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I'm binging TMA right now too-- got through season one today and dove straight into season two. Fictional horror doesn't much scare me outside of jump scares so the evidence dungeon corkboard element is actually really great for keeping me interested, along with the stories themselves being, you know, interesting.
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Yeah, I think the infodump has been a little too fast. I'm still totally on board and I think coming where in the story it is (exactly at the halfway point) I feel like it's a prelude to a lot of poo poo hitting the fan but this still feels a little awkward right now. I think the fact that he's being told a lot of it outright rather than piecing it together himself from the statements is a bit of the issue too.
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And the thing is really, which stories resonate with who is really variable, too-- Body Builder hit me; We All Ignore the Pit not so much, and the fire cult does catch my interest. Honestly I think if you're wanting the episodic stuff, the individual statements will still do you, so long as you don't mind the serialized sections. I like them both, so this works out great for me~
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Mar 22, 2018 12:33
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SamuraiFoochs posted:Magnus is taking off until January 10th? Jesus that's a long break. Might be trying to avoid the midseason break they had this time around.
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No, from interviews, the plans were pretty concrete afaict.
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Mar 7, 2019 13:24
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SamuraiFoochs posted:From a worry for the characters standpoint or a quality of the show standpoint? the former. it's good.
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Apr 11, 2019 13:41
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cptn_dr posted:Same. Yeah, I'm modestly sure it's intentional - "inappropriately peppy but weirdly affectless" sounds like a specific note
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Boxman posted:I’ve been listening to Magnus and enjoying it a reasonable amount, but when does the serialized not kick in? The OP makes it sound like things are going to happen that aren’t just SCP-style recurring names or iconography. 
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tbh I recently started a relisten of Magnus from the beginning and it became immediately clear to me that the show hasn't actually gotten more metaplotty, we just have more context. The big difference is that there's more stuff happening in the here-and-now, rather than in the past of statements.
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SamuraiFoochs posted:But the metaplot has become the show. As was said, before it felt more like Easter eggs or flavor text. Now it's the entire show, especially given the number of additional characters, many of whom I find barely distinguishable. It felt like easter eggs or flavour text because we didn't have the context. Some of these super early episodes are infodumpy as hell. Literally the only reason it didn't seem that way at the time is that we didn't know what half of what was being said meant. Agnes Montague at Hill Top Road is literally in the first ten. Jane Prentiss goes on about the Beholding. I was really surprised when I went back to the beginning because I did think there was a shift in the prominence of the metaplot, but being able to now identify it, it's a massive presence right out the gate. The current seasons are really tonally different but it's not because the metaplot has become more significant-- the tonal difference is from both the characters and the listeners actually being able to identify the metaplot.
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New Leaf posted:Also, according to the wiki, he's confirmed as asexual? Which is news to me.. It's one of the episodes with Georgie, I forget which. It comes up in passing in conversation-- he doesn't use the word but he describes it pretty clearly for himself.
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Oct 24, 2019 23:51
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boo_radley posted:Jonah Magnus: what a dick. gently caress
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Nov 1, 2019 00:17
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Mokinokaro posted:I wouldn't be surprised if he's powerless vs the spider and extinction. As well as Jonah himself of course. I think this most recent episode shows there's just not a lot he can do against the Spider, yeah.
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Jun 19, 2020 21:40
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Sab Sabbington posted:I see this take semi-frequently and I'm still having a hard time trying to understand how people land on that? Pretty much every episode of the most recent season has functioned as a thematic crescendo for one of the powers, coupled with advancement of the metanarrative usually at the beginning and end. It's still the same kind of anthology storytelling that it has (primarily) always been, it's just using the Watcher's Crown version of the world as a vehicle for highlighting the existential ways the fears had always felt, but literally now. Yeah, I don't see it being per-se a happy ending-- not only would it be out of genre but that would be literally impossible with everything that's happened up to this point, but the meta-story doesn't work if it doesn't end with some bittersweet but precious victory. And whatever anyone thinks about Magnus, I think you'd be hard-pressed to argue that the meta-story is badly constructed to this point.
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I got a few episodes in (about halfway through s1) and dropped Arden cause it just didn't click with me and the spoilers I looked up didn't encourage me to continue-- not for bad reasons, just that nothing I saw was really further engaging. It's a fun premise and well done but just wasn't for me.
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codswallop posted:and instead of mumbling on about podcaster drama let me make a rec okay yeah i'm about halfway through the first season right now and this is riveting
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Ep 1 felt pretty awkward to me with getting the setup across but I'm being nitpicky, it's not trivial to get the exposition across and that it was only awkward is still pretty good. Very curious to get on this ride, I really liked archives and loved its building metaplot stuff but havent really thought about it since it ended.
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