THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2020
- MAG160 - Case #0181810
Vigilo. Audio. Supervenio.
The Magnus Archive discovers that the some escapes are a lot easier than others.
Content Notes: Coercion, abuse of power, mortality, mention of pet death, change
Starring: Martin Blackwood - Alexander J Newall; The Archivist - Jonathan Sims
Writer: Jonathan Sims
Director: Alexander J Newall
Producer: Lowri Ann Davies
Editors: Alexander J Newall, Elizabeth Moffatt, Brock Winstead
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PEAK GAY IS TELLING YOUR PARTNER ALL THE GOOD COWS YOU SEE
relationship goals right there
As a gay person, it's true
All cows are good cows.
Maybe the real ritual was the trauma we got along the way
I can’t- this comment is funny in so many different ways 🤣
LMAOO
DUDE 🤣
Deadass 😭
literaly
When I heard the part where 'Elias' said that the reason Gertrude went down this path was because the Desolation killed her cat, I fucking got on my knees and started hailing Gertrude as the one true queen.
Like, amen to that sister! Go slay these bitches for your furbaby!
I’d do the same.
You know? I would also do it. No hesitation, no mercy.
She just went full blown John Wick.
Nobody messes with a person's cat!!!!
She literally went John Wick on their asse
im still laughing at "the desolation killed my cat"
To be fair, if a cult killed my cat, I'll make sure to ruin their lives
John wick levels of devotion
It's so me coded.
Remember when we all wondered what the ritual of the eye would look like and we jokingly said it would be reading a statement? Haha good times
Turns out it was reading something like 160 statements lol.
@@GREATGAIWAIN 159 statements, and then your own biography but the writer of it is a narcissist so it's half your biography half his autobiography
It should’ve been a staring contest 👀
@@MT3A i cackled
@@MT3ANAH I SPAT MY DRINK OUT OMFG
“Hello Jon, apologies for the deception.”
I just fucking died. These two bros are trying to live together away from all this bullshit and suddenly a mf forces you to end the world.
Jon is vulnerable while "feeding" and he knew that, so he used it against him
Wait, why is Elias explaining the plan to Jon, won't that help him find a way to---
Elias: "Now repeat after me."
...oh
Nothing more terrifying than being made aware of something bad happening, and being powerless to stop it.
I love how we get these Big Bads and they all just agree on being afraid of Gertrude
Gertrude's voice alone is enough to make us all think twice.
tbh...she sounds scary.
Crazy driven lady with a great creativity, who is driven to meddle and not always in particularly moral ways, with a flimsy backstory and a surprising proficiency with explosives and/or fire? As any GM could tell you, she is the walking antithesis of evil plans everywhere.
To be fair...she has such a distinct cold, harsh and somehow completely calm voice that I’ve been cleaning my house obsessively because I don’t want to make her mad.
No I can’t explain why.
it makes me wonder... i dont remember who it was that told john that there are no other supernatural entities other than those of fear, but maybe they were wrong, considering gertrude. like, what was so special about her that she was never taken in by any of the powers? it's hard to beleive that she was simply that unique of a person without anything else protecting her or acting through her.
I can't help but be reminded of a Q/A question just after season 2 ended.
"Is everyone going to be okay?"
Jon, leaning into the mic: "NO."
I thought the person asked if martin was going to be ok
so happy to say that this episode is only 5:30 minutes long. a weird decision on the part of the creators, but i appreciate the happy ending nonetheless.
Wait what? felt like a full episode there was so much there
I am also happy about the happy ending at 5:30.
Finally the gays have won
Yes! I’m so happy the episode ended with Jon and Martin being happy boyfs together❤️
And it was such a pleasant domestic sort of ending.... So happy.
Me relistening to the episode: Cottagecore boyfriends living their best life
*Red bar hits the 5:30 mark *
Me shutting off my computer: Well that was a great episode I'm glad they got to have their happy ending
Oh goddammit 😂😂 I saw this comment before the statement began and yet I still got chills when we found out eilias had wrote it for Jon.
