History Podcast / StationBlue

''Station Blue'' is a isolation horror audio drama written, directed, and principally performed by Chad Ellis, launched in late December of 2017. ''Station Blue'' tells the story of Matthew Leads (Ellis): an aimless young drifter who has just taken a job that he feels sure will finally be what helps him get his life together. A loner by nature, Leeds thinks that his new job as caretaker of a scientific research facility deep in Antarctica will be the perfect occupation for him. But almost as soon as he settles in, Leeds can tell that there's something off about the empty base. And that feeling only deepens as he discovers an ominous looking door deep in the heart of the base that has a security camera focused on it at all times despite Leeds supposedly being there all alone...

* {{Jerkass}}: Gina, Leads' remote supervisor from the Flower Company. Her e-mail communication with him is cold and abrupt at best, and she deliberately avoids answering any questions that might actually help Leeds.

* TheTeaser: Episode 1 opens with an unnamed pilot arriving at the station to pick up Leads' predecessor, Gil. [[spoiler:Shortly after entering the base the pilot is attacked and brutally killed, by an unknown assailant.]]

* EvilInc: The series implies that the Flower Company are this, with the way their enigmatic behavior, the ominous nature of the base, and their cold and indifferent attitude toward Leads and his concerns.

* TheTeaser: Episode 1 opens with an unnamed pilot arriving at the station to pick up Leeds' predecessor, Gil. [[spoiler:Shortly after entering the base the pilot is attacked and brutally killed, presumably by Gil.]]

''Station Blue'' is a isolation horror audio drama written, directed, and principally performed by Chad Ellis, launched in late December of 2017. ''Station Blue'' tells the story of Matthew Leeds (Ellis): an aimless young drifter who has just taken a job that he feels sure will finally be what helps him get his life together. A loner by nature, Leeds thinks that his new job as caretaker of a scientific research facility deep in Antarctica will be the perfect occupation for him. But almost as soon as he settles in, Leeds can tell that there's something off about the empty base. And that feeling only deepens as he discovers an ominous looking door deep in the heart of the base that has a security camera focused on it at all times despite Leeds supposedly being there all alone...

* AbusiveParents: Leeds' relationship with his dad is strained at best, and violent at worst.
* TheAce: Subverted with Sarah. With her endless activities and meticulously planned and scheduled life, Leeds at first thinks she must be this. He eventually realizes that she's so driven and pushes herself so hard because she simply doesn't cope well with inactivity. [[spoiler:Once they're in college, he starts to fear that all her overachieving is actually going to land her in a perfectly ordinary and mundane life.]]
* AmbiguousDisorder: Sarah is driven by a need to plan literally every moment of her life and is overcome with anxiety if too big a plan gets cancelled on too short a notice. Matthew Leeds, meanwhile, suffers from depression, panic attacks, and may even have [[spoiler:a split personality]] but due to the cost of mental health care in America, has been unable to ever seek diagnosis, let alone ongoing treatment or proper medication.

* BreakTheCutie: Matthew Leeds is a genuinely sweet guy that it's very easy to empathize with and feel sorry for, and the tale of his courtship with Sarah is a heartbreakingly beautiful love story all on its own. All of these things get played for anguish, bitterness, and irony as the base slowly crushes his sanity.

* DoorOfDoom: It looks like just an ordinary door. But it's not on the blueprints, is under constant surveillance, and Leeds can't stand to be around it or even look at it for very long.
* EvilInc: The series implies that the Flower Company are this, with the way their enigmatic behavior, the ominous nature of the base, and their cold and indifferent attitude toward Leeds and his concerns.
* GollumMadeMeDoIt: [[spoiler:When he experiences a psychotic episode, Leeds' stable, rational side speaks as a dissociated voice in his mind, trying to talk him out of whatever destructive acts he is doing while also serving to relay the happenings to the audience. During the climax of ''Eclipse,'' however,]] this voice is revealed to be actively malevolent and intent upon controlling its owner.

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler:Leeds]] once had an epiphany about mathematics and has never been the same since. Mind you, he doesn't have any kind of exceptional understanding of or skill at mathematics. Just the very concept of it, and how literally every single thing in the world is governed by underlying mathematical equations was enough to break him, and he now suffers crippling panic attacks as a result.
* IKnowYourTrueName: An avid fan of fantasy literature, Leeds speculates about this trope and wonders if he himself has a true name, and what kind of being he might manifest into if he were to learn it. [[spoiler:He says he would be willing to [[{{Foreshadowing}} sacrifice one of his limbs]] [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor to find out.]]]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Gina, Leeds' remote supervisor from the Flower Company. Her e-mail communication with him is cold and abrupt at best, and she deliberately avoids answering any questions that might actually help Leeds.

