The wider roster lets these unique voices be temporary, and they fill out the series’ fictional government operation to hide the existence of a crashed alien spaceship. On STS, the couple serves only to characterize Prentiss. The lack of of plural voices on Night Vale means everyone that isn’t the show’s regular broadcaster stands out-and typically plays an important role in many stories to come. The characters are introduced and disappear just as quickly. Prentiss demonstrates her ex-Army Ranger combat training early and naturally by “defusing” a nasty altercation between an abusive couple. Despite centering squarely on the UFO-guarding protagonist and security chief Dakota Prentiss, the series makes use of its full cast in the first scene of the first episode. That number is more than just a bullet point, too.
Steal the Stars sports a 24-actor cast who interact scene-by-scene. I’m reminded of The War of the Worlds or The Lone Ranger. Tor Labs’ show, by contrast, is more akin to audio shows of yesteryear (or those in countries like the United Kingdom, where the medium never died).
It rarely needs more than one voice actor (its fictional newscaster) to present its biweekly tales. The wildly popular Night Vale, for example, presents itself as a public newscast for the comically eerie, titular town. The current audio-drama resurgence is mostly made of shows that are extremely focused in scope.
The show brings back a style of radio drama that’s still uncommon, even among the wave of popular new series.
Which isn’t surprising, given that Steal the Stars was created by Tor Labs-an offshoot of sci fi/fantasy-focused publisher Tor Books-in conjunction with production company Gideon Media.īut beneath the surface of its two-sentence iTunes summary, Steal the Stars has something unique going for it. The podcast works in the same sci-fi and fantasy genres that dominate the modernized medium: one part X-Files and one part office romance, set against a secretive government compound. In some respects, Steal the Stars may not seem very unusual. Welcome to Night Vale, The Magnus Archives, Limetown, and Archive 81 are just a few of my personal favorites, now bringing science fiction, fantasy, and horror to our ears through the power of podcasts. Once the purview of terrestrial radio-and all but dead in the United States-iTunes has given the narration-driven medium a brand-new outlet. If you’re not a regular podcast listener, you might have missed the booming resurgence of audio dramas over the past few years.
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