THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES
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- MAG149 - Case #0131305 - Judith O’Neil
Statement regarding their time at the Anglo-Brazilian Amazon Trust.
The Magnus Archives hears the story of an ecological specimen technician who came across some unusual statuary and construction whilst accompanying another scientist into the jungle.
Content Notes: Environmental disaster, body horror
Starring: Martin Blackwood - Alexander J Newall; Georgie Barker - Sasha Sienna; Melanie King - Lydia Nicholas
Writer: Jonathan Sims
Director: Alexander J Newall
Producer: Lowri Ann Davies
Editors: Alexander J Newall, David Devereux, Brock Winstead
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martin: y'all ugly *dissapears*
*peace signs and fades out of existence meme*
Thought of exactly that lmao
Martin getting upset by Georgie CHOOSING to stop talking to John when that's all he wants to do is giving me life.
YEEEES
Everyone's talking about how Martin defended Jon but no one's mentioning "Jon used to talk about you a lot"?
it's mutual.... i just want them to talk to each other 😭
It's the *pineing*
i really really want martin and jon to get together and team up against the world
@@starlesscitiess oh I'm so happy they're together. I choose to believe they're happy in a new reality
"used to"😢😢😢😢
“They didn’t feel like statues, they felt like they were choosing not to move” is one of the most horrifying sentences I’ve ever heard.
agreed
Agreed. It comes right after "the blanket never did anything" imo.
@@Matheus-ql7mnor the "take her not me" in the episode John's lost cave
@@fujitora7070 oh, god, yes! That was the first really frightening moment on this show for me.
Any smart statue that had been watching us would stay still.
Martin is leveling up his lonely skills and I am impressed but also very worried.
my thoughts exactly
honestly i can understand both georgie and martin's view in this situation. Georgie shouldn't have to keep on sticking up for a self destructive friend and destroy herself in the process, and martin just wants to stick up for Jon and doesn't want him to be misunderstood.
I agree except a bit more on Martins side because as people who know everything about the situation or at least more than the characters Joh has no say in this matter. He has no choice but to react to his circumstances in the bast way he can, he’s not exactly seeking out destructive circumstances. He’d really just rather not be in the situation... but, he is.
@@trucetruce335 I really, really want someone to help Jon so I was really frustrated with Georgie as well but I already had a relationship with a probably depressed person and it ended badly because of it. That person didn´t really had a choice in beeing depressed either but it ended up poisining our relationship. So in that way I understand
On the other hand Agnes was literally saved by someone loving her so Georgie helping Jon might actually save him... but probably not.
Life is hard and sometimes there are no easy answers.
But Georgie could at least sound more sad about it. And honestly the relationship to Melanie will probably put her in danger just as easy as a relationship to Jon.
I appreciate how Georgie tried to help Jon then when she saw how far he was she chose self-care over trying to help I feel like she puts less blame on him than the others for any institute trauma too
@@germanerd6148 Georgie isnt worried about the monster danger it seems. She just doesnt want to help Jon anymore because she knows being too close to him would have an emotional toll on her. She likes being with Melanie because they are building a healthy relationship together with actual communication. Jon was always closed off and preferred to dodge Georgie's attempts for help and always tried to solve stuff on his own. That's why Georgie is scared of helping him. Tbh they didnt seem like the bestest of friends anyways so whats there for Georgie to be sad about or miss really? I got the sense they havent spoken in a few years until the Jurgen Leitner incident
@@trucetruce335 Well it was like what Annabelle Cane was saying. He has freewill and he can choose to put the effort in stopping like Daisy did but he has a hero complex that makes him want to fix everything, he's extremely addicted to fears right now, and he's always been naturally curious in that he craves knowledge even if it hurts. Its true he needs a support system but I dont want to see the others try and help this man if helping drags their mental healths down too. Im glad Martin is stepping up to help and I do wish the others would be nicer at the very least they absolutely shouldnt confront, lash out, or blame him for their trauma. I like Georgie here because even though her and Jon dont talk anymore she hasnt been confrontational towards him and was still able to have a nice but awkward conversation with him when she was looking for Melanie
hehe monster martin go brr
I hate this, but I also chuckled involuntarily.
. why did google translate make all of the words capitilized?????
What Georgie says about Jon also fits so well to Martin this season.
Martin is to Jon what Neville Longbottom is to Harry Potter
At least *for now*
* giggles in ominous *
I think that's exactly why he was reacting so personally.
yeah i was thinking that, and martin definitely noticed
Georgie is an idiot. The world is in danger and she's "LOL too much for me going out to eat instead"
Wait, did martin went invisible there? Whoa so he is already an avatar, isn't he?
i swear to god that if martin is already an avatar of lonely i'm going to kill peter lucas
Martin, NO!
Martin be like *dabs out of sight*
@@Iquey that vine with the guy throwing up a peace sign and vanishing
Not just invisible. Georgie forgot who she was talking to. He uh... stopped existing for a second there.
Martin really is saying "My boyfriend could totally beat up your girlfriend" knowing full well Melanie has almost killed him.
God I love these idiots and this workplace comedy
From Georgie's point of view, she sees her friend involved in something that's destroying him, choosing to do things that hurt him. She doesn't know everything we do, I think most rational people would make the same choice she did. That still doesn't make it hurt less :')
Yes this! It probably hurts her very much to see Jon do this to himself.
I'm so torn because on the one hand, yes girl set your boundaries and prioritize your own well-being. But on the other hand, my boy Jon is sad and has almost no one on his side and needs friends :
@@Vi_Vi_1 don’t worry! It doesn’t get better
@@L_Aster oh I'm aware!! 😂😭😂 I'm relistening and torturing myself lmfao
@@starlesscitiess I'm listening for the first time and I appreciate how everyone in this fandom avoids spoilers but also manages to make me very, very scared
Aight but the idea that Jon used to talk about Martin a lot implies that Jon had feelings for Martin in some way since season 2. Maybe not romantic, but probably a feeling of trust and safety, and probably guilt for how Jon treated him in the beginning. The Jon pining was there, just a lot more repressed than Martin's because Jon is severely emotionally constipated.
