i am winning the idgaf wars when it comes to the magnus protocol bruh.

i cannot get myself to be even remotely interested in this series. im listening out of obligation (number 1 tma fan), but i end up just waiting around for those 20 minutes to end with zero interest. for there to be a sequel to the magnus archives, a podcast with a fully rounded and complete elaborate storyline, it has to justify itself. to me, tmp doesn’t justify itself.

right now, tmp feels like someone going “oh! oh you liked THIS?? you liked THIS PART of tma??? well look at THIS!!!!! this is THAT!!!!!” and it completely flops at it every time. i won’t say its shit, i’ve liked certain episodes and i enjoy some of the characters, but side by side with tma…? come on

part of the beauty of tma is that every episode felt like you were slowly uncovering a plot with the mc. not only that, but characters were gradually introduced, and supplementals didn’t even have proper full character scenes/dialogues until s3, (a little in s2). then look at tmp. the first episode is random characters ive never heard of talking all at once, and this continues for every episode until the current one. i don’t care about any of these characters, and i feel no attachment or ‘riding along with the mc’ feeling with any of them. it feels like a random group of people sprinkled in amongst a vaguely tma-ish plot.

i also hate the attempt to INSTANTLY get into the ‘ooo big background mystery’ when there absolutely hasn’t even been enough context set for that to even matter to the listener. why do i care that gwen is getting promoted? why would any of this sinister secret plot matter to me when i barely understand the way that this institution functions normally? (which i don’t even know the name of, mind you).

you could easily say “but dan!! this will be SHORTER than tma!! its 3 seasons, not 5!!!” think about what was achieved in 3 seasons of tma. by season 3, jon was in his exploration era. he was meeting mike, jude, the monster hunters, gerry, nikola, sarah, he learned about the nature of the entities, we learnt about rituals, learnt that jon wasn’t fully human anymore, hell we even met peter, and we saw elias’ ass being sent to jail!

the pace of tmp is so fast when its plot already bears so little relevance to the listener, and it doesnt help that some of these episodes are, in complete honesty, poor. i find the writing of characters and the interactions between characters rather poor already as well.

im not trying to be harsh, but this is definitely nagging at me. ive been growing fairly irritated with tmp. feel free to disagree obviously, i can see why people would be fans. but it doesn’t hold a candle to tma. im trying reaaaally hard to give it a chance, but im growing more and more disappointed/underwhelmed by the day . pllbbttfhhh . 👎

jurgen leitner has been dead for seven slutty years

GERRY MY FRIEND GERRY?!!?!?!??

I know that "hello Jon, apologies for the deception" is like the LINE from tma 160 and for good reason it was fucking amazing. But the line that just *gets* me that i think back to all the time is this

Especially with Jons cry cackle afterwards. Like fuck everything truly did go *wrong* what a fucking banger of a final line to the season

Oh boy this one is a doozy for people who don't know the ARG

RIP Michael Distortion you would have loved needle guy

what if i was a disembodied text-to-speech voice in an outdated computer program and you were a disembodied text-to-speech voice in an outdated computer program and we were both boys

Elias, an avatar of the Watcher, choosing how he wants to kill people:

Bones are a lie peddled by Big Milk

Trying to do a Magnus flavoured edition of Inktober this year with the official prompts! Here's 4 first days. Apologies for wild style fluctuations

It was not according to plan.

MAG039 - infestation

and then i burst into tears and collapse on the floor in a sad, inconsolable heap

My personal favorite is “supplemental: I’ve broken into Gertrude’s flat”

Oh also Martin finding the pictures Jon took of Tim’s house 😭

Unhinged Jon will forever be the funniest Jon, man was really out roaming the tunnels and stalking his coworkers like there was no tomorrow

listening to the magnus archives is so fun because there will be this character who has spent his whole life letting other people put him down and just going along with what they said for the fear of being unwanted but when faced with the literal concept of loneliness threatening to overtake him he says “no, no more. i was manipulating YOU.” to this god like creature and it’s such a powerful moment but you can’t take it seriously bc also there’s a man running through a hall somewhere going “MAHHTINNNNN” and also said god like creature is arguing with another god like creature (who is his (ex?) husband) over a fucking BET they made regarding who got to end the world and keep aforementioned character’s boyfriend

“The third text-to-speech is Elias!” “The third text-to-speech is Annabelle!” All good theories, I love it, and the voices have massive eye and/or web vibes (leaving out that the distribution of entities might be entirely different in the tmagp ‘verse) — but in the og casting announcement, Tim Fearon is listed as voicing the third glitched out character alongside Alex and Jonny, who we’ve never heard in Magnus before.

So if we assume that he is voicing Augustus, that means it’s a new voice.

Of course, there’s the option that it’s one of the new Big Bads for the series, and if so, I’m excited for when we get to meet them because evil text-to-speech program? Hell yes.

But but but!! Consider, please:

We never got to hear Jonah’s actual voice. We only ever hear Elias’s voice being used by Jonah.

So if Chester and Norris have jmart’s disembodied voices, Augustus could have Jonah’s, and it would be a voice we’ve never heard before

hey gamers. can you guess what crazy wacky thing i omitted from this wip because my boyfriend isn’t caught up yet?