MAG40 / MAG170... i am looking
martin only remembering and perceiving himself through jon being derisive or his mother being awful, martin remembering his name through an imitation of jons voice-
it was interesting how jonny mentioned smell a lot this episode - how it relates to and can trigger memories. even martin mentions it
the lonely is big on being subtly unsettling - a thick fog, an uncomfortable chair, a smell that is familiar but is not that of your home.
a “damp, sort of- chemical, almost smell” - one related to a bad memory.
and when he said
i think, to martin at least, the lonely smells like his mom’s care home.
oh cool! so this whole bit where he’s mimicking jons voice saying those things really hurts!
So how are the Martin Blackwood kinnies doing after MAG 170
This episode hit me, hard. It deserves more than this sketch, but I’m as tired as they are
Jonny and Alex really went "there is no Lonely statement that wouldn't be as painful as listening to Martin experience it directly" AND THEY WERE RIGHT
TMA Bright Spots:
- Jon and Martin: still together? You bet your fuckin ass they are.
- “Funky lo-fi goodness” YES sweetheart I always want to hear poetry from you.
- Martin sounding out his own name sounded like every American fan I’ve ever heard mock how Jon says it. Press X to MahhhTin.
- Martin kept dunking on the Lonely’s interior design and I appreciate that.
- Even with the Lonely screwing with his memories, he was still fighting it. Rejecting the house, remembering Jon repeatedly, always cycling back to the knowledge that he is loved and he is in love and he is not alone.
- “I am Martin Blackwood and I am not Lonely anymore!”
- “Not anymore.” “No. Not anymore.”
- Fabric!!! Rustles!!!
- Just. Jon giving him an out. Jon saying, you don’t have to follow me. You can stay here where you’ll be safer.
- And Martin saying Absolutely The Fuck Not This Place Sucks.
- Martin! Saved! Himself! The whole time I was silently screaming Jon come find your man he needs help and I was Wrong, he got his own damn self out of the fog and I am having EMOTIONS
MAG 170 This episode was really haunting…
Yeah this episode was totally fine and definitely didn't make me cry quiet tears. I'm just. Im really emotionally stable. Not crying.