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I think a thing that's interesting about the new format is that it changes completly the dinamic of the fake stories.
In TMA the fake statements are a light hearted idea perfect for fluffy and funny fics and to smille imagining because all the statements are consensual. People go to the Magnus Institute to leave their stories. And yeah it's terrifying that Jonah created a system that is based on the explotation of desperated people wanting to be listened but it was a thing to think on the real ones. The fake ones could be jokes, pranks, people lying because they thought the institute payed for stories, myths. It's all alright.
But now in Protocol is all survailance. An eldrish database watching you. Your texts, e-mails and even your therapy sessions. Sam asks about it first time. Is all non consensual. Even the non-real ones. So you might be home alone at night and be scared by the normal background noise and text a friend about it, about your imagination creating horrible scenarios. And now you not only fed The Horrors a little bit but also some tired goverment agent has to read it and turn it into papperwork.
It fo me also translates into how in TMA the characthers from the start were already aware of the tapes. Not of what they were but at least they knew they were being recorded. In TMAGP they don't seem to notice the cameras or Sam's phone making a random call to store it, or any of the ways they are being watched constantly.
For all the excited Magnus Protocol posts, I haven't seen anyone comment on Sam accidentally checking the box on his on-boarding papers for being on the "Response Team"?
Does that not worry anyone with what we remember about the Magnus Institute's employment policies?
This knocked me on my ass
Alice reminds me of Tim and I cannot put into words how much that worries me
hey sam. sam. what do you mean by a "blast from the past." sam. sam what do you mean by that
corruption as a metaphor for guilt… corruption as a metaphor for love… horrific description of slowly turning into a plant… incredible
with the caveat that its only ep 4 and characters are still being developed;
im surprised at how cautious alice is
from ep 1 and 2, she comes across as a jokester, as lackadaisical, self-described as 'your cool older sister'- so i didn't expect her to be the one telling Sam to stop poking his nose into things
its not so much a respect for authority (calling lena an 'emotionally distant mother' in ep 1 was just as disrespectful as anything gwen said imo) but there is a fierce undercurrent to all her actions to Stay Out Of Trouble
she is delighted Lena hasn't said more than ten words to her in a year bc it means she is flying under the radar
she wants central IT to look at FR3-d1 but tries to outsource actually asking for it to avoid Colin getting upset with her
she compartmentalises all the weird, spooky and awful things she reads about, she walks away from the cases that are spoken out loud, she does everything in her power to not engage with the work while still doing her job
we don't know (yet) how long Alice has been working in the OIAR, but it is long enough that she knew the 'old guard', it is long enough that she has seen people 'go weird'
either Alice has witnessed or actively been a part of something going wrong or someone digging too deep and being punished for it
ALICE This is not something you go poking around in. Not if you want to keep your job… or your neck.
and now the stakes are even higher for her because the person who could get in trouble here isn't just another co-worker, it's Sam- it's her friend that she got into this job in the first place, and she wants him to stay safe
WXCUSE ME DID HE JUST SAY A FLOATING ORB THAT SOMEHOW WAS ABLE TO COMPLETELY KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THE STATEMENT GIVER IN ITS ENTIRETY? Hehehe welcome back Ceaseless Watcher
why are they saying the word protocol so much. WHAT ARE YOU TELLING US!?
Diversity win! The man who got eaten by the computers has been gay married and divorced!
ALICE DYER MY BELOVED I WOULD DIE FOR YOU
I’m listening to episode 11 and she is quite possibly the most adorable human imaginable. I fw her heavy
TMAGP EP 19 NOTES
ep19
ALCHEMY REFERENCE ALCHEMY JUST LIKE THE ARG ALCHEMY
How does Sam know stuff about alchemy?!?
MAGNUS INSTITUTE WAS DEEP INTO ALL THIS STUFF? 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨
Chesta
“That most regrettable protocol”
Note Robert Boyle, might be important later (Scientist in the late 1600s)
WHAT IS ISAAC NEWTON DOING 😭
WHAT PROTOCOL
“Purgation of all that most dangerous and unfit knowledge was both necessary and good”. Okay. So. What if there’s a big ol conspiracy, DARK related? THINK ABOUT IT. Alice could be involved? Just think about it think think think
“Dread emission”…
Theory: Because the Web’s plan won’t provide an end to itself or the other powers, and The End desires an end, perhaps it’s a form of The End trying to wipe out all of the other dread powers through “the protocol”, and that protocol continues on through OIAR, with externals being used to essentially pit the dread powers against one another? Maybe it’s some sort of web-end agglomeration, because that much planning and manipulation might require some web involvement? 🤨🤨🤨
Is Isaac Newton dealing with… Alchemy?
DUUUUUDDEEEE ISAAC NEWTON CREATED SOMETHING LIVING OUT OF METALS, IM TELLING YOU THIS IS GOING TO HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH FR3-D1
AND THE BIBLICAL REFERENCES?! THANK YOU LORD FOR THIS EPISODE
“Knowledge of good and evil” (the translated latin) THIS REFERS BACK TO MY DARK THEORY
Another statement about something taking root?
THE EYE THE EYE THE EYE THE EYE THE EYE THE EYE THE EYE THE EYE GUYS THE EYE
I did not have “Isaac Newton the Eye Avatar” on my Magnus Protocol bingo card
This “Protocol” is definitely Dark related, or at least reactionary to the Eye
“Are the computers listening to us?” YES SAM YES SAM THEY ARE DONT LISTEN TO ALICE
Lena is MADDDD at Gwen’s classism
Colin what is happenniiiiing
We can’t let “him” know how much we know WHO IS HIM
“Doing mummy and daddy Stasi proud” Stasi is slang that refers to the German secret police. WHO IS HIM COLIN WHO IS HIM?!!?!??!? WHO IS WATCHING YOU
“As long as it all balances” ROBERT SMIRKE GUYS ROBERT SMIRKE AND ALSO WHAT LENA SAID ABOUT BALANCING THINGS AAAA
ALCHEMY AAAAA
My brother (knows everything about Magnus Archives/Protocol only from me), said yesterday:
“Can you imagine, if that hummer destroyed one of them, and the other two are alive. And now, imagine, if that one destroyed is not Augustus…”
And now I really need emotional support😭
i was worrying that colin’s hammer episode had potentially killed chesternorrisaugustus which is obviously still a possibility but. thinking about the statement from 22 and what if it freed slash severed them in some way instead. and what does that mean if it did