Grouping all of the comments into one post for the ask game, sorry but these will be rapid fire takes and I'm choosing only one from the comment that has a bunch. There were so many asks lol
Episode 12- Gerry had a Zippo lighter with an eye marking on it. Stupid take but we should have seen more of it in my opinion. It feels important given tma's track record
Episode 103- monster pig episode rocks and every clown deserves what it gets. Stupid take is Jon should have taken the hint from this statement and released monster pig from his concrete prison and flown it in from New Zealand to help stop the Unknowing.
Episode 177- oh boy Dr David. What a statement. Also Basira has joined the party! My stupid take is Helen was right, she had the best shortcut around and Basira should have taken her offer :D
i love that sam is manipulative. i love that he's objectively a good liar. we all thought he was gonna be like jon but turns out he's more like martin.
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martin "i am going to constantly make everyone tea from my personal supply" blackwood VS samama"i keep my favourite tea hidden so my coworkers never find it" khalid.
Relistening to the Magnus Archives for the first time...with my little brother! He's obsessed with watching those cheap Reddit nosleep stories on youtube narrated by AI voices. I told him I didn't feel like watching that crap and on a whim had him listen to the first episode of TMA. To my surprise he became completely hooked! We listened to the first four episodes together until he had to go to bed and he made me promise not to listen to any without him. I haven't listened to TMAP yet, I think I'll wait till I finish TMA with my brother and we can listen together for the first time.
i'm having so much fun with the new tmagp characters (and i will miss them dearly until april 11th) (side note: patreon members get access on my sisters birthday which is pretty cool) and i don't want to compare them to the tma characters because they are unique and different in MANY ways, i just also notice some parallels
gwen is very similar to jon, she has had a somewhat skeptic attitude but has now clearly been exposed to the horrors (bonzo..) and she's also climbing the corporate ladder if you will. she runs the place, she's grumpy, and i think she's closer to becoming an avatar than any of the others (even sam) (see my other post about it if youd like) (idk how to link it on mobile sorry)
alice and tim are kinda obvious, both comedic with younger brothers and are very susceptible to romantic feelings (sasha/sam). there was a lot more going on with tim and we haven't seen much of that side of alice, so i'm really excited to learn about her backstory and/or traumas. less excited about what that might to do her but yk.. yk..
sam/sasha is the most interesting one to me. sam is curious like sasha was. sasha wanted to know which made her archivist potential in everyone's eyes. sam also wants to know, he'd make a great archivist. except he's not cautious, he's like sasha if she had never worked in the artifact storage. i think sasha's strength was what she had already experienced and what she knew, but she didn't know enough and ultimately that got her killed. sam is going to keep learning until he does know enough, but he doesn't have that prior knowledge to stop him from going too far. very interesting characters from both of them
celia and martin i guess? celia's different since she's not exactly from tmagp
lena and elias because creepy murder boss
and finally colin and gertrude which is kind of insane of me to say but hear me out. gertrude cut out the eyes of book covers and magazines and everything in her home. she was incredibly paranoid she just was also a boss ass bitch about it. i think younger gertrude must've been a lot like colin, but she figured it out quicker and realized what she needed to do to survive. she asked the right questions and took the right precautions. she had the archive full of knowledge. colin doesn't have the archive, he's messing with the wrong thing and he's taking every precaution and hurting himself and those around him (sam's phone specifically comes to mind). i think gertrude was like colin but she had the right resources to get through it
idk all of these are very interesting and it makes me worry a bit, but ofc every character is unique and has aspects to them that change their stories. they're probably still gonna die though, we know jonny sims loves killing characters ☹️