Thinkin About Just How Hard Tmagp Is Pushing That Sam Is Physically Weak. Like Yeah There's A Few References

thinkin about just how hard tmagp is pushing that Sam is physically weak. like yeah there's a few references in tma to Jon being scrawny and weak as well, just as there are references to Martin being fat, but the Sheer Amount of times that Sam has been shown/spoken of as not just twiggy, but physically weak (and a little pathetic about it) has me thinking about things. not specific things. mostly I'm just a bit worried about why this has so much significance placed upon it. and it is not meshing well with how Sam, despite this weakness, attempted to body tackle a hammer-wielding IT manager. what else are you going to do, Sam, and how poorly will it end for you since you are Physically Unable To Do Much

yes those worms on the ground are a tma reference. yes i will be elaborating. get ready for the worst fucking hour of your life

When your friend who works for the government accidentally loses a hard drive containing several hundred gigabytes of just close up images of eyes

making shitposts until i get struck with motivation from the gods

Straight relationships scare me cause one moment you'll be out getting coffee and the next they're pushing you through an interdimensional rift

thinking about Jonathan Sims and Samama Khalid.

Thinking about how, by all laws of Horror Story Trope, Jon should not be the protagonist. If I'd never heard of tma and you showed me a lineup of the archives crew and asked me to guess who died first I would have pointed to Jon. He's the paranoid professor archetype. The one who dies discovering some crucial bit of information at the beginning to push the plot forward. He's unfriendly, cowardly, insecure, and makes other people do his investigation for him for all of season 1. He doesn't do anything even remotely heroic until the second half of the show. He has no interest in romance for the first half of the show. The audience wasn't even aware Jon had a dark past until he starts telling us about A Guest for Mr. Spider. But he is *Chosen.* Despite the fact that he has no actual qualities of a hero, he's chosen as the eyes special boy. Over the course of the show he starts to become more and more like an actual protagonist. He starts trying to save the world, resist the eye, all that jazz. For one reason or another, being the Archivist turns Jonathan "definition of a side character" Sims into the main character.

Then we have Sam. Sam starts acting like a horror/mystery protagonist almost immediately. He is young, charming, has a mysterious past (that we are made aware of pretty much right away) and a curiosity that causes him to frequently put himself personally in the path of The Horrors. He pokes around where he doesn't belong and looks for clues. He's the center of an office love triangle for goodness sake. He has a strong sense of duty to others and will put himself in harms way to protect those he loves. He exudes main character energy. He has everything a horror protagonist needs to push the plot along. But Sam wasn't *Chosen.* Despite being exactly the person you'd expect the plot to follow. And I can't help but wonder if, in the same way that the narrative made Jon important, it's going to make Sam unimportant. Irrelevant. If, with his rejection from The Magnus Institute, Sam is going to disappear completely. Become a mystery.

Because at the end of the day, so much of your life, your impact on the world, your relevance, has absolutely nothing to do with you. So much of it has everything to do with those in power, and whether they decide you're important.

It all comes down to your own rotten luck.