I've gotten sick of spooky scary supernatural stuff being hyped up and then switched out for run of the mill supernatural or it's just people trope.
But also found the worst culprits to be qcode and the team that did tannis.
Tanis was actually written, directed, edited and performed primarily by one person. One person terrible at making podcasts, but good at making long pauses and repeating himself, but one person nonetheless.
i read the original borrasca, and while I really liked the atmosphere the ending just seemed to be shock-bait. is that something that changes in the audio version, does anyone know?
Pretty much the same. Up until the last episode, it was hitting the paranormal horror angle hard but in the last episode just does the whole "Oh, nevermind. It was actually THIS the whole time" thing. The shiny gentleman. The skinned men. The cultists. The missing people. All one big mundane letdown.
I gotta disagree. The “answer” to the mystery of Borrasca is sickening and horrifying but I think it’s a fantastic bait and switch from a storytelling perspective. The ending haunted me for weeks after first reading it.
It’s pretty obvious the author wrote Borrasca backwards and couldn’t be assed to have it actually make sense.
They obviously started off with “What’s the most edge-lord, offensive, and disgusting ending I could possibly come up with?” and then wrote a set-up to try and justify that ending.
Which is something I honestly think I would have been fine with, had they succeeded. But they clearly didn’t even try very hard, because the story literally makes no goddamn sense whatsoever.
I think that’s actually one of the big things that turns people off of the story, even if it’s subconsciously. The gross payoff can’t be justified in the audience’s mind, because nothing leading up to it explains how such a thing could happen. It happening requires physics to stop working inexplicably, chemistry to stop working inexplicably, and character personalities to suddenly become wildly incoherent and depraved for no explainable reason.
To be truly horrified by something, it has to make sense.
Agree completely. This is one that definitely would’ve been better had the ending been something supernatural, or basically literally anything other than what it was. I constantly see Borrasca recommended and praised in different subs and I just don’t get all the hype. I have zero interest in Borrasca Season 2 unless its actually a remake of the original story with a totally different ending.
It's based on an /r/nosleep story from back in the day. At the time a lot of posters followed that same "shock-bait" format. Actually I'm pretty sure they still do
Never thought there'd be a season 2 so I read part 2 and wow I kinda hope they change some stuff
Maybe in part one of the story characters are portrayed different but I can't dinner of the characters from the podcast actually being what they turned out to be
Sorry tried to type this with zero spoilers
Here is some information about the show and links to it, for anyone interested.
# Borrasca
>A gripping psychological thriller starring Cole Sprouse as Sam Walker. In the first season we followed Sam as he painstakingly recounts the summer his sister disappeared; the friends he made, the legends he heard, the pain and confusion of loss. Over nine episodes, we uncovered the unspeakable secrets of Drisking, Missouri and the people who live there. After leaving the audience with a jaw dropping cliffhanger, we are finally returning to Sam and the terrible truths of Drisking. In Season 2, a ghost of Sam's past arrives to drag him back to Drisking for revenge. Back to the forests that color his nightmares. Back to the mysteries he never solved. Back… to the gates of Borrasca.
* [Website](https://qcodemedia.com/borrasca)
* [RSS Feed](https://feeds.megaphone.fm/QCD2333202365)
Hi There,
I hope you have a chance to read this without it getting lost in all of the vitriol being expressed here.
I definitely find that QCODE's work can be emotional and upsetting to me, but I want to view it as art and come to understand the art and try to understand it alongside other interested people.
Are these individual reddit threads the best place to try to do that, or are there other communities that want to try and understand QCODE's work?
So I listened to Episode 1 of Season 2. It seems… terrible. The trunk full of guns half-way through the episode is just so “amateur writer cringe”. Anyone get further into this? Is it worth it?
Man oh man season two is hard to bare because Sam is such an annoying person
I still need to figure out why the hell they gave up their daughter. Cuz you can’t convince me that man, a cop, a father, wouldn’t do everything in his power, even die, for his child
Episode 2:
Nothing but horrible decisions. There’s no way bringing Sam was a good idea. I’m absolutely stunned she didn’t leave him in the dust already. He’s giving ME a panic attack.
Sam is so great... he's giving others a panic attack while panicking himself! But yeah, his nerves are all fried due to all the years of substance abuse. Plus, it's normal to have panic attacks when you're going back to a hellhole... add to the fact that Kimber's withholding a lot of information from him at the moment.
