In my humble opinion, Vaya con bonzo should have been the S tier

this is a great video! keep posting man

Your boyfriend has the blue eye stare.

i only just found this channel but i loved this video! now i have to go watch the previous 28 episodes worth :P

Regarding the Crawlers, in MAGP 13 the thing that comes through the phone and kills the crypto bro is described in the transcript as making "metallic insectoid chittering." So maybe there quite literally are metallic bugs that travel through the web or something.

Omg I have that same mug!!! On top of your shelf, make a video of you playing hot cross buns with it.

The Minister definitely knows what's up in terms of externals etc Gwen says Lady Mowbray is married to a member of the House of Lords. Also with Alice's talk of working for an evil system. Allegories of government being rotten from the inside out Lena's "were managing the bad guys" The minister is coming to inspect that managing. Lena doesn't want him to see how fractured and chaotic everything is there rn

i love hearing all your insights! i miss so much just putting it on while working but this is super helpful

omg that’s my art on a thumbnail! i was so surprised to see it hahaha thanks for giving credits!

If Monster Pig is not top of S tier there will be consequences David G.

Im sooo excited for this one

Saved Copy reeks of The Stranger for me You've got the doppelganger - it looks just like him, but there's little differences. It's the uncanny. Also in terms of anger management, some people who struggle with it see the angry outburts as "not them" or, another side of them that is distinct from the oerson they want to be

I think episode 7 was all the fears in a grand ritual. Each of the items the volunteers brought represented different fears

CAT means Category, I think

Gosh ok I have some thoughts and rather than send a million comments I'm just gonna write them all in this comment as I'm watching lol -For episode 44, I think I personally would have ranked it higher, 1) because I love Gertrude episodes so much but 2) because when Gertrude mentions The Stranger in this episode it's the first time we get the name of one of the entities. So it's some great foreshadowing that I love. -18:22 "Not much of a fan of [Jared Hopworth], even though he's pretty hot" this is how I know you're a true Magnus fan. Monster-f*ckers one and all, the lot of us. -I really like 53 for the implications. Especially now with Protocol going, the implications that an Archivist can over time become something truly monstrous and completely forget its humanity is really interesting. There's a big implication that the Library of Alexandria was a previous iteration of The Archive. -For episode 56, I'm not the biggest Trevor fan either, but I'm a BIG fan of the Web and that Web avatar we get (which might be Annabelle Cane?? i'm not sure if that one is supposed to be her or not). -Generally agree with your thoughts on 61, but surprised you didn't clock the foreshadowing for Daisy. The encounter that got her Sectioned was seeing someone taken by the Coffin, mirroring her fate later on. -On the topic of episode 66, I personally do not have the visceral reaction you do, but still I think it's valid to have some episodes that are skips because it's too close to home for you. There's an episode in S5 (forget what number) about prison/legal system abuse that I have to skip because it's too uncomfortable for me to listen to, so I get where you're coming from. -Also I agree with you on 79, i think sometimes TMA suffers when there's too many moving parts

KZbin recently has been recommending videos with very very low view counts i'm guessing to try to up engagement. 99% of it has been stuff I have no interest in. Your video was the first one I actually clicked on because I'm a huge fan of TMA and i can't wait to see your opinions on this season!

What is even the Magnus archives

Omg you play bugsnaxs? Who’s your favorite character? Mine is glub shiito

the Simon that was mentioned in 51 is the OG Simon Fairchild who's a jeweler, killed by Vast avatar Simon (who I assume is the 'irate customer') for his wealth and presumably used as body hopping target or at least that's how I understood it, there's certainly a whole lot of body-hopping in this podcast so

Thank you, I'm rewriting s2 for a Sasha Archivist AU and this is perfect framework for me

Gertrude 🤝 edlegard Burning it down

Omg love wins!!

wonderous

Omg I love your plushies!!

Eighth 🎉

I never heard What the Ghost episodes! Is that for patreons?

1:44 I wonder if someone is trapped in that painting, the way Gerry was trapped in the book....hmmmmmm The way he said 'don't forget your painting', I wonder if it has information for them that he cannot give them in front of 'Gigi'

1:41 lol. paused indeed 1:43 iconic! Gertrude's voice is probably the MOST identifiable in the Magnus Archives imo

1:10 Celia knoooooows!!!!!

58:17 I didn't even think of that!!! Are there any real people she dealt with other than the people who shot up the place???? lol

49:30 Celia knooooooows!

finished catching up on the episodes, time to hear all of them again from someone that's actually good at noticing plot points

Nice to hear from you again 🙂

1:16:30 we're so depraved! 🤣

27:50 disapproving LOL

I like these long takes :)

Great vid! My fave is the buried episode when the people got compared to worms scraping at the earth I got chills

Woo!!!!! It's me!!!!!

The video is about your subjective experience of the season 5, so it irked me a bit when statements like "this was off" were passed as objective statements. It would've been more interesting to me to see you explore the "why?" they felt off for you. Anywho, to me, season 5 being experimental isnt a detriment to the show. If anything, it felt very fresh to see the plot device (tapes) still being used reliably but in a different way, and then being given a very satisfying explanation for why the tapes exist in the first place. And it didnt feel like an outreach because they did experiment with the tapes before as well: having a statement giver, having the main characters give a statement/testament/gossip, hearing Gertrude record statement, having plot happen before our eye/ears. It all was new at the time. Season 5 for me felt like a crystalisation and further definition of the horror and fear. Yes, the domains are literal real nightmares, but they serve the purpose to drive home what the fears are about. The horrors and fear itself is all commentary of our society (norms, police, capitalism, gender, body dysphoria, drug abuse, etc.; you can check the TW on each episode). I feel like its more interesting to listen to magnus archives through the lens of what drives fear in people, what does it say about society and humanity. Or for example, in the majority of the show Jon grapples with coping with him being a monster, but through his monstrosity he becomes more human and humane. And theres so much more! The show is packed with so much yummy flavour and narrative that it feels like a waste to consume the show only for its overall plot (what is currently presently happening), y'know? Also, the show itself isn't scary at all. It is horror not because it's trying to scare people, it is horror simply because that's the genre they chose to explore some ideas. And I honestly think most horror is like that. My 'issues' with season 5 is honestly the ending? xDDDDD But i'll cope. Anyway, forgive my ramblings, I hope you can see a bit from my eyes and maybe season 5 will seem different to you. Happy Magnus Protocoling.

I quite enjoyed s5, I really liked statements in first person (and as you said allowed Jonny to play around a bit more) and the finale was amazing! I actually didn't care much for Martin until s5 when he got a bunch more character (for me), and I loved Jon taking the final decision into his own hands and being a rather flawed character. I was a bit bored in s4 (and have it as my least favourite) and thought 5 changed it up enough to stick to the main material but explored a new way to do so! I agree with your critics tho, it's not the best season but a great conclusion.

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this is my exact specific niche i love this video with such a passion this is great

I wanted to make a video similar to this - only to discover it already existed! horror nerds unite!

Wooo magnus archives content :D!!!

Funny that with all the monsters and entities the biggest killer by far was just some dad

tbh dead meat should make a horror podcast kill count I would love it tbh

Oh wow I love this, gotta finish it after my midterm today. Excited to watch all your stuff!

Surprising that the most brutal season, season 5, has so few deaths

She Magnus on my archives till I Johnathan sims

love that all my boys have themselves counted as a kill