It's so nice to see Martin trying to stick up for John. As MESSED up as ALL of this is... and I know it really is... but still, it's not what I expected 😁
I´m not sure if every follower with some power automatically is an avatar. Jon had some of his powers probably since season 1 but I think he is only an avatar since he woke up from his coma where he decided to be it
Someday everyone will stop blaming Jon for everything that happens in the archives. Jon has to stop taking it, stand up for himself, and get someone who is actually interested in helping him besides Martin.
At least at the moment he seems he's rather taking the "if you've decided I'm a monster, then I'll be a monster" route.
What do you mean Melanie is worth saving more than jon? The only reason Melanie isn’t as crazy is because jon took a bullet out of her nearly getting stabbed in the process
"nearly" as though he wasn't--
Melanie was kind of getting tossed around the paranormal ever since that shooting they did with "Sarah." That alone was pretty messed up for her. And then she got cast out from her friends, her peers, her own show. She wasn't taken seriously and her name and her worth, as deemed by others, got absolutely dragged. So when people are actually genuinely nice to her she finds it hard to recognize because she is just so used to getting used. And she's adjusting to it, slowly, but surely. Also, she woke up and someone was digging into her leg, its understandable to freak out at that. And Georgie is right, Melanie is trying to get herself into a better mental state. She's already gone through so much with losing her dad plus what Elias put her through with that, losing who she thought were her friends, finding out that the one place she thought she could choose for herself was proceeding to get her and her colleagues killed all the time everyday. Her fight/flight/freeze is through the fucking roof, her mental state is shattered, her emotional state is way intense. But she is doing something about it. Now in contrast, everyone is isolating Jon and straight up refusing to offer him any help, apart from maybe Daisy sometimes, blame him for things out of his control, really just neglecting to see where he's coming from. Martin says Georgie is looking at it from the outside but the truth is they are all looking at it from the outside because apparently none of them want to hear it. At the same time some of the things Martin suggests is basically enabling Jon's erratic behavior but they at least come from a place of wanting to understand. But then, Jon is that kind of person who always says he'll be better, and then does nothing about it. You can't truly help that person until they decide to helo themself. Thats the truth. Thats what Georgie sees that Martin doesn't.
but i don't think georgie knows that
No, she did stab him with the scalpel. He commented on it a few episodes ago.
i mean what the characters say is subjective to them
As someone who lives in Brazil i felt the comment about weird ass weather. There's no seasons here, just hot and cold, which can change accordingly to the day rather than the month
It's mostly the semi-chaotic rains in the Amazon region.
I have relatives who live in >Acre< and they complain about random rain a lot.
In Belém It definitely feels like someone is flipping a coin to decide if its gonna be extremely hot, rainy, cold or all at the same day (?)
Huh, I didn't know that! That's weird...
I live in the southern United States and our weather is similar! (But not as hot) The crazy thing is, my house misses most of the weather. It can rain at my neighbors houses but not at ours. I guess the ghost haunting the house also hates rain lmao
@@helenaalmeida3914OMG YOU'RE FROM BELÉM TOO??? HI
MARTIN STANDING UP FOR JON I MISSED THIS
Also I can understand Georgie's point of view here. Trying to help someone who won't accept it is incredibly frustrating and draining, especially for empathetic people. That being said, her help consisted more of chewing him out than trying to understand.
Also!!
Hehe magic Martin. Seeing a lot of comments here about him being invisible, but combined with the fact that Georgie forgot she was talking to him maybe it's more that he can erase himself from people's perception and memory? Idk.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk
@@Vi_Vi_1 Georgie is like a person who sees someone getting burned trying to pull people out of wreckage and assures herself that SHE isn't going to get burned helping people. This isn't like an alcoholic in a peaceful world. Those standards do not apply.
6:30 "Fernanda was certain it was going to rain but HE checked ONLINE and apparently it said it was going to be fine.."
*Google Lies.*
The web lies.
Some climate scientist
Heard "the weather" and was legitimately confused when no music started
Same man, same
AND NOW... NO WEATHER.
Today's weather was canceled due to scheduling errors
the news: "and now for the weather"
no music plays
me: *visible confusion*
@@broblerone413 IVE BEEN THERE
I like that, despite his clear jealousy that Jon talked to Georgie a lot, Martin's still all protective of him and wants him to keep his friends. And honestly, this moment of him trying to get Georgie to not isolate Jon is a key pointer that Martin doesn't quite fit the Lonely. Even if he does have the vanishing powers now. O.o
"Melanie's actually trying to get well" NO SHE WANTED THE BULLET IN HER LEG TO STAY AND BASIRA AMD JON DID THE HEAVY LIFTING FOR HER BY REMOVING HER IV DRIP DIRECT TO THE SLAUGHTERS INFLUENCE BUT SURE GIVE HER ALL THE CREDIT.
I mean easiest way to think about it is like a drug, when it's in her system it focuses her anger to give her drive to keep her going but once when it's out she realizes how self destructive it was and could have hurt those around her in the process
I mean she admitted it once it was out on how it was killing her but without it she probably wouldn't have saved everyone from "The Flesh Invasion"
that was months before she decided to go to theraphy. but yeah jon and basira helped
The final commentary of Melanie seems to indicate that this is not the first time Martin uses his Lonely skills and that fucking freak me out. I'm even more worried about my baby boy now (yeah, first time listener here).
Damnit Martin, if you are wanna try to help Jon then friggen HELP HIM YOURSELF!
