This is the first major plot episode in a 'Club album', and as such, and also given its content, it is historically important. Some points of interest: • Connie is now officially the manager of Whit's End. She has been serving as something of an assistant manager for some years, playing a role in hi...

The decision about the subforums was a good decision in 2021. Now, though, the Club has become more important (in fact, the only mainstream way of hearing new episodes). Is it time to consider a change of policy? Theoretically I suppose there could still be fans who only subscribe to the Club once o...

I'm not sure why they felt the need to remove Matthew as thoroughly as they did. He is not Officer Harley, and the reasons why he left the audio drama don't have much to do with his being in historic mystery stories. Moreover, I think this creates something of a fault in continuity that didn't exist...

I got this collection recently over the Christmas season, and thought I'd offer some commentary on it, as someone who saw a number of the original mysteries in Clubhouse. Do not read any further if you don't want spoilers! The collection as a whole is focused on Emily's interactions with her 'nemesi...

Thank you for your responses! I would like to reply to them but I'm having some difficulty figuring out how to do the indented quote thing. Could someone explain to my technologically challenged mind how to do it? Sorry for the inconvenience. What I typically do is quote the person's original post ...

This is technically a major-league gravedig, but it isn't like the forum is hopping or anything; this thread is still on the first page, so... I didn't see the advantage to AcidTech myself until recently. Now, it's more clear to me why it is a thing: it's currently the only dark theme on the forum. ...

Jay's relationship with his parents. I don't recall the very first episode where we hear Jay's remarks about his parents' careers - I want to say it was in "Ties that Bind", but I could be wrong. I know he definitely does in "There and Back Again". Some commentators seemed to qu...

His name is 'Brock', for the record. I suspect the writers might have agreed with you in the end, because they never reused the Transmuter. But the genre of stories that you can tell with it is roughly limited to what it is in the episode where it appears anyway. It's about seeing things from someon...

I thought about analyzing this episode point by point earlier, and still might, but I spent a lot of time commenting on Jay and Zoe in this post and don't want to make it longer right now. Just one quick comment on Vincent's voice - he sounds a lot like Tucker Chandler. I don't think it could be him...

While it's fair to say that 'she wasn't a very good friend to him' in some of the earliest episodes (which is incidentally around the same time period that most of the Emily hostility popped up on the forum), I don't think this holds true for long, and if we count material from outside the radio sho...

On Connie: I don't have as many comments to make about this section, except that it gives an interesting look at how even small actions can make a big difference. It's almost frightening the kind of impact that someone can have, viewed through that lens. It isn't hit on explicitly here, but it is co...

On Connie My interest is piqued. For the visitor in the forest, I was glad that they were able to get the same actor back, after all these years; I recognized his voice almost instantly. It's interesting to hear them broach that subject so plainly with Mrs. Randolph, stated in the way that fans have...

Notes through the listen: 1. Jules is in close enough contact with Connie to voluntarily tell her on the phone everything about where she is and what she's doing. 2. Buck is now so opposed to churches and church groups that he refuses to be in the same restaurant as one. (The cognitive dissonance of...

This is one of the more fun recent-ish episodes to listen to, probably because of the accusation stories, which are exaggerated and self-serving in the same sense as "Two Sides to Every Story", and sometimes reflect the speaker's habits or cluelessness like in "Mandy's Debut" (Ry...

(I don't know if these overlap with other people's episodes, but these are my takes.) Whit's Flop We find out that while Whit can make advanced computers and virtual reality machines, a photo copier is too much for him. The Life of the Party Whit figures that it's easier to give away free ice cream ...

With the second part of this pair of episodes airing today, I think that—in my opinion—this has been one of the best episodes we've received in the past 5 years or so. I completely agree. Here are some miscellaneous notes: I have a hutch that Connie was watching the same movie she was listening to ...

First off, how is a band supposed to stay together if its members are always fighting? They need to do some team building activities. From my understanding of pop band dynamics, that's really not that unusual. You have at least one strong personality who thinks they're a creative genius, and they w...

I agree with the point that Jules' intentions aren't usually focused on harming others. I feel another major thing that keeps Jules a pitiful, rather than a villainous, figure is that she isn't an initiator. Even when she is technically motivating some bad action, as often happened with Buck, her r...

I return because the Soda Shop is the best and most mainstream place to discuss any part of Adventures in Odyssey, in an organized and time-insensitive manner, with fans of the show. The Town of Odyssey doesn't necessarily consist of fans of the show. AIO Club comments are never organized. Facebook ...

Here's a few disorganized thoughts on this and on Jules, split into several sections. * * * What's curious about the assessment of Jules is that she is being judged by a different standard than at least one other character. You say that you dislike her because of her poor choices and criminal activ...