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No, seriously, what makes Celia so special??? If Darrien and the other "emaciated souls" were each balanced out by someone getting eaten by the Centre then I guess it makes sense, but then why didn't Hill Top just eat someone to balance Celia? Why does two people going in her place balance it out instead of unbalancing it in the other direction?
And what about the other people we know who've crossed over? What balanced Anya Villette? Or Jon and Martin? Or the goddamn Fears???
#this is genuinely bugging me#im sure theres a reason for it but now i have to wait months or possibly years to learn it >:(#the magnus protocol#tmagp spoilers#30 dead end job#my magnus protocol stuff#original post#queue cause i'll be at work when the episode airs#celia ripley#magnus protocol speculation/analysis#the magnus archives#tma spoilers#<- very big spoilers so tagging to be safe
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OMG HIII BABYGIRLLL heheeh *twirling my hair, giggling* also, COMPULSION- ASHDGDGSGAGAGSGSGSGSGGD
Goodbye king, your appearance was sudden but I liked you nonetheless *wipes the tears off of my face*
Yippee he will finally get the answers he wanted! Yay- oh no
WHAT DO YOU MEAN NOT AGAIN ALICE
HAS SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPEN TO YOU ALREADY!?? WANNA SHEAR IT WITH THE REST OF THE CLASS-
#mimocrocodile rambles#not art related#tma#the magnus archives#the magnus protocol#tmp podcast#tmp spoilers#tmp 30#this episode was wild#I'm so normal about this i swear
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Me reading the description of episode 30: oh, that's fine! that's not so bad! i can deal with that!
Me after listening to episode 30:
#reaction pic by @kalo-pop#so how are we dealing folks.#there is. so much. so many bad decisions.#colin for one is fucked. alice girl you're about to have soooo much guilt added on to you#teddy might not be doing too hot either so with sam that's 3 people that are going to weigh on your conscience!#most importantly though. gwen and lana. *that* was the scariest part of the episode.#gwen has just doomed them all i fear (even more than they already were)#i knew celia was up to something but i was still SHOCKED like oh my god girl you really were not going to hesitate#im *sure* we're going to hear from sam again. i'm sure. i'm just... not sure if it will actually be sam.#or if it will be all him if you get my drift#all in all a great finale! we got to the hole in the universe faster than i expected#but i guess it just feels like that bc im a tma veteran#it was much more manageable than tma's s1 finale at least lmao. i *could not* handle the worm sounds#... oh man what am i going to do on thursdays now???#we do still have the epilogue and bonus content coming but then???#it will be a barren few months#the magnus protocol#tmagp#tmagp spoilers#tmagp 30
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Am I tripping or are there a lot of similarities between tma and wtnv episodes? Dana ep 30 situation was so lonely coded!
#wtnv#welcome to night vale#episode 30#dana#the magnus archives#tma podcast#the lonely#i love my horror podcasts
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Yo... so does this ending mean we might see TMA universe characters come back in the next season?
#tmp spoilers#the magnus protocol#tmp season finale#tmp episode 30#tmp dead end job#tma#the magnus archives
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I started listening to the Magnus archives about a month or 2 ago and I've only just started season two..
#by the time i finish this shit jane prentis will have killed me.#im saying this as if there wasnt 40 30 min long episodes#also i love it!#tma#tmp#tma podcast#the magnus archives#jane prentiss
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Tmagp 30 thoughts
Vocal performances all slayed. 10/10
I think there’s a lot of good and bad in the finale! But overall, it feels underbaked. (Or overplotted/overplanned?)
I’ll save my finalized thoughts on the hilltop center to see if it’s developed in further seasons, because uh, hmm. Jonny said in the live drop that carousels of horrors were his favorite to write, but they sure are not realllyyyy my favorite to listen to. They’re kind of thematic scattershot. And yeah, one of my critiques about TMA is that I don’t love how we only rarely see how the fears combine and interact. Having multiple creepy things in a curiosity cabinet -com shopping center doesn’t really solve that problem for me.
The idea of a character turning a blind eye to an obviously creepy job is still interesting, especially in how it parallels the staff of the OIAR. But that’s kinda the start and end of my interest in the custodian? It feels like this story could have been shrunk to 1/3 length and had a better effect. I just feel like this should have been a midseason statement, and the finale could have focused on having some sort of action or tension. Honestly, I wasn’t expecting the finale to have a statement at all, to be structurally in line with early TMA. Maybe a full statement/story from Celia, giving the non-TMA audience some idea of why she thinks there’s nothing to go back to in her universe. Hell. Maybe she could just. Tell Sam, uncompelled. I would have loved to see her try to convince him to jump. Convince him that her new life matters more than his (perceived) failure of one. Instead… this is another episode where I feel like the double meaning titles weigh down what the statement could be. And it’s the season finale.