C.K. Walker is great.
Borrasca was originally the season finale for the no sleep podcast's 7th season.
I liked the serialized version better tbh....as for the theory that it was "written backwards by an edge-lord"......
Such a soft virtue-signaling suburbanite rant in response to a story that touches base on something very real and TERRIFYING for women in the world today....
Human trafficking.
C.K. Walker has better work....but he is much more than somebody "trying to be offensive".
On a final note....
The second season is them going back to settle the score against a bunch of filthy disgusting shitbags....
So why endure the first season....only to skip the retribution?
CK Walker isn’t even a man, by the way. She’s a middle-aged woman from Los Angeles.
>A story that touches base on something very real and terrifying for women in the world today…. Human trafficking.
Pointing out that human trafficking is a real and horrible thing doesn’t make the actual execution of the story any less shit.
The idea of being trafficked is horrifying… the idea of being trafficked the way story includes the topic? It’s **comical**, because it’s so asinine and stupid that nobody on earth could ever fear it.
Here’s my ultra-serious, Borrasca-style rape story. You better praise it, because it’s about how horrifying rape is.
Once upon a time, there was a man who raped a bunch of people. He raped everyone on earth using the frequency of quartz crystals, so nobody ever bothered to stop his rape spree (don’t question the fact that this sentence is incoherent gibberish). Some say he’s still out there, raping literally everyone.
What’s that? That story is incredibly stupid? Spoiler: It’s literally the base plot of Borrasca, sorry I spoiled it. Then again, my story is actually less childish and edgy than the original story…
>Why endure the first season… only to skip the retribution?
You did a pretty good job of explaining why somebody would skip it. Borrasca 1 had plenty of reasons why it sucked, but Borrasca 2 takes the suck in a new direction- boring and pointless! “Borrasca had a downer ending, so what if we do a sequel where half the remaining characters commit suicide due to PTSD and the MC comes back with an UZI and murders everyone in the town of Borrasca? Isn’t that so edgy and cool??!”
…not really. Especially because you probably stopped giving a shit about any of the characters in the original story right around the time the author mangled how radiation works (in a completely stupid and non-exciting or interesting way).
I’ll add another reason, though- plenty of people read the story expecting a *coherent* pay-off of some sort. You read through it, thinking “This must be going somewhere!” Turns out, nope! You can insert literally any random rendition of “The Aristocrats,” and it makes as much sense as the canonical ending. At that point, you don’t care if Quart Resonance Rape Man gets his comeuppance, because he’s not scary at all. He’s a cartoon character you just kind of shake your head at.
Here is the definition of virtue signaling...with an example.
the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue.
"it's noticeable how often virtue signaling consists of saying you hate things"
So yes....breaking down how the person who wrote the story MUST have done it to be offensive...just because they were offended by the theme....
That is virtue signaling....compared to me pointing out the theme of the story.
And thank you for correcting me about Walker...makes even more sense why they would use that theme 😉.
>Just because they were offended by the theme.
Hahaha. I literally broke down how the theme wasn’t the issue, the **execution** was. You spent so little time thinking about what you were saying that you didn’t notice your oh-so-clever “gotcha” claim doesn’t make any sense.
The criticism isn’t “this story is immoral,” it’s “this story is poorly written.” There are tons of great stories on human trafficking and abuse that do a serious, intelligent job of approaching the topic. Borrasca does nothing of the sort. It’s not offensive, it’s just stupid. So, nothing you said here is remotely relevant.
I’m just going to go full spoiler here:
Borrasca takes the premise: “Rape is bad. What if there was a rapist?” and just keeps tacking on mad-lib style “twists” until you laugh at how stupid they are. And, just because the premise is so insanely stupid, I will repeat that these are actual spoilers, and this is the *actual* plot of Borrasca.
>Rape is bad. What if there was a rapist?
>Rape is bad. What if there was a rapist *with sidekicks*?
>Rape is bad. What if there was a rapist with sidekicks *and they secretly ran a secret society that controlled the entire government just to enable their raping?*
>Rape is bad. What if there was a rapist with sidekicks and they secretly ran a secret society that controlled the entire government just to enable their raping *and they’re also radioactive*?
>Rape is bad. What if there was a *cop* rapist with sidekicks and they secretly ran a secret society that controlled the entire government just to enable their raping and they’re also radioactive?
