Hoop for Episode 103 - Cruelty Free, for @mish_mosh22 who kindly donated to The Okras Project. Thank you!!
"After about ten minutes standing there in silence, staring at that bone, I walked into the pen, and I lay down motionless in front of the monster pig. Thinking now, that decision seems alien to me, but I think I just couldn’t stand the thought of going any further in the story that was playing out in front of me. It smelt awful on the floor, and as the pink form began to move towards me, my resolve started to waver. It was far too heavy to be supported by its skinny, twig-like legs, but something still propelled it slowly forward, inch by inch, that familiar pink drool leaving a thin path for the enormous body to follow, until it was right on top of me.
I closed my eyes and gritted my teeth, waiting to feel the pain of it starting to tear into my flesh. But instead, I felt it settle next to me, the meat of it sinking into the spaces left by my position. It was pressing up against me, and let out the most contented sound I have ever heard from a pig. The message could not have been clearer: ‘Friend’."
We stan monsterpig in this house.
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Head of retrieval’s criticism of Walt seems soooo pointed and really makes me want a head of retrieval v. Gertrude Robinson showdown. Like :
Hmm saving the world at any cost…. Untrustworthy ….
Death toll ….
And finally:
Although Walt is clearly less competent then Gertrude, and the sort of utilitarian (?) philosophy that Gertrude represents makes more sense in a world where every paranormal/ alternatural force is actually pure evil, there are clearly parallels.
Also I love the idea of head of retrieval going to The Magnus Institute and being like : “damn. This is amateur hours. Look at this! These clowns have the written word in their institute!”
Maybe cruelty free(ep 103) or the one with the flesh eating pig? It’s in Australia and a reasonable amount of time before the canon of the mistholm museum of mystery morbidity and mortality so it’s be plausible.
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thank you to everyone who has submitted so far! a strong first week of nominations. to those who are just arriving, the goal of this tournament is to figure out which episode of TMA is the funniest. rules are as follows:
we’re only gonna look at the main 200 episodes. that means no patreon-exclusive or other bonus content.
the humor can be throughout the entire episode, in a single scene, or just one throwaway line; what matters is that it made you laugh.
please only submit one episode per response, but feel free to submit as many responses as you’d like.
episodes with the most submissions OR the most compelling propaganda will be included. the following episodes are automatically included, but i’ll accept propaganda for them anyway:
002 Do Not Open
034 Anatomy Class
100 I Guess You Had To Be There
103 Cruelty Free
and here is the link to the survey :)
tagging some other tournaments under the cut! no obligation to interact, of course :)
@tournamentdirectory @bestfictionaldivorce @controversial-blorbo-bracket @character-of-all-time @gayelderstourney @sapient-locations-bracket
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MAG 118 Relisten
Activity on my first listen: cutting apples. Again...
Ah, I remember very well when I listened to this episode the first time. Texted my sister twice right there at the start about Martin being sassy! ("Statement ends, I guess" and "Sorry, Elias. I can’t hear you. There’s – a door in the way.")
Trying to get the episodes of the burned statements by memory. Ivo Lensik is MAG 8 Burned Out, Harold Silvana is MAG 35 Old Passages. Dylan Anderson... MAG 103 Cruelty Free?
ELIAS: "Martin, I do not have time for this."
MARTIN: "Then maybe you should make time."
This is exactly what this is though. Stalling.
JON: "There’s no such thing as just cobwebs."
Everybody sighs, but he is right. Usually in horror cobwebs are just a way to say "Hey, nobody's really been here in a long time, Oooohooo". In TMA though, it's never just that.
Benjamin Hatendi. MAG 86? Definitely the blanket episode though. God, what's it called... Tucked In?
MARTIN: "Oh, so that’s it, isn’t it. Martin’s just acting out. I mean, Daisy’s a “rabid dog,” and Melanie’s a potential killer, Tim’s a – a rogue element, but Martin, oh Martin’s just acting out. He’ll have a cry, and a lie down, and feel much better."
Ah yes. He's not being taken seriously and wholly underestimated.
Albrecht von Closen is easy, MAG 23 Schwarzwald.
ELIAS: [TAKES A DEEP BREATH.] "Did Jon put you up to this?"