I wondered early on if the finale for this season would feel more like setup for future seasons, and yep. Yep it did. It just felt like there was this inherent tension between the stakes of the story, which are already at interdimensional travel, and the level of danger it feels like everyone is in. Not to mention how Celia just drops a list of alchemical balance things out of the blue. Magnus Protocol is in a tricky situation: they need to set up a new conflict and new characters, and at the same time, Magpod has already done mega-apocalypse hellscapes and so TMagP might feel the need to go bigger. (Imo I don’t think sequels always need to raise the stakes but I understand that’s industry standard). It’s also tackling alchemy, a notoriously complex subject that’s probably hard to explain to an audience in any way that feels natural. You can’t just throw murder worm lady and screaming main character in the finale and call it a day. There’s a lot going on, less time, and I don’t know if the characterization this season was consistent (/consistently good) enough to hold the full weight of it all.
OKAY, WHELMED THOUGHTS OVER, now for the good! Surprise surprise, it’s all the little character payoffs!
Gwen and Lena’s confrontation was EVERYTHING. Gwen is kicking anthills, and Lena is so content to let her stand in them while the ants crawl up her legs. I won’t lie though, I’m not sure if this plotline will be interesting to me. I think it depends on how fast the OIAR staff can get Gwen to actually be on their side.
Sam deciding to protect Celia by pushing the archivist into the void is SENSATIONAL CHARACTER PAYOFF. (This is my interpretation of the scene, audio was super unclear once again, and there was a line change from transcript to podcast that made this super ambiguous in the actual canon audio.) My poor guy has ZERO self esteem, and still wants to be a hero. He probably realized that if what Celia just told him was true, an archivist could actually kill her on the spot. My guess is that (tma spoilers) this balanced the rift not because Celia replaced her own missing soul (plenty of folks got sent through hilltop road in that same incident) but because an archivist+a person were pulled through to replace Jon and Martin. Truly excited to see where they end up, and if this archivist gets developed more as a character next season. Also the implications of interdimensional balance on what happened at the end of TMA are… interesting.
Oh Alice. Everything in this intricately balanced house of checking up on people and soothing them and deflecting tension with jokes is about to come crashing down. I’m so sorry this is happening to you.
And yes, this is a super lukewarm episode review but I do wanna say I liked this season a lot, and TMAGP is still a cut above a LOT of horror I have read/listened to this year. I’m hoping seasons 2 and 3 will either steer further into a direct TMA sequel, angle OR steer clear and become their own thing. TMAGP is stuck uncomfortably in the middle right now. Just be the good parts of her. But completely new.
#Want to retroactively say that tma season 1 finale is really good and i did not do it credit by hyperbolizing about it in the post.#Hoping this S1 finale is as much of a thematic sleeper agent as jane prentiss was.#the magnus protocol#tmagp#tmagp spoilers#tmagp 30#tmagp critique#skyeoak’s episode notes
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"It's kind of funny that they suggest David Laylow get professional help for his PTSD, but he refuses. Then, in the next episodes, the people at the Archives Institute (aka Martin blackwood) suggest that John get professional help for his paranoia and PTSD, and he refuses as well, right?"
Plus: "I love how the whole fandom has been set on fire by episode 22. I'm just sitting in the same fire with my coffee, re-listening to things from the beginning."
:D
#the magnus archives#TMA#tma relisten#podcast#jonathan sims#the magnus protocol#magpod#episode 30#tmagp#tmagp 22
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Do you guys think Jonathan sims reads fanfiction on archive of our own because in a way since it’s dubbed an archive fanfictions are statements on there
What do you think he reads fanfic about
#the magnus archives#tma#jonathan sims#the amount of spoilers I get in which I know later lore while only being within episodes of 30-40 is a lot#but also quite little
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I zoomed through, like, 24-29 yesterday so that I could listen to 30 right away... I am so! The themes all clicked so well? Like? How could I not have seen it coming...
#i haven't been as engaged with tmpagp as i was with tma but like...#all of the motherhood episodes? the one where that guy killed his double?#there were more things that i noticed earlier but no longer remember#also... the weird parallel & contrast between martin stabbing john to save him and send the fears to another world#versus celia threatening sam with a knife to send him to another world (where she believes the fears are)#sending the archivist back (possibly)#the magnus protocol#tmagp#tmagp 30#dante dicit
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WEAVING IS DEFINITELY A THING I DO NOW
#I LOVE IT!!!!#I've already listened to 30 episodes of tma too this is the thing that makes me finish it fjdjjd#weaving
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From everything she said it sounds like Celia doesn't know the apocalypse was reversed so like. She was absolutely prepared to sacrifice Sam to a full-on Fearscape to stay in this dimension.
