#my brain will always find new cool ways to make tma more tragic

[thermodynamic-comedian]

i relisten to the magnus archives season 5. my brain says some diabolical shit like "imagine if helen richardson had an unrequited crush on jonathan sims and those feelings manifested within the distortion as an inexplicable need to constantly be around him". i remember that in the end, jon kills helen. i clutch my head in my hands and fall to my knees. this keeps happening in various different ways forever and ever

[riddle-on-the-milk-carton]

A lot of people hated the original ending and I hated it to for what it was with everyone moving on and grief, but I find the retcon sadder as well

I liked the open-endedness of the original ending because it wasn’t a happy one in my opinion but it was a good one. I’m a fan of TMA so I love ambiguity and tragedy but my theory/interpretation for the original ending was that they were all trapped in a timeloop of some kind (connected to Karl and XD and stuff) and for whatever reason everyone on the server is doomed to repeat the cycle over and over again until things get so bad it gets destroyed and the loop resets

Because what you see with every character, what they all have in common are themes of tragedy, betraying one another, revenge, making bad decisions hell, the term “villain arc” is basically on the vocab list for dsmp characters

So my personal theory is that it’s an ever looping purgatory of sorts (which explains the new arrivals, and people leaving being them “moving on”)

I don’t think they are dead but whatever strange domain they’re in basically causes them to all betray and hurt each other over and over and over and over again and cause more and more destruction until the loop resets while nobody is the wiser

My cdream theory is that the reason he’s well, him is because he is the person whose been in the loop the longest, and has spiraled down the cycle for longer than anyone else and that is why he seemed more normal in the earlier days while becoming unhinged by the end

While it’s a tragic and vague ending I like it for my theory brain, and the new end always just felt a bit empty and hollow to me in a way. Idrk

(Please be nice and civil here about this if you don’t like my ideas or liked the new ending then that’s all cool👍👍 let’s all be chill)

Tommy's original DSMP ending was absolutely terrible for fans of his character. Partly because so much of it was done just because they felt they had to destroy it all in order to lead into a new server. It's far from the only thing wrong with it but yeah.

Like I think? the intended read of that end was hopeful because look TOmmy and Dream have a fresh start maybe they can be friends this time. Also Tubbo's here, what will their relationship be like. It all hinges on what comes next making it worth saying goodbye to what is.

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So naturally with that sequel scrapped it just leaves our characters all dead and the server gone.

This light retcon isn't really a conclusion, it's more saying we remember the server. It's gone but we're not and we remember it.

Cause yeah. You can't go back to the server anymore. It's dead. But the server was only ever about the people on it, and the friendships and conflicts they had. Other than a few cool builds, what made it special was always the history. Like the most iconic parts of the server were Tommy's bench, his constantly rebuilding house and the path. Techno's house and the prison and the main community house were also all up there. These are special because things happened there.

Hearing therefore that Tommy and Tubbo and Jack are all alive and have mostly moved on is all we really need to hear. We can imagine that some of the others are doing their own thing too.