The Magicians

[toujours_nigel]

 soooo I just binged S3 of The Magicians and I’m dying screaming. Someone come have feelings with me?

ETA: this show comes back on my birthday, and if they make Eliot rape Q I'm just... i like you show, just don't do that, okay? just don't

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[bluewinged_songbird]

Yayyyyyy The Magicians!! I loved season 3 so much!! Season 1 and 2 were ok but season 3 is the one I play in the background noise while I work. Episode 5 was the thing that made me watch the show and it's still my favourite.

I'm with you hoping that Monster!Eliot doesn't hurt Q. Though there was a fic on ao3 with that topic and I liked it! It had a pretty interesting character study on Eliot.

[toujours_nigel]

Season 3 was freakishly good, yeah, but I like how everything keeps having consequences through all three seasons, just the build-up.

Though there was a fic on ao3 with that topic and I liked it!

It's different if it's fic, though, isn't it? Fic also has dozens of happy domesticity shippy fic for Queliot. If an assault becomes canonical that's... and this show does assault well so consequences will unspool forever.

[bluewinged_songbird]

Oh yes, the dedication to continuity is something I enjoy very much! That's something they did well throughout all the seasons. All the little callbacks delighted me, even throwaway lines like "consult the creepy paedophile book". Which is why I think they wouldn't do a sexual assault story with Quentin/Eliot because they've already dissected and shown us the consequences in Julia's story.

I also love the character dynamics, admittedly some more than others. Any permutation of Quentin-Eliot-Margo, Penny-Anybody, Fen-Julia, and of course, Jules and Q on an adventure! I've been yelling that whenever they're in cahoots since season 2, but season 3 gave me so many scenes of them working together I don't think my face has ever hurt so much from smiling.

I think, it's easier for us to draw a line with fanfic and fanart, to keep it in the realm of "not the actual thing". Which is why people have been harassing creators since Louisa May Alcott's time, in order to have their ship be canon (and then to promptly bash other ships with that cannon).

[toujours_nigel]

Which is why I think they wouldn't do a sexual assault story with Quentin/Eliot because they've already dissected and shown us the consequences in Julia's story.

Yeah. Plus I think neither Q nor Eliot would actually recover from something like that, especially since the monster would also be drawing on their sexual memories. Just, fingers crossed it doesn't go that way.

I also love the character dynamics, admittedly some more than others.
I was certainly not expecting to like Fen as much as I do! She really came into her own in Season 3, especially with Julia.

[bluewinged_songbird]

It would be horrible and I might even pray that they wouldn't. Not when there are already so many plot threads and characters to explore.

I was certainly not expecting to like Fen as much as I do! She really came into her own in Season 3, especially with Julia.
So many things came into their own in Season 3! But Fen, wow, I really enjoyed her struggling with the loss of her child and her reconciling her anger at the fairies with her compassion for what they were undergoing on Earth. I loved watching her grow. She's a fierce, determined person who loves Fillory deeply and we got to see it more clearly in this season. I think about how it must have been to grow up knowing that you were pledged to marry the High King, a promise made long before you were born. Resenting the hold these Children of Earth had over her life and her fellow citizens, and joining the FU Fighters because of it. Yet loyal enough to her family and wise enough to know that being married to the High King would put her in a place where she could help her people, struggling throughout it all to establish a good relationship with Eliot. She's acting High Queen of Fillory now and I can't wait to see what she does with it.