The Magicians: "They just slapped each other over and over, for hours"

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Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Was that episode like thirty minutes or something? So many loving commercials jesus

# ¿ Mar 8, 2018 04:13

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 07:12

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Josh Lyman posted:

"Remember how great that musical episode of Buffy was?" -The Magicians showrunners, probably

- the magicians, literally two episodes ago, literally calling it the best episode of buffy

# ¿ Mar 8, 2018 05:25

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

User posted:

Yes that's one of the surefire tells that you're being a huge dick. "It's not about you" is one of those things dicks have a hard time coming to grips with.

Especially when like, he isn't really one of their friends though, is he? He's just some guy with a totally different life who they met by chance, who tends to gently caress off and go get high whenever possible. Dude has been depicted in the show as being popular outside of the main characters, too; why the hell WOULD any of them spend much time on pandering to him.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2018 12:36

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Yeah I just rewatched season 1 and I don't know why I told people it starts rough; there's so many layers and it hits the ground right from the start.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2018 17:56

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

how the gently caress could it end the season like that

I've been a good person I don't deserve this

# ¿ Apr 5, 2018 03:02

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Nihonniboku posted:

I hope this monster doesn't imitate Eliot all of next season. I was really hoping that it was that Eliot's love for Quentin is what kept his memory alive. But apparently not.

I don't think we'll see Eliot again. Like, it doesn't imitate people, it steals their bodies.

I can't believe I have to wait until next year for this. I'm calling the police.

# ¿ Apr 5, 2018 03:14

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

I loved the ending tbh; the crew just keeps loving everything up So bad whenever they try to fix things, and dang what a gently caress up this was. I also love what they're doing with Alice.

I'm just prepared to call the police and report Syfy for making me wait so loving goddamn long for a resolution like this isn't fair or cool and I am Upset.

# ¿ Apr 6, 2018 16:09

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

muscles like this! posted:

Every Syfy show takes a year to come back, they're kind of like that.

Illegal. This is a gross misuse of my attention span and lots of TV is garbage also and I want more sex wizard angst nowwww

# ¿ Apr 7, 2018 00:24

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Quentin's arm breaking was one of the most horrifying things I've seen in a while, and holy poo poo notEliot was just oozing "I'm a god" in this episode. Why is this show so much better every season when so many others just go straight downhill.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2019 14:30

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Also Margo wants to protect people. She knew Josh killing someone would wreck him, and for all that she's badass and aloof, she gives a poo poo. She fought with Eliot in like... last season? about how he was just given the power to rule but she wants it and she's always wanted to be able to look out for folks she cares about.

If Josh said he could kill a bad person, Margo would have walked out of there in a second - but he couldn't, and she wasn't going to make him. She'll just do that herself next time around.

# ¿ Feb 18, 2019 23:51

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Anne Whateley posted:

She just made him kill Bacchus, his actual friend. She doesn't give that much of a poo poo.

She made him kill Bacchus to save herself and everyone else, she's a Hard Decisions person

# ¿ Feb 19, 2019 00:00

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

muscles like this! posted:

What is gently caress?

Dead gently caress.

# ¿ Feb 21, 2019 03:08

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Well I just had a cry.

# ¿ Feb 21, 2019 04:06

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Blind Rasputin posted:

I had to wiki what the heck was up when Elliot kissed Quentin.

I'm ashamed of you. I don't know you, but just being aware that someone like you exists gives me so much shame

# ¿ Feb 24, 2019 03:56

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Contextually it made plenty of sense is the thing, who cares if you don't remember the specific name when the context is "whoever you gently caress rn wolfs up and like eight seconds ago you were someone else"

# ¿ Feb 25, 2019 04:30

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Man, if you're gunna start up the episode with some super metatextual poo poo talking about representation and unfair sexism, don't include Significant Kitchen Scenes With Women where the only men a) are asked to leave the kitchen, or b) almost die in the kitchen :v:

Like if you want me to read into your episode motherfucker imma read.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2019 19:15

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Yeah, cisgender/cishet are pretty common words if you leave your rented apartment for reasons other than To See The Sport or Visiting A DMV

# ¿ Mar 10, 2019 13:51

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Ariza posted:

It speaks of privilege and ignorance at how the real world works.

