#Sam and Alice

[graham-folger]

Honestly kinda love how Jonathan Sims has chosen TWICE to give his protagonist an amicable ex-girlfriend with a prominent place in the story. Just a really interesting and specific decision, to create implicit tension between two people, but have it be very subdued

[yelloartt]

what nice looking besties…. hope nothing horrible happens to them…

[fathermulcahyofficial]

Love seeing everyone’s varying depictions of the Magnus Protocol gang but my drawing skills are BUSTED so even though I can’t draw her atm just know that my headcanon of Alice is this specific photo of Susan Kare lmao

[localratwithcowboyhat]

Saw this and thought of them

[lucidsaintdahlia]

I can't stop thinking about Dev Patel and Abigail Thorn as Sam and Alice

[angel-sox]

hi i’m back with more alice and sam falling in love in uni and figuring out they’re both trans tgthr; this is when sam cut his hair for the first time and was freaking out that he’d fucked up and alice comforting him

[grimogretricks]

The Magnus Protocol 30- season finale

A gut punch of a season finale ! My thoughts on this, and how the relationships between the characters set this up, below.

Found myself exclaiming CELIA!!! out loud at this one! Genuinely, in retrospect, I think the dynamic between Sam, Celia and Alice was set up very well for the utter gut punch of this season finale ending.

At the start, Alice had the upper hand, she was the one in control, cracking jokes for every occasion, taking nothing seriously, very much by design. She overstepped boundaries at times with her jokes, and wasn’t all that respectful of Sam. At every turn she disapproved of him looking any deeper into things, and Alice’s constant insistence that they should NOT investigate anything was quite wearying. It was easy to sympathise with Sam wanting to investigate more and more, so we could get more information as to where the plot was going.

As it went on though, and Sam established his relationship with Celia and got an ally in the investigation, and finally it felt like, yes, here he was getting somewhere.

But we all know, from TMA, that the urge to investigate, the urge to actually go prying into mystery, is a double edged sword, made of many fears, ready to drag a person into a complex web of fear in which ‘knowing’ in itself can feed a dark power. The ‘somewhere’ that you can go, is not a good ‘somewhere’.

At the back of our minds then, whenever Alice says ‘don’t!’ we sympathise with Sam’s need to know, but at the back of our mind, know that Alice is right. Even if it’s also true, ignorance at this point couldn’t save them.

On the personal level as well, it’s easy to sympathise with Alice losing, as Sam gained, in his relationship with Celia, and hard not to cringe at Alice’s jealousy on the matter.

The way that alienation has been building between Sam and Alice, all that awkwardness around his relationship with Celia, all that Alice pushing too hard and too constantly for him to listen to her, for him to stop prying into things, stop investigating, for everyone’s safety, all that came together for that perfectly painful denouement.

 Sam, no longer heeding Alice’s warnings, Alice, panicked and having to let everyone ELSE fall by the way side (and maybe die.. I don’t think things look good for Colin or Teddy, they both had incredibly ominous send offs), desperately trying to get through to him, but she’s already said it too many times to be anything but too late. He’s stopped listening, and he’s followed Celia, right to the centre of Hilltop road, right to where he believes, something terrible will happen. In some futile belief that somehow, to go there is to be able to stop it.

And in doing so, he draws ever closer to the horrible truth of things, that won’t reveal anything good, that will only consume him, that has only awful secrets. That will take him to that somewhere, that is nowhere good.

And ahhh, Celia’s voice, the way, as they got closer, the way she started to show how she knew the answers to the questions, the coldness in her voice, the distance, creeping in. The way she spoke of the balance she needed. The revelation, of all that she’d been getting close to him for. That he was the sacrifice, she’d make, to keep herself from having to go back. That final confrontation, between her and Sam, interrupted by her statement. Powerful and painful!

So, yes, in retrospect, painful as some of that interpersonal conflict has been between Alice, Sam and Celia, I do think that it did a great job of building up to the crescendo of this moment.

And then, in the wake of it all, there’s Celia, having the gall to play innocent and say Sam played the hero.

I wonder what shall happen, in the wake of all of this! I hope we stay in the OAIR world, and not back to the post-apocalypse for too long, but I am not sure, considering where Sam went.

Overall, I think The Magnus Protocol made a solid start to its season, and I’m definitely invested. I’m surprised how enmeshed in TMA it actually turned out to be, although  at the same time, a lot of people seem to be trying to make it into something that’s more different from TMA than it has reason to be: The fears came here from the TMA universe, there’s no reason to believe that they are, in essence, different, even if they might manifest in slightly different ways. I believe that the difference of this world is that manifestation of the fears and efforts to keep them in balance are being more consciously pursued via alchemy and the endeavours of organisations like the OAIR on one side and the Magnus Institute on the other. But now we have inter-dimensional balance also to consider. And now the archivist from one world has gone through to the other, creating, presumably, a new imbalance.  

[uncannychimerical]

dumb and dumber

[i-wish-i-liked-tea]

Jon/ Chester “giving” Sam the incident reports and this last statement about the Magnus Institute, and how you should definitely stay away from it if you want to keep living, feels the same as those warning messages for nuclear waste

They are so ominous, and definitely communicate that there was something dangerous, although a lot less explicit than the reports/statements. But aren’t you just a little curious to know what’s in there? Just take a little peak?

Sam and Alice are gonna turn up to the Magnus Institute next episode and it’s gonna be looking like this:

And they will go in anyway

[corrupttheconscience]

OK QUICK QUESTION WHO WAS GONNA TELL ME MR BONZO IS REAL. LIKE WHO WAS GONNA MENTION THAT. HAD TO GOODLE MR BLOBBY ALL BY MYSELF.

[screaming-at-god]

I really can’t find a way to keep up with helpfully tracking the plot and story and all the character for the Magnus protocol, I do however have skills in both coding and numbers and so I am for now keeping track and tallying as many of the “statement ids” so if there’s messaging on this app message me and If I find it then I’ll reply cause there’s already a system forming

[yelloartt]

mew stickers up on my etsy :333

[vastpotato]

We’re all freaking out about the magnus protocol trailer being solved in the arg, right???

[localratwithcowboyhat]

The sillies

[web-archives]

please please please leave him be 😭 if the horrors can hear me please let this man live

[angel-sox]

i can’t love you how you want me to