The moment\u2019s gone, Real Margo \u2013 I think an intervention is going to be in order<\/em><\/p><\/div>\nBased on the first reaction and eye contact Eliot and the Margolem had with one another when he and the real Margo went to confront the ex-hook up, as well as\u00a0the kiss on the sofa (despite the surprise, he didn’t immediately pull away), I get the sense that the life force that was transferred to the golem was the part of Margo that has the sexual chemistry with Eliot.\u00a0 If Margo keeps the golem around, this could\u00a0definitely set up a wonderfully weird dynamic between the three of them, with real Margo trying to save him from himself, and Margolem trying to bang him. At least it might keep him distracted enough to stop self-medicating.<\/p>\n
And as much as I need Margo to support Eliot during this shitty time, I really hope Summer Bishil gets to work with a storyline of her own too, where she isn’t just the foil to Appleman’s Eliot.\u00a0 These two are great together, with comedy or drama, but I want to know more about just Margo and how she functions without Eliot, now that we’ve seen how he functions without her.<\/p>\n
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Q & A & Thoughts about Q & A…& Everyone Else<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- If that library in the Neitherlands was the \u201cbe all, end all\u201d of libraries, why would it need to borrow the fountain maps from another library? \u00a0On a second viewing, I think Penny landed in the main branch of the Neitherlands libraries, but you would think that the maps to the fountains would be kept at the central location.<\/li>\n
- When Penny was looking at the books in the library, there are two<\/em> volumes for Eliot, one for Alice, one for Quentin, and none for Margo.\u00a0 However, we also didn’t see Penny’s and it looked like he pulled his off of a shelf above theirs, so maybe Margo’s was near his.\u00a0 But why 2 volumes for Eliot? When I asked show runner Sera Gamble about this on Twitter, she did confirm there is significance to it, but didn’t\u00a0elaborate as to whether we would find out about it in season 1 or season 2.<\/li>\n
- The librarian says something interesting to Penny in that he always asks the same questions and never remembers meeting her.\u00a0 So has Penny\u00a0been to the Neitherlands before, further back in time? Is she a constant in the time stream? Is he traveling between time and worlds?<\/li>\n
- There was an interesting connection tonight between extreme behaviors to get attention from loved ones: Alice\u2019s father threatening suicide when she was a child in order to get her mother\u2019s attention, and acknowledging that he had to do something extreme to get his wife to notice his unhappiness, and Eliot\u2019s blatant drug use in front of everyone. \u00a0Given Alice’s experience with her father,\u00a0it does make me wonder why she\u00a0in particular wouldn\u2019t have asked Eliot what was going on while Margo was away, particularly since it has been six weeks since they visited Plover\u2019s home, and you’d think she would past him yelling at her by now. \u00a0She Everyone has issues (speaking from experience), and usually your issues make you more<\/em> perceptive to other people\u2019s issues, not less.\u00a0 We saw tonight from growing up in that household Alice definitely has issues, but I am surprised the writers are having her be so harsh with Eliot \u2013 she seems almost disgusted with him when he\u2019s high in the common room and they are trying to figure out what to do to help Penny. \u00a0 She had to see him getting progressively worse, doing more and more self-destructive things for attention, similar to what her father did to her mother. \u00a0However, at the same time, she may have been so pissed at her dad for what he did, she might be transferring some of that onto Eliot. \u00a0Meh, enough psychoanalysis-overall, I\u2019m curious to see how their relationship plays out, because I really liked how close these two were getting sibling style, and will be sad if they can’t get back to that somehow.<\/li>\n
- When Eliot tells Margolem that he thinks something is really broken, I wonder if it\u2019s that he\u2019s feeling so much pain that he’s not able to\u00a0control his magic.\u00a0 Given that magic comes from pain, he might really be self-medicating to keep the pain at a manageable level, and keep him from accidentally harming himself or someone else from an out of control spell.\u00a0 \u201cBroken\u201d is an interesting word choice; whether it is Eliot simply being dramatic, or it really is something related to the forces behind individual magic, hopefully we will find out in the next few episodes.<\/li>\n
- One of the best lines of the episodes? Alice’s dad serving the authentic Roman food, filleted goat penis, to Quentin, and when Quentin wants to read Mr. Quinn’s historical manuscripts before he finishes his food, Quinn replies with, “Why, you haven’t even\u00a0touched your penis, Quentin.” I love this show.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Next Week<\/strong><\/p>\nI think the universe is literally trying to kill me with the amount of shit that can happen to Eliot in one season, as next week’s preview of “Remedial Battle Magic” showed his twisted, unconscious body with a bloodied hand,\u00a0and a bloody faced Margo leaning over him, on the floor of\u00a0what looks like a destroyed classroom. And then The Beast shows up. Again.\u00a0 And probably has something to do with the blood coated Eliot and Margo, and with Quentin and Alice hiding under a table looking utterly freaked out.\u00a0 I am also curious as to what part, if any, Penny will play in all of this, since he has additional information about The Beast from the Neitherlands.\u00a0\u00a0 Hopefully if they are going up against The Beast again, they will use something a little more substantial than remedial battle magic, but who am I to say?\u00a0 We will see who gets the upper hand as we move towards the last two\u00a0episodes of Season 1 (booooo) of The Magicians<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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