Such a good happy ending
maybe i should just stop there
@@hades_head_empty Letting the ending hit you like a truck
Read this right as I got there
Crazy how they just decided to end the series so abruptly, but I think that was for the best
So Gertrude is the John Wick of the Archives
*was
I thought the same thing lol.
So...did Jon just "accidentally" Weirdmageddon?
A Weirdmageddon Whoopsie if you will.
*fearmageddon
@@someoneawesome8717 'weirdmageddon' is a reference to gravity falls
@@nemnyoom oh, well I never got into that series and it kinda feels a little bit too late, but now I'm curious and wanna compare it to the Eyepocalypse as fans around here are calling this
@@someoneawesome8717 i mean it starts with an interdimensional void being broken because some old men twins can't communicate and are doing their best to pass it on to their grand-nibling twins, and then a one-eyed triangle in a top hat and a bow tie does a big entrance and was intended to have a musical number written by neil cicirega, but they cut that early on in writing that episode, and then he shuffles all the orifices in a bootlicking capitalist's face so his ears are where his eyes should be, et cetera. you know, typical disney xd stuff
WHY COULDN'T YOU LET THEM BE HAPPY FOR MORE THAN LITERALLY 5 MINUTES I'M IN PAIN
i spent the first 5 minutes grinning like a fool and hearing jon start to read the letter was like getting hit upon the head with a baseball bat
@@f_mva or should you say a lead pipe?
@@someoneawesome8717 >:( i GUESS
@@f_mva *Brutal pipe murder sounds*
people just now listening: i want you to picture the agony that came with finishing this episode then realizing the next one was *six months away*
I literally waited to get into it until I heard it was over for that exact reason.
Yeah yeah yeah, I lived through Gravity Falls already. You guys can eat your suffering. We had 40 episodes in the span of 4 years, and most of that was hiatus. I'm counting this as a blessing
@@hamburgerdog25 i was also a gravity falls fan lmao that was my first real fandom. i will never forget the batshit insane theorizing that came out of that first hiatus. bill is the goat truthers rise up
@@leomorris7573 oh my god the goat. When did he actually get the name Gompers lmao. I think the fandom just gave it to him and it became cannon somehow by magic. GF was also my first fanbase/obsession. I should have had a red string board with the wild shit I was coming up with lol
@@hamburgerdog25 the damage alex hirsche did by "leaking" that fake screenshot of mcgucket writing the journal...
"The Desolation had killed her cat"... So Gertrude was basically the Doom Guy of the TMA universe...
Awesome!
I just imagined that she puts "the only thing they fear is you" on full blast while carrying around a flame thrower and C4.
I would do the same as her if something killed my cat
"Now, archivist, why don't you show yourself and die- wait, why do I hear boss music?"
*BFG Division gets increasingly louder
"What in the hell is that- HOLY SHIT-"
The John wick of the archives
@@whomstisthiswhat's that... Oh it's John WICK
Oh man, you can *hear* him trying to resist in the beginning of the statement, after he realizes who it is, and it is beautiful.
And it stops when Magnus asks if he's curious
Terrifyingly beatiful
"It's not everyday you get a chance to monologue through another man's voice" Elias is such a Drama King, I love this ridiculous eldritch theater nerd
Why couldn't they just be happy and look at cows 😭
They are. Everyone is looking at cows. John looks at cows. Martin looks at cows. The sky looks at cows.
I feel the same wayyyy 😭😭
It can be like that in a fan fic, if you want
@@someoneawesome8717 yes please
@@sarahmccausland7035 I mean it's not my fanfic but it could be yours. My fanfic has Jon staying in the States longer and becoming a walking Monster Manual for Trevor and Julia until he HAS to return for the Unknowing in which he brings those two along
God the happiness in the beginning... You can HEAR the contented smile in Jon's voice as he says goodbye to Martin and reads the statement intro. His happy little "audio recording by Jonathan Sims. The Archivist :)"
mans thought he was about to sit down to a 5 course meal and instead got shot by john wick
Audio recording by Jonathan Sims, the Archivist ^-^
pretty sure this is the best plot twist i've ever experienced. all the pieces were set up, i had even been suspicious about a few things that hinted towards it, but eventually I came to assume that those threads simply didn't have an explanation. but NOPE, it all led up to this. they really sniped my ass with this one.