#like i get that she needs to stay with her kid but. yikes.#the magnus protocol#tmagp spoilers#30 dead end job#my magnus protocol stuff#original post#queue cause i'll be at work when the episode airs#tma spoilers#celia ripley#samama khalid#thats one of the big differences between archives and protocol i think#the archives main crew acted like dicks a lot of the time but deep down they were mostly kind people just trying to do their best#the protocol main crew acts nice and polite but just under the surface theyre all /dicks/#id much rather hang with the archives crew is what im saying
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nded to. listen to tma more so i can see MICHAEL AGAINNN or maybe gerry ♡♡♡ or that other bastard martin /silly
#THIS IS FOR SILLY EFFECT I LOVE MARTIN#MARTIN HAS DOND NOTHING EROMG IN HIS LIFE EVER#my friends have informed me that helen is Approaching rapidly. im.not super far in yet....yippee for when she does !!!!!#i hope i get to see tim soon. i hope he suffers. no psrticular reason its just that two of the assistants have encounted The Worms so far#so naturally the third does as well#im on episode uhhhhhhhh 30 i think???? idk#i ♡ tma so far
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keep thotting it up in heaven king 💔🕊️
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I didn't realize how short silt verses is. After magnus archives, three seasons at 15 episodes each is so much shorter than I expected
#tsv#the silt verses#was shocked that 30 episodes was two seasons#anyway I'm on s3 now#cheadar sauce#tma#magpod#the magnus archives
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episode one liveblog (sort of) let’s go
jon sims you dramatic fucker. /aff
did not miss the four minutes of ads LMAO
you can HEAR the contempt in his voice as he talks about gertrude.
”i don’t count martin” giggling, i love asshole jon.
”tim, sasha, and. yes, i guess, martin.”
ANGLERFISH ANGLERFISH ANGLERFISH.
”recording by jonathan sims, head archivist of the magnus institute, london” DUDE. i don’t know why that took me so aback.
mike. like michael. goddamnit jonny sims, what’s it with mikes and michaels.
THE STATIC.
“can i have a cigarette?”
i love the background music so much.
i remember thinking how much he got into it, how much of a theatre kid he seemed to be.
ANGLERFISH.
”i looked at their feet, and saw that they weren’t quite touching the ground.”
torch. i always forget that torches are the same thing as flashlights.
“statement ends, this was fucking stupid”
sasha mention <3
”look at this drunk creeper, ell-oh-ell.” i hate how he says lol, i don’t know what it is about it LMAO.
episode two!
JOSHUA GILLESPIE <3
i remember one time while rambling to my mother about joshua, she kept thinking i was saying “lesbian” and not “gillespie”.
got bored this is being continued hours later.
joshua gillespie you absolute fucker, i love you and want to kiss you on the mouth.
oh no, what ever shall you do, waking up with the key.
”perhaps a bit elaborate” Joshy Boy Elaborate Is What You Need.
”it’s odd how fear can become as routine as hunger.”
yeah, my living room coffin is making weird noises, Music Time.
ooo, knock knock.
hi john. surprised to see you, shocked to see me.
smash smash on the ground.
breekon and hope, let’s go. i love.
joshua gillespie, the hero. we salute you.
”it’s always nice to hear my hometown isn’t always devoid of odd happenings”
giggle that was great.
episode three!!
tmagp ad, oh em gee (<- this loser listened to tmagp premier today and is very normal about it)
”she sleeps with other women” what is this ad, i want to listen to this podcast. /hj
”rusty quill presents… the magnus archives…” stop with your verbal ellipsis, dude. LMAO
”jonathan sims, head archivist of the magnus institute, london”
GRAHAM!!!!! I love Graham so much.
”hey man, i always see you writing, how’s your notes coming along?” “i. i don’t take notes?”
sexy graham rights.
the amount of times i’ve had to rewind because i didn’t process it.
“hey graham” “HOLY SHIT”
public transport is scary, no judgement there.
i honestly never understood the statement giver’s discomfort with graham. to the point you couldn’t even let him see which building.
yeowch graham what did you do. 😔
“apparently he was gay.”
weird hooks weird hooks weird hooks woo.
graham’s notebooks 🥰.
graham honestly sounds like an interesting guy, i think if i’d ever met him, i’d befriend him.
TABLE. WAIT, IS IT THE TABLE USED TO TRAP NOTTHEM?
wait. wait wait wait. oh my god.
it is i think.
stalking your coworkers is Creepy. jon, please don’t take ideas. (jon then proceeds to take ideas)
driving through ohio at night is fun, ngl.
i saw him take one of his notebooks. he ate it.
wowza, all sexy gay people eat notebooks, do you eat notebooks?
“i even saw him freak out at the ice cream truck” that is honestly me. any loud sound? i panic like there’s no tomorrow
memorizing his pizza order <3
fuck capitalism. (“i had to drop out of the college course to work late nights”)
notthem notthem notthem wooohooo
okay i take it back, ohio backroads are NOT fun at night.
notthem <3
yeah i kinda. just stood there.
the background music slow rising!!
”from my months of watching” haha
not!graham!!
imposter? like…… among…
i love the description so much.
aw man, bye notebooks ✌️
hey amy, i’m going to come to your house.
statement ends!
tim mention ❤️❤️❤️.
“i trust coworker testimony as far as i can burn it.”
ohio hills and sharp turns at night are not fun, my stomach is in my throat.
JOURNAL JOURNAL JOURNAL JOURNAL
KEEP WATCHING.
#tma#the magnus archives#live-blogging#i discovered my attention span is absolutely horrible#the first two episodes were listened to at like 10:00 this morning then decided i was bored and listened to the mechs for the next few hour#i only started episode three at like 6:30-7:00 PM#mag 1#mag 2#mag 3#edit forgot to mention this is a relisten
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