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Spoilers The Magicians Season 5

"Be the Hyman" Slap fight; Josh eats a pickle; dreams are weird. Marina has become good, and then.... Everything in this season changes back and forth. Gotta do this to save the world(s), now we have to do this to fix the first thing we changed...oops, now this is messed up. Wait, what were we trying to fix now?
And Josh did eat a pickle.
 
I have to admit I've kind of lost track of the big picture plot at this point.
The dark King is joining the underworld with the over world, which is a beginning of a Zombie mosh pit across all of reality, since there is not enough room for all the dead to come back... To get his dead gay boyfriend back.

Hey, hey, my Boyfriend's back.

The Gang is going to blow up Phillery, but not before they've put all the people (and talking animals and trees?) in an Ark, and transported them to a new world that they are going to build with the world seed... To nix the convergence between the world of the dead and the world of the living, therefore saving all of reality.
 
A couple of episodes back they were moving the moon lol.
The Sexist Pig arrived in episode one to give a quest to Quentin, and didn't think that a wee maid like Julia, was up to man's work, since Q was dead, since she may have been effected by the vapours.

Julia was only given half the quest, and saved the wrong world. She averted the harmonic convergence by moving the moon, which is not what the sexist pig was talking about at all. Phillery was in danger not Earth.

So the team goes balls to the wall to kill the dark king and save Phillery, after they figure out that the Dark King is "making" the Takers, who are weird unkillable zombies ravaging the countryside, and taking people.

The Dark King is one of those Narnia kids, the beast's older brother, all grown up, and his life force is connected to every tree in Phillery, so killing him, doesn't work. This is about when they figure out that the takers are guardians keeping the land of the dead and the living separated, and the dark king has spent the last 300 years clearing a path through their blockade to get to his long dead boyfriend.

So the team decide to blow up Phillery, sealing the crack between dimensions, and saving the universe, which is when the sexist pig shows up and tells Julia that since he can't find a man for his quest, that he will reluctantly settle for allowing a woman to roll her sleeves up and get 'er done.

The Sexist pig explains that the quest is to stop the children of Earth from blowing up Phillery... Which is something that Julia only decided to do an hour ago, but the sexist pig has prophetic dreams, and dreamed up what she decided to do an hour ago months ago, and paradoxically if he hadn't set her on this quest to save Phillery from herself, then she never would have been in a position to destroy Phillery herself.

And that is what we are up to.
 
Thanks Guy, I wasn't actually expecting anyone to try to answer that. I think the sexist pig stuff I've missed a bit actually.
 
They did two episodes back to back in one night a while back, an I didn't notice until the next week when the "Previously on The Magicians" didnt make a lick of sense.
 
"The Balls" this whole plotline seems pretty pointless and a little boring.
Next week is the finale. And it's about time. What happened to this show? It used to be so entertaining.
 
The world seed is clunky, and has been since "it's this book Q was reading with a missing page that seems important for no reason."

Although, if The Couple's plan is to have a baby...

Alice is going to eat it.
 
"The Balls" this whole plotline seems pretty pointless and a little boring.
Next week is the finale. And it's about time. What happened to this show? It used to be so entertaining.
They got rid of the (mostly) straight white guy?

I never saw Quentin as the Rock Hudson type.

He was pure Jerry Lewis.

On the other hand Fenn is the series lead in a new show that IMDB is telling me very little about.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8618970/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1
 
Poor Summer Bashil and the singing episodes, at least they went easy on her this time. Interesting hearing Don’t Give Up gender flipped. This was fun but it did feel like they really were determined to have a musical episode no matter how awkward to fit it in.

Kind of weird as it’s Penny’s mom but not exactly with the whole timeline stuff.

Damned if the ladies didn’t all look fab in the apartment, the makeup and hair people had them all looking glam as hell.

Plus, Fen “snatched” the seed and they got a lift from a potty mouthed Santa Claus
 
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The whole episode should have ended shortly after the couple admitted that they only wanted the world seed in order to have a baby.* That goal is not mutually exclusive with saving the population of Fillory.

*Why they couldn't just ask a traveler to take them to another world is beyond me...but we'll leave that aside for the moment.
 
Christmas Arrives Early -- the finale
Too bad Elliott was separated from the rest of the gang, but at least he went out with a bang....
 
I don't usually rate episodes, I don't really like trying to fit things to a scale. That said, this is probably a B-ish finish, I think it could have clicked better but it wasn't a disaster. I think maybe last season would've been the right point to end, after Quentin they haven't had long enough to rebuild enough to really deliver the coup d'grace.

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Summer sounds so different when she's not in-character.
 
Well this was my most favorite show and now it's gone.

Often times since season 1 we would re-watch the shows over again because episodes were so fast paced and well written that it was easy to miss important /relevant dialogues.

One hopeful musing; the ending affords a continuation of the story, so there is always that. imo Magicians had a much better ending than GOT; just throwing that out there cause as good as GOT was, I can't remember any unique thoughts I had that compelled me to post.

The one thing about the industry I don't understand is how a marvelous but expensive show like DS9 can go 7 years with 20 plus episodes a year...

...while the Magicians using less expensive CGI and other imaging teck, mostly unknown actors can't make enough money to afford more episodes/seasons?


Props to SYFY for this memorable fantasy, you've done well by us.
 
The one thing about the industry I don't understand is how a marvelous but expensive show like DS9 can go 7 years with 20 plus episodes a year...

...while the Magicians using less expensive CGI and other imaging teck, mostly unknown actors can't make enough money to afford more episodes/seasons?

Well, Star Trek and Star Trek: the Next Generation had already proven themselves big money makers (either on first run syndication or later syndication deals). Plus, I believe DS9 spent most of its time as the number one syndicated first-run show on television.
 
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