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Magnus ends tomorrow. Wild. I think they've been sticking the landing but we'll see!
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Farg posted:Magnus ends tomorrow. Wild. I think they've been sticking the landing but we'll see! The entire series has boiled down to a trolley problem.
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Mar 24, 2021 16:51
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Yeah I dug the penultimate episode basically being a real dark episode of the good place
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Mar 24, 2021 16:58
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Jurgan posted:The entire series has boiled down to a trolley problem. The trolley problem except it's aleph_0 and c.
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Mar 24, 2021 16:58
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Arrhythmia posted:The trolley problem except it's aleph_0 and c. I know aleph_0, but what do you mean by “c”?
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Mar 24, 2021 17:45
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Jurgan posted:I know aleph_0, but what do you mean by “c”? Probably the speed of light.
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Mar 24, 2021 17:48
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Episode 32(?) I believe, Martin says "you know, whatever web we're caught up in, I have to see this through" I love this poo poo. Some are going to be disappointed but I can't fricken wait.
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Mar 24, 2021 20:18
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My one complaint is that if it goes with the obvious answer - that we're one of the universes that The Entities got shunted into, dunno why i'm spoiler tagging speculation, but better safe than sorry - I'll be disappointed with the pacing. That outcome was semi-obvious as soon as we got the exposition dump, which was a while back now. it really feels like they've been spinning their wheels to make it to a nice round 200, but here's hoping there were some seeds planted in there I missed.
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Mar 24, 2021 20:30
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I don't think it's going to be that. I have a feeling it's going to swing wide in a different direction that's going to take people by surprise and piss people off. Don't really know why, just have this gut feeling. You're right, if it's that, it's almost TOO obvious.
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Mar 24, 2021 20:39
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Yeah, my reckon (mostly based off of the Archivist's guilt-ridden breakdown last episode/ is that he's going to try to take a third option and it's going to go badly for everyone but especially him. The fact that they have to destroy the archives doesn't bode well for him either, given what Jonah said at the end of S4, that it might be more accurate to call him the Archive rather than the Archivist. I think Jonny Sims is a good enough writer that the ending isn't going to just be "lever pulled, trolley problem solved". I mean, if the ending of literally every Mechanisms album is anything to by, everyone's going to be dead except for one or two designated survivors who are going to merely be completely emotionally destroyed.
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Mar 24, 2021 20:56
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Jurgan posted:I know aleph_0, but what do you mean by “c”? Cardinality of R.
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Mar 25, 2021 00:45
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I'm appallingly late on the Magnus bandwagon and I've been furiously binging trying to finish ahead of the finale. I finally finished my catch-up on Monday. Didn't see the finale of season 4 coming. Loved the more experimental and abstract bent of season 5, even though one episode hit me in a very uncomfortable place. It's a hell of a show. Regardless of how it ends, they made something special.
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Mar 25, 2021 06:17
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They've done a good job of it, regardless as to whether or not the ending is ideal. I applaud them for that.
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Mar 25, 2021 09:36
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The last episode has the ominous title of Last Words
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Mar 25, 2021 12:18
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Teepublic has everything on sale for the next 20 hours if anyone has been waiting to buy a MA shirt Marketing works on me
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Mar 25, 2021 12:34
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My mom (who I insisted should listen) became a huge fan and just sent me the "I was there at the end" shirt. It's dope.
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Mar 25, 2021 13:13
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pop fly to McGillicutty posted:My mom (who I insisted should listen) became a huge fan and just sent me the "I was there at the end" shirt. It's dope. I ordered it this morning for myself. I clicked their facebook link saw it was discounted and slam bought it
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Mar 25, 2021 13:26
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Len posted:Teepublic has everything on sale for the next 20 hours if anyone has been waiting to buy a MA shirt Thanks for the heads up. Grabbed a couple shirts and mugs given the shipping cost.
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Mar 25, 2021 15:28
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Dear God (Magnus 200) They loving landed it.
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Mar 25, 2021 17:50
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Mokinokaro posted:Dear God (Magnus 200) They loving landed it. Yup.
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Mar 25, 2021 18:02
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I cannot loving believe they got me with the lighter TWICE
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Mar 25, 2021 18:08
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They hosed up by not naming it "Statement Ends", but otherwise perfect
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Mar 25, 2021 18:12
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I wanted it to be longer, but it actually had a good ending for a horror?
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Mar 25, 2021 19:48
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Man I'm still in the 160s, gotta catch up now. Very glad to hear it ends strong.
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Mar 25, 2021 19:52
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drat. They got my boy Simon. RIP Mr. Blue Sky. Edit: you're right but dude is not relevant to anything. pop fly to McGillicutty fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Mar 25, 2021 |
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Mar 25, 2021 19:54
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^ Like come on dude it's been like two hours. Spoiler tags.
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Mar 25, 2021 19:56
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The absolute stones of sticking to the 25 minute format for basically the entirety of the show
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Mar 25, 2021 20:36
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Last week people on reddit were saying"I bet it's an hour, can't wrap it in 25" Wrong, nerds!
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Mar 25, 2021 20:45
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Like almost everyone else, I've had mixed feelings on the final season, but hot drat, they nailed that ending. And The Admiral made it out OK, which is all I could really have asked for.
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Mar 25, 2021 20:45
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Well I've been waiting for TMA to finish after I lost interest in the second season, to see what the goons had to say about the ending. I guess it's time to binge the series! (PS The Silt Verses remains fantastic with each new episode)
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Mar 26, 2021 02:30
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Yeah they really stuck the landing. Amazing show.
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Mar 26, 2021 05:05
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pop fly to McGillicutty posted:drat. They got my boy Simon. RIP Mr. Blue Sky. Simon Fairchild did everything wrong and deserved exactly what kind of Mussolini-esque fate he received 
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Mar 26, 2021 06:09
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Just holy poo poo. There was so much weight to every single line in the episode. Just blows my mind how much that gave me everything I'd want out of the ending and more packed into ~23 minutes. No idea how Sims managed to culminate so many of the show's themes into that amount of time and manage satisfying conclusions for the characters while he did it, but I'm extremely here for it. It feels so weird to actually be satisfied with the ending to a huge long-running series, god drat.
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Mar 26, 2021 07:20
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Sab Sabbington posted:Just holy poo poo. I think it's what happens when you have the end in mind when you start it. And also you avoid the temptation to keep going after you've actually wrapped everything up.
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Mar 26, 2021 08:31
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Fil5000 posted:I think it's what happens when you have the end in mind when you start it. And also you avoid the temptation to keep going after you've actually wrapped everything up. They did say there was gonna be more content, but I assume it's gonna be like, Q&As or something.
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Mar 26, 2021 10:34
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Droyer posted:They did say there was gonna be more content, but I assume it's gonna be like, Q&As or something. Yeah, I assumed maybe some more third party non canon statements like they've done before, more q&as, that kind of thing. If they DO try and continue from where they've ended it I'll be both surprised and disappointed.
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Mar 26, 2021 11:02
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Yeah. Like at most we could have a short epilogue but even that doesn't feel needed.
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Mar 26, 2021 13:29
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I can't say how glad I am to hear it ended strong. Last year made me kinda fall off it because 2020 was hellish enough for my tastes but I'm starting over now and knowing it ends appropriately makes me very happy.
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Mar 26, 2021 14:10
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Welp, time for a relisten from the top
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Mar 26, 2021 14:27
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not sure if they had everything plotted out from the beginning but it does seem like the Jon / Martin relationship was pretty much always going to be central, going by the intro to the first episode. A nice little consonance.
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