* NoodleIncident: Once, a crew member at McMurdo started attacking people with a hammer... and no more information about this incident is asked for or given.

* LastNameBasis: Leeds is on one. With ''himself.''

* SpoilerCover: The official artwork, while making it clear that something is very, very wrong at the station, also just happens to depict exactly what is happening during the [[spoiler:ninth]] episode.

* EvilInc: The series implies that the Flower Company are this, with the way they mysteriously conduct themselves at the job fair Leeds attends, keep him in the dark about everything, the ominous nature of the base, and their indifference to Leeds' concerns.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Sarah is driven by a need to plan literally every moment of her life and is overcome with anxiety if too big a plan gets cancelled on too short a notice. Matthew Leeds, meanwhile, suffers from depression, panic attacks, and may even have [[spoiler:a split personality]] but due to the cost of mental health care in America, has been unable to ever seek treatment or proper medication.

''Station Blue'' is a isolation horror audio drama written, directed, and principally performed by Chad Ellis, launched in late December of 2017 and finishing its first season in the summer of 2018. ''Station Blue'' tells the story of Matthew Leeds (Ellis): an aimless young drifter who has just taken a job that he feels sure will finally be what helps him get his life together. A loner by nature, Leeds thinks that his new job as caretaker of a scientific research facility deep in Antarctica will be the perfect occupation for him. But almost as soon as he settles in, Leeds can tell that there's something off about the empty base. And that feeling only deepens as he discovers an ominous looking door deep in the heart of the base that has a security camera focused on it at all times despite Leeds supposedly being there all alone...

* BookEnds: Season one begins and ends with [[spoiler:the base sirens wailing as someone dies.]]

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:Episode 9: ''Eclipse'']]

* TheTeaser: Episode 1 opens with an unnamed pilot arriving at the station to pick someone up, presumably Leeds' predecessor, Gil. [[spoiler:Shortly after entering the base the pilot is attacked and brutally killed, presumably by Gil.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Gina, Leeds' remote supervisor from the Flower Company. Her e-mail communication with him is cold and abrupt at best.

* ColoringBookFullOfCrazy: The journal of Rin Hashimoto. Leeds, not being [[GenreSavvy Genre Savvy]] enough to realize that's what it is, reads it with enthusiasm.

** The April Fools Day episode references both the [[TheDogWasTheMastermind dog ending]] and the character of Dahlia Gillespie from [[Franchise/SilentHill.]]
*** [[spoiler:''''And then there are the sirens...'''']]

* TheTeaser: Episode 1 opens with an unnamed pilot arriving at the station to pick someone up, presumably Leeds' predecessor, Gil. [[spoiler:Shortly after entering the base the pilot is attacked and brutally killed, presumably by Gil.]]

* IKnowYourTrueName: An avid fan of fantasy literature, Leeds speculates about this trope and wonders if he himself has a true name, and what kind of being he might manifest into if he were to learn it. [[spoiler:He says he would be willing to [[spoiler[[{{Foreshadowing}} sacrifice one of his limbs]] [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor to find out.]]]]

* GollumMadeMeDoIt: [[When he experiences a psychotic episode, Leeds' stable, rational side speaks as a dissociated voice in his mind, trying to talk him out of whatever destructive acts he is doing while also serving to relay the happenings to the audience. During the climax of ''Eclipse,'' however,]] this voice is revealed to be actively malevolent and intent upon controlling its owner.

* MissingMom: Leeds' mother.

''Station Blue'' is a isolation horror audio drama written, directed, and principally performed by Chad Ellis, launched in late December of 2017 and finishing its first season in the summer of 2018. ''Station Blue'' tells the story of Matthew Leeds (Ellis): an aimless young drifter who has just taken a job that he feels sure will finally be what helps him get his life together. A loner by nature, Leeds thinks that his new job as caretaker of a scientific research facility deep in Antarctica will be the perfect occupation for him. But almost as soon as he settles in, Leeds can tell that there's something off about the empty base. And that feeling only deepens as he discovers an ominous looking door deep in the heart of the base that has a security camera focused on it at all times despite Leeds supposedly being there alone...

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