first statement about victims with a smoking habit, second statement set in bournemouth, third statement on the topic of witnessing a thing eating someone you knew, fourth statement about books you can’t stop reading and the first mention of the library of jurgen leitner—like do i have to say it. love how incredibly, precisely targeted every single one of these is towards jon’s own trauma. he was NOT doing well, every single end note in which he tries to tear the internal logic of the statement to shreds, reads as desperately passive agressive on a re-listen because the statements being unsettling is one thing, but these are all designed to unnerve him specifically! was it the web? or, elias must’ve had some control over what statements jon was allowed access to pre-S4, right, because he can’t have jon knowing something he’s not supposed to, not yet. did he arrange for him to find them like that? he didn’t need to plan a web mark for jon but he never lets jon forget about a guest for mr spider… like, the way he talks about it in 160 (“but my god when you came to me already marked by the web i knew it had to be you” / “hoped that you were sent as some sort of implicit blessing on the whole project”) —for elias it’s all about him. something awful happened to you and then you were sent to me. you were made for me. and we mustn’t forget our roots, jon. DELICIOUS i love it.
speaking of other momentous things which are for some reason canon but are never brought up again. what’s going on with watcher’s call. the only time it’s mentioned is in 158 when elias guides jon to the panopticon in the centre of the tunnels, which were previously unnavigable to him. and i don’t think the ability is called anything in the podcast but the wiki has it listed as such. so, mr magnus can call his archive to him any time? jon archivist whose whole deal is knowing before he does anything to the point of somewhat paralysing his decision making in later seasons once he’s dependant on the beholding. because to act he has to know. that jon is going to just follow his call, blindly and without hesitation? like some kind of siren song? “because this is the place i know i should be”, 193. sure. whatever. me when im writing two characters in a normal relationship.
