wait so i haven’t seen anyone talk about this but. can we appreciate the parallels between the magnus archives and the magnus protocol when it comes to filing, especially as mentioned in their respective pilot episodes? the first solid 5 minutes of MAG1 is john archivist straight up complaining about how shitty of a job the previous archivist apparently did and how messy everything is, how it’s gonna take years to put some mild order to the whole thing. and then half of First Shift is Alice explaining sam the meticulous but dreadingly boring filing system there’s set up and that they cannot for the life of them care about a smidge. MY THEORY is that jon was so UTTERLY TRAUMATIZED by those thousands of misfiled statements his soul haunts the computers in TMP as a ghost making sure not one of them is misplaced, lost, or unlabeled. in this essay i will
