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Botnit posted:This isn't true though? A level 250 hedgewitch is supposed to be just as knowledgeable as a graduate of Hogwartsbill. Theres only a few (less than 10 ?) known '250 lvl hedgewitches', around the world (you could probably have more that don't even use the leveling system), but compare with Brakebills that consistently graduates a full class every year. (And you get the other universities around the world). You can probably learn how to code and be a great programmer on your own but a formal education on a good university will be better for most people. HedgeCoders hacks everything together and follow their own paradigms to get the desirable output, Brakebills Computer Scientists applies rigorous techniques to standardize code. (or something like that). (Mid book spoilers) I honestly don't know how they're going to do the Fillory parts with low budget effects
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Mages can change your memories too, so they can keep politicians and other people of interest in check. The page Julia found with a real spell was taken out of the internet etc. While you would have people saying "magic is real!! aliens!! conspiracy!!" all the governments and media could be controllable. (They do make a fact that some magicians like to play games of influence and manipulation in global scale, after all, when you're a full fledge magician you can do almost anything you want)
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Tiggum posted:How effective is that though? I mean, it didn't work on Julia at all. Maybe it works better on non-magical people? They don't seem to be particularly concerned about hedge witches running around potentially blowing the lid off their secret though. With the speed things can spread these days, all it would take is the wrong video to go viral and you've got more people who've seen it than you could ever hope to wipe the memories of and people re-uploading it every time you get it taken down. Well, as efective as the plot needs  kinda like Men in Black. Julia remembered more because of some inconsistencies in her memory (person who made the new memories didn't know a lot about her) and she's one of the brightest students in the country, competitive, driven etc. she just wouldn't let it go. And while the book doesn't expand a lot (some setting spoilers from book 2 and 3, probably) there's Dragons that could be secretly hiding magic and doing dragon stuff and that organization from the portal lands have access to some major arcana, probably some mass mind wipe and stuff like that He doesn't go in a lot of details but if needed you could explain about as believable as any other book with magic, aliens, big secrets and etc. in modern times. Miss Mowcher fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Feb 20, 2016 |
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While not being the 'chosen one', Quentin is far from mediocre, he's easily top 5 of his class. He's invited to advance one year, he did the whole survival challenge in the Arctic and during the books accomplishes plenty of things (3rd book spoiler including saving a whole universe, and yeah, the power was not his but he's still the one who figured out how to save Fillory and tried to save it many times, he did greater stuff than probably many mages with higher "power level" than him, like the russian mage who for all his knowledge and power is stuck in Ice Brokebills moping about the past and doing stuff in his basement that won't ever be relevant to the world.) . The only main characters who are shown to be far ahead of him is Alice and Julia (book 2 spoiler) who made a deal with a god and isn't even human .
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Bert Roberge posted:Are they really not including the scene with Julia? As godawful as it was it kinda defines her character for the rest of the series. Book 2 spoilers Honestly, they could just change the rape to him ripping her soul by any other violent way and nothing would be lost. Her realization that she's happy and that she didn't need that and finally finding peace being crushed by the wrong god appearing and killing (almost) all of her friends and stealing her soul, leaving her an empty shell/taking away her humanity would still have the same impact without the rape (I actually think it would be a LOT better) Miss Mowcher fucked around with this message at 10:38 on Apr 7, 2016 |
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