2025-07-31 2:55:58 ¶ ●

Something I think would have been neat to see a tiny bit more of in TMA would be the more social side of an Assistant’s investigative work.

As we know, The Institute often does follow up on cases. And as we also know, the concept of working in a supernatural institute sounds insane to a good chunk of the population. Martin even says that he has to lie to get information when he’s telling Jon about the apartment manager he talked to before he met Prentiss, and we know Tim would impersonate and woe information out of people because normal talking wouldn’t do it.

So I would have loved an episode or two that was just about the assistants trying to find ways to socially leverage information out of people. I think that could be a really interesting premise in general but I also would have loved an excuse to get more Sasha/Tim/Martin solo content. Though I also like the idea of early seasons Jon having to take on the assistants job for the day for some reason and having to subtly get information without the use of his later seasons powers.

I honestly think Jon’s capable of it! He was able to get that one tech chick to help him open by Gertrude’s laptop by claiming he had locked himself out. I think it would be a fun challenge for him to have to carefully navigate an entire conversation while trying to learn something he can’t know otherwise. Especially since early seasons Jon can be a bit…standoffish.

The entire concept of being an Archivist for the weird and needing to navigate that in social situation is so interesting. I would have loved to see more of the mundaneness of the normal world being mixed with the inherent oddness of what The Institute does.