You got a heart 😮😮😮😮
@@Catglittercrafts most people have at least one!
@@takeoats Jared has at least 4!
bro bc of watching some of the amvs for this, I rlly couldn't help myself they are so good, I knew what was going to happen so it wasn't a plot twist. It was still amazing obv but I wish I could have experienced it not knowing what was essentially going to happen.
@@minuspi8372can't forget about the 30+ Robert Montauk had ^^
I feel that the most interesting part of this plan of Elias' is that it could have easily fallen apart several times. And at every point where things went wrong, a spider was always there to correct the course. Jon would have never found the tunnels if he hadn't killed that spider. Not-Sasha would never have turned up at the Institute if the power of the Spider hadn't bound it to the table. The flesh and the buried would have never have marked Jon if the spider hadn't delivered him the tape about the meat ritual. Even Jane Prentiss showing up at the Magnus Archives only happened because Martin wanted to investigate an unkillable spider. There's probably even more instances of the spider 'guiding' Jon that I'm forgetting.
Elias was right about Jon from the start. The initial marking from the spider wasn't an accident. This ritual is just as much the spider's handiwork as it is the Eye's. I can't help but wonder if the web ends here, or if there's an even bigger plan devised by the Spider in the new world.
i hadn't even noticed that, but now that you say it... man, Jonathan (the irl one) is an amazing writer
This would explain why the Web doesnt have a ritual of their own. They just push someone else into doing it.
I draw my hat to you. You nailed it.
@@pepi7404 I'm afraid that my nail was still in the wrong spot for what I was thinking would happen :P
dude you got scary close what the hell
I literally, LITERALLY, went down to the comments at 5:38 to say how nice it was to hear them sounding so happy and okay, then roughly fifteen seconds passed and I backspaced everything as my smile withered and died
bro same, i wrote a whole paragraph to my friend about how happy i am for them and then resumed listening and died inside
@@carmelwolf129 i'm on my third relisten and i kinda wanna skip this one....
too late
tfw you just wanna get a snack and end up unleashing the apocalypse
I think we’ve all been there
So this is where the meme comes from. This is what caused all those "apologies for the deception Jon..." memes to surface.
_Beep_ Connection terminated
I was *hoping* someone would make that joke.
Thank you!
I saw a few and was so confused until I saw this episode
I can just FEEL AND IMAGINE Alex and Jonny writing this whole episode down and be like "*laughs evilly* HAH! WE PLANNED THIS WHOLE THING FROM THE BEGINNING AND IT'S FINALLY HERE MUAHAHAHAHA" and now we're all just like 👁👄👁🤯
Also : i have a new sense of dread about this 👁 emoji....
Like listen to the middle ad of the 24th episode Rusty Quill Gaming podcast. It was ALL planned from the very start
👁
👁 see you.
👁🕷🪱🪂⚰️🔥🦴🥩🥁🧛♂️🎭🌫🍥
Eyes will never look the same
Are you telling me Tim's dead for nothing bc the Unknowing would've fail anyway-
Tim got his revenge tho good for him
yeah pretty much, which is why it hurts even more on a re-listen - but! At least he got to avenge his brother!!
I know this is bad and all but props to jonah magnus for not half-assing his ritual and going all in on his plan, like wow that's dedication. Others out there losing their chance to some random barista or a newspaper article or some explosives and this guy out here orchestrating the apocalypse pretty much by his own self, sucks that the world is going to crap and everyone's suffering (although 2020 gave me different expectations of what that means) but wow he played it well.
well played, magnus. well. played.
