This might just be a me thing, but I had an easier time telling what was happening in Archives than I do Protocol. (But I also have read up on Archives a lot more)

Like, I know I recently made a post making fun of John (Malevolent) for over describing, but I really can’t tell what’s happening in Protocol half the time. Apparently the tape recorder bit Ink5oul? I really could not tell what was happening and I haven’t read the transcript yet.

But I feel like I shouldn’t have to; I shouldn’t have to read the thing I just listened to to understand it. I get that some people like reading the transcripts and it can have some fun insights, but I shouldn’t need it to understand what happened.

And I think Archives did a better job at it, mostly because Protocol hops around way more. (And I like that! I like that it’s different, I’m glad it’s not just Archives again but different characters) In Archives we only heard Jon and the institute; if it wasn’t Jon it was someone else at the Institute, and if it wasn’t at the institute it was Jon. The only time that I can think of where we heard any other character that wasn’t Jon (or with Jon) outside the Institute is Melanie’s therapy appointment (and Martin and Annabelle at hill top road, but I don’t really count that one)

Protocol on the other hand, we hear the Office, we hear Sam and Celia go on dates, we hear Alice outside the Office, we hear Gwen give a hit list to a clown, we even hear Celia’s kid and Georgie before Celia gets back. With it going from one place or another it’s hard for me to know where they are and what is happening.

I know there’s different sounds for the different devices, but i can’t really tell them apart. And if it’s someone’s phone, who knows where they are.

This isn’t really meant to be a Tmagp hate post or anything, I am enjoying Protocol, I just don’t always get what’s happening.