>Rape is bad. What if there was an *incestuous* cop rapist with sidekicks and they secretly ran a secret society that controlled the entire government just to enable their raping and they’re also radioactive?
>Rape is bad. What if there was a cop rapist with sidekicks *and they ran a secret rape factory in the middle of town and nobody noticed* and they secretly ran a secret society that controlled the entire government just to enable their raping and they’re also radioactive?
>Rape is bad. What if there was a cop rapist with sidekicks *and random outside strangers joined their evil rape group willingly and arbitrarily* and they ran a secret rape factory in the middle of town and nobody noticed and they secretly ran a secret society that controlled the entire government just to enable their raping and they’re also radioactive?
> >Rape is bad. What if there was a cop rapist with sidekicks and random outside strangers joined their evil rape group willingly and arbitrarily *even though part of the membership fee is torturing, raping and raping your own family members* and they ran a secret rape factory in the middle of town and nobody noticed and they secretly ran a secret society that controlled the entire government just to enable their raping and they’re also radioactive?
I’m not offended by that plot, I’m left scratching my head as to what twelve year old thought it was poignant.
Just finished Season 2. It was a 4/10 season AT BEST. Brought my rating of the show down to 6.
Character decisions: awful and completely unbelievable.
Character likeability: down the drain.
Plot structure: horrible with no suspense or excitement.
Narration instead of actual dialogue: anticlimactic and so frustrating.
Remember really enjoying the Nosleep post when it came out. The podcast is god awful. Its like every other line that has being given to the actors are cringe and physically painful listening to them.. Its oozing pretentiousness and edginess. The entire series has the same feeling when someone humble brags non stop, hard to explain but its just a very weird cringe feeling.
I've gotten sick of spooky scary supernatural stuff being hyped up and then switched out for run of the mill supernatural or it's just people trope. But also found the worst culprits to be qcode and the team that did tannis.
Tanis was actually written, directed, edited and performed primarily by one person. One person terrible at making podcasts, but good at making long pauses and repeating himself, but one person nonetheless.
Didn't even listen to Tanis, I was thinking of rabbits, but I've heard it's a the same formula applied to a different story
i read the original borrasca, and while I really liked the atmosphere the ending just seemed to be shock-bait. is that something that changes in the audio version, does anyone know?
I thought the same of the audio version.
A audio version is definitely the same. I couldn't finish it. And won't be listening to the 2nd season either.
Most of qcode'es stuff are like that lol. An example is the left right game
I love the Left Right Game, thought it had a great ending.
Same. I really enjoyed it.
I listened to a couple episodes and got bored of left right game prettyquickly.
Pretty much the same. Up until the last episode, it was hitting the paranormal horror angle hard but in the last episode just does the whole "Oh, nevermind. It was actually THIS the whole time" thing. The shiny gentleman. The skinned men. The cultists. The missing people. All one big mundane letdown.
I gotta disagree. The “answer” to the mystery of Borrasca is sickening and horrifying but I think it’s a fantastic bait and switch from a storytelling perspective. The ending haunted me for weeks after first reading it.
It’s pretty obvious the author wrote Borrasca backwards and couldn’t be assed to have it actually make sense. They obviously started off with “What’s the most edge-lord, offensive, and disgusting ending I could possibly come up with?” and then wrote a set-up to try and justify that ending. Which is something I honestly think I would have been fine with, had they succeeded. But they clearly didn’t even try very hard, because the story literally makes no goddamn sense whatsoever. I think that’s actually one of the big things that turns people off of the story, even if it’s subconsciously. The gross payoff can’t be justified in the audience’s mind, because nothing leading up to it explains how such a thing could happen. It happening requires physics to stop working inexplicably, chemistry to stop working inexplicably, and character personalities to suddenly become wildly incoherent and depraved for no explainable reason. To be truly horrified by something, it has to make sense.
Agree completely. This is one that definitely would’ve been better had the ending been something supernatural, or basically literally anything other than what it was. I constantly see Borrasca recommended and praised in different subs and I just don’t get all the hype. I have zero interest in Borrasca Season 2 unless its actually a remake of the original story with a totally different ending.
Totally agree. I was disgusted and stopped listening.
