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sol-draws-sometimes · 1 year ago

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1. I don't think it's a spoiler to say that the Magnus Institute is named after the founder, whose last name is Magnus. You do get to learn more about him in the later seasons!

2. I don't know what ads you're talking about, but I always skip the ads at the beginning and cut straight to the theme song. I listen on apple podcast, so idk if they do any extra ads on Spotify, but the only ads they do for me are the ones at the beginning.

3. Idk if I'm misunderstanding the questions, but here's how the institute works, as I understand it. The idea is, that the institute catalogues people's paranormal statements by writing down what they say. When Jon got hired, the place was in shambles, so he's trying to organize the statements. Because it's good to have backups, Jon's trying to digitize the old statements, but some of them don't scan properly for some weird reason(spooky). So he's recording them on some old tape recorders that he found in the room to digitize the audio files instead(hence the show). And since they're already reading old statements, he gets his assistants to fact check the statements/ find new info related to their story. Again, my bad if you already knew this.

4. Each seasons is 40 episodes(a lot I know), so S1 finale is ep40. There are also inb/w seasons stuff, like Q&As, but you can consider those like the bonus features on a DVD. Tho as a podcast writer/maker, they might be interesting. Some of the questions they answer, have to do with the how they make the show, which might be of particular interest to you (tho you'll probably already some of the know stuff, since again, that's what you do)! They're pretty interesting, and I especially like the ones where they interview the editors (at first it's just Alex, but they start hiring more people), or when Alex talks about the sound mixing and what not.

5. I remember this episode being good! Tbh, I thought Graham was pretty normal until he started eating paper. Which btw, I've seen people say that, that was his way of getting Amy's(the narrator) attention because he knew he's get swapped or something. Idk I think it's a cool fan theory. I think for me the creepy thing is that, something you're SURE was thing, isn't a thing. So like, she KNEW Graham looked a certain way, and that fact that only she knows what he used to look like, and none will believe her is pretty scary to me. But hey, that probably tapping into my own fears of not being believed.

6. I will say you're idea about exploring people being afraid of monsters that do exist, but don't want to hurt you, is super interesting. But I don't think that's what tma is going for, so I don't think you'll find much of that (I won't say none, since it's 200eps and I simply can't remember all the short stories).

As a certain protagonist from an award winning Tony Kushner play once said: The Great Work Continues!

You can read my reactions to the 3rd episode of the Magnus Archives under the cut.

00:00 Okay, Silly question. Is Magnus a person? If so, do we meet that person? This is a ~silly question~ cause I think it might literally be the name of the freaky little place Johnathan spends all his time and, if so, this was probably discussed in Episode 1 but I don't want to go back and listen to answer my question.

01:09 And I am gonna speed skip through these ads. You guys should listen though.

02:00- I wonder if people skip through the ads on Small Victories? No hard feelings if you do.

03:01- Dang. Sucks for Casey Shane.

04:26- You know what's across the street from my house? Another single-family house! Which, to some urban planners, probably is a horror unto itself.

05:05- My prayers have been answered. It's the Magnus Institute. (That doesn't solve the problem of if they are a real person who is significant, because why is this freaky little institute dedicated to investigating strange phenoms named after you if your'e a perfectly normal fellow?)

07:53- Okay, so yes the people these logs are about are very strange, but also, even before the people got ~supernaturally~ strange the log holders are still very judgmental of what is just a little odd behavior. I mean, when I was younger I would practice making and mimicking animal noises, be drawn to small dark warm spaces, would repeat the words people said as they said them, and would talk to myself all the time. If one of these people were around me then they'd think I was a little alien horror!

10:30 As someone who has never had a concussion, what's it like?

11:41- Buddy boy, take a Tylenol.

12:53- Honestly the square hole is the most alarming thing about this. Think about it. When's the last time you've seen a perfectly square hole on a piece of antique furniture. Just one hole with no other decoration. As a lover of old furniture, it gives me the williams.

15:06- THIS MAN IS A TERROR!

15:26- HERE YE! HERE YE! Local man obsessively watches mentally disturbed man from his window. More at 11.

16:02- If you're so concerned you need to get the man some help, brother.

17:59- April 7th? Ah, yes, Good Friday. He dropped the ham on the floor and ate it anyway. Harrowing.

