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Jan 17, 2005


Nihonniboku posted:

It almost feels like they wrote a script, filmed it, then wrote the next one, filmed it, and so on, rather than writing the whole season at once, and then filming it.

I say that because it feels like they're trying to tie up loose ends... that they set up last week... before they move on with the story. If they're really wrapping up this whole "The Beast cursed the thrones of Fillory" this quickly, then perhaps they should have just gone back and cut out this subplot entirely?

Except it was a lot of fun?

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Jan 17, 2005


Alice :(

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Jan 17, 2005


AngryBooch posted:

I forgot where Kady/Asmodeus went. I think its time she returned to Julia's story line.

She's supposed to be a regular this season so she's getting paid even though she hasn't shown up at all yet.

I love how Eliot's taking full advantage of being High King with his fancy suit he was wearing this week.

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Jan 17, 2005


Yeah, Quentin tried to pick it up and it burned him, Alice was able to handle it fine and then she put it on her wrist as a way for the show to actually visualize her losing power, since that's kind of hard to get across otherwise.

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Jan 17, 2005


Yes, unlike the novel Brakebills is supposed to be post-graduate study instead of a replacement of college.

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Jan 17, 2005


Quentin's wooden shoulder, not mentioned much in the books either.

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Jan 17, 2005


Maybe some less discussion about whether or not Julia deserved what happened to her?

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Jan 17, 2005


Yeah, I wasn't exactly a fan of the first book, especially once they leave Brakebills and everyone turns into horrible people but really liked 2 and 3.

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Jan 17, 2005


Harrow posted:

So, I don't really get why they didn't just have the showdown with the Beast at the end of season 1. Just budget constraints? What was gained by having a really unsatisfying showdown, then two more episodes, then a real showdown with kind of an arbitrary setup?

I dunno, I'm probably too picky.

For some reason Syfy did exactly the same thing with The Expanse, they're currently still wrapping up the first book.

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Jan 17, 2005


doot posted:

Maybe I missed this, but I don't understand the abortion clinic receptionist. Why did she cancel Julia's appointment and then tell her it never existed? Was she being mind controlled by the demon-baby, or was she some kind of anti-choice activist working undercover in an abortion clinic?

Yeah, going by what happened with the doctor the demon baby has some kind mind whammy ability on anyone trying to kill it.

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Jan 17, 2005


They said it was 40 years ago so nobody in the main cast/a student.

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Jan 17, 2005


Niffin Alice ghost bitching is pretty great.

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Jan 17, 2005


Lol, for a second I thought my stream had hosed up.

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Jan 17, 2005


Is it my feed or are the commercial breaks really abrupt tonight?

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Jan 17, 2005


Oof, Margot not so much with the singing.

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Jan 17, 2005


Those grapes died for nothing!

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Jan 17, 2005


So Josh is the "High" King?

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Jan 17, 2005


The clock is basically the wardrobe from the first Narnia book.

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Jan 17, 2005


Yeah, in the book the classes were super small with something around 200 students for the entire school.

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Jan 17, 2005


That opening was pretty great.

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Jan 17, 2005


Nothing. This basically didn't happen in the books because they stop it before it can fully go down.

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Jan 17, 2005


Well so far this seems to have picked right back up where we left it.

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Jan 17, 2005


I'm wondering if they tried a version of that scene without the subtitles.

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Jan 17, 2005


How long will this quest take?

... a season.

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Jan 17, 2005


Season 1 had the invisible castle.

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Jan 17, 2005


No, in the first season finale they visit a castle which is invisible because the "kingdom's" budget had run out because of too much spending early on and so to save money they made their castle invisible.

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Jan 17, 2005


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.

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Jan 17, 2005


I definitely had that problem with the last season premier, ended up watching it through the Syfy app which didn't have that issue.

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Jan 17, 2005


Roger Cross?

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Jan 17, 2005


Roger Cross!

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Jan 17, 2005


Well... poo poo.

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Jan 17, 2005


I'm not a fan of the whole exploding cat thing but that's because one of my cats passed away not too long ago.

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Jan 17, 2005


To lighten things up a little, man Alice's shirt is super tight.

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Jan 17, 2005


Teeth

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Jan 17, 2005


Margo's face when Tick and Gillen instantly knelt was pretty funny.

The only thing that bugged me about the episode was that they just glossed over how Eliot and his family just up and vanished.

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Jan 17, 2005


Well, Penny, this is what happens when you're a dick to everyone.

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Jan 17, 2005


All peepin' all the time!

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Jan 17, 2005


Man, that ending.

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Jan 17, 2005


The only thing that bothered me about the episode was Penny's weird tie knot.

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Jan 17, 2005


She had to hide it since she was the one who had to actually use the magic to find the key.

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