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STAC Goat posted:Julia's not especially relevant to this. For one, she was "supposed" to have her memory erased and know nothing of magic. For two, we know that she was purposely thrown aside and thrown into a desperate situation because Jane hoped it would speed up her learning and change the battle with the Beast. The way they just totally ignore all the people doing magic without going through any formal education, and don't seem to be planning to do anything about Reynard (or any other magical problems that exist in the outside world) suggests that Brakebills and wizards in general just don't really give a poo poo about anyone but themselves though. Even giving Quentin and whatsername those jobs seems more like a way to put them out of the way rather than actually helping them. Julia's situation isn't unusual, except that she should actually have passed the entrance exam. Someone who genuinely failed and then somehow remembered magic exists would be in the exact same position she was and no one would do anything about it.
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This episode makes me wish the entire show, right from the start, had just been "arseholes stumble into not-Narnia and get made its kings and queens" because that's a fantastic premise and instantly made me not give a poo poo about anything else that happened in this episode. I was annoyed every time it cut away to Quentin or Julia. gently caress those guys, you've finally figured out what this show should be.
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STAC Goat posted:The curse didn't seem to be any kind of confirmed knowledge. I got the impression the dumb rules of non-Narnia just say only Earth people can be royalty and they hadn't had any regular visitors since the Beast took over. I thought the same, except that there had been kings and queens in the meantime who'd just kept killing each other because of the curse and the Fillorians just thought they kept only getting paranoid arseholes showing up.
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When they went back in time the last time, how did the wizard-cop end up in the wrong place? PS. I loved that the weapon stash included a bat'leth.
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Mar 9, 2017 15:25
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ZorajitZorajit posted:Niffin-Alice is definitely giving Harvey / Head-Scorpius a run for best mentally-projected character in a show on a science fiction network. She might get there eventually, given time, but Harvey has a huge head start on her.
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Mar 10, 2017 03:31
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Xealot posted:Someone described the setting to me as, "the Harry Potter kids are in college. And they gently caress." A+ for accuracy. They are the worst.
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Mar 10, 2017 15:24
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Na'at posted:i love how one dude on this page got a probation for even implying that the situation leading to Julia's rape was her fault but these two can say that a woman's Purity is of more value than her life and it's totes cool.
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Mar 12, 2017 02:14
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Better musical episode than The Flash.
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Mar 23, 2017 15:26
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bull3964 posted:One thing I didn't know if I missed our not, was Margot forbidden from saying what deal she struck?
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Mar 24, 2017 03:17
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It's a real pity season one sucked so much. I'd really like to recommend this show to people, but then I remember season one and I just can't.
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Mar 31, 2017 00:48
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So, your shade is a piece of your soul, I guess? And is Julia now going to have mostly her own soul but partly Alice's? Or is she staying shade-free and they're going to try to put Alice's shade into her niffin?TheKeeper posted:The Magicians: loving Millennials
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Apr 11, 2017 16:31
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STAC Goat posted:Its the same realm of "You've heard of Swayze?" or "Foo-Fighters, why are you laughing?" This show loves making magical beings make references that make no sense outside of our culture.
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Apr 12, 2017 04:12
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Fantastic episode. I really wish the first season didn't exist so I could just recommend this show to people, because it always has to come with the disclaimer of "the first season's poo poo, but you can probably skip it if you read the plot summaries on Wikipedia I guess."
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Jan 11, 2018 14:51
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Open Source Idiom posted:the show's plot dense enough that you'd need the time to get attached to the cast before all the poo poo goes down early on.
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Jan 11, 2018 16:07
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Open Source Idiom posted:I meant in Season Two -- Alice and Marina dying wouldn't have the same impact without the first season, nor the Julia stuff at the end Yeah, I meant that's why I don't recommend the show at all. You kind of need the first season, but it's bad and I can't recommend it. 
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Jan 11, 2018 17:22
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Nihonniboku posted:Um, is there some meme that I'm missing? Roger Cross is in a lot of TV shows, particularly sci-fi and fantasy shows.
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Jan 18, 2018 11:20
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Nihonniboku posted:This was a pretty weak episode overall. I'm glad the lamprey storyline is over, time to get Alice back with the gang. I need everybody on that drat boat. I thought it was pretty good.