18:36- I feel like video games would be great for this guy. Get to sit at home, be invested in a world outside of you, and you don't have to creep on your neighbor for all the days of your life.

20:09- Alright. I am, admittedly, alarmed.

21:02- See and this is why you should have sat there and ate your food. You wouldn't know Lovecraftian Horrors live next door if you minded your own business.

22:23- I know it's the accent, but when he says "Graham" it sounds like 'Gray ham" which amuses me greatly.

23:28- Oh, he's happy to see you.

23:37- Honestly, I do think it's way more interesting (or at least has the potential to be deeply interesting) to explore the idea that monsters and horrors exist but they don't want to hurt you. They are just living parallel to you. Yeah there may be a strange horror living across the street but he'll smile at you like anyone else would and he won't do anything to hurt you or hurt anyone else, but the internal discomfort you feel upon seeing something you were told was scary is what drives your fear. The fear and horror is internal.

25:28- See! Grayham didn't even hurt anyone. He was just chilling and trying to smile down the weirdo who was watching him for months. Honestly, Grayham was being very kind all things considered.

26:16- How do you know Graham didn't have the monster inside him all along?

26:40- Look. He was playing a fun little game with his stalker friend.

27:04- They want me to be scared, but I really do think the idea that the Graham like thing was a little strange and was toying with the watcher a lot more fun.

I think this is my favorite episode so far! I liked the story telling and the descriptions did leave me with strong mental images that I just don't think they'd be able to replicate on screen.

I will say I am scrolling through the episode list and I do not see a clear break in seasons, so could someone let me know where Season 1 ends?

#sol talks #tma #keep

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needs-to-stop-looking-at-valves · 3 years ago

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Reasons I like rescue bots academy #179:

I love how they all look when they're excited???

#Reasons I like rescue bots academy #s1 ep40 #Dig Fest #Whirl #Hot Shot #Wedge #Hoist #Medix

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steve0discusses · 7 years ago

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Yugioh S1 Ep 40 PART 1/2: So Much Random Stuff Happens That It Requires Two Parts

Most of the time, Yugioh’s plot is delivered in nice, bizarre, bite-sized segments, offset by duels that I skip. But then, in this episode they decided “Hey, we should drop some plot. Like a lot of REALLY WACKY plot.”

And thus we have an episode with over 80 caps. So, this’ll be a two-parter! The other part will show up later. Like...when we finish it.

Also, despite the fact that this is probably one of the more important episodes of the season, it has quite some damage on the recording on Netflix. You’ll see that it isn’t really cropped right on the sides, and in some parts it’s got motion blur I couldn’t avoid. One day, Yugioh will get it’s Sailor Moon remaster, but this is not the day. Also, if they redubbed Yugioh, it would be an absolute tragedy, but that’s a different story.

TL;DR Forgive the massive amount of text in the upcoming recaps. There’s just so much they did and I uh...didn’t want this to end up being over 100 caps this episode alone.

So, lets get into it: The Yugi crew is looking for Pegasus.

For some reason, Tea suddenly remembers what went down the night before and decides “I bet Pegasus is hiding in that spooky tower we don’t actually know how to get into because we climbed it with a grappling hook.”

(Sometimes I get used to Yugi’s eyeliner and then they throw a shot like this at me and it’s like DAMN, Yugi, when did you have time to apply that stiletto heel to your face? Like most of the time I’m just put off by the awful hair and then the rest of the time I’m just really jealous of this emo boy’s wings.)

With that they suddenly remembered...the other stuff.

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I like how Joey is just so incredibly fed up with magic at this point. Out of all of them, he seems to hate magic the very most although his best friend is a walking dark magic portal. Joey is just completely done, but unfortunately for Joey it turns out all the magic up to this point hasn’t even remotely been the amount of magic that this show is going to throw at us, because this entire episode is a bunch of wizards just screwing with each other.

I’ve mentioned before that it feels like the power players of Yugioh are kinda like Greek Gods where they just really can’t be bothered about 95% of the time--but when they are FINALLY bothered enough to move their own ass, they just kinda sweep the floor clean and leave me utterly baffled.

Anyways, Pegasus actually is in the spooky tower, to my disbelief, at this non-euclidean desk that doesn’t seem to exist in time and space.

And then Kaiba wakes up in a cabbage-patch lookin jail cell. I would love to see more of his reaction to that but alas, this episode is not about Seto Kaiba.

