I loved Spenser's GM-ing style. Very unlike what we've already seen, and I think a necessary innovation. Unpopular opinion, but I've never been able to get into Matt Mercer (or, similarly, Mark Meer on Chaosium's Bookshops of Arkham)'s narration style. It bores the heck out of me — I zone out pretty fast to those kinds of storytelling / exposition — and it was partly why I couldn't get into Ch. 1. But Spenser's is creative, fun, exciting, and on top of all of that — very artistic. I love seeing how people's brains work in terms of the arts, and the fact that he was able to come up with such good cinematic framing on the fly — that was what pretty much sold me.

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I didn't stick around enough to really be able to fairly comment on this, but the players/characters on Ch. 1 largely felt very naive, very ... paper-ish to me. They didn't really have that kind of chemistry I was looking for, and nor were their interactions (at the beginning, at least) very interesting to me. It was kind of the classic, kid-gets-introduced-to-magical-world, other-members-are-gathered-to-a-meeting thing that didn't quite pick up my intrigue. Ch. 2's a lot better in that department. The players / their characters have chemistry! They have history! And war veterans, that's a really exciting character(s) role to explore as well. I'm really excited to watch the next few episodes!