He is! Just in a roundabout way. 🥺
yeah martin sounds like he doesn't _want_ to keep his distance but has to for lukas' plan to work, and he thinks that's the best chance at helping
“Honestly, we should have just waited it out until we were overdue at the facility and they sent out a retrieval team, but that would take almost a full day and I could see in Doctor Anastos’ eyes that there was no way he was going to wait that long. So, we picked a direction and started walking the trail.”
and yet again we see that the guy from do not open is the smartest statement giver lmao
I mean it's not like they had any choice, the guy would bitch and get himself killed
"Sure, but that doesn't mean everything painful helps"
Listen, WE know that Jon wants to help and is actively fighting the worst of this, which is supernatural and way beyond the force of any one mortal. And we love that Martin's so unwaveringly in his corner no matter what... but tbh Georgie is doing the healthy thing. This is such a good line! We love our boys stading up for each other but the fact that Martin would set himself on fire to keep Jon warm isn't good.
George, queen, you keep doing you 💖
I agree with that, but I feel like Georgie is also unaware of how much EVERYONE is just constantly shitting on him, including the poooor Melanie. Who's only now better thanks to Jon's help.
You shouldn't be required to help people damaging themselves, but no reason is to dump more fuel to the fire
But why is jon required to do that not to be seen as a monster? Without melanie would be gone with her humanity and daisy would still be stuck, not able to breath in the buried
Georgie did nothing to try to help him, i- i jusy don't get how she could have "hurt" when she barely tried and when jon didnt let her get close to not hurt her
Yes. This is what a lot of people in the comments are missing
@prideling Georgie has the right to not be in this friendship, but acting like she's tried when her idea of "trying" is... vanishing for months, then declaring her best friend isn't worth the effort of caring about him? I'm watching this for the first time and genuinely expecting that a lot of the endless cruelty and coldness towards John from everyone but Martin and Daisy is a result of Peter having some kind of Lonely aura messing with everyone's heads, but if that's not the case, then Georgie currently doesn't deserve friends, let alone a friend like John, who we both know would literally risk his life for her without thinking twice.
I don''t know what YOU'RE like today, but two years ago when you left this comment, you didn't deserve friends. If you still see life this way, I hope to god you're so lonely you want to scream, but everyone around you is "doing the healthy thing". I'm sure you'll be very proud of them all, won't you? They'll certainly be proud of themselves for abandoning someone who needs them and justifying it with the fact that, in the distant past, they once did the absolute minimum, but now that things actually require them to care, you're too inconvenient to even SPEAK TO.
Far better to be a burden than self-righteous, selfish scum. People who are either like you, or like you were when you left this comment, do not even deserve to be called human.
@@MalkuthSephira what the fuck is wrong with you. You have no right telling someone they "aren't human" just because you don't agree with their opinion. For one, Georgie is coming from a place where she wants to see her friend get help but she knows above all that that can't happen until he begins to help himself. Yes all the others are in the wrong for casting Jon out the way they did and constantly laying all of the bad shit on him. That doesn't mean that they don't hurt, and that doesn't mean that they don't have their own ways of dealing with their hurt. Dishing it out on others is wrong. That hurt becoming an extreme type of emotion, thats a natural response to trauma. That is why all of these characters behave shitty in their own ways of going through it, that is why they are all having a bad time, this show is representing trauma. Its not always going to be "I WILL TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING FOR YOU LOVE DONT WORRY ABOUT A THING" way to have a fucking helpless child complex. When you are the source or even the proxy to your own suffering you have to be willing to carry yourself. That doesn't mean you have to do it alone, but if you want it to stop you have to try. That is the lesson here. Not "OH WAH, YOUR POINT OF VIEW DOESN'T ALIGN WITH MY INSANE RADICAL BULLSHIT, YOU DON'T DESERVE FRIENDS YOU DON'T DESERVE HAPPINESS WAAAAAAAAHHHHH" I cannot stress it enough when I say to you, _shut the ever living fuck up._ This is a fictional story depicting facets of real life. If you cannot grasp the underlying theme on your own thats fine, but if you can't have it explained to you without literally telling someone that they don't deserve a life, you can either get lost or keep your mouth shut.
Extinction is the fear that GOT me, even the buried only spooked me when I am trying to scare myself but Extinction -- I feel it.
It somehow manages to be completely horrifying for me too, moreso than other Entities. Something about the type of fear it creates is more surreal and visceral than anything else. Even the Spiral or the Lonely (which give me a good tickle from time to time) can't catch up, because it's such a global sense of horror. I don't know how to describe it properly but when you see it, you understand that it's not just you who becomes a victim of the Extinction, it's the entire species... it's global, overwhelming, unstoppable and full of despair. AND there's that implication of it appearing being our fault.
I think it's the "our fault" aspect. Granted, you could also say that about The Slaughter (Wars come from choices) or the Spider (Lying does too). But you can always chalk those up to human nature, we fight and we lie to get an advantage of some kind, or because our emotions get the better of us. But The Extinction is just a result of our way of life. No one gains an (long-term) advantage from it, and it doesn't happen suddenly and emotionally like some senseless murder maybe would. We know it could be coming, and we know that if it's coming, it's because of us and our way of life. And yet, we are largely unwilling to change that way of life. Ask anyone if they want extinction and they'll probably say no, but who is actually willing to make significant changes to their life to work against it effectively?
The Extinction is not only the fear of cstastrophic change, but also that our own destruction is part of our humanity and there's nothing we can do to prevent it.
For some reason it doesn't really bother me. Maybe because some part of me views human extinction, or at least biological and cultural drift to the point of unrecognizability, as inevitable, however long it takes.
Same. It hits too close to home
oh god I just love the Brazilian episodes! really demonstrates how much foreign power we have always had here, meddling with stuff. love the idea of the Amazon just... being this magical but now desolate place. it really shows how much research you all do, too! the Yanomami are villainized a lot, but like other tribes, their "cannibal" custom is a sign of respect, that you appreciate qualities in that person (elders or authoritative figures or someone you captured in war that had proven to be very bold and fair and etc) and that you wanted to incorporate those characteristics onto yourself or your tribe. so yeah they wouldn't eat any old sweaty scientist
P.S.: having someone from Manaus there is hilarious and accurate
P.P.S.: one more piece of Brazilian trivia - "concrete jungle" is the nickname for the city of São Paulo, biggest city and most industrial so that being the central nightmare here is ... poignant
I'm always happy when the statements are from far away countries and then there's someone in the comments saying "Yeah they pretty much nailed it"
Just shows how thorough their research is.
