I just binged Tides over the last couple of days and I'm losing my mind over the cliffhanger I've found myself on, haha. My wife listened in on a couple of later episodes with me with no prior context and also had no trouble getting invested. The worldbuilding and creature creations are just incredible, and it's so easy to get immersed in the descriptions and imagine this other planet, so familiar at a glance but so distant from anything we know on Earth.There were a couple of places during conversations with multiple characters where the sound was a little difficult to manage (such as one being more quiet than the other), especially if I happened to be listening in the car. I think if I had been wearing headphones, it likely would have been a nonissue, but I usually need to opt for phone or car speakers. Other than that, the sound design was lovely, and it's been very nice getting to experience a podcast with a lot of atmospheric storytelling that doesn't accidentally slip into the pit of 'scenes that would sound good if they also had visual cues, except this is an auditory medium so what is going on'.Thank you all for creating such a fascinating world and sharing its discoveries with us!