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geebsTV commentary:
The Magicians- Heh, a whole lifetime literally packed into this ep! Let's start with Earth. So Alice takes the key to Kady, who had checked herself into an institution over Penny's seeming death. Good news, she knows he's alive. Bad news, she confronts him angrily, even threatening to kill him, which is unfortunately recorded by cameras in the room. So to the hospital administrators, she looks like some crazy girl intent on murdering someone. Whoops! They tell her they're committing her because she seems like a danger to the public, and instead of trying to come up with a believable lie, she assaults one of the orderlies and tries to run and gets sedated. Whoops!
Anyways, Alice and Julia end up hanging out, when the mysterious spirit possesses Alice and tells Julia she needs to help Alice. So Julia takes her drinking and they talk, and Jules reveals her fear of her powers' provenance, that its an after-effect of what Reynard did. Alice tells Julia maybe she can use the key that reveals hidden things in a mirror to get answers.
And so she has a conversation with Our Lady Underground, who reveals she took Reynard's seed of power and put it in Julia, as a reward for her mercy. Which, maybe Julia would be more accepting of it if you didn't use the word "seed", lady! But yeah, she doesn't want any of his power, but OLU says, the chosen don't often want to be chosen. She tells Julia to own it, its her power now, not Reynard's.
Alice pretty much tells her the same thing later. So Alice wants magic and doesn't have it, and Jules has magic and doesn't want it. Julia tells Alice that she wishes she could give her her magic, which Alice is all, "Maybe you can!" Which, wow, that sounds like a remarkably bad idea. I mean, Alice seems like a nice, innocent girl, but she was just a niffin. That time showed how power hungry she could potentially be. So giving the power the gods entrusted to Julia over to Alice is prolly not wise.
Meanwhile, Eliot and Q go on the next leg of the quest. They use the key in the clock and it takes them to Fillory... in the past. They need to complete some mosaic to get the key. According to the Fillory books, when Jane gets to the mosaic, its already solved, which Quentin is all, "We were prolly the ones who solved it, so we got this!"
Easier said then done. They end up living a lifetime together. They kiss, Quentin meets a woman and has a kid, she dies, he and Eliot raise him together, and then Eliot dies when they're both old and grey. Now, some people are excited about the Quentin/Eliot stuff, some are disappointed because they did kiss, and after Q loses his wife, he and Eliot act all fatherly, but they don't really show them being all intimate like a couple like they did at the start. So one could argue they were just good friends. Which seems kinda queerbait-y, throwing the Quentin/Eliot shippers a bone but not exactly confirming it. But if its up to each individual view, I think they had something.
Anyways, after Eliot dies and Q is getting ready to bury him, he finds a final tile for the mosaic. Indeed, the mosaic they made wasn't an actual one, but their life together. So he use the tile to get the last key... just in time for Jane Chatwin to show up needing the key. She needs it for the time loop thing, so Q realizes he has to give it to her, or they'll never have killed the beast. So he does and it seems like this long quest is for nothing.
But it isn't, he sends a note to Margo. Before they left for the quest, they get a bunny from Margo saying she's being forced into a marriage. So, remembering that, he sends her a note as a wedding gift. But first, lets catch up on Margo.
So, yeah, the fairy queen arranges a marriage between Margo and the prince of the floating (now no longer floating) mountain people. At first, she's pissed, but then the prince is handsome, and he comes from a matriarchy, so he's also subservient to her (heh, he totally asks if he's one of those secret weirdos who does Joffrey type things). Unfortunately, his underage brother murders him in the middle of the ceremony, and as is custom, its his duty to take over as husband if his brother dies. Nevermind that he was the one who killed him!
So needless to say, Margo is quite upset. But then she gets Q's wedding present, which tells of his life together with Elliot, and directing her to the grove of clocks or something, where Jane hangs out. So she does. That Jane can't give her the key, because it powers the grove. But, she can send Margo back to Brakebills to retrieve the key from her body. And so she does, appearing right before Quentin and Eliot leave on their quest. She is definitely glad to see them after all they've been through.
Anyways, they go back to Fillory, and again, some people were upset because it seems like they erased what happened with Q and Eliot. But, in the end, when they see the fruit basket other Q sent and read the letter, the two do remember their other lives!
