After three episodes of Magnus protocol I finally figured out why the statements make me so uncomfortable in a way that the Magnus Archives didn't from the get go. I know this is obvious, but I couldn't put a finger on it at first: we don't really have any context for any of these. In TMA you got the full story, from the beginning to the end, the context, any background that the statement givers thought was necessary. In TMP you're essentially spying on people experiencing horrors. In TMA you were given everything, drinking it all in, strangers would just give The Eye what it wanted. In TMP you have to look for it, The Eye being hungry, if not desperate, to find new fears. It used to be fed, now it has to hunt. And that's so much more scary
