#tmagp 30

[thermodynamic-comedian]

also it's so funny to me that gwen found like a whole bottle of alcohol under lena's desk and her first reaction was "oooh wow what a rebel" and not the much more obvious conclusion of "lena kelley drinks on the job because of the amount of bullshit she has to deal with on a nightly basis" or even "lena kelley drinks on the job to numb herself to all the trauma she has been through and is currently going through"

it's such a beautiful instance of gwen proving how little she understands about lena kelley and how she functions

[artromanthur-lester]

This came to me in a vision. a stupid vision, but a vision nonetheless

[sqelton]

Episode 30... owaow... bye bye archivist.

I might have maybe overdid it with their appearance but my imagination tends to go wild when visualizing the weirdos of this podcast.

is the archivist monster jon? probably not but that hasn't stopped me from imagining a resemblance.

[mikewacowski]

[james-spooky]

eh close enough welcome back mag 34 anatomy class students ‼️

[cruelestpigeon]

Sam 20 minutes before he gets thrown into a post apocalyptic world :

[find-me-in-hell]

so. to summarise that episode. uhm. colins probably dead. freddys fucked. lenas left. gwen has lenas job now. the rift was pulling celia. celia kinda manipulated sam to ultimately throw him in the rift. the archivist was there. but also went through the rift. sams essentially schrödingers cat???? all the while gwen, was just drinking in lenas office. the oiars total number of staff has just been halved. oh and a guy turned into concrete??? honestly not bad for a finale it would he worse (worms)

[theineffableoystercatcher]

The archivist, turning up in the middle of Sam and Celia's relationship breakdown:

[newspecies]

YAYYYYYY. can you tell i love when reality itself is described as something that can be hurt and torn open and bleed

[necromancers-incorporated]

People calling Sam and Celia's ship name "ripsam" really had the right idea huh

[aro-antic]

i lied, i don't actually like sex. put your clothes back on. i have to balance it. for him. get in the world-wound

[thermodynamic-comedian]

you understand this is essentially lena walking away from an explosion like an action movie protagonist. this is her moment. she IS the moment. she said "you want me out? i'm gone baby. don't come crying to me when the weight of responsibility that i've carried with me for years threatens to crush you <3"

she's iconic. she's everything. the entire rest of this show is going to be one huge "i told you so" from her.

and an even bigger "i told you so" from yours truly.

[some-zer0]

Good luck on your road trip with the Archivist, Sam

[jjcattt]

[technically-human]

Oh, Archivist, we're really in it now

[hardlyhardinge]

There's something about the tmagp characters' motivations, and who they're willing to sacrifice, and how the people or things they prioritise act towards them, and how it goes for them.

Because

Celia is willing to sacrifice Sam, who loves her and who she genuinely does care about, to stay with Jack. And then there's a moment where she isn't sure she can go through with it, and she loses him anyway without having to act, and she'll probably never know exactly what choice she would have made in the end, even though she's consciously planned this for weeks.

Alice straight up abandons Teddy and Colin, who are both Not Doing Well, when they are explicitly asking her for help, to go and protect Sam, who has told her not to come after him. It's barely a decision for her - she quite clearly stops thinking about anything or anyone else.

Sam finds out that Celia betrayed him and STILL puts himself in danger to protect her. And ends up falling through the gap to another world, which is exactly what she was planning to do to him.

Gwen throws Lena under the bus the moment the opportunity comes up, purely for the sake of her own ambition, which is part of a broader pattern of decisions. And it's immediately obvious when she gets what she wanted that it's only going to go badly for her.

Idk idk it's the love and the need and the want of it all, and the ruthlessness that can come out of it, and the way they make or don't make their choices, and the consequences of it aaaaaa