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· Aug 12, 2020

rereading The Magicians and hyperfocusing this time on any scene involving anyone’s parents

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10:48 AM · Aug 13, 2020Twitter for iPad

a lot of stuff happens very quickly and in particular the big reveal that everything was set up by jane using a time machine changes the meaning of everything that happened previously and i can’t tell what if anything it has to do with the nihilism / ennui theme

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martin chatwin is an amazing villain though, a million times creepier and more interesting than voldemort but overall i feel like i have no objections until they hit fillory and then i really wonder how the entire last third could be made thematically tighter

Aug 13, 2020

if you take the first two-thirds of the book at face value, totally seriously, and run them forward, then i think what you get is that everyone dies in fillory because they suck and brakebills sucked. eaten alive by their own narcissism and self-hatred