MAG Episode 200
I decided to write down my thoughts on the final episode in a completely separate post. I felt like I would have lot to say and analyze after the episode was done and it would've been too much for the reblog chain I made.
I was right.
So, I started listening to this podcast ages ago. Like I mean sometime early last year and then stopped; forgot everything that happened and restarted from the beginning then proceeded to take long breaks in-between more upsetting episodes to keep me sane.
I went into this as someone who doesn't really listen to podcasts and doesn't have much interest in tragedies. I'm more likely to pick an animated film or an action anime or a fantasy novel or a short hurt/comfort fic than a 200 episode horror tragedy podcast.
Buuuuuuut my dearest Eggo had introduced me to the characters and the story. They talked about how much they loved the horror elements, the characters, the world; she encouraged me to give it a listen and reassured me that it was completely worth it. Obviously, she convinced me.
Despite the fact that my soul is shattered due to the emotional series finale, I'm so glad I gave this podcast a chance and I'm glad Eggo rambled about it to me. If they didn't, I wouldn't have come to a wonderful realization...
Tragedies are heartbreakingly beautiful.
I loved learning about these characters and seeing how they dealt with these horrible situations and impossible odds; I had to take so many breaks because if I binged MAG for too long I would become completely miserable due to the pure agony that Jon and everyone around him goes through.
However, there were always these little moments in between the agony. These small conversations between characters; a private reflection; a light joke. A pressure release for the audience that reminded me what, I believe, tragedies are meant to do -- highlight the beauty in the painful and be a cathartic outlet as well as a lesson.
I still don't like angst very much. I don't see the appeal of going into a piece of media that has no sense of comfort in it. Funnily enough, despite the genre space it sits in, MAG is comforting to me.
It brought me the love story of Jon and Martin -- together til the very end and learning to communicate and be with each other. Something that came to me at a point where I am considering pursuing a relationship myself and fear the hurdles I may face. Their story put my own worries just a tad at ease. The way I related to them and the way their fears are handled in the story helped -- are still helping me -- handle my own.
It brought me themes of humanity and monstrosity and how thin of line that can be. It brought me into worlds of flesh, and dark, and sky, and twisting corridors that made my head spin and my heart race.
Most of all, it brought me hope -- something I only realized in episode 199. The hope that even when your world is ending there is something that can be done. The faith in a chance that things can be better if you decide to take that leap.
That good old saying...
"It's always darkest before the dawn."
Now, after finishing The Magnus Archives, I can move on.
So, as I type this with teary eyes and a scattered brain, I would like to say that I loved The Magnus Archives; I have a better appreciation for the tragic and horrible.
I can seek out The Mechanisms and experience more of Jonny Sims' wonderful work.
I can start listening to Rusty Quill Gaming and listen to Alex's DM style and all of the team's adventures.
I can seek out more works produced by the wonderful people over at Rusty Quill.
And most of all, I can catch up with The Magnus Protocol and I can finally say...
They put my bois in the fuckin' 'puter
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I am heartbroken at the thought that Charlie was the first one to find out about Neil's death. I think we forget he was the probably woken up with the news by Mr.Nolan that his best-friend was dead, thinking that Neil would be happy after the play and him and the poets would celebrate in the cave and talk about how Neil was so good, really good. He also had to tell all the other poets about what had happened and finally Todd. Like wow
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I am literally bawling my eyes out I have been following this show since i was fresh out of high school and having bumbleby canon in the most beautiful way after all these years.... it just feels so amazing and I just can’t. I am overwhelmed.
It ties me back directly to all those years of shipping scraps, all those years of knowing you’d never see your ships realized, only teased, and my god I know we have a long way to go but look how far we’ve come. Look how far we’ve goddamn come. Because here is something, something that has been with me since I was a teen, and its not scraps, its there and visible and real and teens now will have it, baby sapphics will see it and see themselves and i am so overcome
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AAAAAA WATCHED THE NEW PICARD EPISODE AND OMG AT DATA BEING SO AWESOME, REALY FINALLY BACK (with still a bit of Lore,Soong,Lal and B4 in him) AND OMG AT THE DATA MEMORY SCENE WITH THE SHERLOCK HAT/SPOT AND SO ON AND O M G DATA AND LORE HUGGED!!!!!!! THEY HUGGED MA FAVE ANDROID BOYS HUGGED I AM S O HAPPAY !!!! AND EVEN MORE EMOTIONS ABOUT GEORDI AND DATA TALKING ABOUT THEIR FRIENDSHIP AND HOW MUCH GEORDI MISSED DATA!!! AND DATA AND AAAA EVERYTHING WAS SO PERFECT!
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I forgot how much I love Smallville. Give me more of those Kent Family Feels. Give me more of the Lex/Clark friendship. Give me Lex/Clark best buds chilling out in the mansion, complaining about overbearing fathers, unrealistic expectations, the sheer amount expected of them. Give me the soft feelings. Give me the friendship. Give me everything.
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