The Magicians - spoilers for season 4 finale

[sasha_feather]

Spoilers below the cut. My personal preference is to be spoiled for this sort of thing.



Amanda Prahl: The Magicians' Season Finale Missed the Mark on a Huge Mental Health Issue

https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/Why-Quentin-Death-Magicians-Wrong-46050057

After a season-long quest to free Eliot, his friend-love-life partner in an alternate timeline, from an ancient monster possessing his body, Quentin and his friends succeed, but there's one last obstacle: trapping the Monster (and its sister) in a "seam" between worlds. When the seam is blocked by another enemy, Q uses his magic to mend it, knowing that his spell could have deadly consequences in this "mirror" dimension, and throws the Monster into it — but the magic does fracture and Q is killed (for real — Ralph is not returning next season).

greywash:

https://medium.com/@greywash/on-fannishness-privilege-and-a-whole-other-grab-bag-of-entitled-millennial-bullshit-81ea4148a6d0

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[jesse_the_k]

...is happening here and elsewhere.

templemarker gathers some links, and reacts:

That was the first moment where I actually recognized my own experience in Quentin's characterization. That is -- precisely what being inside depression, being flattened by physical ailments feels like, to me. I am fucking trying. And that -- is when I started paying attention to him as a character, and not just as the White Guy Who Is Our Entry To This World.

https://templemarker.dreamwidth.org/56440.html

[templemarker]

The Magicians S4 Finale Aired Five Days Ago And I'm Still Mad As Hell by cleolinda is a key read on this as well.