The “mundane modern solutions to arcane supernatural problems” trope gets me every time. Like nothing will ever top the episode of the Magnus Archives where Adelard Dekker looked at a horseman-of-the-apocalypse-style world-ending bringer of pestilence and went, “Well, you can’t end the world if you’re encased in cement.”
In retrospect, it’s pretty funny that the two things in the Magnus Archives that the ‘encase it in cement’ strategy were used against were:
In retrospect, it’s pretty funny that the two things in the Magnus Archives that the ‘encase it in cement’ strategy were used against were:
- an immortal supernatural entity trying to spread a deadly plague to bring about the apocalypse, and
- a very large pig
I’ve seen people in the notes going, “well how else were they supposed to defeat the pig?” - and like obviously the answer is the power of friendship but regardless - my thing is less “why did they cement the pig?” and more “why didn’t they cement more things?”
In retrospect, it’s pretty funny that the two things in the Magnus Archives that the ‘encase it in cement’ strategy were used against were:
- an immortal supernatural entity trying to spread a deadly plague to bring about the apocalypse, and
- a very large pig
I’ve seen people in the notes going, “well how else were they supposed to defeat the pig?” - and like obviously the answer is the power of friendship but regardless - my thing is less “why did they cement the pig?” and more “why didn’t they cement more things?”
What I’m saying is they should have encased Elias in cement.