*inarticulate babbling*

aerialiste trapped in plane limbo somewhere circa Dallas-ish, I am alone in the hotel--ALONE ALL ALONE LIKE A PERSON WHO IS ALONE--and finally watched Magicians ep 5 and HOLY SHIT THAT HAPPENED.

AND OMG THAT EXPLAINS LIKE SOME THINGS AND OF COURSE AND OH GOD AND YES PLEASE I WILL DO ANYTHING HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED BEFORE??????

...seriously, this wasn't like--a mass hallucination, right? This happened for realsies in canon and not like...happened?

Yeah, I had a hamburger, bad coffee, and no bottle opener which is super inconvenient and I don't even care because YES.

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[toujours_nigel]

Hiiiiii
I watched it and then had to run give an exam and honestly I don't know what I wrote in the exam because what even was that?

[greywash]

I have really been enjoying watching the freakout move slowly across my Magicians watching friendsgroup, I love it!!

[anoyo]

RIGHT? Oh my god. OH MY GOD.

THAT EPISODE. I'm pretty sure my heart exploded somewhere in the middle of the episode and I'm secretly dead right now, but: HOLY GOD. I am 1000% behind this and oh my god.

If this turns out to be some sort of queer-baiting, I'm pretty sure the entire universe will EAT THOSE WRITERS ALIVE, but: HOLY GOD.

The entire episode, every goddamn detail, was just so fucking good, and then-- AND THEN. I'm trying to write a review / reaction to this episode and I keep breaking off into TOTAL GIBBERISH, okay? Okay. Oh my god.

IT'S CANON. IT'S REAL. IT'S REALLY CANON.

[kore]

I THINK SO
I THINK SO

I mean, we got canon from Life in a Day which we hadn't seen before of Quentin wanting to make a go of it (MY HEART) and Eliot turning him down then, because he was afraid, BUT they seem to be saying if Eliot can get out, he and Quentin have a real chance! And he said to Alice, it's done, flat out, and the actor (Ralph) said in interviews that he thinks since having that long, slow life with Eliot is influencing Quentin, even if he doesn't actually know it consciously. So he's saying no to Alice, since that relationship was always so fraught and the show had her constantly betraying her friends, and will now be with his TRUE LOVE ELIOT COME ON SHOW GIVE THIS TO ME

(I don't think Alice is going to be permanently out of the gang though -- realistically, she's a lead in the show, and she's also their most powerful magician to begin with, even before the setup of Julia's magic being gone, Penny gone, Kady off somewhere, and Margo doing the Kinging in Fillory. I think she's probably going to be the one to rescue Eliot somehow.)

But yeah as far as I am concerned the show just went 'these two guys are SOULMATES' and while they still have to defeat Not!Eliot and get Eliot back and there's the whole Library thing and other plot points, I am fully expecting the show to lean into that once Eliot and Q are reunited. \o/

[twistedchick]

I felt my jaw drop while I was watching. They went there! And Hale Appleman's acting blew me away. Shifting out of the monster to Eliot -- and shifting back.

Isn't Alice (in some timeline) the older woman who was the prophet at the Library, scribbling things on paper?

[kore]

Right, Cassandra!

[dar_vidder]

I will never get over it! I still can't believe it happened.

When I watched A Life in the Day originally, I loveloveloved the ep, but there was a small part of me that resented the show adding in a female love interest to the mosaic scenario. I'm assuming the writers felt Q and El raising a child to adulthood was a necessary component to showing the beauty of all life (which is kinda gross when you think about it since it seems to be implying that if you don't have kids, your life is less meaningful, but whatever), but it also felt like a cheap way of affirming that when given the choice, Quentin will always choose a woman romantically/sexually over a man. So I just really didn't see this episode coming AT ALL.

And now I just have so much hope about where this storyline could go that I'm trying to rein it in so I'm not crushed if we don't get the payoff we were promised later this season.

[kore]

I was HOPING re the kid that we might somehow get Plum from the books as their descendant (peaches and plums).