#the magnus archives

Too many post canon fics kill Jon, I don’t care if he was canonically stabbed to kill I Need My Boy. No alt universe Jon doesn’t count, I need my poor traumatized dude to have a chance to express himself and grow in an environment that isn’t constantly either using him or trying to kill him.

I’m going to try fix my tweets to make a coherent long thought on here and that essentially breaks down to: Knowing that this was going to be a tragedy I spent too long imaging all the terrible scenarios that would unfold that when the ending happens its just like “ok” but Im also crying so idk

Like I knew this would happen, it happens with everything I watch. I’ve never enjoyed the ending of anything that I’ve genuinely cared about upon first watch/listen. And I think that it has to do the job of wrapping up the story of the characters, all while the audience will still be emotionally invested in them.

This isn’t to say that endings are free of criticism, but it makes it easy to feel disappointed when quite literally that’s it. When I got into tma I knew pretty much only the name of the show and that’s it, not even that it was a horror podcast. Upon completing the first 4 seasons I learned that it was tragedy and that resulted in my having to re-frame my expectations.

Expectations that then ended up being much more in line how the show ended. Throughout season 5 there was quite a lot of talk about the inevitable tragic ending. A lot of that talk was “here’s my idea, but its nothing compared to the tragic ending that Jonny has planned.” And 2 things about that

1) that’s a lot of pressure/expectations to put on a writer

2) many of those theories were created from plausible scenarios I think any ending that wasn’t predictable wouldn’t have been a good one, tma doesn’t need a twist ending.

I’m apart of the group of people who binged 75% of the show in a month and then experienced season 5 over the course of a vert stressful year. So I personally can’t attest for things like pacing, like yes the show feels different, the format is quite different than before. I’m not sure how much is the actual show or my perception of it. I’ve got another 5 page essay regarding that, but what I do know is that I think that I’m fine with it.

I think that it was really nice to feel something for awhile, to be excited even when knowing that it wasn’t going to work out. Knowing that this is the end of it, I think a lot of my upset feeling with the ending is revolving around having to let go, and not having something to look forward to every week. I think I’m going to give a relisten a little later and I think that I’m going to enjoy it