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blue squares posted:what the gently caress Eh, I think they kind of nailed Eliot's character - his mannerisms weren't what I expected, but they got the aloofness down pat. Penny I think they also generally got right. Everyone else - bleh. Hopefully this show turns around because I did enjoy the books, but so far I'm disappointed. It tends to veer towards being extremely dark, in the vein of the books (ripping out the dean's eyeballs! fat from a corpse!) to the utterly mundain. Pacing is off, tone is inconsistent...it's far from irretrievable, but I've got a few more episodes in me before I throw the towel in. SyFy-itis is real, y'all.
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Rocksicles posted:Team Darkside is really killing it. Level 50 girl is a total bad rear end. Level 50 girl terrified the living poo poo out of me because she looks EXACTLY like an ex of mine. I actually went to the IMDB page to make sure it wasn't her.
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Not a fan of that episode whatsoever, just didn't sit well with me at all. The Pennies were funny, but everything else in the dream felt very forced.
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Feb 9, 2016 14:01
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Yeah, where the hell is Josh? Of all the characters they had to lose, why him dammit?
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Feb 11, 2016 11:37
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That death was...kinda rough. SyFy did that part right, jesus.
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Feb 23, 2016 21:33
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The nails in the board was a really cheap joke but it made me laugh much harder than it should have.
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Mar 1, 2016 09:15
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This episode is starting out far too loving goofy, I'm gonna have to revisit later.
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Mar 22, 2016 12:05
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geeves posted:What's even worse: That just as they were starting the ritual to summon the mother, Julia realized she has found what she has been looking for all this time: friends. It was that quick moment of happiness that made the Reynard stuff all the more horrible. I think we'll see Reynard, but the rape part will be dropped for obvious reasons. They're already setting Julia up to have some sort of connection to gods already - they'll still summon Reynard (or insert other malevolent spirit) but he'll just kill them, leaving only Julia/Asmodeus alive. If that scene shows up even remotely similarly in the series it'll be a pretty dramatic departure from what I'd expect in a SyFy show, generally speaking.
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Mar 30, 2016 04:29
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Oasx posted:The show has definitely improved in the last few episodes. I find that the closer it sticks to the books the better it is, apart from Penny I can't think of any change that hasn't made the show worse than the books. I enjoyed the third book quite a bit - and I think it could translate well to being on TV. The second book will be more difficult, especially given the budget constraints the show appears to suffer from.
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Mar 30, 2016 05:11
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"Well, High King sort of makes sense" I laughed way too hard at that. Edit: Solid episode. Interesting that they brought Marina back, curious to see where they go with that. Shooting Blanks fucked around with this message at 09:09 on Apr 12, 2016 |
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Apr 12, 2016 06:54
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Who played adult Martin/The Beast?
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Apr 12, 2016 20:59
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Thanks....weird. Dude looks really familiar but he hasn't been in anything I've watched.
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Apr 13, 2016 03:21
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Part of the challenge is that the source material for The Magicians is so much more limited compared to Game of Thrones or Walking Dead. It's difficult to even know when and how they'll depart, what they'll include, or what may be moved around for pacing reasons. I'm cautiously optimistic based on the trailers, but then again this IS SyFy - and I honestly had completely forgotten this show existed (even though I read the books) so clearly the first season didn't make a lasting impression on me. It's difficult to even compare the books to the show without potentially spoiling something because nobody knows what will or won't be a spoiler.
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Dec 22, 2016 23:08
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AngryBooch posted:I forgot where Kady/Asmodeus went. I think its time she returned to Julia's story line. Eh, if it follows the books even remotely, Asmodeus will go after Reynard on her own, and with Penny stuck on earth until he figures out his hands the show might break off their storyline for awhile. It would make sense, since they were a couple last season. I really like the direction this show has gone, overall. A lot of the pacing issues with the first season seem to be mitigated or resolved, and now that the show has caught up with the first book, it gives them the rest of the season to get to the beginning of the second book. There was a significant time jump between the two, so again, that would make sense.
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Feb 10, 2017 04:25
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coyo7e posted:I forget, where did the burny bracelet come from and what was its point, again? I don't remember where it came from, but remember the dagger at the end of S1 would burn anyone who wasn't a "master magician," so I'm assuming it was acquired as a test of when Alice's powers would begin to fade, and at what rate.
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Feb 10, 2017 08:09
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Rhyno posted:The Brakebills Prof said he sent Quentin there. It's entirely possible they have an relationship where they place students in that company. IIRC, this is a thing in the books. There's a tertiary character (Emily Greenstreet?) that takes a job doing nothing at an investment bank or venture capital firm, it's strongly hinted that it was arranged by Brakebills and that it's not an uncommon arrangement. I don't remember why she did it in the books, though.
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Feb 24, 2017 06:21
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If they were smart, we'd have already met him in passing. A character we thought of as a throwaway actually turns out to be important.
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Mar 9, 2017 01:57
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STAC Goat posted:They implied the Wellspring in Fillory was feeding the magic on Earth but like the "plumber" specifically went to Earth and the Library to shut off magical valves in those places too. So its not like just shutting off Fillory shut everyone else off. The "plumber" just made his rounds. I took the plumber as a near-literal example for how magic worked and flowed from one realm to another. Until Ember and Umber died, the leaks were too inconsequential to fix, but when you start killing off lesser gods, you get the handyman called in. Now the question becomes where do Julia and Alice come into all of this. Julia connected with OLU - who is clearly a higher god, as the mom of Reynard. Similarly, Alice has some insight into the whole system, she explicitly described someone turning off magic. Between the two of them, I wonder if it's possible for them to find and/or create new leaks.
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Apr 27, 2017 14:55
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How did S3 wind up? I got sidetracked by life about 3-4 episodes in and never went back to it. Worth starting over, or not really? Edit: I did enjoy the first two seasons and have generally thought that the farther they get from the books, the better the show is.
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Jan 28, 2019 15:04
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Awesome, I'll start over from Ep 1 this week then.
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iNteg posted:I enjoyed the books, they were a good read... the TV show is leaps and bounds ahead of the books, the original ideas and takes on the books basic concepts has been phenomenal. Having only seen the first two seasons, I don't know if I'd agree with this. I'd say that the books as written would have been incredibly difficult to faithfully adapt to a TV show, so they made the (correct) call to deviate and make it more appropriate for the medium. Basically the opposite of what Zack Snyder did with Watchmen.
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