quick tma thoughts
Jan. 5th, 2020 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kindkitI've now listened through episode 98, "Lights Out." (Yes, I am going through these at quite a pace.) Please no spoilers after that episode.
Martin: Um, honey, have you considered not talking about Jon on tape and thus bringing your feelings to the attention of who knows what? But then, everyone except Jon probably knows already. Elias knows because he seems to know everyone's painful secrets, and everyone else knows because you're not exactly poker-faced, are you, Martin? Jon doesn't know, I think, because Jon is completely fucking oblivious to feelings in general, and also has been rather busy and preoccupied. (If he ever finds out, I'd bet it'll be because he accidentally compels Martin to answer some seemingly innocuous question.)
Elias: You are the best at being a scary, magic psychopath. Marry me now, you awful man.
Melanie: You are the worst at being an assassin, but I love you for trying. Also for inviting Martin to join the rest of you for drinks.
Basira: You heard every word of Martin's clumsy, heartbreaking little ramblings, didn't you? Bless you for pretending you didn't. And you are awesomely trying to read your way out of this mess, and I don't think it will work but, again, I love you for trying.
Tim: When did your role become telling people unwelcome truths? Like that it was Jon, not Elias, who brought you (and perhaps Martin and former Sasha as well?) into the archive? I guess someone has to say this stuff. Dickishness as resistance: apparently it's a thing.
Daisy: You get scarier every time we see you.
Georgie: I hope Jon can learn from you how to survive things. Maaaaaaaybe get him out of your house, though.
Jon: Is your goal to get every single terrifying thing in the world to know you by name, and hate you? You're making excellent progress. I'm presuming you can't die before the end of the show (though I may be over-optimistic about that) but I am nevertheless very very worried about you. Emotionally, too. Go back to the Archive; you need people around you. Have drinks with the team and complain about Elias.
In case it's not obvious, I'm loving the show's new line in pitch-black workplace comedy. I kind of wish they'd introduced it earlier, but I guess we needed to go through that journey of isolation and paranoia with Jon.
Martin: Um, honey, have you considered not talking about Jon on tape and thus bringing your feelings to the attention of who knows what? But then, everyone except Jon probably knows already. Elias knows because he seems to know everyone's painful secrets, and everyone else knows because you're not exactly poker-faced, are you, Martin? Jon doesn't know, I think, because Jon is completely fucking oblivious to feelings in general, and also has been rather busy and preoccupied. (If he ever finds out, I'd bet it'll be because he accidentally compels Martin to answer some seemingly innocuous question.)
Elias: You are the best at being a scary, magic psychopath. Marry me now, you awful man.
Melanie: You are the worst at being an assassin, but I love you for trying. Also for inviting Martin to join the rest of you for drinks.
Basira: You heard every word of Martin's clumsy, heartbreaking little ramblings, didn't you? Bless you for pretending you didn't. And you are awesomely trying to read your way out of this mess, and I don't think it will work but, again, I love you for trying.
Tim: When did your role become telling people unwelcome truths? Like that it was Jon, not Elias, who brought you (and perhaps Martin and former Sasha as well?) into the archive? I guess someone has to say this stuff. Dickishness as resistance: apparently it's a thing.
Daisy: You get scarier every time we see you.
Georgie: I hope Jon can learn from you how to survive things. Maaaaaaaybe get him out of your house, though.
Jon: Is your goal to get every single terrifying thing in the world to know you by name, and hate you? You're making excellent progress. I'm presuming you can't die before the end of the show (though I may be over-optimistic about that) but I am nevertheless very very worried about you. Emotionally, too. Go back to the Archive; you need people around you. Have drinks with the team and complain about Elias.
In case it's not obvious, I'm loving the show's new line in pitch-black workplace comedy. I kind of wish they'd introduced it earlier, but I guess we needed to go through that journey of isolation and paranoia with Jon.
