Finally I finished The Magicians. What a rush?

[Gingerbread Demon]

What a rush?

OK going into this one I wasn't quite sue what to expect when I started this a month or few ago. Season 1 felt a bit bumpy to me and I watched it on and off dropping out for a week or two then deciding to pick it up again. I am so glad I did. Season 1 was great.

Season 2 was better and it just kept getting better and better after that. Elliot, Kady, and Margo are my favourites, especially Margo in the later seasons. I FREAKING LOVE HER.

I really liked some of the concepts in the TV show having never read the books so not sure how many liberties they took or what they changed to make the TV show possible, but there were a lot of ideas that I really liked. I liked the idea that for instance magic is real but not something created on Earth but on other worlds and exists as energy throughout the universe wherever there is a source such as the wellspring. I also liked that planets are not necessarily all spheres but some are donuts, some are flat, and some are just chunks shaped into a planet.

Also you have to be super miserable, a dickhole or c*** to get the best of magic because it creates misery. I liked that whole idea.

8/10 for such a fantastic series. Pity there was no season 6 to see how everyone got on. Will most definitely be watching this show again from the start sometime in the future.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Anyone wish to talk about The Magicians too?

 

[EnderAKH]

It is honestly one of my favorite genre shows ever. FOr one thing, I'm a sucker for urban fantasy, but also the characters are SO GOOD. I agree that season 1 is a little dicey in the beginning. It took us a while to get hooked in, around episode 10 we were hooked. We just recently finished a rewatch to finally watch season 5. We didn't like watching them live on SyFy because of the censoring of Margo's GLORIOUS swearing, so we would always wait and either buy the season or watch it on Netflix. But after the gut punch that was the end of season 4 (I CANNOT watch that Take On Me sequence without getting weepy), it was just hard to get motivated to go back to that world. But we finally did, and loved season 5 too. I was SUPER sad it did not get renewed for season 6.

 

[JD]

I love the Magicians, it's one of my all time favorite shows. It's just that perfect combination of funny, and dark, and emtional.
Yeah, I've watched Season 4 twice, and both times I got a bit choked up during the Take Me On scene.
Margot is definitely a favorite, and I always got a kick out of the sloth council member in Filory, and the guy who was in love with her.
I always wondered why they talked about the animals talking in Filory, but the only animals we ever actually heard talk were the messenger bunnies. Were they afraid actually showing them talk would be too cheesy?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I love the Magicians, it's one of my all time favorite shows. It's just that perfect combination of funny, and dark, and emtional.
Yeah, I've watched Season 4 twice, and both times I got a bit choked up during the Take Me On scene.
Margot is definitely a favorite, and I always got a kick out of the sloth council member in Filory, and the guy who was in love with her.
I always wondered why they talked about the animals talking in Filory, but the only animals we ever actually heard talk were the messenger bunnies. Were they afraid actually showing them talk would be too cheesy?

I think it was that. Plus today it might look cheesy seeing them talk around contemporary people that just happen to be magic people too.

I love that David Copperfield gets a mention a few times in the show for being an actual magician like the main characters. I'd love to know if their version of the real world people know about magic or magicians or if they fell into that trope of "keeping it secret" which honestly drives me fucking mad. I hate the secret trope so much.


On my season one cover there is this scene but I can't find it anywhere in season 1 or did I miss it somehow, a girl floating in the air with books around her.

 

[JD]

Magic is secret in their world, Quenton and Julia didn't know about magic before going to Filory, there was the big scene where Quton reveals magic's existence to his father, and then when the characters got their new identities from the comic, they didn't know about magic.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Magic is secret in their world, Quenton and Julia didn't know about magic before going to Filory, there was the big scene where Quton reveals magic's existence to his father, and then when the characters got their new identities from the comic, they didn't know about magic.

Still as Margo would say "fuck" it's a tired trope and I wish it would just end. Do a story where the world is the same but magic IS known about by everyone.

