So there we are
The Magnus Archives was a podcast. Yep.
I have mixed feelings about the end, and I think that ambivalence lies in some of the execution as much as the events per se. I love Martin, I love Jon but they never clicked as a pairing for me, so the multiverse well lost for love didn’t land for me, even though I absolutely see it happening with those two co-dependent muffins.
Also, I think that there could have been a different break up of 199 and 200 - it’s not like we didn’t know the plan would be changed, and a last scene in 199 of Jon getting up with [sounds of climbing out of tunnel] and dialogue along the line of ‘well, no point waiting around’ would have given me something to swear about. I guess Jonny felt such a thing would have been too obvious, but still. Something extra to sweat over wouldn’t have bothered me. Things did feel a little rushed somehow, especially after the comparative slowness of 199.
Things I like - I had an unformed idea that the Web did have consciousness, so that validation is nice, and I liked the statement from the Fears themselves as a piece of writing. I do love the idea that the Eye is no more than our human primate ‘what happens if I push this button’ urge made manifest. I love Evil Sky Grandpa, but what made him fun was his sheer glee in his domain, and that’s what made him evil too. Simon, I hope you suffered. I very much liked Jon dealing with Jonah - the closest that Jon/Elias shippers will get to hate sex, I guess.
I like that this is still a post-apocalyptic world. Presumably, Georgie and Melanie’s ‘cultists’ are still out there, and I have a feeling that the Prophets of the End Times are going to have to learn how to manage being Religious Figures in a big way. I like the meta that the human failure to manage big decisions means that the listener’s world is the next potential landing place for the Fears. I like the idea that a conscious Web will probably continue to work to prevent the next Apocalypse (but they’ll still add to the miseries of their new universes). I like that Martin and Jon’s fate is ambiguous. Are they one or both dead? Are they one or both Somewhere Else?
I think I’ll like the end better when I’ve had time to digest it. Some of the flatness for me is issues I’ve mentioned above, but some is also no doubt, shit, it’s over. But we’ll always have relistens, and there’s amazing potential for fic and ‘what happened’ meta there too. And now that canon can't gainsay any headcanons or thoughts about them, I might eventually tackle some fic about Agnes and Gertrude and Gerry, and all the other doomed souls of this universe. This entry was originally posted at https://mab-browne.dreamwidth.org/414351.html. Comments are welcome there too. :-)
I have mixed feelings about the end, and I think that ambivalence lies in some of the execution as much as the events per se. I love Martin, I love Jon but they never clicked as a pairing for me, so the multiverse well lost for love didn’t land for me, even though I absolutely see it happening with those two co-dependent muffins.
Also, I think that there could have been a different break up of 199 and 200 - it’s not like we didn’t know the plan would be changed, and a last scene in 199 of Jon getting up with [sounds of climbing out of tunnel] and dialogue along the line of ‘well, no point waiting around’ would have given me something to swear about. I guess Jonny felt such a thing would have been too obvious, but still. Something extra to sweat over wouldn’t have bothered me. Things did feel a little rushed somehow, especially after the comparative slowness of 199.
Things I like - I had an unformed idea that the Web did have consciousness, so that validation is nice, and I liked the statement from the Fears themselves as a piece of writing. I do love the idea that the Eye is no more than our human primate ‘what happens if I push this button’ urge made manifest. I love Evil Sky Grandpa, but what made him fun was his sheer glee in his domain, and that’s what made him evil too. Simon, I hope you suffered. I very much liked Jon dealing with Jonah - the closest that Jon/Elias shippers will get to hate sex, I guess.
I like that this is still a post-apocalyptic world. Presumably, Georgie and Melanie’s ‘cultists’ are still out there, and I have a feeling that the Prophets of the End Times are going to have to learn how to manage being Religious Figures in a big way. I like the meta that the human failure to manage big decisions means that the listener’s world is the next potential landing place for the Fears. I like the idea that a conscious Web will probably continue to work to prevent the next Apocalypse (but they’ll still add to the miseries of their new universes). I like that Martin and Jon’s fate is ambiguous. Are they one or both dead? Are they one or both Somewhere Else?
I think I’ll like the end better when I’ve had time to digest it. Some of the flatness for me is issues I’ve mentioned above, but some is also no doubt, shit, it’s over. But we’ll always have relistens, and there’s amazing potential for fic and ‘what happened’ meta there too. And now that canon can't gainsay any headcanons or thoughts about them, I might eventually tackle some fic about Agnes and Gertrude and Gerry, and all the other doomed souls of this universe. This entry was originally posted at https://mab-browne.dreamwidth.org/414351.html. Comments are welcome there too. :-)