#or if I finally finish the final 25 episodes of TMA then I might do a TMA one

[clownwithoutamedicallicense]

Finally finished my UDAD patch/badge thing for my bag!!!!

(Please ignore how wonky it is, I’m still ridiculously new to embroidery 😭😭😭)

[radiosandrecordings]

what if episode 199 is the episode where like. the big stuff happens and (in this scenario the world does return to some sort of normal), episode 200 is a parallel episode to 100 where some people give statements of vague memories about the eyepocalypse to martin, sasha, and melanie. where is jon? well-

I’ve been thinking this exact thing TBH! I’ve been reflecting on the other season finales and they always kind of feel like two parters? Like the Big Drama happens in the second to last episode, kinda? Not always consistent but like. 39 has the actual Prentiss invasion and 40 is a look back on it. S2 doesn’t really apply. 119 has the unknowing which is what we were led to believe the big end would be, with 120 as the Surprise Eldrich Dream Coma, 159 was what we were waiting for all season and then 160 was.. 160 

I definitely feel like enough is cumulating that 198-200 will feel like a three-parter, like I can’t imagine an Entirely New Scenario with timeskip being the last episode and trying to condense a finalising into like 25 minutes, provided it isn’t a post-world-save like you suggested. And while I like that idea I think maybe that’ll be at the end of 200? While the first half at least is plot. Purely because I’m not sure there’d be enough of it to fill a full episode without just sounding like a ‘And here’s where we tell you what everyone got up to after!’ which feels disingenuous to TMA’s style, not really fitting the tragedy aspect? The idea reminds me of that post about how Little Shop of Horrors had to have it’s end refilmed when they made the film adaptation because audiences thought it was Too Sad but it works as a theatre production because the cast comes out and takes a bow at the end so you see it’s Okay They’re Not Dead! And I feel like TMA intends to commit to it’s tragedy hard (Though I’m still convinced the world will be fixed to one degree or another, For Melanie Reasons) 

What makes me unsure of this is the fact that they’re delaying 200 to drop for patrons and non at the same time and I feel like if 199 was kinda the Big Finish then they might delay that too? But maybe they don’t wanna do that twice and so it’s just for the actual end. I also haven’t entirely ruled out a possibility of 200 being like a double length ep but idk how likely that is because they haven’t done that before, but if there ever was a time...

[ryanberga]

TMA has 5 seasons. One season = 40 episodes one episodes = let just say 30 minutes. One week = 8 days. 40 : 8 = 5 episodes. 5 × 30 minutes = 150 minutes = 2 and a half hours ( or idk 3 hours.). So TECHNICALLY i can finish TMA by the 5th week or atleast 1 month plus a week. Yes, i want to actually finish this. Cause i really love your reaction it made it seem so interesting. Also i went anon im afraid that my math is wrong. If my math wrong. Ryan ghost wrote this. I went off anon if im right.

From that tma math ask, yes i know there is a non cannon also q&a but im talking about the cannon one btw. Still it might be wrong ahskdldl-

omg FIRST OF ALL i'm no mathematician so i'm not gonna double check your work here lmaoo except to point out that a week is 7 days not 8?? also most episodes are closer to 15-25 minutes, very few are actually 30 mins or over! but if you want to listen to the magnus archives you definitely should! i think dedicating a couple of hours to it a day or setting a goal of listening to a few eps a day would be a good idea to get thru it quickly especially for the first season or two because you don't really see the meta plot much until the end of season 2/season 3 iirc. season 1 took me forever to get through because i wasn't too invested in it yet, but after season 2 i became addicted and listened to it literally whenever i was able to. so definitely keep that in mind if you don't feel like you vibe with the first season, just stick around and see if things improve in season 2 because everything does connect together and form a much bigger plot that you initially think

SECOND, i'm not sure if you mean you want to finish it in 5 weeks or if you want to finish it before the 5th season is over? but either way, the 5th season finale (and the grand finale!) isn't set to air until march, so you have plenty of time to catch up, don't feel like you're in any rush!! enjoy it for what it is instead of trying to meet a deadline :)

THIRD, i'm glad you enjoyed me crying over tma ahsjdks it was so much fun listening to it and tbh not at all what i expected it to be when i first started it. it's definitely the most interesting fiction podcast i've ever tried listening to, it's got horror and mystery and a great complex meta plot and emotional depth and great characters and wonderful character dynamics and explores really complex issues (such as morality, mental illness, trauma, etc etc), and it's also got great social commentary and draws fantastic parallels to real-life situations. i promise you, it's so much more interesting than i could put into words

and LASTLY, i'm not exactly sure what you mean by non-canon q&a? i'm not in the tma fandom or anything so idk all the ins and outs of it, but i know alex (the director of tma and the voice actor for martin) and jonathan (the writer and the voice actor for jon) do a q&a after every season ends, and those are all "canon" (unless they say otherwise, which they have done). regardless, while the q&a's are not at all necessary to listen to, they are HIGHLY interesting and i'd definitely recommend you listen to them when you're done with the corresponding season! not only do they answer some questions about things you might have missed otherwise, but they also go into their creative processes and talk about behind the scenes stuff, which is super fascinating. not to mention, alex & jonathan have a great dynamic and are very fun to listen to, you can tell that they mesh really well and are very good friends :)

sorry this answer got so long but uhh tl;dr this is my plea to all of you to please listen to the magnus archives🥺