I’m gonna be real, I feel like I’ve failed here.
And not in the sense that a show I was championing ended up making me never want to look at it again (yeah, I’m still not pleased about what happened to KADO) but in almost the reverse. I just do not understand the utterly rapturous praise heaped onto Planet With. I would say it was good, but hardly the best of the year or even the best of the season (though this season in general has been running pretty slim).
This show has never been able to capture me again the way its premiere did, and I’m just not sure why. It’s one of the most interesting, original productions I’ve ever seen with a writer I know is reliable, and yet I was just never able to fully invest in it. Was I just not in a good mood while watching? Was I not paying close enough attention? It’s totally beyond me, and I’m gonna take full responsibility for that and leave it entirely unscored even though I finished it. Maybe at some point I’ll be able to revisit it and see it through someone else’s eyes, but for now, I’m gonna chalk it up to a loss on my part.
The Arcane Archive 