Pegasus decided to make good on his word, mostly because Yugi is a cursed Pharaoh and he doesn’t want to see what happens if he doesn’t make his end of the bargain. To be quite honest, getting your mind scrambled would have probably been better than what did eventually happen to him in this episode.

Seriously, did this guy ever sell a painting that wasn’t a card? His portfolio would just be one person. And they do say that you shouldn’t make your portfolio too many styles but, damn, you can’t just do one person, unless your going to work for one specific type of video game, in which case sure just draw that one space punk chick over and over it seems to work for you.

Bakura decides to show up, and he’s very Bakura about it, introducing a new Bakura mechanic that I didn’t at all predict would ever be a thing.

Bless this storyboarder.

After showing off his weird tarot ability for no other good reason than to mess with Pegasus for a little bit, he decides to make me regret ever saying this necklace looked like it has five dicks.

I am so sorry, I had no idea! I had no idea it would be shooting lasers! What the hell, show?? What genre am I even watching anymore??

Also this whole concept that at any point these items can just shoot anime lasers and start a...whatever this trope is called, is so bizarre to me. They CAN do this...but they prefer to use cards.

They CAN do this, at any point, but they prefer to trap the souls of you and your friends in a card so you must play even more cards.

Or they can shoot you with a laser and solve their problems that way.

But why would they? They can like...play cards and do tarot and read minds and make card monsters real so who would ever want to shoot freakin lasers!

I do appreciate that Pegasus’ laser is pink like the salmon I chose for his font.

My bro argues that Pegasus probably sees just fine with the golden eyeball, but I feel like it can’t be the same, like a Spike Spiegal situation. It’s not like they ever tell us, anyway.

Him being alive for centuries is just never brought up for the rest of the episode. It comes up here and then Bakura’s like “Woopsie! Change the subject!”

Kid’s show!

As a kid an episode of the Rugrats freaked me the hell out--you know the one where Reptar becomes alive? I couldn’t take that one, it was terrifying. So maybe I’m not one to judge, because I was not a normal kid when it came to anxiety (in fact a legit phobia of dogs gave me pretty severe panic attacks on a weekly basis) but, it seems like Yugioh is a lot like brother’s Grimm because they are SO READY to cut off body parts, revive corpses, and overall gross me out, just to make a point.

Is it necessary? Eh.

But is it bizarre body horror we can stuff in this kid’s story? YES LETS DO IT.

With the way they set this up it looked as if they were just going to have them show up in the nick of time or something, but instead the show was like “lol, these kids? You’re kidding, right?”

He’s literally missing an eye and Croquet’s exact line was something like “he’s fallen ill.”

Also, I’m glad we got a cameo from Double-Spike Mohawk Mullet Man in this episode, giving Pegasus a fireman carry like a trooper.

So, because they can’t not, and because Pegasus’ security is only effective at random times of the day (they must have a lot of smoke breaks or something) the four decide to raid Pegasus’ bedroom. Why would you ever want to do this to the guy who was ritually sacrificing people the night before!?

Joey’s weird crushes on blondes that are...not in High School. Joey. Stop this. You are a child.

Anyways, Tea goes straight for the juicy stuff, because if there’s anything in this world that I would never ever want to read is a grown man’s journal filled with all his unfiltered thoughts.

Then we’re welcomed into a Pegasus Flashback, because why not make a tragic past even more tragic? Anyways, it’s OK because anime food lives here.

Bro called them gravity melons. I want to point out the party cups drawn from the side sitting on the round table we see from the top. Love it. Also realllllly love that guy with the mustache and glasses in the bottom right corner. There’s some good stuff here in this vaguely 80′s flashback.

Anyway, she totally dies. The flashback goes through things we’ve been over before--they get married, she gets sick, she turns into a rose and then becomes a grave in a really poorly kept graveyard.

And so Pegasus turns to religion. Yes, you read that right, He decides, he wants to find a religion that will explain afterlife to him, and he’s like I might as well start with the oldest and work up, so he goes to Egypt.

Uh...OK. I mean if you’re just looking for a religion with an afterlife you could have chosen...almost any of them. You could have stayed in America and like gone to...anywhere but, the guy was like “Mummies, youknow?” and went to Egypt although Cecelia is already dead and buried so it’s not like he can do the mummy trick to her now. It’s a little LATE?