Also, he had the foresight and intuition to bring all the Fears with The Eye. All the other avatars were a lot more self-absorbed about it, trying to pick and choose who'd come with.
To be fair... They have all been failing for thousands of years and Magnus also failed a few times before with the Watcher's Crown.
I told you all they were going to end up in a cosy cottage in the country. How many of you believed me!?
I trusted you and you betrayed me. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. Will shouting into my blanket for the next hour or so xx
@@mars_ffs But right now they are in a cosy cottage in the country, there is just a bit of... trouble outside of the cottage
The fact that everything that happened to Jon and the others was all planned from the start and was completely out of Jon’s control and yet he spend three entire season being bullied by everyone around him really just
Really just gets to ya huh
Yup
It just made me feel so frustrated ರ╭╮ರ
Vigilo. Audio. Supervenio.
I watch. I listen. I overcome.
yay...!
I'm just reminded of that meme now lel
you know, when i heard "hello, Jon" i actually dropped my phone on the nearest surface available and held my hands away from it like it was cursed. fucking good writing, is what that is
*inhale* WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I figured that those few minutes of happiness won't end well, and yet that "hello Jon, apologies for the deception" HIT ME LIKE A TRUCK. And the fact that EVERY SINGLE THING was planned all along... I applaud y'all 👏👏
The Web must be very pleased with Elias.
my smile faded so fast when jon read that
"obviously im going to tell you if i see any good cows" i love him !
There’s an apocalypse, but hey: at least Martins there! I really hope Martin doesn’t blame Jon, he just wanted a snack not a world of unending terror
To be fair Martin and Basira did hand him the stack without checking through them first so in a way everyone can share some blame but Elias gets most of the credit cause wow that was a great power play
@@amphitritemists4595 i actually suspect that's exactly why it's written that way, instead of like, Jon just having brought some with him. Having Basira and Martin both hand this statement to him ties them all to it
Headcanon that the mark the Stranger gave him was just the silky smooth skin from the body products Nikolai had Breekon and Hope buy from Boots in MAG101
bro i burst out laughing, that is the best headcannon
"I was a little put out when that idiot Jared Hopworth misinterpreted my letters and attacked the Institute too soon, before you were even out of the hospital, but then - Ho, you should have see my face when you voluntarily went to him." Okay, now I just imagine Elias-Jonah is just throwing himself a little dance party when Jon willingly did this in the prison and everyone who looks at him is like wft is up with this dude?
when i realized that jon is literally THE Magnus Archive i had to take a walk. IT WAS LITERALLY THE TITLE OF THE WHOLE SHOW ARE YOU KIDDING ME.
Same!
Fuck it is!!
“It’s you Jon! You’re The Magnus Archives!”
The worst part about this is the very real realization that this means that during the unknowing Tim didn't need to die and Jon didn't need to lose his humanity.
It was pointless.
THATS FUCKED UP MY GUY
Yah I thought of tim to. Turns out none of them needed to suffer to save the world at any point, it was ALL just to help elias end the world for real
@@fauxclaws Yeah..
I have never been more angry at a fictional character or despised anyone as much as Jonah Magnus in my entire life.
So Jon's the frickin Avatar then huh? Only the Archive, touched my all 14 fears...
@Katrine O. Noooo xD
Wait what were all the 14 marks?
@@jydeosaure6564 They don't have to be physical marks just interactions with each fear entity from how I understand it
1. The Corruption~every worm that went beneath his skin during the Prentiss attack
2. The Web~his interraction with the Mr. Spider book
3. The Desolation~one handshake from Jude Perry
4. The End~his coma
5. The Stranger~Multiple meetings with Nikola
6. The Dark~going to see the dark sun with Basira
7. The Vast~one meeting with Mike Crew
8. The Slaughter~Melanie stabbed him during his fun little surgery on her ghost bullet
9. The Flesh~two rib cages removed
10. The Buried~going in to rescue Daisy
11. The Hunt~Daisy left a nice little scar on his neck when she kidnapped him
12. The Eye~An entity he's been serving because of his ties to the Institute
13. The Spiral~he got cut by Michael's Distortion but he also passed through the Spiral doors a few times
14. The Lonely~he went in and walked out but there was a moment where he was almost tempted to stay where the Lonely touched him
@@amphitritemists4595 thank u this was super helpful
@@amphitritemists4595 Thank you :D
WHY CANT WE JUST HAVE HAD THE ENDING OF MARTIN TELLING JON ABOUT THE COWS.