Ok podemos falar também sobre o quão fofo e engraçado foi ouvir o Martin falar Manaus mas completamente esquecer do s no final?
@@Ornitorringo ouvir ele falando Manaus adicionou 10 anos na minha vida
thank you for this information
segunda vez que Brasil aparece e é idiota que só nessas dá pra entender patriotismo haha - fuck yeah Terror feito de poluição do Extinção made in HueBr, corretissimo o take
AHHHHHH Martin's being a bit hypocritical since what he says about Jon applies to him too. Also, DID HE JUST TURN INVISIBLE?! AND GEORGIE CLEARLY FORGOT THE FACT THAT THEY WERE JUST TALKING!! I-- i'm getting worried :((
Martin Said “haha we out”
"maybe he just needs help" god that was so satisfying to hear someone not instantly assume the worst about jon. The fact that martin has lonely powers now though is concerning.
Oof Martin possibly already being the avatar of the Lonely is very sad, especially given that it's happening seemingly of his own free will, unlike Jon
AAAA MARTIN BABY!
I know right!
Nice to hear Martin defending Jon.
Georgie may have a point, but you'd think after all the times Jon stuck his neck out for others, he'd be shown some respect. Melanie would still be a violent nut job if it weren't for him.
I dont think Georgie knew about that. She just sees that Melanie is finally getting help. She has no idea that Jon is a large part of that. She seemed surprised Melanie would even tell Jon she was going to therapy
@@mechengr1731 If Georgie knew about the rituals, her behavior would be unforgivable. As it is, she is just willfully ignorant. She's like a person who refuses to vote.
martin being protective of John is always lovely also an episode from brazil!!!!! nice
ele falando Manaus 🥺🥺🥺🥺
@@nabalhapalha simmmm 🥺
Encontrar comentários brasileiros nesse podcast é mais comum do que o normal por algum motivo :)
@@helenaalmeida3914 apenas temos bom gosto!
Oh thank GOD SOMEONE is finally trying to stand up for my boy Jon 😭😭😭 god hearing that was like having my crops watered, my skin cleared, my skies brightened. Thank god for Martin
As a field ecologist, there are a ton of people in the field that love being physically active and out in nature. That being said, I can confirm first hand head researchers in the field can be very toxic and speak down to technicians/grad students.
Had a chuckle at that bit too. When I got my degree in ecology, my professors were in their 70s and 80s and still running circles around the students! Was hard to keep up with them sometimes!
Martin defending jon is just, the sweetest thing, no matter what peter does to isolate him and make him drop jon he doesnt he keeps defending him
british ppl say "ashume"
So what, when you ashume, you make ash out of you and me?.. That's concerning.
How do Americans say assume?
@@fiddlesticksmeow6269 sort of like us-oom
@@orionsbelt25 Arguably that puts us closer, then, with only one letter wrong?
(No argument intended - please don't be offended.)
im from brazil and i have to say, i am very happy with how the country was depicted, even if it was only a small part of it, i can tell they made a good research about the area, the culture and the people even if it wasnt the focus of the episode, it felt very natural and im very grateful for it. they always take great effort to have the story blend so seamlessly with the real world, for it to feel so realistic, and that is something that i admire a lot (also sorry if i wrote smt wrong, not my first language)
DID MARTIN JUST TURN INVISIBLE????? NO BABY NOOOOO
Imagining Martin as an avatar of the Lonely and John as an avatar of The Eye, togheter, really gives me some chaotic energy... (first time listener)
What a power duo. The ultimate spies, not doing anything with the info, just collecting it. I can imagine Martin invisibly recording statements and then giving them to Jon to feed on.
i'm a first time listener right now and i think about this all the time
As a first time listener who seen some spoilers, I want to see how chaotic it can get
it's like "i can see everything but i prefer to watch just you" kind of romantic vibes
Holy shit the way I screamed when Martin just vanished - my baby I raised him personally
Martin is becoming like peter, like how john became like alias! THEIR MIMICING THEIR SUPERIORS BASED ON HOW THEY WERE BROUGHT UP! martin through isolation and intense focus on a singulare subject has learned how to cloak and turn invisible and john through absorbing multiple points of knowledge has learned to attain knowledge by simply "reaching for it". Excellent charecter design guys!
There is a complex metanarrative this season about a group of friends with mental health issues that is hitting just a LITTLE too close to home right now
You don't underSTAND how much Martin being Lonely affiliated hurts me, I love that man so much and him starting to isolate himself and push everyone away is hitting a little too close to home !!
Ik that Jon is suffering and that's genuinely incredibly sad and I want to hug him... But this statement giver's sass gives me life. Especially the part about the natives of Amazon. I'm not of indigenous descent but I love someone who isn't racist or discriminates against those groups, regardless of their customs.
ok look I've been avoiding talking about it but what georgie did makes so much sense, yes jon is doing it for everyone's good but only WE know it. I've been in georgie's shoes and I've been in jon's shoes, it hurts to see someone you love sabotage themselves and it also hurts when people don't know you aren't in control of yourself when you are self-destructive
Georgie's behavior only makes sense if she didn't know about all the magic creatures and attacks. Its like someone is fighting off tigers and being criticized for getting clawed up by the people who know there are tigers roaming the streets. Its this weird blissful ignorance. And she's literally protected by these entities too. Honestly, I hope The End twists teh knife in her. So tired of that attitude.