It speaks to privilege and ignorance, not of.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2019 14:19

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Chalks posted:

Maybe it depends where you're from but I'm pretty sure the only reason I know those words exist is from this forum and I would be pretty surprised if 90% of the people I know in real life have heard of them. I'm honestly not sure how you're expecting most people to be familiar with these sorts of buzzwords.

'cis' is the opposite of 'trans' it's not a buzzword. 'het' is short for 'heterosexual.' 'gender' is the range of characteristics pertaining to and differentiating between masculine and feminine.

I'm wanting people to become familiar with these words because I'm hoping more popular TV shows start using them exactly like how Magicians did, because that's the context in which I hear it pretty casually used regularly.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2019 14:37

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Blazing Ownager posted:

The problem is old Penny would have absolutely called you an ignorant racist motherfucker straight up, buzzword free, which I can respect.

It's not a goddamn buzzword. Cis as a term has been used in peer reviewed academic journals since at least 1998 and the only reason people are getting upset about hearing it is because of a continued effort by chud shitheads to claim it's bullshit, so that they can keep using the term "normal" or "real" to refer to people who aren't trans or nonbinary in order to keep around terms that dehumanize people! This kind of stupid-rear end mindwashing microaggression linguistic trick is explicitly a tool used by propagandists - poo poo, even stuff like using the storytelling advice of "show don't tell" is propagandistic mind control to keep people in check. gently caress, I've got receipts on this poo poo! The level that seemingly innocuous language shifts and ideas can widescale hold back social change is documented and very real even if you think you're smarter than it.

Stop fuckin' calling it a buzzword, you ignorant motherfuckers :mad:

# ¿ Mar 11, 2019 21:36

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Nihonniboku posted:

Obviously not, because "straight" refers to sexuality, and not gender.

Honestly just block that person, I shouldn't have bothered engaging someone who's going to willfully be a dickhead.

Chalks seems to have not meant harm though so hell yeah let's talk about the magical tutting show more

# ¿ Mar 11, 2019 23:20

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Von_Doom posted:

To assist: am I the only one waiting anxiously for the next musical episode? Both Penny’s can duet.

I wasn't, but oh my good loving god I am now.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2019 00:46

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Jesus gently caress I forgot how good Eliot sounds in that

# ¿ Mar 12, 2019 19:09

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

The Dragonriders of Porn :allears:

I loving love this show

# ¿ Mar 14, 2019 03:02

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

There's no show I love like how I feel about Magicians. This is the best goddamn tv

# ¿ Mar 28, 2019 02:55

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

muscles like this! posted:

I think I like Hale Appleman's version better.

This but in response to every song, even ones he hasn't covered yet

# ¿ Mar 28, 2019 16:16

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Oh no I'm having a lot of feelings about Q/Alice

# ¿ Apr 4, 2019 02:46

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Rhyno posted:

They're gonna love triangle this bitch aren't they.

I hope not, but probably

# ¿ Apr 4, 2019 16:28

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Dean Fogg's five seconds of magic was the coolest magic this show has done in basically two seasons

# ¿ Apr 11, 2019 02:31

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Holy poo poo the pacing in this is leaving me breathless

# ¿ Apr 18, 2019 02:21

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

It's a cruel world :cry:

# ¿ Apr 18, 2019 02:45

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

I was just loving ugly crying for the last fifteen minutes straight. I have a headache. This is the best show on TV, I don't care what that says about me

# ¿ Apr 18, 2019 03:03

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Chalks posted:

while holding back tears.

What? Holding back? You're a monster!

# ¿ Apr 18, 2019 19:35

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 07:12

Wungus: Mar 5, 2004

Nihonniboku posted:

BBT was actually dumb. I don't understand how it last so long. Someone else put it far better than I did, but it wasn't a show about nerds that would use nerd culture to make jokes. It made nerd culture the joke.

It was a totally accurate depiction of the kind of nerd who gets jobs in Silicon Valley or Washington DC and anyone who disagrees ain't never lived or worked in one of those places, or has huge blinders on and exists solely on a diet of denial and lack of self reflection.

e: It also sucked and wasn't funny, don't get me wrong, but it was spot on.

# ¿ Nov 13, 2019 15:34

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