion of Welcome to Night Vale. However, this third episode made me realize that episode 2 was just a trap. Some of the topics in this episode were: news stands filled with 2% milk, litter that should not be picked up if it was marked with a red flag, books not working, and so on. The topics in this particular episode were a little more violent than usual. There are two cases of missing people, both presumed dead by the narrator. There is also a case where hooded figures wait at the elementary playground and kidnap kids. The narrator then emphasizes that people just stand and watch it happen. This may seem a little far fetched, but this podcast almost reminds me of the infamous show, Stranger Things. Both stories are based in a town where there are strange happenings. They are completely different in all other aspects, but the ominous happenings are very similar. For example, this episode had a couple parts where they used an animal growling sound effect, which reminded me of the shadow monster in Stranger Things. It actually made me feel a little queasy. But of course, they followed the animal sounds with the \u2018weather forecast,\u2019 which is a music break they put in about \u2154 of the way into the podcast. To contrast with the animal growling sounds, the weather for this episode was a bubbly and happy guitar tune. One thing that stood out to me in this episode was that the \u201cmonster\u201d noises were playing when they narrator was talking about the management people. There is a part where they claim that they sent out an assistant to check out what was going on with management outside, and the assistant ends up dying. I don\u2019t really know if this was meant to be satire, but I took it in as satire. I was surprised because I never saw much meaning to any other topics mentioned in the show so far. Maybe it was just another random part, but I\u2019m beginning to realize that the randomness of the podcast leaves it very open for interpretation. Like I mentioned in the beginning, Welcome to Night Vale follows no noticeable patterns so far, but all I know is that strange things happen, things that are so impossible that it intrigues the listener with each episode.
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