 

[EnderAKH]

Still as Margo would say "fuck" it's a tired trope and I wish it would just end. Do a story where the world is the same but magic IS known about by everyone.

Go find 1991 HBO Original Movie Cast A Deadly Spell. 1930s noir, but in a world where magic is real and common, and with Lovecraft mixed in.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Go find 1991 HBO Original Movie Cast A Deadly Spell. 1930s noir, but in a world where magic is real and common, and with Lovecraft mixed in.

I have to go find it. I shall......

But why do modern productions do the opposite?

 

[JD]

Still as Margo would say "fuck" it's a tired trope and I wish it would just end. Do a story where the world is the same but magic IS known about by everyone.

A while back Ronald D. Moore, did a pilot for a series following cops in a world with magic instead of science called The 17th Precinct, and I'm still pissed it didn't get picked up. I just looked it up on Wikipedia, and it had a hell of cast to, and was even a mini Battlestar Galactica reunion, with Jaime Bamber & James Callis as ta pair of detectives and show's lead characters, and Tricia Helfer as their "public necromancer", their version of ME. It also had Eamon Walker as their boss, Stockard Channing and Esai Morales as more cops, Matt Long as a rookie detective, and Kristen Kreuk was going to play Bamber's character's wife, but she's not in the pilot. I actually just found a leaked version of the pilot, but I don't think it's uploaded legally, so I don't want to say too much.

 

[EnderAKH]

I have to go find it. I shall......

But why do modern productions do the opposite?

It streams on HBO Max, if you subscribe.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

A while back Ronald D. Moore, did a pilot for a series following cops in a world with magic instead of science called The 17th Precinct, and I'm still pissed it didn't get picked up. I just looked it up on Wikipedia, and it had a hell of cast to, and was even a mini Battlestar Galactica reunion, with Jaime Bamber & James Callis as ta pair of detectives and show's lead characters, and Tricia Helfer as their "public necromancer", their version of ME. It also had Eamon Walker as their boss, Stockard Channing and Esai Morales as more cops, Matt Long as a rookie detective, and Kristen Kreuk was going to play Bamber's character's wife, but she's not in the pilot. I actually just found a leaked version of the pilot, but I don't think it's uploaded legally, so I don't want to say too much.

Who or what is a ME?

On Netflix there was a show called Bright which was similar in nature. Cops in a world where magic is everywhere but its clearly the modern world as we know it now.

 

[EnderAKH]

Who or what is a ME?

On Netflix there was a show called Bright which was similar in nature. Cops in a world where magic is everywhere but its clearly the modern world as we know it now.

Medical Examiner, aka the coroner who does the autopsy to determine cause of death.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Medical Examiner, aka the coroner who does the autopsy to determine cause of death.

Slaps head. Duh!!!!!!! I should have realized that one oops.

Speaking of cops earlier this year I got the final season of the show Motive and it's surprising how many actors on that show have done scifi.

Going back on topic the hedgewitches always bugged me, they were not part of Brakebills or tied to any organization in the show but I always found it funny they never sold their services to everyone for hire instead of living like shit like everyone else.

 

[JD]

They were an underground thing, so couldn't do something that out in the open without drawing the attention of Brakebills, and other magicians.

I watched the 17th Precinct pilot, and I enjoyed it. I definitely recommend it if you into cop shows and urban fantasy.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

They were an underground thing, so couldn't do something that out in the open without drawing the attention of Brakebills, and other magicians.

I watched the 17th Precinct pilot, and I enjoyed it. I definitely recommend it if you into cop shows and urban fantasy.

If I had the budget to get more streaming services haha. I would I don't think we get that in Australia without first getting Foxtel which I despise...

 

[JD]

The pilot isn't on a streaming service, it was leaked and I watched it on Youtube, I'm not sure if I should embed it or post a link though. I don't want to get anybody in trouble.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

The pilot isn't on a streaming service, it was leaked and I watched it on Youtube, I'm not sure if I should embed it or post a link though. I don't want to get anybody in trouble.

No no it's fine I can google it