ok but Alice "sober up & stop trying to make an impact" Dyer would get along well with Cecil "if you see something say nothing & drink to forget" Gershwin Palmer
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this episode killed me. celia is a MOTHER? sam used to VAUGEPOST? gwen is literally JONATHAN SIMS? lena is basically ELIAS BOUCHARD? SOME OF THEM ARE BENEVOLENT?????????
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girl who believes in monsters but doesn't tell anyone because she signed an NDA
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Sam broke up with Alice.
He broke up with Alice because she didn't know how to take some things seriously. She didn't know when to turn off the jokes. She made one too many jokes about something that wasn't funny and Sam got sick of it.
Do you ever wonder if Alice sat alone in her flat, wishing she was a different person so that she could be what Sam wanted?
And now he needs a job and she wants him back in her life. As a coworker, as a friend, anything. She'll take anything. She misses him.
She's learned her lesson this time. And now every time Sam tells Alice to "turn it off" she does so without any hesitation. She shuts right the hell up. She doesn't do that with any other person in the office. But for Sam, she'll try and be what he wants her to be.
And he goes and gets a crush on his coworker. Not Alice, though. Never Alice. No, he gets a crush on the beautiful, emotionally available girl that he has no past with and all the promises of a future. And she has to watch him bounce around her in a twitter pated mess, trying and failing to flirt and she remember what it was like when he was flirting with her. She remember that sweet, earnest care he gave her and how he too once offered her his good teas.
Maybe it wasn't enough just to be coworkers, to be friends. But it's too late now.
And now he comes back from his date, drunk and happy and looking like he's just a few more dates from getting lucky. She probably doesn't make awkward jokes because she doesn't know how to be real and authentic. Celia's probably perfect for Sam, the way Alice never was.
And now all Alice has left are the jokes, so she makes them and she hopes they hide everything.
They don't. Of course they don't.
"Be professional."
And now she's standing there. The ex girlfriend who's not over her old flame and everyone in the office knows it. She's standing there alone and Sam has robbed her of all the jokes.
Who is she without them?
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I draw nothing for a while then BOOM! Protocol is consuming my waking days (Not complaining).
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I'M CLAWING AT THE WALLS BECAUSE OF THE PARALLELS BETWEEN SAM AND OLIVER BANKS PLEASE
Does the story of Sam's breakdown sound familiar to anyone?? It really reminds me of Oliver Banks' story
Oliver got a job at Barclays, but he ended up having a nervous breakdown, which was the start of his fall to The End
After a while of being unemployed, he got a job at a crystal shop where he worked with Jane Prentiss (who fell into the corruption eventually)
In this case, Sam's crystal shop would be the OIAR
Oliver mentions breaking up with Graham Folger and Graham lost his parents in a car accident
ANDDD WE FIND OUT ALICE'S PARENTS ARE ALSO DEAD AND SHE'S SAM'S EX DO YOU SEE THE PARALLELS POOKIE
In tma, Graham got replaced by the not-them, so is this foreshadowing something will happen to alice god I hope not (but its also implied in tma that Graham knew more about the entities then he let on, same with Alice, remember the no glitch when she said she 'knows'?)
In this case, would Sam have his own 'Jane Prentiss'?
So far, we've been trying to draw parallels on the OIAR staff and the original archival staff,
but what if we've been making parallels with the wrong characters?
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I just know Alex was so fucking satisfied with himself for slipping "treason is BUSSIN" into a serious scene. I hope he and Johnny threw fat mugs at each other over it during editing. The raw existence of Alice Dyer has corrupted all capacity for normal fuckin dialogue on this podcast and I fear what else they'll get away with
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So do we think Alice is Actually still in love with Sam or is she clinging to the person she once knew because she hates change and he's the only old friend she has at her workplace now that Teddy's gone and Collin's on leave and everything is changing
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