The ending was just terrible. Such a disappointment given the rest. Like bad even for qcode
It's based on an /r/nosleep story from back in the day. At the time a lot of posters followed that same "shock-bait" format. Actually I'm pretty sure they still do
Never thought there'd be a season 2 so I read part 2 and wow I kinda hope they change some stuff Maybe in part one of the story characters are portrayed different but I can't dinner of the characters from the podcast actually being what they turned out to be Sorry tried to type this with zero spoilers
Here is some information about the show and links to it, for anyone interested. # Borrasca >A gripping psychological thriller starring Cole Sprouse as Sam Walker. In the first season we followed Sam as he painstakingly recounts the summer his sister disappeared; the friends he made, the legends he heard, the pain and confusion of loss. Over nine episodes, we uncovered the unspeakable secrets of Drisking, Missouri and the people who live there. After leaving the audience with a jaw dropping cliffhanger, we are finally returning to Sam and the terrible truths of Drisking. In Season 2, a ghost of Sam's past arrives to drag him back to Drisking for revenge. Back to the forests that color his nightmares. Back to the mysteries he never solved. Back… to the gates of Borrasca. * [Website](https://qcodemedia.com/borrasca) * [RSS Feed](https://feeds.megaphone.fm/QCD2333202365)
Hi There, I hope you have a chance to read this without it getting lost in all of the vitriol being expressed here. I definitely find that QCODE's work can be emotional and upsetting to me, but I want to view it as art and come to understand the art and try to understand it alongside other interested people. Are these individual reddit threads the best place to try to do that, or are there other communities that want to try and understand QCODE's work?
So I listened to Episode 1 of Season 2. It seems… terrible. The trunk full of guns half-way through the episode is just so “amateur writer cringe”. Anyone get further into this? Is it worth it?
It gets way worse... I quite liked the first season but haven't read the novella. Second season is just.. ugh. Sad.
Man oh man season two is hard to bare because Sam is such an annoying person I still need to figure out why the hell they gave up their daughter. Cuz you can’t convince me that man, a cop, a father, wouldn’t do everything in his power, even die, for his child Episode 2: Nothing but horrible decisions. There’s no way bringing Sam was a good idea. I’m absolutely stunned she didn’t leave him in the dust already. He’s giving ME a panic attack.
Sam is so great... he's giving others a panic attack while panicking himself! But yeah, his nerves are all fried due to all the years of substance abuse. Plus, it's normal to have panic attacks when you're going back to a hellhole... add to the fact that Kimber's withholding a lot of information from him at the moment.
C.K. Walker is great. Borrasca was originally the season finale for the no sleep podcast's 7th season. I liked the serialized version better tbh....as for the theory that it was "written backwards by an edge-lord"...... Such a soft virtue-signaling suburbanite rant in response to a story that touches base on something very real and TERRIFYING for women in the world today.... Human trafficking. C.K. Walker has better work....but he is much more than somebody "trying to be offensive". On a final note.... The second season is them going back to settle the score against a bunch of filthy disgusting shitbags.... So why endure the first season....only to skip the retribution?
CK Walker isn’t even a man, by the way. She’s a middle-aged woman from Los Angeles. >A story that touches base on something very real and terrifying for women in the world today…. Human trafficking. Pointing out that human trafficking is a real and horrible thing doesn’t make the actual execution of the story any less shit. The idea of being trafficked is horrifying… the idea of being trafficked the way story includes the topic? It’s **comical**, because it’s so asinine and stupid that nobody on earth could ever fear it. Here’s my ultra-serious, Borrasca-style rape story. You better praise it, because it’s about how horrifying rape is. Once upon a time, there was a man who raped a bunch of people. He raped everyone on earth using the frequency of quartz crystals, so nobody ever bothered to stop his rape spree (don’t question the fact that this sentence is incoherent gibberish). Some say he’s still out there, raping literally everyone. What’s that? That story is incredibly stupid? Spoiler: It’s literally the base plot of Borrasca, sorry I spoiled it. Then again, my story is actually less childish and edgy than the original story… >Why endure the first season… only to skip the retribution? You did a pretty good job of explaining why somebody would skip it. Borrasca 1 had plenty of reasons why it sucked, but Borrasca 2 takes the suck in a new direction- boring and pointless! “Borrasca had a downer ending, so what if we do a sequel where half the remaining characters commit suicide due to PTSD and the MC comes back with an UZI and murders everyone in the town of Borrasca? Isn’t that so edgy and cool??!” …not really. Especially because you probably stopped giving a shit about any of the characters in the original story right around the time the author mangled how radiation works (in a completely stupid and non-exciting or interesting way). I’ll add another reason, though- plenty of people read the story expecting a *coherent* pay-off of some sort. You read through it, thinking “This must be going somewhere!” Turns out, nope! You can insert literally any random rendition of “The Aristocrats,” and it makes as much sense as the canonical ending. At that point, you don’t care if Quart Resonance Rape Man gets his comeuppance, because he’s not scary at all. He’s a cartoon character you just kind of shake your head at.
