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Tiggum posted:I just watched the first episode and I have no idea what's going on in this show. The timeframe seems very confused. Like, Sam Winchester shows up for his first day at wizard school and you'd think he should be in a class of people who are also new (like whichever of those other people who took the exam got in), but it seems like everyone else has been there for ages? Also, half the time he obviously has no idea what's going on, but then other times people will be like "magic is always dangerous, you should know that" like as though he's been at it for years. Or the scene where he's talking to mopey girl and acting like he knows what's going on and won't help her get into the school because he knows she's not qualified or whatever, when he should actually be saying "How the hell could I get them to change their minds about you? I don't know what the gently caress is going on."
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# ¿ Feb 4, 2016 21:57 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 00:06 |
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Tiggum posted:If hedge witches were just isolated individuals who discovered magic on their own and had no training because they never caught the attention of any magic school recruiters, that would make sense. But given that they organise their own schools and the real magicians are obviously fully aware of them, it makes no sense.
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# ¿ Feb 19, 2016 05:27 |
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Na'at posted:Or they could be going with her still resetting time and all that but instead of her smashing the watch because only a couple people died she can't do it because she's the dead one Also not really a spoiler but haha Fillory is obviously already a Narnia rip-off/homage but the show took it even further by having a Chatwin vanish into a closet instead of a grandfather clock.
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# ¿ Mar 13, 2016 02:22 |
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And I believe he shows up with the button right after Quentin just cheated on Alice and everyone feels like poo poo and wants to die. Show has gotten better recently but it was really dumb how Travelers are hearing this noise and they all resort to shooting themselves in the head and poo poo and then the Brakebills infirmary is like "oh yeah put this thing on your neck, done."
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# ¿ Apr 4, 2016 15:32 |
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In the books Quentin is definitely way above average but had to work tirelessly to get there. One of two students to skip a year at Brakebills, one of just a couple to complete the Antarctica race to the south pole thing, how could he be considered average? Still though, there's a big gap between him and Alice and a big gap between him and real masters.
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# ¿ Apr 4, 2016 16:40 |
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That episode was the best they've done. was funny too. "ok we get it, you hosed animals"
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# ¿ Apr 10, 2016 04:28 |
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STAC Goat posted:I was never totally clear on why the Wizards and Witches in the Harry Potter world had Magical Police and secrecy, to be honest. It all came off as pretty elitist and dickish to me what with all the "aren't muggles so quaint" stuff from people like the Weasleys.
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2016 04:22 |
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I didn't really like the books that much but I watched the show out of curiosity and it was still substantially worse and more tween than the books imho (but I'll probably keep watching if Olivia Taylor Dudley isn't killed off)
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# ¿ Dec 23, 2016 14:52 |
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I flat out didn't really like the books but somehow they still hooked me enough that I read them all, and wanted to check out the adaptation too. After the first book when (half of this happened in the show already and half I think won't happen but spoiler tags to be safe) Quentin cheats on Alice and then she dies I was pretty much just like, okay, I hate absolutely every character now, and then kept reading anyway. Who knows, it's just like I feel sort of attached to the world and the weird difficult grinds they had to go through to get from place to place.Rhyno posted:I'm Facebook friends with a guy from Five Second Films and he posts about how funny it is that they're keeping her almost totally covered in every episode. Meanwhile every other role shes had has showcased her goods.
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# ¿ Jan 27, 2017 18:17 |
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Blazing Ownager posted:I just wish the .. situation was a bit clearer that last episode. Why did the guards just surrender because they moved their castle? Why did the other people surrender because they moved it back? I was kind of like "What the hell is going on with this?" the whole time.
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# ¿ Mar 4, 2017 04:58 |
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Quentin you dumbass, you'd sooner be killed by Renard than release Alice, but then later that night release Alice, gently caress you
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# ¿ Mar 31, 2017 17:20 |
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I figure Quentin and Elliott both probably would've said gently caress it and hosed off with that mosaic based on their characters, but it was still cool and I liked it. The transfer of magic from Julia to Alice is a little bit surprising but I guess we'll see if that even takes. They need to give OTD a decent new storyline.
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# ¿ Feb 19, 2018 18:58 |
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Spanish Matlock posted:The best thing was that it wasn't totally silent, you could hear her footsteps, I'd assume because she'd feel the vibration?
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# ¿ Mar 2, 2018 16:02 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 00:06 |
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muscles like this! posted:Well Hale Appelman is pretty much the only one of them that can actually sing. They positioned Jade Tailor/Kady as being able to sing but it seemed kind of off to me, like they just dubbed her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e9-SZgOUCo She was really good and Elliott wasn't bad but also this ep just had a few songs, it wasn't like everything they said was in song, which I think i remember them doing in an earlier episode. So I guess I mean i didn't really see it as a musical episode exactly anyway.
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# ¿ Mar 9, 2018 16:47 |