I mean, kind of. In MAG 103 Jon asked Daisy if they could somehow get Elias arrested. Martin was the one, who found a way to actually get to the evidence.
ELIAS: "Please get to the point, Martin."
MARTIN: "Maybe there isn’t one. Alright? Maybe –"
ELIAS: "Maybe you’re just wasting my time."
MARTIN: "Yeah. Yeah, maybe."
Haha, exactly that. But Elias knew this already.
JON: "Oh god… Oh god, they’re not waxworks."
Haha, classic 2005 House of Wax.
I don't quite understand why Jon suddenly wants to see what's going on in the auditorium though. Is Snoop God sniffing out potential fear if they look at the entire horror of it?
TIM: "Holy –"
JON: "Yes. I suppose it is."
Ok this... was not a joke on Jon's part I think... I mean, Tim also said that dancing performance Grimaldi and his brother was beautiful. And even if Jon's trying to do his best to keep his humanity, he is still aligned with a terrifying Eldritch entity. He also finds the Mortal Garden beautiful, if I remember correctly (tbh, I also thought that was pretty rad...)
JON: "And I guess you don’t need skin to sing." (shaky breath) "To join the choir."
... Is everyone thinking what I'm thinking... Was Danny in the choir?
MARTIN: "Not even close. Because, I – (composes himself) I’ve been thinking. It’s not like you got this all-seeing thing recently. You’ve had it the whole time. I remember the way you looked at Sasha after the attack. You knew it wasn’t her. And I reckon you knew Prentiss was lurking under the Institute, too, and you did nothing. Why?"
On my first listen I thought, okay, when it's being addressed in the show, there's no way these are plotholes...
MARTIN: "Well, I hope you’ve got something better than that pathetic dig at my feelings for Jon."
ELIAS: "It’s baffling, really. Such loyalty to someone who really treats you very badly."
MARTIN: "Oh, is that supposed to be, what, a revelation?"
ELIAS: "You know, I really should have gone for that. Found something that would finally manage to shatter that precious image you have of him. But, as you say I am very busy at the moment. So I suppose I’ll have to go with what I had prepared."
Nah, Elias is also rooting for them. And he doesn't need to poke any further, he's got Peter on the job for that. And the bit about "who really treats you very badly"? Yes, Jon did. Past tense. Jon really did a 180 on that front by the end of S2. Still, it's a good way for further manipulation. Sowing seeds of doubt, that Jon still doesn't like him.
ELIAS: "The thing is, though, Martin. If you ever do want to know exactly what your father looked like… All you have to do is look in a mirror. The resemblance is quite uncanny. The face of the man she hates, who destroyed her life, watching over her."
This is something I have asked myself, like, how often something like this actually happens in rl. I'm guessing it's a huge taboo. Losing your partner and getting reminded of them everytime you see your child(ren). Doesn't have to be hate, like in this instance. Grief will also do. Or turn it around. Everytime the child sees a photograph of themself, they are reminded of the parent because of their resemblance.
There's something similar explored in The Babadook (2014). The father died in a car accident while driving his wife in labor to the hospital. And she resents the child. Blames him for the death of her husband. It's great (I mean, not in rl), I love it when bad relationships get explored in fiction. And especially parent-children structures make it so difficult, because the child is completely dependent on the parent. That just adds another layer to it.
Alex does such a good job at that terrified crying...
I think this was one of the strongest scenes in all TMA. Writing- and acting-wise.
JON: "I knew none of us might be coming back, and I’m not going to let anyone get killed for nothing!"
TIM: "Well, except for those people in there."
JON: "They’re already dead!"
TIM: "Not all of them."
Ah yes, TMA and the trolley problem.
JON: (sudden yell, followed by immediate realization of need to whisper) "I am not losing you as well!"
T_T
That warped "Aaahh" from the Archives crew. The music picking up. It is absolutely clear what's happening there. Like being hit by a Weirdness Bubble.
In these last moments Jon seems to still have some remaining clarity. While the others are already confused, he still knows who Daisy is for example. And he seems to still have some sense of self ("Daisy, it's me"). So yeah, Elias preparation to See has worked quite well, Jon did have it a bit easier. I mean, this is all or nothing.
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