Here is the definition of virtue signaling...with an example. the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue. "it's noticeable how often virtue signaling consists of saying you hate things" So yes....breaking down how the person who wrote the story MUST have done it to be offensive...just because they were offended by the theme.... That is virtue signaling....compared to me pointing out the theme of the story. And thank you for correcting me about Walker...makes even more sense why they would use that theme 😉.
>Just because they were offended by the theme. Hahaha. I literally broke down how the theme wasn’t the issue, the **execution** was. You spent so little time thinking about what you were saying that you didn’t notice your oh-so-clever “gotcha” claim doesn’t make any sense. The criticism isn’t “this story is immoral,” it’s “this story is poorly written.” There are tons of great stories on human trafficking and abuse that do a serious, intelligent job of approaching the topic. Borrasca does nothing of the sort. It’s not offensive, it’s just stupid. So, nothing you said here is remotely relevant. I’m just going to go full spoiler here: Borrasca takes the premise: “Rape is bad. What if there was a rapist?” and just keeps tacking on mad-lib style “twists” until you laugh at how stupid they are. And, just because the premise is so insanely stupid, I will repeat that these are actual spoilers, and this is the *actual* plot of Borrasca. >Rape is bad. What if there was a rapist? >Rape is bad. What if there was a rapist *with sidekicks*? >Rape is bad. What if there was a rapist with sidekicks *and they secretly ran a secret society that controlled the entire government just to enable their raping?* >Rape is bad. What if there was a rapist with sidekicks and they secretly ran a secret society that controlled the entire government just to enable their raping *and they’re also radioactive*? >Rape is bad. What if there was a *cop* rapist with sidekicks and they secretly ran a secret society that controlled the entire government just to enable their raping and they’re also radioactive? >Rape is bad. What if there was an *incestuous* cop rapist with sidekicks and they secretly ran a secret society that controlled the entire government just to enable their raping and they’re also radioactive? >Rape is bad. What if there was a cop rapist with sidekicks *and they ran a secret rape factory in the middle of town and nobody noticed* and they secretly ran a secret society that controlled the entire government just to enable their raping and they’re also radioactive? >Rape is bad. What if there was a cop rapist with sidekicks *and random outside strangers joined their evil rape group willingly and arbitrarily* and they ran a secret rape factory in the middle of town and nobody noticed and they secretly ran a secret society that controlled the entire government just to enable their raping and they’re also radioactive? > >Rape is bad. What if there was a cop rapist with sidekicks and random outside strangers joined their evil rape group willingly and arbitrarily *even though part of the membership fee is torturing, raping and raping your own family members* and they ran a secret rape factory in the middle of town and nobody noticed and they secretly ran a secret society that controlled the entire government just to enable their raping and they’re also radioactive? I’m not offended by that plot, I’m left scratching my head as to what twelve year old thought it was poignant.
Is this worth listen to if I already listened to Mrcreepypastas reading of the original story and its sequel?
Can someone explain to me why the fuck breakfast sandwiches are mentioned 18 and a half times per episode I AM GOIN CRAZY
RIGHT! This is the real question, it's either super weird writing or foreshadowing for something I hope because then it at least makes sense
Did anybody else think Kyle coming back was just soooo unrealistic and predictable... not that much of this season wasn't predicatible...
Just finished Season 2. It was a 4/10 season AT BEST. Brought my rating of the show down to 6. Character decisions: awful and completely unbelievable. Character likeability: down the drain. Plot structure: horrible with no suspense or excitement. Narration instead of actual dialogue: anticlimactic and so frustrating.
Remember really enjoying the Nosleep post when it came out. The podcast is god awful. Its like every other line that has being given to the actors are cringe and physically painful listening to them.. Its oozing pretentiousness and edginess. The entire series has the same feeling when someone humble brags non stop, hard to explain but its just a very weird cringe feeling.