-I love how much sense everything makes. No plotholes at all. I wondered why Elias reacted like that with Prentiss but now it all makes sense!!
-Elias shipps them as well!!
-Imagine having such a powerful monolog that you can do it through another person
-"Surgery gone wrong" lmao
The ending felt like a gut punch. I have listened to this episode 5 times already.
Montauk oh god i havent listened yet im scared
edit: FUUUUUUUUCKK-
EDIT 2: AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I finished my first listen and I am traumatized
@@quentinschrader7104 And the eye drinks it all in...
@@montauk1684 good soup
Elias explaining his entire plan and carrying out the ritual through Jon: >:)
Me: >:0
It's hard to actually get a laugh out of me, but the "-Tell me if you see any good cows -OBVIOUSLY I'm going to tell you if I see any good cows!" literally made me burst out laughing. That was a good one, Mr. Sims (author). Good one indeed.
“You who watch and know and understand none. You who listen and hear and will not comprehend. You who wait and wait and drink in all that is not yours by right. Come to us in your wholeness. Come to us in your perfection! Bring all that is fear and all that is terror and all that is awful dread that crawls and chokes and blinds and falls and twists and leaves and hides and weaves and burns and hunts and rips and leads and dies! Come to us. I OPEN THE DOOR!”
i know the unofficial transcript says "leads" but it sounded a lot more like "bleeds" to me. i also think that would make more sense in context? they're all words to invoke all the non-eye fears, but if that one's not "bleeds" then the flesh isn't being represented.
@@bridgetb.7965 Yes, that would make more sense
I think the last part is EYE not I, though it may be a worldplay
OOF did u copy paste this or actually replayed the audio a billion times in order to type this down??
Bless you kind sir for posting this here that I might read along with it.
I FEEL SO F*CKING VALIDATED, I CALLED THIS. JONAH MAGNUS TOOK CENTURIES AND IT JUST TOOK ME DELIRIOUSLY MARATHONING TO THE ARCHIVES FOR A WEEK TO SEE THAT THEY WERE ALL ONE BEING THAT COULDN'T BE PULLED THROUGH SEPARATELY. I AM SO VALIDATED RIGHT NOW YOU DONT EVEN KNOW. Also I wanna hear more about the cows ;-;.
i've been suspicious of magnus and elias for a long time but i did NOT see this coming! props to you!
Leitner SAID they were one being, didn’t he?
@@GarethOfByzantium immediately what my mind ran to too,with the analogy of the ants and stuff
I love how this episode is just Jonah going "hey, hey Jon! Remember (enter traumatic experience here), that was all me baby!".
Really one of the best season finale of the podcast... Punched the air out of my lungs. Elias is hands down the best villain I've seen in a while, and even though it's not him directly speaking here, you can sense it's him anyway, pouring through Jon's voice and taking over... What a excellent acting and writing !
This ritual chant gave me goosebumps! 100/10 !!
I can never listen to Jon or Martin reading. Once the statement starts, I hear the statement giver, and it's chilling to realize. Even when I'm trying to (which isn't often, I admit. But I did a couple times). These guys are just that good.
and to be entirely accurate, it's not even Elias, it's Jonah
seriously, halfway through the statement I paused, shocked that i hadn't noticed the transition of when Magnus started talking instead of Jon... it took me a bit to realize that there was no transition and it was still Jon.
@@fluffsnake Yes, his accent changed when he took on his identity as Jonah.
