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I know we all love our Adelard Dekker (throws horrors in concrete) and Joshua Gillespie (outsmarts horrors with ice)
but can we talk about the old man who just straight up 1v1-ed a werewolf? And won?
Lawrence Mortimer deserves to be up there.
TMA 31: The americans loved this one.
Really, going to the comment section of this episode on youtube and seeing americans reacting like "NO" as soon as they mention the appalachian trail is so funny.
Jon's reaction to the statement is interesting too. This situation with the flesh-hive is getting to him, and sure that's the intention, waiting until he's tired and scared to strike. It's a good method in my opinion, I like my men tired and scared!~
Also, let me simp for this man just a bit. Him singing while putting on the voice of a man imitating a werewolf? That's so funny. I love when he gets so into the character.
So at this point (TMA 31) we know directly from Jonathan that he is staying at the Archives more; we can assume he would sometimes spent the night without going back home.
Martin already sleeps there.
I’ll assume that if others (Tim, Sasha) would also spend more time at the archives it would have been a point worth making in this situation since Jonathan tries to underline the fact that they are being hunted.
Which means it’s just the two of them. He and Martin spent more time together. Which is why I believe we don’t hear Jon picking at Martin anymore. Especially as he probably first hand sees him doing the research more then he would if they only saw each other during office hours - Couse you can’t tell me that they weren’t working extra hours late into the night; probably also keeping each other company by working in the same room (after others left) simply for the comfort. He sees how Martin relentlessly checks every information twice, thrice usually even more times - because in Martin’s head he has to. Jon sees how the way he was undermining Martin’s research got to the man. Even if he doesn’t know why. Even if he doesn’t know yet that the reason is the way Martin’s mother always dismissed him too.
We always claim that Jonathan felt remorse firstly later - but I think he already did back then; just didn’t deal with it himself yet. But we see the seeds of it in the way he starts to respect Martin’s findings. It’s in the way he doesn’t make snarky comments at Martin anymore, sure. But also he doesn’t question if more could have been done. He takes it at the face value. It’s even in the fact that he lets Martin join forces with Tim who he already trusts - or if they done so in the past he now starts to acknowledge Martin’s part in investigation (which also makes you wonder how many times before he didn’t).
(TMA 27, TMA30)
And so as they “are stuck” they sometimes talk. We are humans it’s in our nature that we socialise after all; so simply by proximity they get to know each other better, find out each other’s preferences. Jon ends up warming to his new assistant as he gets to know him better; Martin falls for him even more - if we assume (which for the sake of this I do) he already had a crush on Sims.
From both of them Jon is obviously the less paranoid one still holding onto not supernatural explanation with his dear life - as admitting that explanation is in fact supernatural would mean that they enter uncharted territory and are actually helpless without any real knowledge whatsoever. Even by the very end of TMA 32 he still can’t deal with the idea of Jane Prentiss not being completely natural. But also completely terrified of feeling watched.
But they move on, they live on ‘couse there is nothing else to do than look into it as any other statement. But I believe it was detrimental to Jon’s belief in The Fears and at that point he already did believe far deeper than I think we assume. Just couldn’t admit it. Since admitting it would mean not knowing what to do, how to even start fighting it. It would also allow him to be Seen.
And the reason he feels after this statement? It had to be coming from the fact that Jane Prentiss told him exactly who’s he about to become. Who he already became as soon as he recorded the first statement. A resource to store information instead of one of a help. So he acknowledges it, but still dismisses the mere idea of this or other statements being unexplainable by “natural” things. Still dismisses the statement from fear of being Watched that I assume absolutely was boiling him from inside out at this point of recording.
And Martin was there in the Archives the entire time looking at Jonathan’s change. The others did too of course. But there is always something more intimate when you’re in only each others company and not in a group. I’ll assume he noticed the shift in Jonathan stronger and more detailed than others.
TMA 31: First Hunt
Location: Back porch of my parents' house, 11pm
Spook Rating: 8/10, would have been spookier with the lights off
For context, my parents live in a small town in semi-rural Texas. There's a double high privacy fence around a modest yard with a couple trees and some decorative plants, but it gets pretty dark for being technically within city limits and in the summer the sound of cicadas and crickets is so loud it makes it near impossible to forget you're outside even with headphones in. This is an episode that really got me when I was listening the first time, and the immersive atmosphere really doubled down on that. Full body chills, very nervous, kept glancing over my shoulder. I could have driven to some proper woods if I had been brave enough, but alas I am not. I think I would have cried had it not been for the string lights my mom has set up out back.
Considering sending this episode to my younger sister, who has hiked part of the Appalachian trail and wants to go back. I'm not sure she would appreciate it.
My favorite thing in the about the statements is the random person they encounter that says something spooky and gives me goosebumps. Fav examples include:
"Enjoy sky blue." -Simon MAG21
"No, sir, you have nothing to fear from the dead." -Man from the Cemetery MAG23
"Be still, for there is strange music." (Not a person but it counts for me) -The Calliope MAG24
"You cannot stop slaughter by closing the door." Tom Haan- MAG30
"Tomorrow will be a good day for a run." -Hiker MAG31
I'll add as i go further along
Favourite TMA Episode 31-40
MAG 31: First Hunt
MAG 32: Hive
MAG 33: Boatswain's Call
MAG 34: Anatomy Class
MAG 35: Old Passages
MAG 36: Taken Ill
MAG 37: Burnt Offering
MAG 38: Lost and Found
MAG 39: Infestation
MAG 40: Human Remains
Results
Favourite Episode Masterlist
MAG 31 - First Hunt
doodle 31/200; days left 69/110
i could've technically posted this yesterday but listen- the baccground (albeit sloppy) does so much here
TMA 31 is literally one of the funniest statements, Jon adopts his voice and you think hmm the statement giver must have been doing this in the early 1900s and then he says "oh haha and then I met this chap on an instant messaging board" and its like ooooooh this the early 2000s the statement giver is just a dickhead