20:37 you can hear martin reappear as his feet hit the floor
omg the soft static as Melanie shows up and then Martin's sigh after Georgie looks back at empty air--
First of all, this podcast is amazing and I love how it shows us that Martin has gone invisible so naturally even in audio format just, man I love that
Second, I legit said "Martiiin" out loud at this while lying in bed and listening, how dare they play with my feelings like this
Martin defending Jon so adamantly???? GEORGIE SAYING JON USED TO TALK ABOUT MARTIN A LOT??????? Help, my heart is exploding. I don’t know what to do with all these feelings. **screams internally for like an hour**
not looking forward to the full manifestation of the extinction :)))
It's nice that Martin is standing up for Jon, and I'm sure his feelings are a big part of why he's doing that, but I can't help but wonder if he's also seeing himself. Whether or not he felt it when Georgie said "he's destroying himself". 'Cos no matter how much Martin feels like he' s doing the right thing I can't imagine the loneliness and absence of his friends isn't getting to him, making him doubt
MARTIN-
OH my god the static NO MARTIN PLEASE STOP
"Jon used to go on about you a lot" 🥺
My way of stopping the Extinction is to save all species, cultures, languages, anything that can be extinguished and probably colonization of space.
GEEEEENIUS!
Then the world would stagnate. Things end so other things can begin. Things go extinct to give space for new things to grow and thrive.
WishTheWell then a modification, let some die but let it be preserved and studied so that it will never be lost.
well, things don't go extinct usually. languages are modified- latin didn't _die_ , it became Portuguese and Spanish and French and etc, but languages that have been colonized and are systematically removed from people's way of life CAN go extinct.
You could probably weaken it but there are still animals that we don´t even know of going extinct this moment. We just don´t have a chance to preserve them.
Although it is an interesting question if animals fear Extinction like the hunt or meat.
Hi Alex!
[CLICK]
MARTIN
Martin Blackwood, assistant to Peter Lukas, Head of the Magnus Institute. Recording statement number 0131305. Statement of Judith O’Neill, given May 13th, 2013.
Statement begins.
MARTIN (STATEMENT)
It’s weird the things that land you a job sometimes. I mean, a First from Corpus Christi Cambridge, a Master’s in biological sciences, you’d think that would be enough to get a decent science job. But as it turns out, the competition these days is legitimately ridiculous and trying to get a position based on my academic record seemed to be a complete waste of time.
Then I applied to the Anglo-Brazilian Amazon Trust, and you know what actually got me the job? I had a half blue in modern pentathlon
and another in orienteering from my undergrad days. Apparently most of the science positions were generally applied to you by the sort of people who pursued academia specifically to avoid ever having to climb up a hill,
and the job required a certain degree of outdoorsmanship. It didn’t even matter that I didn’t speak Portuguese. Well, not, back then. It was enough that I had the knowledge, fitness, and most importantly, was willing to basically chuck in my entire life in England with no notice to fly off to Brazil for who knows how long. Strange how things work out sometimes, isn’t it?
The job title was technically ‘ecological specimen technician’, but working with the ABAT was basically nothing like any lab tech job I’ve ever had before. For a start, there wasn’t a lab, not really. They built this facility just on the edge of the Caracara ecological station, and from a distance you’d think it was just this big wooden hut, and it kind of was, just full of incredibly high-tech kit. There was basically no testing done on-site though. Aside from the computers, the visiting researchers used to just make whatever notes or observations or run whatever on the models they needed. Basically everything on-site was designed for quick storage and processing any specimens for travel.
Keeping a lab environment up and running in the middle of the Amazon was never really an option, so most of our job was focused on retrieving whatever they wanted testing, and - and making sure that it got to the actual lab intact,
wherever that might have been. I was part of the facility’s permanent staff, and we were generally hired out by corporations or universities who wanted to use our services for some project or piece of research they were conducting. My specific job was to head out into the jungle, usually babysitting some weedy wannabe explorers who insisted on coming along, and then snag whatever they needed to retrieve. Could be environmental measurements, tree cuttings, water samples, and even small animals, though we’re not legally allowed to take anything bigger than a frog. It’s actually really interesting work, although you do start to get a little bored of the same 50 square miles of jungle after you’ve been doing it for a few years. And we’re very careful to stick to the bits of the jungle we’ve been assigned, as we’re right next to the Yanomami indigenous territory, and accidentally crossing into it ends up being a bit… politically complicated, and even pretty dangerous if you cross paths with the wrong group. The Yanomami can get pretty territorial. I mean, I guess you would be too if you had that many companies trying to illegally strip mine your land? Still, it’s not usually a problem. We stay in our area, they stay in theirs.
The worst part is the number of dickhead scientists. You turn up with the same played out Cannibal Holocaust jokes. It’s like, sure, technically they practice endocannibalism, but it’s just the bone ash of their relatives and loved ones, so you know, calm down, Dr. Livingstone. There’s no way they’d respect your sweaty-ass long enough to even consider eating you. Anyway, I’m getting off-topic.
I usually head out with the other specimen tech, Fernanda Mikado, a local.
And by local, I mean she’s from Minau, about 200 miles away. Brazil’s pretty big, and if there’s one thing she’s really good on that I’m not, it’s the weather.
I’m pretty hopeless at figuring out what any given day’s going to be like, and just have to rely on whatever weather sign I’m currently losing faith in. It doesn’t help that the weather in the Amazon is just plain weird, with rains coming out of nowhere, months before the wind should actually be bringing in the clouds, and no one knows why. But Fernanda, she might not know why, but somehow she always knew when, to the point where if she said it might be bad I would just cancel the expedition. No further evidence needed. Not that day though. No, that day we had the world’s fussiest climate scientist breathing down our necks, Doctor Nikos Anastos.
I mean, I read his studies and he did good work, sure, but the way he acted you’d have thought that the oceans were gonna drown us all tomorrow if we didn’t get out there. And how he talked was like, I mean - Fernanda and I were no strangers to patronizing scientists explaining our jobs back to us, but Dr. Anastos was on a whole other level. He talked to us like we were five-year-olds who just asked him what recycling was. Fernanda was certain it was going to rain, but he “checked online” and apparently it said it was going to be fine. Besides, he had some real big money backing him, so we couldn’t really push the issue. In the end, we went out into the jungle, and even I could tell that the color of the sky through the canopy was bad news.
