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equalseleventhirds · 4 years ago

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the whole discussion jon & martin had at the end of this latest ep about religion and god and the afterlife certainly was relevant to dekker’s whole thing abt hope for peace after death, and was possibly foreshadowing angst about somebody dying in the future, and had some interesting implications about martin possibly having that good ol religious-maybe-specifically-catholic guilt mixed in with guilt about his mother (cough filipino martin cough)

but also from a doylist perspective it’s v much ‘the main character is now omniscient which brings up the uncomfortable question of do we now through him confirm one single religious view as True And Real even in the context of a fictional universe, no let’s not do that, here is the explanation of why we are not doing that’ and i was laughing a little bit tbqh

#it's SILLY but also.... valid #also tbh if jon cannot fully Know and Understand the fears #it makes sense that his Knowing also does not apply to theoretical gods and the afterlife and stuff #it's a similar scale possibly #also yeah the explanation that he Knows things through the lens of fear? excellent!#remember about how fear twists how u see reality?#remember them talking abt how when elias was airdropping horrible knowledge into martin and melanie's heads #he was doing so through someone else's perspective?#those could be twisted bcos they were through the lens of human understanding #(see my speculative fic abt martin not actually looking that much like his father)#and even in the apocalypse jon's Knowing is through human fear & ppl's own view of their fears #here we see that jon is still an unreliable narrator even tho he is literally omniscient and that's GREAT #it allows for so much flexibility within the narrative #....this got off topic but yeah #tma spoilers #the magnus archives

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