The Magicians Season 2 Review "We only look whimsical."
I just finished watching The Magicians season 2, episode 1 on onDemand. We begin the episode right from where we left off in last year's finale: Alice, Margo, and Eliot might be dead; Penny has lost his hands (that's simplifying it), and Julia has gone with The Beast aka Martin Chatwin to make a deal. Quintin has gone on a desperate search for help. He comes across a witch who gives the impression of the witch in Hansel & Gretel. The good news: she doesn't eat children. The bad news: She won't help for nothing. I imagine Quintin giving her a vial of his blood will have consequences later, but obviously his priorities aren't on that, though he tries to get it back, because her help ends up not being needed. "I still had to walk here." Alice still has her God like powers she got from Ember, and uses them to restore the others, but unfortunately not heal Penny's hands.
The gang must come up with a plan to stop The Beast and they're angry at Julia for her betrayal. Quintin recalls that one of the Chatwin children found a power source that was able to help win WWII, but the book with the information is in the Palace Armory aka library. Eliot must be crowned, along with the others. to be able to use his kingly authority
First, Penny wants to get his hands restored at a local healing springs, and Margo decides to go with him, because they do not want him to go alone. At the spring, Penny manages to piss off the guy who runs the spring, and he decides to mess with Penny's powers as pay back.
Julia negotiates with Martin on finding Renard, the Fox. Martin understands Julia better than she likes. He offers to remove a piece of Julia's soul, her shade, to help her get over being raped, because dwelling on it too much can break you. After all, who better to understand Julia's experience than Martin?
While the group travels to the spot where the coronation will be held, Penny returns to the river to get the man there to fix what he did. He refuses to fix Penny, because Penny was a bit of an ungrateful douche, and the beings of Fillory are much more judgmental. Like the witch said to Quintin, "We only look whimsical." And they like to teach lessons in a creative way, like altering powers to teach humility.
To receive their crowns Eliot must answer questions to prove his worthiness. Basically, a weather-beaten knight asks him references to 90s pop culture. I'm wondering when the books were published, because maybe this was a reference/joke to when they were published. *Shrugs* Eliot proves his worth by doing the famous Patrick Swayze "Nobody puts baby in a corner....".
After the crowning Quintin and Alice have a heart to heart where she confesses that she can forgive the cheating, but it's the feeling that she lost Quintin when he cheated. He assures her she'll never loose him and that she's stuck with him. In this conversation he tells her knows she is afraid of what she is capable still, especially now that she has God powers. There's this really cool scene where she grows a tree as a demonstration on what she can do. I think these two will be okay. By the way, the special effects on this show are awesome and the hand movements are so cool.
Unfortunately, even though they finally get to the armory most of the books are gone, but Alice finds a book with notes on combat magic. That's a silver lining! Of course, they find out they have to go back to Brakebills, but Eliot can't go back since he's High King. He knows time works differently, so he might be alone in Fillory for a long time.
I wonder how those who have experienced rape will feel in how the writers handle it. I also imagine the other characters will be experiencing some PSTD and hopefully it will be handled well. It's nice to see a story that pokes fun of fantasy tropes and takes a more straight forward blunt look at fantasy. Again, I'm going to repeat my favorite quote of the episode "We only look whimsical."
The gang must come up with a plan to stop The Beast and they're angry at Julia for her betrayal. Quintin recalls that one of the Chatwin children found a power source that was able to help win WWII, but the book with the information is in the Palace Armory aka library. Eliot must be crowned, along with the others. to be able to use his kingly authority
First, Penny wants to get his hands restored at a local healing springs, and Margo decides to go with him, because they do not want him to go alone. At the spring, Penny manages to piss off the guy who runs the spring, and he decides to mess with Penny's powers as pay back.
Julia negotiates with Martin on finding Renard, the Fox. Martin understands Julia better than she likes. He offers to remove a piece of Julia's soul, her shade, to help her get over being raped, because dwelling on it too much can break you. After all, who better to understand Julia's experience than Martin?
While the group travels to the spot where the coronation will be held, Penny returns to the river to get the man there to fix what he did. He refuses to fix Penny, because Penny was a bit of an ungrateful douche, and the beings of Fillory are much more judgmental. Like the witch said to Quintin, "We only look whimsical." And they like to teach lessons in a creative way, like altering powers to teach humility.
To receive their crowns Eliot must answer questions to prove his worthiness. Basically, a weather-beaten knight asks him references to 90s pop culture. I'm wondering when the books were published, because maybe this was a reference/joke to when they were published. *Shrugs* Eliot proves his worth by doing the famous Patrick Swayze "Nobody puts baby in a corner....".
After the crowning Quintin and Alice have a heart to heart where she confesses that she can forgive the cheating, but it's the feeling that she lost Quintin when he cheated. He assures her she'll never loose him and that she's stuck with him. In this conversation he tells her knows she is afraid of what she is capable still, especially now that she has God powers. There's this really cool scene where she grows a tree as a demonstration on what she can do. I think these two will be okay. By the way, the special effects on this show are awesome and the hand movements are so cool.
Unfortunately, even though they finally get to the armory most of the books are gone, but Alice finds a book with notes on combat magic. That's a silver lining! Of course, they find out they have to go back to Brakebills, but Eliot can't go back since he's High King. He knows time works differently, so he might be alone in Fillory for a long time.
I wonder how those who have experienced rape will feel in how the writers handle it. I also imagine the other characters will be experiencing some PSTD and hopefully it will be handled well. It's nice to see a story that pokes fun of fantasy tropes and takes a more straight forward blunt look at fantasy. Again, I'm going to repeat my favorite quote of the episode "We only look whimsical."
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