YMMV / A Voice from the Dark

• Awesome Music:
  • The heroes sing "The Time Warp" to defeat the Voice.
  • The replacement song on the CD is equally awesome.
• Complete Monster: The titular Voice from the Dark is the remnant of a powerful entity whose body decayed when it arrived from another dimension. Seeking to dominate all who could hear it and kill those who could not, the Voice reached out to Obed Scarsdale and manipulated him into building a mansion that could help rebuild its body. Scarsdale fought its influence and turned the catacombs of the manor into a maze to trap it. During its construction, the Voice arranged for the deaths of several of Scarsdale's assistants and converted his maid Emma into one of his agents. Many years after Scarsdale boarded the manor up, the Voice was awakened by the presence of the producers gathered at the mansion and trapped them within the maze. It turned the party planners Linkara hired into zombies and sent them to tear apart the sound technicians who had managed to record its whispers. Upon being freed, the Voice possessed the body of H.P. Lovecraft and planned to possess ERod once his body had been burned up by his raw power.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Dom's comment of being in Ravenclaw became hard to listen to after Dominic Noble officially swore off the Harry Potter franchise after J. K. Rowling spouted transphobic comments on Twitter in 2020.
  • Linkara laments that many of those invited declined to attend, most likely due to the Channel Awesome-esque vague promise of riches. If he had simply invited them to a normal party, several of them would have likely attended.
  • ERod's Broken Pedestal of Linkara for withholding the truth that he'd been the one who had everyone gathered at the mansion, causing him to agree with the others that he was behaving no better than the Channel Awesome producers, comes off as much more painful after Eric Rodriguez's public falling out with Rob Boor that occurred right around the time of the drama's recording, with Boor later dropping his support for "Change the Channel" and releasing a followup video publicly accusing Rodriguez of similar toxic behavior to the website.
  • The painful nature of the breakup of Channel Awesome is a massive cornerstone of the narrative of A Voice From the Dark, from how it affected the former producers, but it hits even more harshly given the recent ending of the Channel Awesome Website, which as former producer Linkara notes that it feels like a conclusive once and for all demonstration that the site and Doug Walker never cared for them at all, and are willing to bury their shared past together to pretend that none of the abuse and lack of care existed.
• Spoiled by the Format: The second episode ends on a cliffhanger making it look like Goofy Gary has killed Welshy. However, the promotional trailer was shown to have lines in the Audio Drama itself, and Welshy still has a dialogue with Bargain Boy in the trailer, meaning he's still alive. Lo and behold, come the third episode, Welshy is shown to have survived thanks to his stuffed monkey blocking the knife.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Linkara's screw-up is presented as a major betrayal when all he wanted to do was throw a surprise party for his friends in an effort to reconnect. It's only made worse when Diamanda Hagan is revealed to have manipulated him and everyone else to serve the Voice's plan for her own shits and giggles, yet she gets off with a slap on the wrist at the end.

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