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TMAGP 17 SPOILERS
Celia gives me Moon Knight vibes. Maybe she's sharing a body with her AU self? She seems committed to Jack and genuinely interested in pursuing Sam, so I'm not sure which is which. Might be possible that Celia is genuinely her name and that's why TAFK Lynne picked it, subconsciously.
Which raises the question of who's sleepwalking during the day, and who's working at the OIAR during the night. I feel like Celia's comments on a "crazy couple of years" and her son could go either way- as in, sometimes TMA Celia was making choices, and sometimes it was TMAGP Celia.
Also, is her last name a reference to the Talented Mr Ripley? I'm leaning towards "living her alternate self's life."
TMAGP 9 SPOILERS
I have a bad feeling Freddy is using the voices of Jon, Martin, and whoever else to goad Sam into returning to the Magnus Institute. And that Jon & Martin are, in fact, completely dead.
There's so many double meanings in TMAGP episode titles so far. On that note,
Protocol, in computer science, a set of rules or procedures for transmitting data between electronic devices, such as computers.
https://www.britannica.com/technology/protocol-computer-science
I would bet anything that the OIAR's computers have magnetic tape data storage, and that at the same time FR3D-1 began reading out cases, that storage was overwritten by the Magnus Archives tapes.
I want to believe Gerry is happy and remains so. However,
JONNY
GODDAMN
SIMS
TMAGP's liminal spaces so far (EP 7 spoilers):
1. The Graveyard, the Magnus Institute
2. In5oul's studio
3. The Garden
4. N/A? Perhaps where the protagonist met the merchant
5. The Theater
6. N/A? Does an alley count? Does a call station count?
7. Hill Top
I'm calling them liminal bc they're described only at certain times of day (middle of the night for the graveyard) or in terms that make their entrances and exits, as well as the passage of time within them, unclear (like the tattoo studio and the garden). The theater preserved from childhood memories, yet staffed with only one employee, the Magnus Institute where doors are all open while it lies abandoned, etc., feel solidly liminal to me.
Hill Top is mainly there because of, y'know, but I do think the events of 7 make it a space with unclear limits and volume. It would be ironic if it has nothing to do with Hill Top Road.
I feel like the OIAR office is liminal (between sunset and sunrise, for one thing). The sheer vibes off that place!
MAG 68 mentions documents leaked in 1999. Diff universe, but maybe relevant to the Magnus Institute's downfall in TMAGP?
RESURRECTION
REANIMATION
TRANSFORMATION
IVE ALREADY STARTED ITS BUILDING
The fact that TMAGP begins with boot up noises -- and it's implied that Teddy turned off his computer but it turned itself back on -- establishes that we're listening from the same vantage point as whatever's in that machine. Or the system at large.
So the pub conversation is what confuses me. Is whatever's in the OIAR system on Alice's phone? She would DEFINITELY ignore regulations around not connecting personal devices to the network/etc. But is it following her intentionally, or did it just get on there? You hear camera noises while Sam talks to Colin, so it feels intentional. Malicious or beneficent, though...
The transcripts also say that Norris's and Chester's readings occurs in "CYBERSPACE," which is cool to me because TMA didn't get super deep into fears of technology (certainly cameras, keyboard eating, and uncanny automata could all be lumped in, but tech itself wasn't the "fear" - it was the eye, the spiral, and the stranger). So far technology, the complexity of it, the things lurking in spaghetti code, are front and center.
All of the stories so far have also touched on body modification, even transhumanism (esp. 3), and I can't resist thinking I KNOW where this is going. Gimme that sweet sweet .jmj 🙈
I also wonder if the mere act of categorizing these cases is constructing the new fears.
In First Shift, Gwen accuses Alice of nepotism in helping Sam get the job. Alice says "I learned from the best"- so "Bouchard" probably carries much the same legacy in this world as TMA. Maybe Elias is even in power somewhere up the line.
I don't know what that means, but feels like it's either important or a red canary. I mean herring.