I think something really interesting about TMA vs TMP so far is the different use of suspense, which I actually think "the cake scenes" (as I've started to call them in my head) are really good shorthand for.
In TMA, we spend four seasons very slowly getting the hang of things alongside the protagonists. We take all of that time to slowly understand how the world works, how fucked up it is, and how fucked up it can get. The narrative waits until we have a deep understanding of that (although maybe not entirely complete yet), until the characters and world have hit a new, very deep low. Then it throws us back to the start. It gives us cake scene number one (Jon's birthday) and says "Hey remember how when this started they were all (mostly) happy and just regular people working a kinda weird job and they were all friends and had joy?" And it hurts! Because we know how bad it is now, so the sharp contrast to how it was before it all started hits hard!
TMA's suspense is built on the audience not understanding what's happening alongside the characters, so the depth of tragedy happening to them can only be understood in retrospect.
TMP doesnt rely on TMA entirely, but it's written with the understanding that the majority of its listeners will have listened to TMA. It knows that a lot of the audience may not know exactly what's going on here, but they know the general shape of the world and they know exactly how bad it can get (thanks MAG200).
Because it's writing for (mostly) that audience, TMP doesn't have to write about its tragedy only in retrospect. The suspense comes both from not knowing what's happening (like TMA) and from knowing exactly what's happening while the characters don't (whooo dramatic irony). The audience knows what the fears are and how they can effect the world--Sam and Alice don't.
So TMP's cake scene (Teddy's going away party) happens at the start. "Look at all these people being (mostly) happy and just regular people working a kinda weird job and all being friends and having joy! Doesn't it hurt knowing exactly how bad things could get for them?"
And it does. We are two episodes in and nothing has happened to Alice and Sam, but it's already very clear that we are audience to a tragedy. Even if they don't end up totally fucked, it's clear that their arcs will be tragic.
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my beautiful wife named Ani Vigoroso she is so normal :3 Clearly nothing nefarious is going on with her !
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What would a fallen risen V1 look like?
a beast of violence, now subject to similar rules of fallen angels - it appears as those fallen to its respective layer, and has traded its wings for new arms made of hell energy.
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"kill them with kindness" WRONG ! OUT OF THE DEPTHS OF HELL AND BACK US SPAWN OF THE BLACK AND WHITE COVER OUR SOULS WITH ROBES OF BLACK ENTANGLE THE ARMS OF NIGHT NIBBLY WANTS A SACRAFICE AND WIGGLY WANTS HIS WRATH WE DANCE AROUND THE PENTAGRAM AND TAKE ALL OUR KINGDOMS BACK BABBLE THE SPELL THAT GETS IT DONE BABBLE IT ON COMMAND WONT STOP UNTIL ALL THE BLOOD IS DRAWN THE LORDS IN BLACK DEMAND YOU SUMMON US ONCE YOU SUMMON US TWICE YOU GAMBLE IT ALL ON THE ROLL OF A DICE THE DEVIL HAS WON IT CANT BE UNDONE THE BOOK HAS ALL BUT CLOSED ON YOUR LIFE STEPHANIE HAS GOT A GUN TRA LA LA HOW FUN STEPHANIE HAS GOT A GUN SHE KNOWS WHAT MUST BE DONE
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i've seen a few posts now about how uncle's day might be a replacement for father's day for Phoebe (since her dad is 'a living piece of shit') and I absolutely love that idea
but also if it's actually happening on the same day as father's day. can you think of anyone else whose dad can also be described as a living piece of shit and who clearly didn't hesitate for a second to join uncle's day? almost as if he too was thrilled to have an excuse not to think about fathers that day? (someone whose not-best-friend talks about him a lot, maybe enough for his niece to have overheard that they both lack fathers worth celebrating? who might have gotten a glittery uncle's day invitation the next day?) yeah <3
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