#protocol trailer

[the-magnus-protocol]

The trailer for The Magnus Protocol, thank you to everyone who participated in the arg!

[starstrider-productions]

DRACULA: 2004 TEASER

Come and listen to our amazing actors and BANGING new theme song! In honour of being in our final week of crowdfunding, we have put together a little teaser to whet your appetites...

Transcript here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZgRmy-Qs8W6cUNPJEr7l68F7F-ejFnlN8w6oA0wQxrE/edit?usp=sharing

Written, directed and edited by: Francesca Mylod-Ford

Produced by: Maddy Searle

Acted by: Lou Sutcliffe, Anusia Battersby and Flloyd Kennedy

Music by: Joash Kari

If you are able to, please consider donating to our independent audio drama to help us get off the ground. Your support is so gratefully received. We are so close to our next goal of £5000, and for every 5% we raise, we will unveil a new script snippet for you to enjoy (only 5% left until the next one!) You can find our campaign here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dracula-2004#/

Care to take a bite?

[snailsnaps]

y/ns tryna rizz up the DJ

[flamingphoenix916]

The funniest thing that The Magnus Protocol S2 trailer could do was, in fact, introduce what I can only assume is a Magnus protocol, without saying either of those words 10/10

[rqgender]

Today's gender might be nothing, or it might be very bad.

[sassy-pistachy]

PRE SEASON 2 RECAP (spoilers for the end of TMA and TMAGP's Season 2 trailer)

We're so close to be back! I have SO MANY Important questions that are gnawing at my mind... It's a long post so, keep reading to join my meltdown :D I want to know your thoughts!

-Where are SAM and the ARCHIVIST?

It seems both are currently in the PRIMELINE (as the Season 2 Trailer Transcript says), aka TMA's original universe. We all assumed it got rid of the Fears after TMA's finale, but the Transcript says "sounds of unsettling not-quite human things can be heard". So… it’s not as clear as we thought. Was Jon and Martin’s sacrifice for nothing? :( Also, it seems they don’t come out together. If you read the transcripts, the Epilogue describes Sam exiting the rift in “London’s Exclusion Zone” without mentioning the Archivist. Then the Season 2 Trailer describes the Archivist exiting the rift without mentioning Sam…

-THE ROYAL SOCIETY, THE MAGNUS INSTITUTE, THE OIAR and STARKWALL

THE ROYAL SOCIETY is an organisation of High Achieving Intellectuals (like Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke), researching alchemy (among other things), and erasing dangerous knowledge when needed through executing Protocols. 

At some point, some alchemists founded THE MAGNUS INSTITUTE to research Alchemy together, as “they had reached the limit of what they could achieve alone”. Their end goal was completing the Millenium Ritual in the year 2000, but they were stopped.

The OIAR “manages the bad guys”. There’s opposite forces (both benevolent and not) in the world, and the OIAR monitores them to keep the balance. The Response Department used to work with STARKWALL and executed at least one Protocol that we know of:

The Institute got destroyed by Starkwall in 1999, under the orders of the OIAR's Response Department and William Price, who ran the department. At some point after this, Starkwall and the OIAR ceased working together, and the Response Department disappeared.

-List of executed PROTOCOLS (that we know so far)

-1666: The Great Fire of London

Procedure: FIRE

Executed by: The Royal Society

Trying to stop: The bubonic plague?

-Around 1684: Newton’s Laboratory

Procedure: FIRE

Executed by: The Royal Society

Trying to stop: Newton’s research on Alchemy and experiments on Arbor Philosophorum Perfecta

-1999: The Magnus Institute

Procedure: FIRE

Executed by: Starkwall, under OIAR's orders

Trying to stop: The Institute’s research on Alchemy? The “Millenium Ritual”, planned to happen in the year 2000, attempting “Universal Transmutation”

-2016: Hilltop Centre branch of Oxford Peoples Trust?

Procedure: FIRE

Executed by: Starkwall

Trying to stop: Something like a ritual

The 2016 Fire at Hilltop apparently happens after the OIAR and Starkwall cease relations. So... WHO ordered that Protocol?

-Why is CELIA in this universe??

After TMA's finale, its easy to understand why Jon, Martin and Jonah get pulled through the Rift at Hilltop and spit somewhere else. But WHY CELIA?

Also, how long has it been since they arrived? Alice says the text to speech started 1 year ago, and Celia says her son Jack is around 1 year old. But she also says she had "a couple of wild years after she moved here" before having Jack...

-FR3-d1 (or Freddie), The Incidents and Voyeurism

Who records the Incidents? Whatever it is, it has access through many types of technology. But I find more interesting asking, who's listening to the OIAR staff? We spy the lives of the OIAR workers through the podcast. In TMA, they explained the "voyeurism" of the listeners through The Web. It was The Web, through the tape recorders, who wanted to spy and listen to the characters. We listened to whatever The Web was interested in. Whose intentions are we listening through now?

And what triggers the text to speech? At first, I thought only the "text to speech" incidents were "supernatural" in nature, similar to TMA's "only records on magnetic tape". But Lena says to Gwen in ep13 "whatever horrible case you read, it happened". So if ALL incidents are "real", what makes the text to speech ones different?

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[mice-and-moonbeams]

Ok so hubby and I are working through this at the beginning of The Magnus Protocol trailer.