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Feb 8, 2018 12:22
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Blazing Ownager posted:Did you miss the part where Quentin straight up marries a woman and has a kid and poo poo? Sure they banged in their alternate life but I don't really think they're going to end up together.
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Feb 20, 2018 17:14
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Stank posted:My only complaint about this episode is that it was billed as a musical episode for the past month on instagram and then there were only 3 songs. Skippy McPants posted:So, is this show good? I was thinking about bringing what's on Netflix, but then I saw it goes for a Chronicles of Narnia style of thing and got kinda hesitant.
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Mar 11, 2018 10:42
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Mortanis posted:A lot of it was in terms of missteps compared to the book XboxPants posted:That's how I had been picturing it, too, but this episode makes me think that it's much worse than that. Some people die? On a cosmic scale, that's a blip, even if the beast killed every human on the planet, which he certainly didn't seem to have any interest in. Hey, natural disasters happen, evil destructive gods exist. The universe would keep going without us. Boris Galerkin posted:I rewatched s1e1 cause you guys were discussing it earlier and wow why was Quentin such a dick to Julia?
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Mar 25, 2018 11:28
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Blazing Ownager posted:You can't throw people in the deep end of madness.
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Mar 25, 2018 14:16
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Nihonniboku posted:We don't know what the siphon is, correct?
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Mar 29, 2018 13:13
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Aexo posted:Is "the tower at the end of the world" or whatever a nod to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?
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Mar 31, 2018 11:55
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mastajake posted:Pretty lame they set up the “you’ll regret this deal” thing and then she got away with her ridiculous scheme anyway. Woden posted:What was the deal with the key paradox? It seemed like a set up where Q and crew would be bringing the second set to unchain the dude in prison but it went nowhere. That doesn't seem like enough though, so maybe something more will come of it later?
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Pompous Rhombus posted:I'm not crazy about the Tesla thing and bringing in versions of characters from alternate timelines... the idea of the alternate timelines itself doesn't bug me as it fits with the story they've set up from S1, but when they use it to bring characters back it feels cheap, like there are really no stakes. Penny owns but Penny-23 has cast a real pall over the latter part of the season for me. STAC Goat posted:It's probably more a testament to US gun culture and Hollywood violence but I've always thought in fantasy stuff that someone should just Rambo up with conventional weapons just in case. As long as it doesn't directly impede on you why not? If nothing else a big rear end shotgun should slow some bad guys down. Like I vaguely recall Buffy TVS having the day saved with a gun once and then never addressing it again. It would have made sense for the bad guys to have used guns sometimes, but most of the ones who specifically wanted to kill Buffy (rather than just preferring to avoid her attention entirely) had various reasons for not just shooting Buffy. Like, Spike specifically wanted to kill her in hand-to-hand combat, Angel wanted to torture her rather than kill her, a bunch of them were just really old and out of touch with the modern world. But even so, guns did show up quite a lot.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Maybe it’s more a complaint on how fantasy creatures work but I just don’t buy the “a shotgun to the face doesn’t hurt vampires because they don’t feel pain” thing because whether they do or don’t feel pain is inconsequential when the shotgun will literally remove half of their head and put holes into the rest of it. Like supposedly lobsters don’t feel pain yet I’m pretty sure chopping off it’s tail with a hatchet is going to kill it, you know? Lobsters aren't held together by magic and the soul of a demon.
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Blazing Ownager posted:Seriously gently caress season 2. There are major plot holes setup in the first episode you could sail an aircraft carrier towing a larger aircraft carrier through. So, just like season one then?
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Jan 15, 2019 10:49
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Given how much the show has deviated from the books, I wouldn't assume they have a planned end. It's not like they're trying to finish a pre-written story.
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Jan 28, 2019 19:51
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Can't believe no one's mentioned how fantastic Margo was in this episode.mycomancy posted:Like, are you even watching the screen when you turn this show on? The first two goddamned episodes were about their witness protection personas!
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Season one is bad. It improves dramatically after that. Unfortunately you kind of have to watch season one to know what's happening and who everyone is, but it's worth it for how good the show does get later on.
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