2025-02-07 2:08:38 ¶ ●

The thing about watching TMA is that you spend 200 episodes being told that Jon’s fatal flaw is his inability to “turn a blind eye” from anything, and yet, when you hear about a women who wakes up in a fresh grave on her every birthday, you, like Jon, want to hear that story too.

You (or otherwise known as the audience) know just as well as Jon that by taking statements he loses a bit of humanity and dooms the statement giver to relive their trauma every night in their sleep. But… that knowledge is tempting. It’s so hard not to want to know. I mean, which birthday did it start? Which entity causes it? How does the statement giver feel about what’s happening to her? You want to know so many things, despite understanding that’s all for worst.

I think the point of TMA is that audience IS Jon to a certain degree. I think we’re supposed to be just as bad as he is when it comes to the pursuit of understanding and knowledge, even when it’s something that should be left alone. And the moment in the screenshot above is when I first had that thought, because when I first saw this conversation I went “Is he not going to elaborate on her story? That’s kind of disappointing. I would have loved to get a full statement on that.” Only to realize “Oh. Yikes. That’s the exact same mindset that has lead Jon to this point.”