I'm Seeing Way Too Many People Give Sam Shit For Laughing At Gwen And Too Little People Acknowledging

I'm seeing way too many people give Sam shit for laughing at Gwen and too little people acknowledging how off and abrupt that laugh sounded

Almost as if something was compelling him to laugh, you know the same way Mr. Bonzo's mortal victims were laughing uncontrollably as they were being eaten alive ??

My theory right now is there's something preventing people from knowing about him, same way most people couldn't tell the Not-them weren't their loved ones

And just like with the Not-them there was one person it didn't work on, and that person survived the encounter with Mr. Bonzo

And Alice, notably, didn't laugh

Oh man, this is an *interesting* one.

"It was I who begged patience, certain as I was that my work on Micrographia might have rendered a remedy for that most awful plague. It was I who warned that to enact a Protocol against the great city of London itself was a step beyond the rights of our position, but you were, as is so oft the case, correct in your steadfastness and I confess purgation of all that most dangerous and unfit knowledge was both necessary and good." (bolding mine.)

In 1665 there was an outbreak of bubonic plague in London; during this time Robert Hooke was pioneering the study of life on a microscopic scale. In 1666 the Great Fire of London destroyed a major portion of the city; Hooke played a major role in helping the city to rebuild, and rose to wealth and respect as a result.

So:

1. The plague year had a supernatural cause (or Hooke and Boyle thought it did, at minimum.)

2. The Great Fire of London was probably a result of the Protocol being carried out. Yikes.

3. The Protocol, however, was not about fighting disease directly. It was about purging "dangerous and unfit knowledge." This lines up with the 1666 fire: along with everything else lost to it, some £150,000 worth of books were destroyed, which... that's in 1660s money. I'm not sure how many books that would have been but it had to be quite a few.

So if this universe had the equivalent of Leitners, this might be where a bunch of them went. Also seems increasingly likely that the Magnus Institute fire was an enactment of the Protocol.

Not even touching the whole apple thing right now other than to say I'm doubling down on my suspicion that ink5oul's tattoo is a reference to the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Got a lot of other thoughts but they're going to have to wait for after work.

alice dyer, the only sane person in this podcast

Once again, a tmagp rant

Spoilers for tmagp 19

So the “Protocol” talked about in the incident has to have something to do with the burned Magnus Institute building. Given that in the incident it’s implied that fire and destruction is what is done when the “Protocol” is executed.

So is the OIAR the future incarnation of this Royal “Good Science” Society, and they seem to be doing the same sort of balance the fears and there incarnation to keep the public hidden from the almost fatal chaos it would cause, given the chaos of the Mr. Bonzo incident.

Also the fact that Colin specifically says he watches, relating back to the first episode where they might have mentioned a big boss above Lena, I can’t remember but I saw a post mentioning it, I’m going to go back and look just to confirm.

Also, the mention of Gwen’s family possibly having pull at the OIAR is interesting and could point to Elias still the big bad?

I honestly don’t know but thank you for coming to my ted talk!

bit of an odd one but bare with me, I was thinking what if celia keeps waking up on the edge of roads and train tracks and stuff is because she’s kind of sleep walking to hill top road. like the web, or the tmagp-verse equivalent of the web, keeps pulling her to it, trying to pull her back through to her original dimension? idk just a thought