#The magicians magic battery plus#
This leads to a family drama plus ex-boyfriend drama plus body-snatchers (I think, I’ve never actually watched that movie). Alice runs home as she hides from the lamprey.
Its two central stories involve Alice and the lamprey and Margo and the pirates. How their lives changed, how their worlds changed, how their very identities changed.
This episode quite literally considers “the losses of magic”, just as its title describes.
Her lines alone would keep me watching (my favorite line this episode were her choice words to the amphibious Fillorian Lord Fresh: "You and my birth box ain't happening, so back the f*** up, Shape of Water.") And while her storyline so far this season entails different fickle gods transporting her to different worlds (in this episode, Bacchus has sent her somewhere to be determined), I'm looking forward to see where her quest to gain access to her birth box takes her.Julia Wicker: “Astaroth, Demon of the Seventh Circle, Great Duke of The Inferno.”Īsteroth: “Oh, no, I'm Asteroth with an E. His scene disemboweling Enyalius was divine, and don't even get me started with his nose-to-snout moment with the cute little pig that he forces Brian/Quentin to disembowel.Īnd Summer Bishil still brings the house down with her High King Margo. Hale Appleman, for example, is killing it (pun intended) as an evil monster with poor impulse control. With the exception of Penny/DJ Hansel, the characters' personalities were pretty much the same as their true magician ones, so there wasn't much to play with after a couple of episodes anyway.īesides, there are so many other things to mine this season. Lifting the glamour spell so early in the season, however, is a good move (this is assuming those personas are gone forever, which could be proved wrong-if/when magic comes back un-rationed, would that repower Fogg's spell?). And while that could easily have come across as trite, Worthy's acting and the show's writing make it sincere.įogg's sacrifice is short-lived-his new persona (as Marina's homeless dad?!) is banished by the end of this episode along with everyone else's. Henry Fogg, it turns out, is a gruff, grumbling man who secretly has a heart of gold. Fogg's refusal to develop a cure is his sacrifice, his self-implemented penance for his past sins and the one thing he thinks he can do to keep his former students safe. Rick Worthy does an amazing job showing the cracks in the Dean's well-cultivated and well-armored exterior as we follow Fogg through what he thinks is the last day of his life (hedge witch Marina has dosed him with his own glamour potion, and he refuses to develop an antidote for it). The scenes with the Dean, who we've known so far as a high-functioning (and sometimes not-so-functioning) alcoholic curmudgeon, are the heart of this episode. The frenetic switching and fast-paced plot points, however, also prevent the episode from getting too bogged down in its own complexity, albeit at the cost of not spending much time with our usual characters.īut the show does pause for a moment with Henry Fogg. There's a lot packed into this hour, and at times it's a challenge to keep track of everything as the show flits between its five storylines.
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