The Magicians- Heh, a whole lifetime literally packed into this ep! Let's start with Earth. So Alice takes the key to Kady, who had checked herself into an institution over Penny's seeming death. Good news, she knows he's alive. Bad news, she confronts him angrily, even threatening to kill him, which is unfortunately recorded by cameras in the room. So to the hospital administrators, she looks like some crazy girl intent on murdering someone. Whoops! They tell her they're committing her because she seems like a danger to the public, and instead of trying to come up with a believable lie, she assaults one of the orderlies and tries to run and gets sedated. Whoops!
Anyways, Alice and Julia end up hanging out, when the mysterious spirit possesses Alice and tells Julia she needs to help Alice. So Julia takes her drinking and they talk, and Jules reveals her fear of her powers' provenance, that its an after-effect of what Reynard did. Alice tells Julia maybe she can use the key that reveals hidden things in a mirror to get answers.
And so she has a conversation with Our Lady Underground, who reveals she took Reynard's seed of power and put it in Julia, as a reward for her mercy. Which, maybe Julia would be more accepting of it if you didn't use the word "seed", lady! But yeah, she doesn't want any of his power, but OLU says, the chosen don't often want to be chosen. She tells Julia to own it, its her power now, not Reynard's.
Alice pretty much tells her the same thing later. So Alice wants magic and doesn't have it, and Jules has magic and doesn't want it. Julia tells Alice that she wishes she could give her her magic, which Alice is all, "Maybe you can!" Which, wow, that sounds like a remarkably bad idea. I mean, Alice seems like a nice, innocent girl, but she was just a niffin. That time showed how power hungry she could potentially be. So giving the power the gods entrusted to Julia over to Alice is prolly not wise.
Meanwhile, Eliot and Q go on the next leg of the quest. They use the key in the clock and it takes them to Fillory... in the past. They need to complete some mosaic to get the key. According to the Fillory books, when Jane gets to the mosaic, its already solved, which Quentin is all, "We were prolly the ones who solved it, so we got this!"
Easier said then done. They end up living a lifetime together. They kiss, Quentin meets a woman and has a kid, she dies, he and Eliot raise him together, and then Eliot dies when they're both old and grey. Now, some people are excited about the Quentin/Eliot stuff, some are disappointed because they did kiss, and after Q loses his wife, he and Eliot act all fatherly, but they don't really show them being all intimate like a couple like they did at the start. So one could argue they were just good friends. Which seems kinda queerbait-y, throwing the Quentin/Eliot shippers a bone but not exactly confirming it. But if its up to each individual view, I think they had something.
Anyways, after Eliot dies and Q is getting ready to bury him, he finds a final tile for the mosaic. Indeed, the mosaic they made wasn't an actual one, but their life together. So he use the tile to get the last key... just in time for Jane Chatwin to show up needing the key. She needs it for the time loop thing, so Q realizes he has to give it to her, or they'll never have killed the beast. So he does and it seems like this long quest is for nothing.
But it isn't, he sends a note to Margo. Before they left for the quest, they get a bunny from Margo saying she's being forced into a marriage. So, remembering that, he sends her a note as a wedding gift. But first, lets catch up on Margo.
So, yeah, the fairy queen arranges a marriage between Margo and the prince of the floating (now no longer floating) mountain people. At first, she's pissed, but then the prince is handsome, and he comes from a matriarchy, so he's also subservient to her (heh, he totally asks if he's one of those secret weirdos who does Joffrey type things). Unfortunately, his underage brother murders him in the middle of the ceremony, and as is custom, its his duty to take over as husband if his brother dies. Nevermind that he was the one who killed him!
So needless to say, Margo is quite upset. But then she gets Q's wedding present, which tells of his life together with Elliot, and directing her to the grove of clocks or something, where Jane hangs out. So she does. That Jane can't give her the key, because it powers the grove. But, she can send Margo back to Brakebills to retrieve the key from her body. And so she does, appearing right before Quentin and Eliot leave on their quest. She is definitely glad to see them after all they've been through.
Anyways, they go back to Fillory, and again, some people were upset because it seems like they erased what happened with Q and Eliot. But, in the end, when they see the fruit basket other Q sent and read the letter, the two do remember their other lives!
