Aight so, first episode of the Paternoster Gang. This means that this episode has to establish it for me as something distinct.

Good news: it's certainly distinct. Bad news: I'm not yet completely covinced of the series merits. This is certainly an entertaining listen, but it is not a whole package of an episode, with the tone mostly humorous. It sometimes feels like it wants to be serious as well, like how Jago and Litefoot balanced seriousness and coziness, but it fails so far.

This is mostly because the main characters don't seem to have any trouble figuring things out. The most engaging bits are at the end, when the trio has to escape from the moving factory, but that also gets bogged down with technobabble. So far the series wants to have everything explained, not always to its merit.

The music is good, as are the sound effects. The main theme is not as good as a main theme as it is as a nice little tune though.

All in all entertaining enough but as an opener it could be better.

I will continue listening though, as more Strax is always better.