My brother and I were so entranced by this bizarre hat, that we wanted to see if it’s ever been made real. AND IT HAS.

MARVEL AT IT:

IT IS VERY EXPENSIVE.

LOOK AT THAT DUMB HAT!

We checked Amazon for cheaper listings, but only found trucker hats with the Square Mason symbol on it, and Illuminati trucker hats like this one.

My brother wrote this note to them. I hope they read it and take it to heart.

Anyways, our newly found joy, held aloft by the discovery of perfect square brimmed hats was quickly sullied.

His hat is a transformer. But a round to square kind.

So in walks this guy. His name is Shadi. I’m telling you that right now because I want you to pay attention to how long it takes before we find out his name is Shadi. He is going to tell us his name at some point, and it’s very weird when it happens.

Pegasus doesn’t seem to realize it is not at all normal for a guy in modern Egypt to be walking around with this massive ankh on his chest (eh...you can’t see it in these pictures, but there’s a HUGE ankh just hanging around his neck) with earrings and pharaoh makeup. Pegasus is just that type of sheltered American. He’s like...well you look like someone from a movie so it must be legit. And that is how Pegasus decides to follow a guy who is clearly an ancient spooky wizard into an ancient death dungeon crypt.

I feel like Pegasus could have easily avoided this whole situation he got himself into.

Shadi has a whole speech about how the eyeball has a lot of power, and that he’s got to protect it all yada yada--but at the same time Shadi is like “BUT I gotta make sure some people use it so a lot of terrible things happen. You’d think I’d just...leave this stuff in this crypt so it’ll never be a problem and the world will never be cursed with terrible dark magic that was sealed away for thousands of years, but...I’m gonna make it happen anyway...and it’s not my fault...”

How many times has Shadi done this? It’s suggested that Pegasus is not the first.

It’s pretty gross, and while it’s done in shadow (which was a nice visual allusion to Shadow Magic), it’s still pretty gruesome for a kids show. To happen twice in one episode of this kid’s show, haha.

She calls him by his full name “Maxamillion” which made me realize he’s probably never shortened his name to “Max” in his entire life.

I’m glad Pegasus making out with a ghost happened on screen. This is now the most romance we’ve seen in all of Yugioh. Good.

So did Pegasus actually write the part where he made out with a vision, though?

I’m curious about how that process works. But, I don’t think we’ll ever find out.

Anyways, next time, on this very same episode of Yugioh:

Will Bakura stick this eyeball in he own eye or will he back out last minute and just hang it from his necklace and pretend it was there the whole time? Will Tea next read Pegasus’ food diary only to discover, in horror, that he drank upwards 60 liters of grape juice and far exceeded his daily calorie intake? Will security even realize these children have been snooping in all of Pegasus’ personal stuff for the past 30 minutes?

#Yugioh #yugioh recap #photo recap #s1 ep40 #tea gardner #yugi muto #tristan taylor #bakura #joey gardner #maxamillian pegasus #pegasus #cecelia #some weird psychic fight #with lasers #and then someones eye gets replaced on screen #square brimmed hat

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costello-music-cr · 5 years ago

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ALSO PERCY VS GROG OVER THE SKULL WAS THE BEST FUCKING THING EVER!

PERCY, NO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?!

GROG NO! SWEETHEART I SEE YOUR TRYING BUT NO!

THE MADNESS! THE INTERPARTY ANARCHY! JUST AMAZING!

#critical role s1 ep40 #critical role campaign 1 #critical role

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sandsoftide · 2 years ago

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Rewatching Mianite s1, around ep40. is this anything

Mianite’s temple is unguarded and his armor hidden. He requires constant devotion and action.

Diante’s temple is solid, but it’s secrets are hidden behind puzzles. His armor prevents movement. He wants intelligence, but also the willingness to fight and potentially die.

Ianite gives only leather armor and a bow. Her follower stays at a distance and watches, only interfering to enforce balance, just like how she is missing and cannot intefere.

#tidethought #mianite meta in 2022 why not

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leeenuu · 4 years ago

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Apparently it’s an open ending for Detective Anna??? Russian fans were pretty pissed because they thought it was going to be a happy ending. And maybe there’s a season 3?? Man I knew I got m hopes up for nothing

you and me both, anon. i mean, i mostly clicked through the last four eps but just i’m like???

i don’t even know where to start bc what the actual fuck was that?? idk if you have read the interviews but the head writer and the actor who played pyotr said basically we’re gonna get a happy ending but also a storyline which could be explored in a potential s3. i think the words “happy ending” mean something totally different in russian bc that final was the farthest thing from a happy ending.

