awaken the aeon

oh that's ITS tape recorder. oh dear. I mean, we already know that in a Fear World prior archivists warped into "servitors" for the eye, as they were called. so it wouldn't be terribly unlikely that this is some manifested archivist creature or just a general eye Thing with an archivist cast. "hostile toward other avatars" (or just "generally hostile") is more likely then for the tapes themselves, maybe (irt my last message). sorry gwen. (unless there's some bouchardisms going on. i'm still watching out for that. very carefully.)

there continuing to be additional counterparts from the other world means that we can probably assume that it's mostly likely/probable that most if not all characters have them. the fact that they might not all be tied to the institute is interesting, though i'm suspicious of "the jon and martin that match the timing we're looking for died 20 years ago" until proven otherwise. it's probably fine. whateverrrrrrr.

what is interesting to me is that Celia obviously Knows something, and at the very least TMP wants us to think that she's definitely from (or at least privy to the events of) the other universe, and yet she's getting close to Sam and not Gwen. If she knows the first/last of TMA characters so specifically, I'd think that she'd be quite interested in the fact that Gwen is a Bouchard, and now that we're hunting down prior characters, I imagine it will come up. But I've been waiting for it to come up for ages (head grabbing losing it emoji). going a lil crazy. Obviously Sam has some kind of connection to this world's institute, though, so he's a good way to learn more about what they had going on here in this universe. And having an ally in whatever she's looking for is probably good. I wonder if she has figured out that he's being fed linked cases or not yet. god i want to know everything about how she is / was and what she's got going on. i'm biting at the bars of my enclosure.

First 8 episodes thoughts:

Show is a feast for if you know you know Jmj error, def Jon martin but... Jonah? Prob Jon reading eye cases, martin reading Lonely. Haven't paid enough attention to Augustus I knew Collin (sp?) knew shit. Bro had all the cams taped over I just screamed in my car on ep 8 bc last EP was an internal email from Jon, and then NOW WE GET GERRY AND GERTIE. THEYRE BACK. OH MY GOD. Anyway, I use the word back loosely. My presumption at this point is that we're in one of the alternate universes that the fears departed to. Presumably about 20 years ago, since that's when the fire of this universe's version of the Magnus institute was? But I guess it could have been happening before. Depends on the timeline of what the old response team is, they haven't been clear about it yet. Sam has definitely marked himself in some way by checking that whatever box on his application that he said he did godspeed my dude. Celia has already conveniently mentioned several fears and seems to probably know more than she lets on. Interested to know what Leena knows and whatever murdering they've got going on is. From the way she reacted to Gwen blackmailing her, not caring about the threat of whoever hired her to kill being notified, she did not care at all, so I'm assuming she's acting so bemused because she's serving an avatar or something similar

Oh yeah Celia so knows something. Girl why are you asking about time travel and trying to get Sam to subtly drop (or pursue? can't tell) the Magnus leads Time and dimensional travel mind you Like come on girl if the c in your name was an s instead it'll be an anagram for Elias. Don't play with me. Congrats on your transition bouchard

A few eps later:

noticed there's static when people lie sometimes :sideeye:

TMP 21:

WOW WHAT AN EPISODE. JESUS. SO MUCH HERE. CELIA IS TOTALLY FROM ANOTHER UNIVERSE, IF NOT THE UNIVERSE. damn. And the whole Dome project as a ritual -- can't tell if this is a panopticon parallel / universe equivalent for Something or institute related or something else, but some good shit here. The balancing of the fear with the hope for the new millennia was a cool bit when discussing their goals with that.

[ERROR] is a huge full reveal, Jesus. I'm assuming this is what Sam and Alice accidentally released from the institute for sure. And it's responsible for these "talking about greatest fears in death or before it" statements. It sounds like Gwen started reciting that fear and whatever Eye ass creature it is saw potential there, so now it's been put onto the OIAR as an additional source of fear. Which makes sense, because the case files are such potent sources of fear with all of the cases they've heard (and indirectly "experienced" by the archivist effect).

The tape recorder biting Ink (lol) is probably a sign that whatever is putting them there Now (whether it's the Web still, Martin as an web/lonely influence, etc.) is protective over Gwen or at least hostile toward other avatars. Interesting.

(and of course as confident as the language i use there is i'm notoriously bad at predicting anything in mysteries so i'm just like a baby having keys jingled in front of it while i'm along for the ride)

TMP 22: