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Tiggum posted: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. I think it got better the last 4-5 episodes right around the haunted house episode. Once they were out of school the show got much better.
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STAC Goat posted:Yeah, it theoretically sucks but we don't actually know what it means besides he has a sucky job. And half of it sucking is just his bad attitude. Nah, remember season 1, the librarian was excited that Penny was a traveller. He'll use this excuse to jump around to Earth and other worlds (and perhaps occasionally retrieve a rare tomb to keep in good graces, but in Magicians tradition he'll probably gently caress this up).
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Apr 4, 2017 01:45
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"No, I'm going to eat you. I'm a loving dragon, what did you expect?"
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Apr 6, 2017 02:06
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Party Plane Jones posted:This dragon CGI is pretty well done for TV. I thought they just copied the dragon from Shrek.
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Apr 6, 2017 02:14
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SLOSifl posted:You want to gently caress that librarian? I do  I like that they're keeping Julia a huge wildcard with everything that's happening. Even sans shade she still has a bit of caring for Quentin, even if it's slightly manipulative. :sexception:
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Apr 6, 2017 03:08
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Tiggum posted:Except that those two were funny. Especially the Fillory United (FU) Fighters, which was played completely straight by the Fillorians. The only thing that could have made the Swayze questioning better was if the Knight and Eliot played out Swayze and Grey's dance lift.
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Apr 12, 2017 04:47
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I have to rewatch tonight's episode. Why were Eliot and Quentin after the clock? To be the new Watcher Woman? Or was it their gateway to Fillory? (I literally spaced for a moment when Eliot and Quentin were together) Lame that they let the young librarian die for arbitrary reasons. Both of the librarians were great foils in different ways for Penny. I want to know more about Kanye's book. (I guess she died "offscreen", so she could recover and climb out - I thought those humanoid statues were going to start loving poo poo up and be the reason they both died ala Doctor Who and the Weeping Angels, but budget). I hope we find out what OLU does with Reynard. It was nice to see that shadeless Julia still does have some capability for humanity and mercy in her the last two episodes. Will Julia accept her shade back? Loved Umber being addicted to  and Fillory being reality TV.Consequences for killing a god? Let's see what happens. I was really hoping for a "gently caress you" moment to OLU and shooting Reynard midway through OLU's explanation. Edit: I call it "Cuba" Eliot: "Ember's turned all the humans into rats" Umber: "Oh, he's finally done it. Talked about it for years." geeves fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Apr 13, 2017 |
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SLOSifl posted:I kind of think Umber will show up and somehow (probably something Quentin did) Ember and Umber fight, presumably to the death. Then someone will shoot one of them, whichever one is revealed to be actually the bad one, and the other will be like "thanks". Unless Quentin has the gun in which case he'll probably shoot loving Alice accidentally instead. Given that this is The Magicians, they will have some erotic bro-on-bro time that gods do. They will argue about Law and Order vs. The Wire (this is why we can't get along!) then Margo will just straight up murder Ember.
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Apr 14, 2017 04:54
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SLOSifl posted:Oh poo poo I forgot this was on tonight. Every episode should have an intro to be narrated by Ember. What a fun season. Julia may still have the god-killing bullet, too.
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Apr 20, 2017 03:14
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Dessel posted:Caught up to this episode and thread to see comments for this. I don't think that, Lucas. I think it was OLU. Otherwise it makes quite a bit of tertiary characters' screen time and exposition worthless. I need to re-watch, but Reynard already knew Julia aborted his heir, correct? So, what need did he have of her except maybe intrigue? At that point, Julia and Katie also destroyed his "legacy". What was the purpose of Reynard showing up at all a putting on a show? Given Reynard, he may be a trickster, but he's also a braggart. He would opine how he got cute deaf west wing woman to divulge information, etc.
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May 7, 2017 04:12
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Alhazred posted:Julia willingly joined a group that pretty much had "sudden but inevitable betrayal" as their motto and Alice pissed of a powerful magical monster for shits and giggles. Did we watch the same show? Julia joined a group of people who wanted to make their lives better - they wanted to help each other. Who did Alice piss off at that point? We didn't learn that til the end of season 2. As for Margo, I think Margo expected that after Eliot returned / prevailed they would be able to magic / negotiate the return of his child. Not realizing the rules are very different and despite magic, they do not hold the advantage.
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May 20, 2017 02:10
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Ccs posted:I just finished rewatching "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" and was itching for more magic shows, so i tried this out. It's better than I initially expected. They explained why the characters look older (grad school) but making Quentin into a chosen one that important characters talk about at the start is pretty obnoxious. And Alice's actress isn't selling her character at all. Having read the books, I felt the same. But keep watching, they deal with this nicely.
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Sep 20, 2017 04:33
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GreenNight posted:Season 3 trailer. Can't wait - I like what they've done here and not ignoring some of the bigger plots of The Magician King and instead making it a consequence of the first two seasons. Not a major spoiler that stopped magic in S2 vs books: In the books, Julia and her friends get magic turned off because when they accidentally summoned Reynard, they summoned all the gods ("When you summon one god, you summon all the gods") and magic threatens to go out on earth because they're found out. Not a consequence of killing a god.
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Nov 21, 2017 02:45
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I think this is one of the first shows / movies to accurately portray rolling since Go.
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Jan 11, 2018 07:22
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Dude's game is loving fire. He hosed a were wolf. muscles like this! posted:Season 1 had the invisible castle. That was season 2 when Eliot got into the Dad/son role play.
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Jan 12, 2018 22:40
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muscles like this! posted:It looks like the biggest change with this season's story arc is that Eliot and Margot will actually be going on the Quest, which they sat out in the book. I thought Eliot did quite a bit, it was just off page and summed up to Quentin when he and a character we might meet this season return to Fillory.
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Jan 16, 2018 01:23
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Alhazred posted:Margo continues to be best character on the show Seriously. I also love how sex-positive this show can be while still damning assault in smart ways. Rocksicles posted:Yep, she's not blonde though. She was raven-haried, right?
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Jan 26, 2018 03:29
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ZorajitZorajit posted:Yeah, we already had three plots split between summoning Asteroth, resolving the Lamprey, and the pirates on the Muntjac. Where that door went will obviously matter, just not tonight. Wasn't it something with watches? Rocksicles posted:Yeah, blue eyes. I remember that from the audiobook, it doesn't sink in much if i don't read it When the show first premiered I thought the actress who plays Julia was going to be Alice. But given Taylor-Dudley's performance as Alice, she's Alice.
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Jan 26, 2018 04:13
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Axel Serenity posted:Yeah, this episode owned, imo. Yeah you don't kill your best character. But I think it will be fun to see where they are going
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Jan 28, 2018 07:38
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Open Source Idiom posted:Also, like, this is The Magicians. There's no guarantee that a group of desperate people wouldn't try to vivisect her to work out why her magic still works. Or that the fairies are on earth and probably now on their trail. Or the fairies in the investor's house are held there by magic and it will only be a bit of time before they're free.
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Feb 2, 2018 02:45
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Nihonniboku posted:I disagree. I personally needed the confirmation that they remembered. I thought that line, "We had a family," was really sweet.
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Feb 10, 2018 01:09
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Teeth, in my vagina? It's more likely than you think.
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Feb 15, 2018 03:12
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Alhazred posted:I was really digging Margot's little speech about how Elliott fell rear end-backwards into being high king while she have had to fight to get power. When I first started watching the show I wasn't really expecting her to be the one to call bullshit on the patriarchy (or that the show would have anything to say about the patriarchy or power structures at all), but here we are. Margo might not have started out that way, but slowly she's been the one able to take charge since season 1, even when things are hosed up for her. She's become my favorite character on the show mostly because you can see that she's loyal to a fault and that has caused so much havoc.
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Feb 24, 2018 05:23
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muscles like this! posted:Not hard for Penny seeing as he was barely in the books. And Margo is a much improvement on Janet in the books. as well. Blazing Ownager posted:I know what you mean, but at the same time.. I feel like it's intentional. Alice is an antagonist on this show and I she's great. But I would argue that Alice was anything but naive. She came to the school with an agenda.
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Feb 26, 2018 04:36
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Party Plane Jones posted:This Harriet section being totally silent is a bold choice but I like it.
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muscles like this! posted:Well Hale Appelman is pretty much the only one of them that can actually sing. They positioned Jade Tailor/Kady as being able to sing but it seemed kind of off to me, like they just dubbed her. It was like they dubbed them with other people who really couldn't sing either. Whalley posted:Was that episode like thirty minutes or something? So many loving commercials jesus Just as many as usual it seems. If you go back and look at hour-long shows, in the 70s and 80s they were up close to 50 minutes. They've been creeping down ever since, now they're 40-43 minutes.
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Mar 8, 2018 04:28
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Nihonniboku posted:I think it was more that he is one of the main characters in the books, and they've struggled with how to bring him into the main group since he was never part of it really in the show. So now that they Unity Key says that he's part of the gang, he'll probably be promoted to series regular next season. I thought he was for this season. Also he was offpage for a lot of books 2 and 3. While he was in the same class as Quentin and others, he didn't have the same prominence as everyone else. But that doesn't matter - the show is better with this version of Josh. He's a great foil for the rest of the cast being completely up their own asses.
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Mar 8, 2018 05:35
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Josh Lyman posted:Josh was kind of a dick this episode. I don't think so. If being a dick is calling people out when you think they've ignored (wronged) you and their response is to initially ignore your feelings and just go after what they deem important instead of having an conversation with you. Then yes, Josh was a huge loving dick. But maybe I relate to Josh in the episode too much. I can relate to when people forget to actually include you for drinks or dinner and instead being an afterthought. For some of them a few days later asking, "why weren't you there?" The indifference part strikes really true.
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Mar 8, 2018 06:38
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Whalley posted: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. That's not what Josh thought tho. The whole theme of this episode (as is a broader theme of the series) is that these magicians need each other if they want to succeed - that they shouldn't just write someone off and that to save the world (magic) they need to save each other. This show goes to some dark places, but it keeps that speck of hope alive.
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Mar 9, 2018 03:41
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Blazing Ownager posted:I wouldn't say the first season is awful at all, though honestly I think the whole show truly gets into gear when Julia is raped Not downplaying this at all, but I think the horror episode at the Chatwin house Martin is raped. Eliot's response (then later juxtaposed with Julia) is when the show found its voice.
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muscles like this! posted:I just said "gently caress" really loud.
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Mar 22, 2018 02:42
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Spanish Matlock posted:Yeah, but will it be through incredible tragedy or will the incredible tragedy be the mind horror of having two souls inhabit one body? Penny's new name will be Two Bits 
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Mar 23, 2018 03:34
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Boris Galerkin posted:This show is fun. I’m really enjoying Julia’s ascension to godhood or whatever she is. Julia becomes a (slight book spoiler) Dryad and if you saw the previews for next week, Julia creating a forest I think confirms the show is going to follow through with it. The show has pretty much hit the major plot points compared to the books, if even in a completely different way.
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Mar 23, 2018 14:54
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Atreiden posted:I ment our Josh doesn't know what the quickening is. He banged a werewolf but up until now, he didn't know of any side effects. Who was the were wolf or whatever in the dungeons at Brakebills in season 2?
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Mar 29, 2018 22:10
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blue squares posted:holy poo poo Quentin's son is Quentin's dad I'll raise you: Ted's son is Ted's dad.
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Mar 30, 2018 03:42
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blue squares posted:Or he wants magic more than he wants his dad alive He's hedging his bet that either he will be able to find a cure or perhaps Julia with her demi-god-like powers will be able to heal him and that his father won't be another Cancer Puppy.
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ZorajitZorajit posted:I thought the episode did some cool segments, and of course I'll be back first thing next season, but I was kind of hoping for a monster that isn't just "A guy with glowing eyes." Oh well, cable budget I guess. After this season I have hope they have something pretty solid planned and it being a child wanting to play is just something to throw everyone off. I was worried that the finale would have been Julia's send off and Stella Maeve was leaving as what happened in the books going to find her tree on the flip side of fillory. I would have loved to see more of Julia and Godhood, but I don't think OLU is done with Julia just yet; I think Julia will be rewarded again in some way, but she won't be OP. Margo is really interesting at the moment just because she has a Fairy eye. I think she'll see Eliot / Quentin for who they really are and will snap out of whatever. Margo perhaps lead the charge to convince the others of danger while remembering she has a kingdom to rule. I'm not a fan of amnesia plots by any means, but if The Magicians can pull off something similar to LOST in season 6 in bringing everyone together again would be pretty cool. I don't want it to be solved in the first episode or have to wait for the last. But if around episode 7 or 8 the band's back together, we'll be in good shape.
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mycomancy posted:The Magicians: Eat My rear end That's what I am hoping for.
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blue squares posted:fortunately the writers can choose not to have people stabbed and killed until it works for the plot Seriously. They also had the god-killing knife and left it in Beast Quentin's body.
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