SPOILER NOTE! This production note contains spoilers for Chapter 7. Do not read it if you haven’t read or listened to Chapter 7 in it’s entirety yet, and you care about that sort of thing.
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Seriously, big spoiler.
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Before we get to what everyone’s waiting for, I just wanted to say how much I love Harry’s “This Is Why Science Is Awesome” speech. It’s damned inspirational, one of the great pieces of pro-science propaganda. There’s even a short video of it. This is what makes humanity great.
And in stark contrast to that – the rape-threat scene. Obviously this story was never intended for young audiences, but this cemented that into place. It was during this chapter that I decided I had to follow this series to its end. Half of it was Harry’s incredible speech, and half of it is the pure emotional shock of hearing an 11-year-old boy casually say he plans to rape a 10-year-old girl. It had an immediate physical effect on me, and the after-effects lingered for the rest of the day. The fact that it came so out of the blue in such an unexpected setting… it was damned effective.
I wonder why comments are closed in the next post?
It’s been a while, but IIRC I believe that one was targeted by a lot of spambots for some reason. There was a chapter in the mid-50s that had the same problem, and I shut it down as well. It was annoying to have to delete a dozen spam comments every week on just one post.
Spoiler! >:-< Not cool, man.
I also felt physically shocked by your revelation here of the rape plan. But I think the surprise experience would have been more effective in the context of the story.
From now on, I will pay attention not to read the Production Notes (before listening to the respective episode). That would be easier if the Notes would not come before their episode.
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Thank you so much for this podcast, Eneasz – it's marvelous work! :)
Oh man, I’m sorry! I forget that sometimes people read the notes before they hear the episodes. I’ll edit this to make the spoiler-ish nature of the post very apparent.
! SPOILER ALERT (kind of) (for chapter 10) !
No problem man, it’s cool. :) I’m sure the remaining 100+ chapters will have more wowing material for me to undergo… In fact, I know it: When the sorting hat assigned Harry, I was like WOOOTT?!?! :D :D
(SPOILER AVERTED)
Besides, if it weren’t for you(r efforts), I might well not have come to enjoy any of this MoR goodness anyway. :) (Not much of a reader these days.)
Hahaha, I see you took my feedback remarkably seriously. xD Good job – looks foolproof! :D (I feel so validated… ^.^ Thank you Eneasz!)