Dr. Anastos was looking to measure pollutant and plastic levels in some of the nearby rivers. The various ecological protection laws should mean that they had virtually none of either, and he was looking into something to do with pollutant transmission and chemical spread from industrial sites. If it hadn’t been for the standard NDAs they were always getting us to sign, I could have already told him the sort of results he was going to get; he wasn’t the first to come here for this kind of work, but my hands were tied. (If you’re wondering, by the way, the answer is pretty damn polluted, largely due to various illegal mining and logging operations and a land seizure in the area.)
The point is, we were barely an hour into the track when the skies opened. The rain came down thick - thick in that way that I’ve only ever found in the jungle, where there weren’t really droplets, it’s - it’s more like the air just turns to water. Visibility went down to nothing immediately, and I started to talk quickly to Fernanda about whether we could make it back, or where we might be able to shelter. The rain was bad, but we’d handled worse and we were perfectly calm. Not so much Doctor Anastos, who was clearly panicking. He shouted at us, yelling over the sounds of the rain-soaked jungle that we had to go back, before immediately charging off in the wrong direction.
(sigh) Obviously we wanted to leave him to his own stupidity and let the Amazon deal with him, but we both knew that it just wouldn’t be worth the paperwork. So we followed him, trying to slow his pace long enough to let him know that he was going the wrong way. But either he couldn’t hear us, or, more likely, he wasn’t inclined to listen.
Finally, I grabbed his arm, pulling him to a stop. He said something I couldn’t make out and pulled back, trying to throw off my grip, but clearly he hadn’t considered I’d be the stronger and when my grip held firm he unbalanced himself. He shifted his leg, trying to keep his footing, but slipped on the now muddy-ground, falling and pulling me with him. I instinctively grabbed Fernanda for support but ended up pulling her down as well, the three of us tumbling down a short and muddy decline and landing hard in the foliage.
It took a few moments to pull ourselves together. It wasn’t a huge fall, but I felt strangely disorientated as I clambered to my feet, shaking my head in an attempt to dispel some of the fuzziness that had settled over it. The others clearly felt it too, although checking ourselves over, it seemed we’d been lucky. All we had broken was our equipment, although Doctor Anastos had whined about that almost as much as if it had been a bone.
I tried to get my bearings, but even though we’d only moved a few meters laterally at most, I was finding it really hard to get a solid idea on where we were. I couldn’t figure out exactly which way we had come, and I couldn’t get a clear read on the sun through the canopy and clouds. Fernanda wasn’t having any better luck with the compasses, as they were either broken or something magnetic in the area was messing with them. They just gently spun around and around. There was at least something resembling a trail, though not one I recognized. Honestly, we should have just waited it out until we were overdue at the facility and they sent out a retrieval team, but that would take almost a full day and I could see in Doctor Anastos’ eyes that there was no way he was going to wait that long. So, we picked a direction and started walking the trail.
When I first saw the structures, my instinct was to turn around and go back. From a distance, they - they looked like shabono, the huge ring of thatch rues the Yanomami place around their settlements for shelter. It didn’t make sense though. There was no way we’d gone so wildly off course as to end up in the indigenous territory, absolutely no way. It was something else, something about their construction that seemed off, wrong somehow, so much so that when Fernanda grabbed my arm and urgently whispered that we had to leave, I shrugged her off and headed forward for a better look. That was when I noticed how quiet it was. Aside from the rain the jungle cacophony had simply stopped.
As I got closer to the shabono, it became clear what was wrong with it. Though each roof was thatched like normal, the stands weren’t made of leaves, but all kinds of different materials instead. Long strands of plastic, shards of rusted metal, even oddly shaped-hunks of cement. They wrapped through and around each other like any thatch, but the texture, the color - everything about it was different in a way that made my stomach churn, though I wasn’t exactly sure why none of the materials were organic or natural.
I shared a look with Fernanda. She didn’t say anything but she didn’t have to. We both knew how isolationist the Yanomami tended to be, how resistant they were to any outside influences. The idea that they would have the desire to build, or even the equipment to build something like this, was ridiculous. So what did that leave? Had one of the illegal mining operations done it just to antagonize them? Possible, I guess, but it would have taken a lot of work for basically no reason. It just didn’t make sense.
Dr. Anasta didn’t know enough about the Yanomami or their buildings to be unsettled, and instead voiced his irritation that we were standing around chatting rather than going for help. He walked around to one of the gaps in the shabono and headed inside. By the time either of us noticed he was already gone. Fernanda and I scrambled after him, desperately hoping that we were good enough communicators to be able to convey apologies to whoever was in there. But the inside was just like the outside, and in the worst possible way.
There were no people in there, but that’s not the same thing as it being empty. Instead there were… figures. From a distance, they looked like human beings, standing impossibly still, but getting closer quickly revealed the lie. It was just the rough shapes, cobbled together out of a hundred different pieces of garbage: a broken metal clotheshorse for a rib cage, a plastic chair leg for an arm, rusted screws for teeth. In some cases, it looked like someone had gone to a lot of effort to match anatomy with construction. I saw one with a broken water cooler where its stomach would be in. Another had a pair of oxygen tanks standing in for lungs. They were completely still, but there was something about them that made my mouth dry up and my mind scream to run. It didn’t feel like they were statues. It felt like they were choosing not to move.
Doctor Anastos didn’t seem to have the same unease with the situation as me and Fernanda, as he examined and prodded the figures with apparent delight. Maybe he thought avant-garde jungle art was just something that happened out there, I don’t know. I never got a chance to ask him, because suddenly he was cooing with delight at something he’d picked up off the ground. The ground I could now see was simply a half-inch of loose dirt over the top of a massive plastic tarpaulin. He came over to show us his discovery. It was a chunk of concrete that appeared to be the exact size and shape of a tiny pit viper, even down to the detail on its head. The doctor seemed quite taken with it, but Fernanda immediately sensed something was wrong and stepped back, pulling me with her.
