Still watching The Magicians.

[cathyw]

Urge to slap Eliot and Margo: Decreasing.
Urge to slap Quentin: Increasing. Mostly because he was a dick to Julia.
Enjoyment of show: still good.

Hubby asked what I was watching, and I told him - described the show as...
- Hogwarts, but they're American grad students and mostly assholes
- Hermione didn't get in so she's learning magic on the docks
- They're shipping Harry and Luna pretty hard
(- I might kind of over-identify with Alice and also she looks really familiar somehow)
- Also shipping Harry/Ron and Harry/Draco
(- it is anyone's call whether Eliot is Ron or Draco in this scenario; either way he ships himself with Quentin)
- And not glossing over the fact that Harry is a kind of mediocre wizard
- guest-starring the Alpha Vampire from SPN as Dumbledore and Amber from House as McGonagall.

I don't think I'm wrong on any of these points... :)

He also noted that he and his other partner had wanted to watch the show which I was just... argh. We all have the same taste in TV but N can't sit and watch TV for more than about one episode so the list of shows we want to watch keeps getting longer and longer... and so I'm just going ahead, I'm enjoying it enough so far to rewatch it if it ever gets to the top of her list.

also, I noted some discussion about a month ago from Sera Gamble's twitter, in a conversation with other female showrunners about how she's pushing the limits of what Syfy will let her show as far as active female sexuality and... yeah, I can see it, totally, and I appreciate it, which also makes me wonder if she got any pushback from WB or the CW about the episode of Supernatural where an Amazon basically kind of threw Dean down on the bed and had her way with him.

Comments

[seperis]

I can guess where you are and yes, you're pretty much following my progression exactly on the characters. I am so fighting the urge to spoil you, but gonna just say, it gets better and better and weirder and that's how it hooked me.

[kore]

I am so fighting the urge to spoil you

I KNOW RIGHT, it's like "Wait til you get to the -- and then there's -- but look out for -- !"

I totally hadn't made the Julia = Hermione connection despite the hair (and SPOILER later on), and should totally have twigged on Alice = Luna, except I was thinking Alice was more Hermione. She totally fits as Luna though.

(Dammit I need icons.)

[cathyw]

she's a bit of an oddball, kind of an outcast, but nevertheless brilliant. (also Harry/Luna was my ship from actual Harry Potter so. :) )

[kore]

My ships in Harry Potter were so not the endgame ones. Harry/Luna, Ginny/Neville, Ginny/Hermione, Harry/Hermione, Harry/Neville, Hermione/McGonagall, you get the idea.... (Mostly because I wanted to drown Ron in a bucket.)

[cathyw]

am now farther and...
- am pleased by canon M/M cuddling even if that relationship didn't work out. (darnit, liked Mike and liked Eliot letting himself be seen caring about something...)
- am wondering how Margo can stay in Ibiza that long, doesn't she have classes?

here from network

[kore]

You are ABSOLUTELY right on all those counts. Also, seperis is absolutely right and it gets better and weirder the longer you stick with it.

I love my show, but I will admit it's very uneven -- there are GREAT eps and then there are eps when I just want to slap it. But there's nothing else like it really.