So, from what we can figure there are two hard drives but they can't read them (errors) and there is a third drive that is undefined.

The programs that are being loaded are J.01, M.01, and then J.02 the J program is split into two files. Like it's either two seperate things or too big for one program file but! they are the same file! It does load them from somewhere to some part of the computer and...

All three files are ok.

We also have a feeling the operating system is coding.... Freed???

Ok so my take is ... JMart is inside the computer and they could be on Data Tapes instead of audio tapes. Programs used to come on tapes because it was cheaper guys! Programs used to come on tapes!!!!!!! Which also could be what the undefined drive is the fears!!!???

[floorbeastie]

*crashes through window*

hey, did you know the transcript for the s2 TMagP trailer confirms that the Archivist is from the protocol universe and probably isn't Jon?

[witchinatree]

post-canon original/archives universe lore in the new tmagp season 2 trailer i'm SAT oh my god

[fandom-animals]

"Looks like a cassette player, pretty banged up." WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK!!!!!!!!

[the-voldsoy]

yall have GOT to read the comments on the magnus protocol trailer

[alukardtheabysswalker]

In my heart of hearts (call it heartcanon) the thing that scuttled about the tape recorder and was scared off by The Archivist was the Not!Tea

[thetriboulet]

Woooo so the Magnus Protocol premiered and I have things to say and things to overanalyse!

As we know, 'Chester', 'Neil' and 'Augustus' are, maybe?, Jon, Martin, and Jonah, respectively. Hence this:

And, of course, there's 'J1', 'M1' and 'J2' in the trailer.

However, I've seen confusion over the fact that the third 'Error' is voiced by Tim Fearon, who as far as I'm aware has not previously voiced any characters in the Magnus universe. Even though the name is distorted, I can make out what looks to be an H at the end of the name, so this very well may be Jonah.

My theory is this: 'Augustus' is Jonah (or just his voice). However, since the body of Elias was killed in the Panopticon, Jonah does not use Elias' voice anymore. Jon, Martin, and Jonah are all disembodied, if we are to believe they are somehow inside the computer/other technology (ie Alice/Sam's phone in the pub scene) or in some way somewhere adjacent to the world of Protocol. So it could, in a dream-logicy eldritch sense, follow that Jonah is able to survive in his own creepy old ass man way, and use his original voice. Obviously, I cannot corroborate this claim in any meaningful way. We have not heard Augustus speak yet, but I think it is a possibility nonetheless.

The fact that Augustus supposedly shows up to read cases aloud significantly less than Chester and Neil could also be a clue. Maybe Jonah is weaker than Jon and Martin due to his injuries, and is therefore unable to materialise as often as Jon and Martin. Maybe the voice that speaks the true cases (because, similarly to how true statements were identified using the tape recorder in TMA, I imagine true cases will be singled out using the text to speech system) is relevant to the case itself - ie, Jonah only speaks when a case is heavily linked to the Eye, etc.

Furthermore, there's the question of who is spying on who and when/why. By this I mean that we hear our perspective switch between devices (the phone, the computer, the security camera during Colin and Sam's interaction, etc), and I believe that this happens because one or more of the 'Errors' (as I am going to refer to them henceforth) is travelling between devices to spy on the characters' conversations. What we hear is dictated by what the Errors, characters who have prior knowledge of the Fears, deem important. This is backed up by the episode's closing scene: Colin's paranoid closing lines. It is clear that Colin believes someone is listening to them, and it is implied that he has made a connection between this and the Errors. What intrigues me is the Errors' motivation for doing this at all. If what they deem important is what we hear, and this is the first that we are hearing, then it seems to me that it is Sam's arrival that has given them cause for concern, or (in Jonah's case) hope (if he is plotting to return, or something, I don't put it past the scheming weasel). So, why are they listening? And how can we really tell if what we are hearing is the spying of Jonah, or of Jon and Martin?

Another thing. Jonny makes a point of letting us know that Alice does not think the work they do is of any significance, or is checked by anyone. She constantly mentions it in passing and is very casual in her attitude towards work. We obviously have the foresight to know this isn't true. The reason I point this out is because of what Sam does when filling out his paperwork: he ticks the 'Response' box, to which Alice responds that it doesn't matter. This could be nothing, it probably is nothing, but I feel like the fact that Sam has ticked the onboarding box of a mysterious department of an already mysertious organisation might come up later...

Yes I know I am jumping to a lot of conclusions, especially where the Errors are concerned. Please take every theory you hear, from me or anyone else, with a grain of salt, this is all speculative. From a writer's perspective, I honestly think it's pretty likely that Chester and Neil aren't actually Jon and Martin, and just their voices taken by the Web or something, but shh I can dream.

Edit: oh my god they changed his name to Norris that is even worse. Jonny and Alex were fr like 'neil is too kind, we need the name to be Chester levels of horrific'

[iiinkos]

so people in the original universe know that the tapes are bad news :0 do yall think basira, melanie, n georgie all together told them or was it somethin else? :3

[ghosttheif]

ok so I know I JUST posted but I couldn't wait to show my Sam design!! I love him so much in colour! I am already a strong believer that he wears cardigans everywhere

[buildoblivion]

my lukewarm tmagp prediction is that if we meet any of our .jmj crew in person it’ll be martin ‘norris’ first