What happened then was almost too quick for me to properly follow. The lifeless concrete viper spun around, opened its mouth, and bit Doctor Anastos on the wrist. He screamed, but only for a second, because after that his throat was full. He started convulsing as gray liquid concrete began to pour from his mouth, from his nose, and his eyes. His limbs went rigid and I could see his body starting to swell with it. I don’t know if it was me or Fernanda screaming. Maybe it was both of us. But I know it was her who first spotted that the detritus figures were no longer choosing to stand still.
It was the last I ever saw of Doctor Nikos Anastos. There was never any question of trying to save him. I don’t know how long we ran but it was hours before we felt even remotely safe. The jungle looked normal again, and more importantly, it sounded normal. We tried to talk about what we’d seen, but… after confirming we’d both witnessed the same thing, we realized we didn’t actually have anything to say about it. Just this white-hot fear that still hasn’t completely gone away.
In the end we crossed paths with a group of real Yanomami tribesmen. They were really friendly, and once they figured out we were lost they were very happy to return us to a part of the jungle we knew near our facility. Of course, we didn’t have a good explanation for what happened to Doctor Anastos, so we lost our jobs pretty much immediately, but you know what? That’s fine. I’m done with the jungle. There’s something in there and I don’t know which scares me more. The thought that it’s more than just the things we left behind? Or that that’s all it is, and we can’t escape the ruins of our own future.
MARTIN
Statement ends.
There’s, erm, a note here as well. Looks like Gertrude’s handwriting? Start of a letter to Dekker, thanking him for sending Judith through, although it doesn’t look like it was ever finished or sent. I assume this is another one he was trying to use to prove the Extinction? It certainly has something in it, mankind’s trash giving rise to something terrible. Then again, fear of the other. inanimate humanoid figures, that’s all very Stranger isn’t it?
(sigh) It’s never simple, is it? Sort of surprised Peter hasn’t rocked up with some more insights. Haven’t seen him around for a while, actually. I mean, (heh) it’s not like I miss him, but at least he was someone to -
(realization) Ah. Yeah, that makes sense. Right, fine. Just me on my lonesome for a while, then.
Could be worse. peaceful at least. I don’t miss all the shouting, even if it would - wait. Excuse me - excuse me, this area is off-limits to the public.
GEORGIE
Sorry?
MARTIN
You can’t be here. It’s not allowed.
GEORGIE
Oh, sorry, um, Melanie told me to wait for her here.
MARTIN
Oh, you - you’re here for Melanie?
GEORGIE
Yeah. (introducing herself) Georgie.
MARTIN
I’m sorry - sorry, I didn’t realize. I’m - I’m sure she’s around here somewhere.
GEORGIE
You must be Martin.
MARTIN
Yeah. Has Melanie been talking about me?
GEORGIE
Oh, um… John used to go on about you a lot.
MARTIN
Oh. Oh, wait - wait, I thought Melanie-Georgie and John-Georgie were…
GEORGIE
Same - same Georgie.
MARTIN
Oh. Ah, so you and John….
GEORGIE
Aren’t really talking anymore.
MARTIN
Right.
Why not?
GEORGIE
Excuse me?
MARTIN
Why aren’t you talking?
GEORGIE
Because I think he’s going to destroy himself, and anyone who lets him get too close. And I don’t want that to include me or Melanie.
MARTIN
Maybe he just needs some help.
GEORGIE
I did help him, as much as I safely could, but he just carried on anyway.
MARTIN
(overlapping) Yeah, he’ll do that.
GEORGIE
I realized if I kept trying it was gonna hurt me more than I was willing to accept.
MARTIN
Well, sometimes the helping people hurts.
GEORGIE
Sure, but that doesn’t mean everything painful helps.
Sometimes people have problems that will wreck you long before you can make a dent in them,and some people don’t want help, they just want other people suffering with them.
MARTIN
John doesn’t want that.
GEORGIE
He doesn’t know what he wants. And from the sound of things he’s run out of time to figure it out.
MARTIN
It’s easy to pass judgment from the outside.
GEORGIE
One more reason to stay on the outside and watch.
MARTIN
(wry laughter) And- and you think Melanie’s worth saving?
GEORGIE
It’s not about worth. But yeah, she’s actually trying to get well, so I’m gonna help her.
MARTIN
This place isn’t a sickness-
GEORGIE
No. I think it’s worse.
MARTIN
Look, we’re all just trying to do the right thing.
GEORGIE
Maybe. Look, life forces you to make hard decisions, but I can never trust someone who goes around looking for hard decisions to make.
MARTIN
And what you mean by that?
GEORGIE
Jumping on a grenade is only heroic if you weren’t the one who actually threw it.
MARTIN
That’s not what’s happening.
GEORGIE
Okay. It’s still not something I want any part of.
MARTIN
Well, lucky for you we’re fully staffed, so…
[FAINT STATIC BUZZES IN THE BACKGROUND]
MELANIE
Hey, you ready?
GEORGIE
Oh, what? Yeah, whenever you are.
MELANIE
Who were you talking to?
GEORGIE
Oh, it was, um- (pauses)
No one, apparently.
MELANIE
(sigh) Yeah, this place will do that to you. Come on.
GEORGIE
Sure.
[FAINT CLUNK, MARTIN SIGHS.]
[CLICK]
Thank you!!!~(•◇•)~
Petra Iván thank youuuu
You are both very welcome! :)
Dr. Anastis in this one is everything I hate in a person...
OK RIGHT?! First time i was super happy a victim died😅
I know!!! Ugh, my job consists of trying to basically dig for information from salesmen and project managers.
