#Magnus Protocol spoilers

[jeena-says-hi]

YOOOOOO MELANIE’S BACK!!

[gwumig]

magnus archives: man eats computer???

magnus protocol: computer eats MAN???

[machrealgirl]

you understand this is essentially lena walking away from an explosion like an action movie protagonist. this is her moment. she IS the moment. she said "you want me out? i'm gone baby. don't come crying to me when the weight of responsibility that i've carried with me for years threatens to crush you <3"

she's iconic. she's everything. the entire rest of this show is going to be one huge "i told you so" from her.

and an even bigger "i told you so" from yours truly.

[an-aries-that-is-on-fire]

Diversity win! The man who got eaten by the computers has been gay married and divorced!

[viideo-kidd]

ooooh Celia clocking in and immediately getting slapped with a casement from the Magnus Institute? Read by Chester? About a woman who left her date behind to escape an eldritch horror and is now feeling very guilty about it? How delicious 👀

[a-confusion-of-doctors]

my headcanons for shops in the hilltop centre:

touristy gift shop but there's a figure in all the postcards, getting closer and closer to the camera in each one

evil evil food court that serves you People Meat

indoor crazy golf place that's infinite and colourful and loud. if you put your hand in one of the holes to get your ball back, it bites you

a regular claire's

[trubirb]

(Sorry for the weird window lighting)

The sillies 💖✨

[hatters-workshop]

So that uh. Magnus Protocol sure left us with a lot to mull over for the haitus didn't it?

[theboredbori]

This came to me in a vision

[vieramars]

OOOH the way Martin's voice gradually goes from robotic to the dramatic statement reading voice we all know and love

[penguonice]

Close enough, welcome back anatomy class!

[sapphirenightshade]

THIS!!!

Celia: I’ve already had my name stolen once by the hand of one monster, I’m not about to hand it to another on a silver platter, thank you very much.

[professional-binge-watcher]

It's a real shame that the OIAR's office's microsoft is 3 or 4 versions too old to have clippy

[lostwords-found]

So, an interesting little tidbit: apparently the Knights of Malta -- y'know, the ones whose symbol was on the key from the museum -- were said to have received quite large amounts of money back in the 1400s from George Ripley.

Y'know, the English alchemist Celia gets her last name from 🤔

And poor Viola Locke thought she could use that key to open herself up, and "just reach in and pull out all the grief," which is making me think I might be on the right track with the stuff about this world's alchemists trying to physically separate out the experience of suffering and get rid of it. It's interesting--from the police file, we don't really know what they found besides her bloodstained journal. I wonder if a part of Viola Locke is still alive and at large, happy and laughing without the knowledge of pain and loss that burdened her former self.

[viideo-kidd]

Been really enjoying how the Magnus Protocol has been playing with the idea of ✨️nostalgia✨️. Sam obsessing over the Magnus Institute, Alice wanting to rekindle her relationship with Sam, Celia looking into familiar names from TMA.  Even the monsters are a bit of a throwback - a mascot from a 90s TV show, a member of British aristocracy, [ERROR] with her cassette tapes.

And on a meta level - the listeners are playing into this nostalgia, too. The theories that Jon/Martin/Jonah are stuck in the computer. Our excitement at hearing familiar voices again. Trying to  assign the Smirke 14 to the O.I.A.R. cases...

The thing is - nostalgia is actually just  corrupting everyone. Sam's obsession is putting the O.I.A.R. crew in danger. Alice's attempts at reshaping their relationship to how it used to be is harming her current friendship with Sam. Celia's investigations just keep leading to dead ends.

And us, the listeners, our inclinations to apply the old lore from TMA to this new series...it might be causing us to miss some big clues in Protocol...

so yeah, I just think it's really cool how Magnus Protocol is playing with the dangers of nostalgia, especially considering it's a sequel!

[monochrome-sunsets]

would you say this is more Dolls Comma Watching or Dolls Comma Flesh?