Please give me the Lena Kelley Vs Jonah Magnus rant

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first of all, personality. complete opposites. jonah is smug and calm and pleasent in an irritating way. you can hear in his voice that he’s almost always grinning at least a little bit. you can tell that things are going his way at all times, and he’s just standing by, watching it all fall into place. lena sounds like she hasn’t smiled in years. she’s serious at all times, actively analyzing situations for the best move to make, rather than passively watching them. when jonah’s (pretending to be) mad at jon, he goes cold and impersonal. he becomes the boss reprimanding his employee. from tmagp 16, we can tell that lena takes to anger in a very different way. that same distant unwavering professionalism that jonah faked is actually her neutral state, so her anger looks wayy different. it’s all genuine and emotional and heated rather than ice cold. you can tell that her anger is real and burning and personal.

then there’s the difference between them in relation to other characters. throughout tma, everyone does what jonah wants them to, wether on purpose or not. from the very start of tmagp, you can see that basically nobody at the oiar actually takes lena seriously.

there’s also the positions they have. jonah’s the head of the magnus institute; in that specific hierarchy, the only one above him is the eye itself. but the oiar is not an institute. it’s an office. it’s a section of the government. so we know that there’s people above lena, telling her what to do. she’s not the one with all the power here. in fact, every episode she seems to have less and less power over anything.

and, most interesringly, lena seems to actually care about her employees. she seems to be trying to keep them safe, hesitant to give promotions knowing what it means, hesitant to even hire anyone in the first place. which is the opposite of what jonah magnus did. the opposite of inviting the horrors into your workplace is, in fact, having strict rules about keeping them out.