"Help me help you." But instead they'd rather argue with "You don't need that info" or "I dont understand why this question was even asked" 🤦♀️
And a large part of it is due to them thinking they know more about my job than me.
As a brazilian i have to say that i loved this episode. It's just so refreshing to FINALLY see a piece of media that doesn't portray indigenous people as irrational savages AND YOU EVEN PROPERLY TALKED ABOUT THE CANNIBALISTIC RITUALS!!! And as a girl in stem i related so much to the satement giver lol. This has to be my favourite episode so far
I don't usually comment but i felt the urge to thank you for FINALLY SOME GOOD FUCKING FOOD
Me hearing Martin getting defensive over John : 😁
Me hearing Martin can now disappear: 🤤
oh god martin
MARTIN’S GETTING POWERSSSSS
Now... i understand all the animatics about damn fog. I'm scared and thank the gods that the artist keep a lot for interpretation.
Oh, that's why Georgie stop talking to Jon. But still, that's not the way. I understand, I had my own experiences. Yes, helping others sometimes hurts, sometimes the hurt doesn't get to nowhere... but when it does is worth it. You have to learn when to leave it, tho.
Honestly, I'm not even mad at Georgie cuz from her perspective, she's doing the right thing for herself n I agree with her. While Jon has told her about what had happened so far in the archives, she still doesn't know everything n is better off that way for her own sake.
My only concern is that she feels Jon is doing this to himself on purpose, when that's besides the case n considering how everyone else except Martin treats him like a monster n her interacting with Melanie who's very blunt n vocal about her biased opinions on the poor guy, Georgie would just ending up seeing Jon as a villain, when he's really not.
"The rain came down THICC"
As a Brazilian, I must say, what a good episode. Great research and attention to details.
"I think he's going to destroy himself, and anyone who let's him get too close."
Beware of SPOILERS, Ye who enter here.
After the finale, this line hits hard.
Martin said 🏃♂️💨
os episodios do brasil sao tudo pra mim :c
He became a cement man!!
Oh shit! Martin’s getting Lonely powers!
As much as I want to hate Georgie, I’ve also been on the same spot she was in. And I agree with her reasoning, even if it doesn’t fit with what I know as a listener. If anything, it’s a bit reassuring that other people have dealt with the same situation I have been in before. Even if it hurts knowing what’s actually going on with Jon.
The amount of pining. Martin you need to just talk to Jon because soon enough he’s gonna get that “all my friends view me as nothing more than a monster and i have no support system and the only person who ever treated me with kindness has left me on read irl somehow “ depression
Well Georgie it’s not like he can actually leave now can he? He fuking saved the world for god sake why does no one at least acknowledge that?!?!?
Trying to get better pretty much means to choose to ignore what u know and what u see, I agree with best boy Martin it’s much easier to pass Judgment when u’re on the outside, specially when u don’t really know. Fair she doesn’t want to get involved but fuk off with u acting like “trying to get better” does anything, specially in Jon’s case. Jon wants to keep his humanity by keeping the people he cares about safe but everyone either fuking blames him or just chooses to leave him. The only reason best boy Martin isn’t emotionally helping him right now is cuz he wants to save them… he wants to save him from the impending doom of annihilation. Ffs they’re pissing me off
Hahahahah I was so mad😂😂, understandably so. Not that Georgie choosing to stay away from Jon was a bad thing, just got pissed at the amount he kept getting shat on. Tho understandable doesn’t mean it was pleasant, I remember I raged typed worse than this how embarrassing… but I don’t remember where it is so……
Maybe the real villain is miscommunication 😢
i kinda get where georgie is coming from like i feel for all the characters even the ones treating jon like shit but i like the fact that georgie is at least blunt and honest rather than just lashing out at jon or making him deliberately feel crappy and that's nothing against the other characters because like I see where they are coming from and they are all traumatized and stuff so yea.
The horror and strangeness in this one was really original / uncommon and still unsettling, this storytelling is so good !
all the people under the episodes going on about how they hate georgie and basira i wonder what did you think of jon and tim earlier
Pffffft. You could tell with Martin's tone of voice he was like "bitch imma smack you talking shit bout my boi soon" (even though she's sorta right)
MARTIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M WORRIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Listening to this episode right after the latest horrible things done to the Yanomamis is... I don't know what I'm feeling.
Yes! An episode about Brazil!
Hey anyone else looking at that description 👀👀
"Regarding _their_-"
Every statement giver uses they/them in the descriptions!
Car accident scene: Bystanders are pulling injured out of burning wreckage.
Georgie: Some people are burning themselves. I'll stay away from people who deliberately do things like that, so I don't get burned too.
I absolutely love Martin but like...damn.
Edit: Season 4 is off the freaking charts, i am Loving this.
Melanie went around the world looking for Trouble!! then choose to work there when told not too!! but sure Jon right
Brazil brabo demais,tem que respeitar
MARTIN DEFENDING JON EVEN WHILE DISTANCING FROM HIM HEHEKWISKFJEUHE I LOVE MARTIN
16:59 ok now I'm confused. Is the other supposed to be the inanimate un-people? The unknowing creatures. Because I had been calling them The Other for lack of a better name simply because they were clearly a part of the circus named The Circus of The Other. Then all of sudden everyone started calling them The Stranger (took me longer than I want to admit to figure out that that was plural) and then I had to switch that code in my head. So is The Other the name of the fear type, or is it the name of their kind?
Maybe the real horrors were the incompetent superiors we met along the way
im. martin NOOO
OH NO,, NOTMARTIN HE AND THE LONELY????
Martin doesn't dont succumb to the lonely.
DONT DISSAPEAR 😢😢
Start 1:40
Eyo where did Martin go? what is he? what what what 🤯🤯
Well dreams were definitely not made here
So Martin can just disappear now?? Cool. But also, that's not good
Martin nooo
1:42
Martin disappeared as in THE LONELY!?! MARTIN NOOOOOOOOOO!!!