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TMA: Episodes watched so far (and my speculation)

So, by this point - when I've decided to start crossposting my liveblog of TMA to Tumblr - I've listened to the first 26 episodes of the podcast. While I could just start it from right there, I figured I could 'import' my liveblogs so far into one big post.

So...here it is! I'll be just posting them raw, no edits aside from covering up anything that might give away personal info of me or my friend.

Episodes 1-2

"On one hand: started listening to the Magnus Archives as og right now, so I should be in for a fun time.

On the other: doing so at 1am with my eyes closed is an Experience.

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WHY DID I LISTEN TO A SECOND EPISODE???

Also, John the marrator and John the victim in ep1 and Jon the package-man in ep2? Yeah, that's a connection that's not ominous at all.

Also, fuck the angler fish."

Episodes 3-9

Had a 3.5 hr drive back to Portland, ended up listening to episodes 3-9 on the drive. (Funny enough, 9 hit John's post-transcript notes right as I pulled into the driveway.)

Thoughts:

- Intro of actual confirmed paranormal stuff (Lightner's books, Prentiss-associated-with-worms) is intriguing, and helps show that there is something to contrast the 'supposedly baseless' stuff in the archive

- Growing imagry on eyes, which - from what I've caugbt of later stuff - is one hell of a foreshadowing.

---> Has it ever been confirmed how early the meta arc stuff was planned, or if they just set a lot of stuff up for potential reuse and then had a lot to work with because of that?

- Two counts of the name 'Rainer' in two different episodes. Have a feeling that won't be the last time I hear it...

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Also, this mysterious Eye of doom that'll later pop up; do we know if it has a square pupil or not? Cause the first true Eye thing I recall - the painting in Key's room of books, where he later saw it was made of patterns - reminds me of notebook dude's table with the weird patterns that congregated onto the square hole in the middle of the table, and that being an eye would go well with his notebooks all saying 'keep watching' or whatever it was.

Episodes 11-12, 15

Just listened to Dreamer/E11.

Oh dear, all of this is not good.

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Oh dear, Jared Key and iconography of eyes...

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Ok, Lost John's Cave is kinda creepy AF

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TBH, maybe better than Arachnophobia?? But the audio recording in LJC was a bit hair-raising, as well as John's post-transcript notes for that Ep.

Finally found my DS charger, so played Pokemon and listened to TMA for 2.5 hrs last night, ep 11-15 :D

Episodes 18-23

Also, re: TMA. Fuck 'The Man Upstairs'. >.<

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Oh god, E8 and E19's connection. 0.o

(And what the Father apparently did...)

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God, poor - and lucky - Martin.

Also, terrifying to know Prentiss is sentient/sapient, even - especially - in the current form.

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Goddamn Key family 0.o

Episode 25

Listened to Growing Dark on the way to work.

Not as freaky as some - the upstairs flat one, for example - but still ominous. And yeah, all that iconography of eyes, just a coincidence I'm guessing. /s

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Also, a thought regarding last ep that i forgot to include: yet another thing relating to John's predessor, this time aligning with her deathdate. I'm curious how she got dragged into matters, whether she started digging into something she couldn't handle, whether something hunted her, or if being the institute's archivist puts you at the center of enough weirdness that it just leaves 'marks' on you that attracts other things...

Episode 26

Just listened to Distortion/Sasha's (first??) statement. That's...ominous.

So, thoughts/speculation.

The description of 'Michael' immediately brought to mind the Bone Tender and the crook who read the Tale.

Sasha has meet 'Michael' and Martin survived/was left alive by Prentiss/Flesh Engine. Institute staff gaining supernatural sponsors??

I know from a post I saw months back that there's 'The Eye' and 'The Desolation', all I remember of that post; no idea if they're distinct entities or faction names or something in the middle.

Importance? Speculating whether Prentiss is just a vessel for the Flesh Hive' will (and if its in the same category as the above two) and if Michael is THE Bone Tender.

Prentiss mentioned sometime back as being a witch; made contact with an Entity - Flesh Engine? - and 'succeeded' in gaining its favor, while others don't get the favor and just become mindless flesh hives? (Ie some keep their will, some are subsumed into the Hive?)

Also, there's the Lightless Flame from the ep where Jarod Key got burned. Also one of the entities?

Same grouping: Eye, Desolation, Lightless Flame, Bone Tender, Flesh Hive??

The Keys, the Church group...both seem to be Eye-oriented (iconography if nothing else) but without hearing of contact between them, am curious if they're at odds. Multiple figures able to have same alignment but oppose one another; or perhaps, fighting for the alignment's role?

[Further Thoughts, Speculation, and Knowledge]

Before I started listening, a few months back, I caught fragments of stuff from Tumblr.

Existance of 'The Eye' and 'The Desolation', as might be seen by some of my above comments/speculation.

Not really sure what they are (or, hadn't been...) so guess ossilates between 'distinct entity' and 'faction'

Something called 'The Fearpocalypse' before I outright filtered 'TMA' and 'The Magnus Archives', so no knowledge of what it encompasses

And last night, a housemate was far too loose talking about TMA with another housemate - "You don't have enough context for it to be spoilers", bah - and now know about The Desolation, Corruption, Web, and that they're somehow fear domains.

("You don't have enough context" my ass. I'm giving them shit for that when I get home.)

That's what I'm going into TMA knowing, and beyond this it'll be (mostly) up-to-date liveblogs.

Let's see where this adventure goes...

#the monkey speaks #tma: the monkey archives #tma #the magnus archives #tma spoilers #the magnus archives spoilers #(maybe? the stuff spoiled around me was definately spoiler-level stuff)

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