![]() ![]() Penny is one of the best improvements from the book’s source material to the show. All that she has done has been the result of trying to ensure the survival of her species and the people she screws over are the very ones who would have continued to enslave her kind.Īs she tells Julia: “Short memories are the privilege of the oppressor.” This twist transforms the Fairy Queen from a pure malevolent force to a really powerful character. As a result, the fairies of Earth are servants to Magicians, who abuse and kill them. The fairies that remain in our world are those few who sacrificed themselves so that the rest could escape death/enslavement. However, everything changed in episodes “All That Josh” and “The Art of the Deal,” when we discover that the reason that fairies exist in Fillory is that human Magicians hunted fairies to near extinction because their bones could be ground up into magic dust. It wasn’t until we got a glimpse of “old” Alice in the 23 timeline that I realized how much I missed knowing what she stood for. I know her own struggle with her identity is meant to be part of what’s going on, but it started to feel exhausting and confusing. Like any good-person-turned-into-a-bad-creature tale previously told on Buffy or The Vampire Diaries, Alice also struggled with what she did as a niffin, including a moving episode where her father pays for her transgressions, but she was all over the place this season. Like Buffy‘s Willow, she was a hugely powerful and clever witch who basically became corrupted by magic, and as with Willow’s tiresome magic = drugs arc, there were several Alice is jonesing for magic bits (like paying to suck a vampire’s blood in a shady back alley), her willingness to suffer physically for Julia’s magic, and her overwrought final turn that since she couldn’t handle magic, everyone was better off not having it. More of all of this, please.Īlice is a complicated character who has gone through a lot, but it felt like this season, she was mostly trapped in echoes of plots from previous shows. And sexual relationship aside, Quentin and Eliot are a wonderful example of a loving and supportive male friendship. The montage of their life together is beautiful and heartbreaking.Īs Michael Ahr wrote over at Den of Geek, “What show other than The Magicians could get away with showing an entire lifetime of existence catering to a specific ‘ship’ in its fandom while still beautifully serving the overall story?” I honestly can’t think of another show that would have or could have done so, or would have had the courage and confidence to pull it off. “We had a family,” they realize upon being restored to their timeline. While Quentin goes on to have a son with a woman, it’s Eliot who raises the boy with him, and it’s clear that theirs is the true partnership. It’s not long before they’re resigned to their fate to remain there, and Quentin kisses Eliot one night, who embraces him in return. ![]() In the episode, Quentin and Eliot travel back in time and end up spending an entire lifetime together as they try to solve one of the quest’s puzzles. That’s why the season three episode “A Life In the Day” feels like an extraordinary culmination of these themes. Hey, if we can have multiple Quentins and multiple Joshes, they can make this happen. I’d watch an episode comprised entirely of Pennys from different timelines interacting with each other. I love that The Magicians found a way to give us yet more Penny by bringing Penny 23 into the mix, thus neatly sidestepping the issue of “our” Penny being stuck in the Underworld and out of action, at least for the time being. There was also great development for previously “supporting” characters like Kady, Fen, and Josh this season, and they became part of the group. As has been the case in previous seasons, episodes like Penny’s, “Six Short Stories About Magic” and “A Life In the Day” demonstrate that the show is at its best when it focuses on character and character interactions instead of convoluted bigger-picture pieces. Princess goes into this further, but the charming Arjun Gupta really got to stand out this season as Penny, especially in the episode “Be the Penny.” The risks that The Magicians took this season with offbeat and boundary-breaking episodes really paid off. ![]()
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