I've never really understood when fans say an episode killed them or left them gasping, i always thought it was an exaggeration. but this episode genuinely took the air from my lungs
Fun fact: I performed the last bit of this statement as a monologue for a performance with my drama club. Everyone was very impressed. Thank you Mr Sims for writing the best monologue :)
Elias: Lol, it's just a prank bro.
The prank:
I have personally decided the episode was only 5:30 mins long for the sake of my crumbling mental health
I don't think I've ever sat bolt upright and started backing away from my computer quite as fast as when we went from 'Statement begins' to 'Hello Jon'
Wow.
There have been many terrifying moments in this series, and I don't know why I was all like 'Huh okay we're just going back to nice statement reading let me relax'
Also.... I'm really confident that Magnus has read the overlord manual and that concerns me deeply.
Of COURSE he has!!! He has read... _everything._
Yeah the first time I listened to this episode I was so thrown by that. Even now it hits hard--freaking Jonah
This would have been a very cool ending for the whole show, but I'm very happy that there is a season 5.
This is such an appropriate ending that I didn't continue on to the next season for... about 6 months! It's perfectly horrible and it's hard to imagine where the story continues. Fortunately I'm completely unspoiled, just re-listened to season 4, and ready to continue now :D
Tim fucking died for nothing. They "saved the world " because of his heroic sacrifice and it turns out THE RITUAL NEVER WORKED?! God damn, I was mopping the floor and now I'm just... sitting here . In shock
Ppl who only listen on TH-cam, how yall feeling?
I was already spoiled that the twist happened. But I didnt know it ended like THAT! nor did I know the extent that it went! (Dear god it's so hard not to spoil it when explaining it)
@@marioperez-kj9vl Nah, it's fine. Don't worry about it.
A) Needs more cows.
B) I was *_sure_* that the Eyes ritual had more to do with...
_...Thanks for listening_
@@BoojumFed This isn't an Eye ritual though. This is a ritual Jonah made to bring them ALL in, not just the eye. I believe the name of the ritual is actually "the Magnus Archives"
REALLY FUCKING BAD MAN, REALLY FUCKING BAD
24:57 start here at 11:59:03 on new year's eve and it will begin with Jon saying "now repeat after me" and at midnight it will say "I open the door". Let's start our 2021 well y'all! (based on a post found on tumblr)
this is probably the worst way to start a new year! i will be doing this
wish i’d listened a month or two earlier so i could have done this T.T
😮
you have no idea how exciting it was to wait for hearing that famous line "Hello , John.Apologies for the deception, but I wanted to make sure you started reading, so I thought it best not to announce myself.
" I joined the fandom really late and saw this everywhere, I almost lip-synced when first listening.
Im on my first listen through now and (admittedly I've had many spoilers cuz... unavoidable now but) I've been **waiting** for this quote for so long
The voice acting in this episode is incredible, Jon really *sounds* like Elias here
It’s hard for me to tell them apart tbh
@@Catglittercrafts the funny thing is that Ben (voice of Elias) said his Elias voice was just Jon's Archivist voice but more pretentious. So it's less that Jon sounds like Elias here and more that Elias has always sounded like Jon
@@maxwillsch2938 But the Jonah voice doesn't sound like Jon and Elias. More vibratto.
and season five begins:
each statement is just martin being excited about the cows and describing them in detail
only now do I realise that Jonah's whole motive for founding the institute and attempting the watcher's crown as to not end up a victim of some other, successful ritual is literally just roko's basilisk
the second i heard the sweetness in their voices at the beginning my trust issues leapt in real quick... oh my bois...
Listening to this was like:
“What a nice epilogue I wonder what season 5 is”
“Wait”
“WAIT”
*scrambles to figure out what he hasn’t been touched by as you are told what he has been touched by*
“Well he hasn’t been touched by ___ right?”