(spoilers for the final four eps)

anyways, turns out i was partially right that polina was one of the bad guys but they killed her off real quick and the real krutin was revealed to be skryabin. and ofc skryabin kidnapped anna b4 she could get married to yakov. like i’m actually pretty mad abt the ending bc this show has been my comfort show for like four months and basically the writers just were like "get rekt, leenu, no happy ending 4 u" but i feel for the russians bc they were waiting for s2 for four years (!!) and they got this clusterfuck.

i went to twitter and the russian fans are very mad and rightly so. one user basically said “i waited four years for this?? fuck that, i’m not gonna watch s3, fuck the writers”. and that is so sad bc that ending lit feels like a slap in the face. like you’d think that the writers learned from s1 bc s1 had yakov disappearing without a trace in the final and then the show was cancelled and some years later, they were picked up by another channel, basically getting a second chance, so it would make sense that s2 is gonna be closure for the long-time fans. but noooo. like the chances for s3 are quite high, i guess, but to be so ballsy and have s2 end like that... imo that was just so unnecessary.

they could have done something like this: anna and yakov getting married, the final scene being them dancing together, overjoyed bc they have been waiting for this moment for so long and then the camera pans outside where in the shadows is a dark figure who is focusing on anna and says something like “one day you’ll be mine“ and the camera shows skryabin’s face who is grinning ominously and then end credits. you see, anon? now that is a happy ending with also something to explore in s3.

and also what is gonna happen in s3, huh? bc anna is hypnotised and i don’t think yakov is gonna find her in a few days. so is yakov gonna find her after some years? and during that time so many godawful things could happen to anna. honestly, i feel sick if i think abt all that. and that final scene with nina (who ofc faked her illness and later, death) who was sailing into sunset and reading the news abt anna. that makes the clown in me think that nina is gonna save anna bc she owns yakov for helping her son and also her son is in zatonsk and i’m pretty sure nina would’ve kidnapped her son and moved away from russia with him.

and also there were two things that bothered me but they’re not that important. first off, anna and yakov had almost no scenes together in the final two eps. in ep40, they were just staring at each other for like 15 seconds across the street and that was it. sure, their eyes were killing me again but still the writers could have thrown me a bone or something. like they could’ve given us the actual moment when yakov proposed or maybe a dinner with anna, yakov and the rest of the fam but no, we flash-forward a month to the wedding day and then all that fuckery happened.

and the second thing that bothered me was that there was a new character in the final two eps and i was very confused why did he get so much screen time, lit had more scenes with anna than yakov had with anna. bc i was clicking through the eps i didn’t hear his name so i went to twitter and found out his last name was ulyanov. that name told me absolutely nothing but then i saw that his first name and patronymic was vladimir ilyich and i just went “oh no... oh no, nononononoooo”. i googled ulyanov and sure enough, ulyanov also went by the name lenin... they brought in fucking lenin into the final. and i ask for what?? no, what the actual fuck is this fucking fuckery?? basically that was the final straw for me bc i was already quite pissed off abt the ending. but this made me lit fume bc lenin ofc was the first head of the soviet union and the soviet union occupied my country for more than half a century, mass-deported more than 20,000 estonians and ofc killed god knows how many people. so yeah... i may be overreacting but i lit do not understand why there was a need to bring in lenin, maybe when i get to see the scenes with subs i will understand but right now i’m just like 😐😐.

anyways, if there is a s3, i’m def gonna watch it bc i just wanna know how will it end but i hope that s3 will be the final season bc ffs just let those characters be happy for once and maybe they could get the s1 writers back as well. and if there isn’t, well then i hope the russians will write a lot of fix-it fics. but in conclusion, overall i did enjoy s2 but yeah... the final just broke me. but also... i found out that alexandra and dmitriy are doing another show together and honestly i’m kinda excited for that, even if there is not gonna be any subs. and if u are still reading this, anon, then i'm so sorry you had to read all of that and also u deserve a pat on the back <33

#detective anna #анна-детективъ #answered

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