Ninety-Nine…. One-Hundred! I WILL be skipping I Guess You Had To Be There. It’s a poorly done gimmick episode and I don’t care about Peter FUCKASS Lukas’s introduction. So. Dust To Dust.
MAG 99
‘Merica. Again.
OOOOOOOOHHH-KLAHOMA WHERE THE WIND COME SWEEPIN DOWN THE PLAINNN!!!
Thinking about it this might actually end up a really short post. Cause there isn’t much to say tbh. We had to learn about the Dust Bowl in school, but I’d never heard of dust pneumonia I don’t think until this episode.
God. See. And the fact we later hear of The Usher Foundation in D.C. just proves this BUT THEN JONNY ON HIS OWN GODDAMN BLOG IS LIKE ~~ I pIcTuRe It SeT iN tHe NeW eNgLaNd ArEa ~~ completely forgetting that he A) literally gave a location, B) was RIGHT here! It WOULD be a function of government!!! There would be the head office in D.C. with satellite offices in the state capitols! GOD. Whatever. Everything to do with any of the “"sister”“ locations PISS ME OFF. Whatever. Whatever. But he also doesn’t even see it as a function of the government. Just a singular foundation. Which. Okay. Fair. Guess that was our assumption. But you did forget you literally sent Jon to America to visit it. It has a set location already in the fucking podcast. Idiot. WHATEVER.
"Did you know Boise City was founded by fraud?” Yes, actually. I’m sure this was also in our lesson plan regarding the Dust Bowl.
Its weird they made a parallel to Martin and Micheal, right?
Anyway. The less said about the fuckass timeline regarding Micheal’s time as an archival assistant the better. So. Cool. He was her assistant. At some point. Whatever. Moving on.
And here’s the confirmation that Jan was who she tossed into the hole that shall not be acknowledged. Cool.
They don’t really react appropriately to things imo. Why is the whole situation with Micheal such a shock to him? Why is he screaming out as if INVITING THE DAMN THING TO SHOW UP. God these sudden shoutings really annoy me. Maybe reveals just aren’t hitting anymore cause I already know them :\
I… okay. One. Yes. Jon. You are putting her in danger. You have your job back. Why are you at the flat listening to this. Two. Why IS she??? She says he’s trying to cut himself off but he’s literally at her home listening to a recording from Gertrude. Cutting himself off would be what he did in season four: staying in the archives and holing up in his office. He doesn’t talk to the others because most of them actively dislike him, he’s busy on wild goose chases, and… yeah. Which brings me to. Three. Are you not included in those 'people’, Georgina? I am just.
I think I’m slowly accepting that my frustration is just. Confusion. Confusion as to what she wants, what she expects of him. Confusion as to what he’s supposed to do. What the rules are. All of it. Her demands are so broad and vague as to be utterly useless. And not only that, but highly contradictory. There was no satisfying her cause I don’t know if she even knows what she wanted. And she sure as hell didn’t know what he ACTUALLY needed. Cause HE FUCKING DIDN’T EITHER. But he does come up with SOMETHING. Not that it works, whatever that would mean. Not that it changes anything. Not that any of them reciprocate in any shape or form. He has no bridges to cross in that regard. He already burned them.
“-you’re a grown-ass man-” Funny.
AAAND now he’s kidnapped. Great.
MAG 100
I don’t think I’ve ever actually listened to this episode.
OH. WAIT. LYNNE. CELIA. Forgot this is where she was introduced. We never got any info on this 'ghost’ she saw. A fire ghost. Agnes, perchance? Then she had the 'trapped in a Stranger domain and lost her identity’ before the dimension hopping after “"Towerfall”“ and yeah all her importance in Protocol. I don’t listen to it, though I look at spoilers, and I’m pretty sure she never talked about the fire ghost there??? Still say that’s how Agnes can still win but whatever…..
"The story is: I saw I ghost.” THEN WHY ARE YOU H E R E. If you’re not going to give any USABLE information that can be researched or looked into, then why. are. you. here. So annoying. All of these. We get confirmation that they actually happened through the season retrospective, though I’m loathe to accept anything from it as canon, so. These all really happened. So. What is she even doing. What did she want.
Okay. Yeah. I can’t bring myself to care enough to listen to a lot of rambling nonsense. The only other thing of note, as I said, is Peter FUCKING Lukas showing up at the end to whisk someone away into the Lonely. Funny how no one blames MELANIE for leaving him alone to be preyed upon. Unlike how they blame Jon for every careless mistake HE makes. I’m fine. I’m not bitter at all.
Yeah. That’s all. I’m done here.