“OH FUCK HE HAS”
“WAIT OH NO CHANTING”
“PLS NO IT TELL ME IT DIDNT WORK”
*unintelligible screaming*
When Jon started reading the statement, i could *feel* Jonah giggling and kicking his feet
"Of COURSE I'm going to tell you if I see any cows 🙄" my heart 🥺🥺🥺
Remember when we were all joking about John getting a souvenir from every entity like a collector ? Yeah... those were the good times
Jon was happy for a full 5 minutes. Just let him live his cottage core dreams😭
episode summary: jon falls for the ultimate rickroll
Oh no. No no no.
...
Shit.
I cannot believe that everything, from the very start, has been orchestrated by Elias. I hate him but wow, he is unfortunately very competent. I don't think I'll ever be able to look back on past episodes and not see how the guys are all being played by this asshole. Everything they all went through, every little victory they thought they had... was actually them getting deeper into this whole thing. And it scares me so much to think that they maintained their free will all throughout. They actively opposed these sort of things, they did everything they could to prevent any of the fears taking over the world, and yet, every single one of their moves led them towards this. They could choose their actions, but we're absolutely helpless as to the consequences. It truly is terrifying.
I only hope that it's not necessary to kill the Avatar in order to stop the Apocalypse. Jon doesn't deserve this.
Two episodes ago I was praising Martin for finally standing up to Lukas. While I am still glad that he chose to decide for himself, I now realize that he was still being played. No matter what he did, he could not escape the plans of others. It makes my blood boil to think that everything they have all done to stand up for themselves and break loose of the influence of the fears has all been for nothing. They were all still being manipulated.
Aaaghsbhsksjf I hate this. Like it's so well-written but daaaamn it whyyyyy
So, ah....how ya feeling about the finale?
i’ll never forget the feeling of hearing this while on the public bus, completely alone besides an old woman who watched me as my eyes just widened in horror and very faint tears
(Spoilers for the end of the episode) yeah yeah I get that this episode is devastating but I love Insane Jon so much. Just,,, his maniacal laugh? pLEASE I love him.
Oh you should hear his cold fury in about forty episodes, it is beautiful
@@someoneawesome8717 Ive listened to the whole thing now! Still crying over it
@@_mel_9953 ikr? I fully understand what Georgie went through now
if you like this you should listen to the mechs! you hear more maniacal laughs :D
I still remember the first instance of it after Jürgen Leitner's... splitting head-ache.
"Look at the sky, Martin. Look at the sky. It's looking back!"
I am not often heavily affected by media.
This podcast is, thus far, THE ONLY EXCEPTION. OH MY GOD.
The first time I listened to this episode, the voice of Jon slipping into hysteria struck deep horror in me. I literally could not start Season Five for almost a week. Even now, coming back to this clip on more than one occasion, it still scares me. The dread I feel is like I am there in the house with them. It feels insanely real and no piece of media has EVER done that to me.
Every person that's worked to produce The Magnus Archives is incredible.
You've broken me and I am surprised that you have.
Well done.
Welcome to the institute
Petition for Jonny to pay for all of our therapy
he really hit that emotion of "terrified awe" _so perfectly_
HOLY CRAP the "hello Jon" part was the most scared I have been in this whole series
and then the "turn the page and start again"
I love Elias but jesus man he is scary
im astounded i avoided that spoiler
Honestly, Jonny's voice acting and the editing/soundscaping in this is so good!! Every time I listen to this I pick up on more things:
- the stutters at the start where Jon tries to stop himself
- the way he changes his pitch and tone and even the way he pronounces his vowels to make him sound more like Elias/Magnus
- the crackling sound effects that start as soon as Jon starts reading
Just to list a few (yeah, this is a very restricted list) of them very quickly. Feel free to add to more if you want!
this episode is the best example of the inminent tragedy that will be the finale. the writing is so good that I can feel jon's pain while reading the statement. this episode is so well done! I am cought up but listening to this again gives me even more feels. thanks for hurting me guys :)))
"I looked at the sky, and the sky blinked"
And now,
"Look at the sky. Its looking back"
I rescind my previous assessment that the first line is the hardest thing I've ever heard because that second oen is 1,000x more terrifying
Jonathan Sims I will be coming for your lungs IMMEDIATELY seeing as you have stolen mine
It caught me off guard that one of the content warnings was "change", because the process of change is one of my biggest fears
Also, I can clearly imagine Jon clutching the statement as he reads on
*oh god MOOD*
"this episode is too sweet where's the catch?"
