I Feel Like I’m Waiting On The Beach For A Radioactive Wave To Hit Me, But Like, In An Exciting Way

The fact that TMAGP begins with boot up noises -- and it's implied that Teddy turned off his computer but it turned itself back on -- establishes that we're listening from the same vantage point as whatever's in that machine. Or the system at large.

So the pub conversation is what confuses me. Is whatever's in the OIAR system on Alice's phone? She would DEFINITELY ignore regulations around not connecting personal devices to the network/etc. But is it following her intentionally, or did it just get on there? You hear camera noises while Sam talks to Colin, so it feels intentional. Malicious or beneficent, though...

The transcripts also say that Norris's and Chester's readings occurs in "CYBERSPACE," which is cool to me because TMA didn't get super deep into fears of technology (certainly cameras, keyboard eating, and uncanny automata could all be lumped in, but tech itself wasn't the "fear" - it was the eye, the spiral, and the stranger). So far technology, the complexity of it, the things lurking in spaghetti code, are front and center.

All of the stories so far have also touched on body modification, even transhumanism (esp. 3), and I can't resist thinking I KNOW where this is going. Gimme that sweet sweet .jmj 🙈

I also wonder if the mere act of categorizing these cases is constructing the new fears.

To be sung, jauntily:

Goiiiing to the Psychiatrist soooon

Hope the Psychiiiiiatrist likes me

If the Psychiatrist does not like me

I think I'll fucking implode!

5d10 psychic damage

hey what if the statements are the only way jon and martin can communicate in that puter

I don't know this emotion

For all non-uk magnus protocol listeners I need you to know that Mr Bonzo is a 100% real thing (asides from the murder stuff... I think...) which existed as a skit on UK television. he was called Mr Blobby but it was literally the exact same thing. from the weird voice to the freaky character to design to the failed theme parks (blobbyland was a thing) even to the number 1 hit. PLEASE look if you haven't seen this before

Thought that eagle was corn

Dauphine de Jerphanion by Thierry Mugler 1986

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TMAGP 10 SPOILERS

Nigel Dickerson's SOS?? Comedy dungeon??? MR SIX??? Staticky voice with an ominous rumbling.

"No guests were hurt" and "you've got buried"?? Berried, I think. Ominous.

Mr Bonzo - no one remembers who came up with the name. No one had seen the suit move... Someone's arm was broken while wearing the suit...the audience loved it. "It became a ritual", there were injuries...

The kids actually did like Mr Bonzo

"We all know what happened" with the music

A serial killer was caught dressed as Bonzo - with the colors backward. 11 bodies, same number of weeks "Mr Bonzo's on his way" was top song.

SOS got cancelled

Edgy fans, Bonzo meme, merchandise still on sale

People think of Nigel Dickerson and Mr Bonzo is never far behind

He's a prisoner of Bonzo???

The serial killer is still going, and Bonzo costumes were found at the scenes.

Celia and Colin

Colin wants to talk to Alice, therapy didn't work. He's back to figure it out. The other's absence will make things earlier and he doesn't want them to know he's been here (including Lena).

SAM IN THE MAGNUS INSTITUTE WITH ALICE IN THE RAIN

Digging through mulch and Sam finds a key

Alice is desperate to leave, and she seems to have no connection to this place, so I'm convinced she doesn't remember the Institute if she was indeed in the program there.

Gwen is trying to deliver an envelope to Dickerson, but he says "It's not for me"

FUCK IT'S MR BONZO

TRY NOT TO STARE. IT DOESN'T LIKE IT WHEN PEOPLE STARE.

"It looks like they got another one for you" so the OIAR is getting Bonzo to assassinate people?

"Now, get out of his house." Gwen lives.

I HEAR A TAPE RECORDER BUTTON. SAM AND ALICE ARE ON TAPE. They're getting closer...

They're in someone's office... who's Archie? Archive?

Ominous chair. Pattern of worm tracks on floor?

Sam dropped the key, there's a pit in the office.

Sam has memories of stuff happening here and wonders why they didn't choose him. He wants to find "where everything started to go wrong."

Something scuttling in the background. A spider? It stinks in here.

Sam and Alice leave for the pub. A huge door slams. Another door creaks open and closed. Footsteps... breathing... whispering of many voices.

AGHHHH HOW DO I SURVIVE FOUR WEEKS

I think that the kids were becoming the archivist, perhaps, and someone is still living in the institute.

No idea who Mr Bonzo was sent after.

Marisa Adesman (American,b.1991)

Bending Space and Time

oil on canvas

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