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Magicians Season 4 — It Just Gets Worse The More You Think About it
Margo's musical episode.
Margo deserved a way better backstory than she was given.
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Thanks, I hate it - The Magicians S4 Finale
So the thing that makes me ABSOLUTELY INCANDESCENT WITH RAGE is this line from Hollywood Reporter’s interview with the magicians creative team [x]:
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More Maudlin Queliot Musings
Quentin makes a speech at the end of season 3, telling the squad that he’s decided to sign himself over to an eternity in hellprison being the Monster’s guardian. When his friends try to argue with him about the decision, he says, “Alice, who’s the one that died for us?” then turns to Eliot and says, “You were willing to stay in Fillory forever. How is this different?”
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Magicians 4x05
Also having the guy you’re in love with tell you he’s not sure you’re gay enough for a relationship between the two of you to work, in spite of the fact that the two of you were happily married for FIFTY GODDAMN YEARS in an alternate timeline, is (inexplicably, yet still profoundly and authentically) The Quintessential Bisexual Experience™.
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More Screaming about Magicians but a little more coherent this time
Okay so very favorite storytelling thing in any tv show is when a new episode reveals a missing scene or secret that forces you re-think a whole bunch of past events.
And FUUUUUUUUck so Quentin going on a suicide mission at the end of the last season takes on a whole new light. Specifically Quentin telling his dad that he’s going on a suicide mission to bring magic back, even with the knowledge that bringing magic back may bring back his dad’s apparently magical cancer and kill him, and his Dad asking Quentin “So, are you here to ask my permission?” and Quentin replying:
“On this quest, I’ve lived a whole life. I grew old, and I got married, and I had a son -- who grew old. And what was all that for if it’s not for this?”
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Excuse me while I go listen to "The Only Exception" by Paramore on repeat.
And FUUUUUUUUck so Quentin going on a suicide mission at the end of the last season takes on a whole new light. Specifically Quentin telling his dad that he’s going on a suicide mission to bring magic back, even with the knowledge that bringing magic back may bring back his dad’s apparently magical cancer and kill him, and his Dad asking Quentin “So, are you here to ask my permission?” and Quentin replying:
“On this quest, I’ve lived a whole life. I grew old, and I got married, and I had a son -- who grew old. And what was all that for if it’s not for this?”
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Excuse me while I go listen to "The Only Exception" by Paramore on repeat.