"Hello Jon"
"Ah here it is"
Gotta catch them all
-Jonah magnus
Awww they sound so happy, finally an episode that won't make me anxious ?
Update : OF COURSE IT COULDN'T LAST MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES
I love this podcast but I don't trust any positive vibes in it for a second since around the middle of season 2, when it was getting really obvious that this definitely isn't the "fun" kind of horror.
To quote Tyrion: "If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention."
Sike 😂😂😂😂
@@neutraljanet7016apologies fir the deception Neutral but we needed you to be listening first
Really odd the season ended with a five and a half minute episode. Wonder why?
In all seriousness though that twist was masterly crafted and even now, on my third relisten, it gives me chills. Congratulations to the writers, you have raised the bar. Can’t wait for Protocol!
Ok so the apocalypse as a price for Jon and Martin finally beeing together... I´m fine with this!
this is like the scary version of when the kids movie ends and all the characters have a dance party
5:42 hello jon. sorry fo-
I think it's nice that they let them be happy for five minutes before putting them through unimaginable trauma again. It's the little things :)
Goddammit, and they were so happy at the beginning. They really can't have a break, can they?...
I think it's really cool how Jon can put on Elias' voice so well. I hate him so much... Jon didn't want any of this and Elias just used him as a pawn!
Also, was Jon laughing or crying at the end?... It's hard for me to distinguish sometimes.
Wonderful episode as always!
He was laughing and crying both, kinda temporarily drunk on a mixture of suddenly gaining a LOT of power and also that weird mix of fear and bliss that a lot of others described they felt during their rituals - before theirs broke apart of course
What a wonderful show slow burning romance and a slow burning world.
Excuse me while I scream in that corner over there
..."The desolation killed her cat."
Aye, aye that would do it.
I wonder how the side of the fandom that only listens on TH-cam is doing right about now
Worried for the cows.
NOT VERY GOOD, THANK YOU FOR ASKING WHWHW
I SPEND WEEKS BINGEING THIS SERIES ON YT AND NOW IT ENDS HERE AND I HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL APRIL, WHWHWHH THIS IS FUCKING W/ MY EMOTIONS SO MCUH
Maxskellington Listen on acast
Maxskellington there are like,, 14 more episodes
@@maxskellington910 It was this previous April that the new season started; they just haven't got through the trouble of tranferring the new season to TH-cam.
Last episode I was like "oh, so he extracted that statement from Peter... hopefully he won't have to eat again for a while :)"
That seems a little less important now.
The way Jonathan Sims reads the title is so haunting. Can't wait to get into it
"The Magnus Archives will return April 2020." God I mean if there were ever a more impeccable timing
I was at the very end, literally when Jon is saying to Martin to look at the sky with joy in his voice, and right when he says this I hear from outside what sounded like multiple women screeching in agony from far away, with almost an echo to it, also just for a bit of context, it's 4 in the morning and I live in a really "in the middle of nowhere" type of area.. Turns out that it was just someone doing some really loud donuts with their car who probably didn't have the wheels for it... Scared me to death tho so good job 😂
fuckin HELL!!! i've been hearing about the dreaded episode 160 for like 20 episodes but I DID NOT EXPECT THIS!!! absolute masterclass in writing, holy fucking shit. mr sims i shall worship you as one of the fears (the fear of Tragic Endings)
also we've been screaming about jon's trauma and various scars since season 1 and turns out!! it did serve a very specific purpose!! haha..... im okay i promise
Nice to know all that effort stopping the rituals, especially on Gertrude's part, was for nothing.
Jon’s laugh is one of the most genuinely unsettling things I’ve ever heard