The Magicians Season Finale 313 – Will You Play With Me?

Holy Our Lady of The Tree! The Magicians Season Finale aired and Season 3 has come to an end! The eight keys in hand, Quentin and the gang have what they need to restore magic. All they have to do is find the castle, and sneak past the monster to the magic fountain. They’ve each sacrificed so much to make it this far, but will completing the quest require more than they are willing to give?

Ogygia Island

So many keys and nowhere to put them. Where is this Castle at The End of The World? Josh, who has been winning more than Charlie Sheen lately, notices a picture of a witch looking at a model castle in the quest book. He puts those Google skills to work like a proper man of his generation, and figures out the witch is surrounded by architect tools. If you built it, you can find it! Now they have to find her.

I’m sure you’re all experts on Greek mythology and know all about that nymph(o) Calypso and her island. Calypso (Cali) has a knack for building prisons. Her most recent triumph is Candy Collider, an addictive app where players smash candy for days on end, while draining their bank accounts to get to the next level. Sound familiar? Josh was “trapped” on one level for twelve days. According to the stories, she also kept Odysseus prisoner on her Ogi-whatever island for seven (or so) years.

After her fling with Odysseus, Cali had a thing with Prometheus and they built a prison together to keep the gods mistakes locked away, along with one particularly bad monster. Remember the story about how Prometheus gave man fire? He wants them to have magic, too! He hid the backdoor to magic in Calypso’s prison castle with the terrible monster, and created the quest to make sure anyone who got through it would be strong enough to prevent the monster from escaping. Prometheus then used all of his power to make the keys for the quest, leaving him in a vulnerable state, allowing his enemies to destroy him.

Where did Calypso hide her prison castle? She shows the gang a picture of Fillory, but something isn’t quite right. Quentin remembers a myth worthy of the greeks about Castle Blackspire that Ember destroyed. Or did he? Like a child who gets bored with one drawing and flips it over to color on the other side of the page, Ember flipped the castle, and built Whitespire on the other side. It’s been under them at Fillory the whole time!

Sacrifice

Any fan of OUAT (or any other fantasy/sci-fi series ever) knows, “Magic comes with a price!” The Magicians is no exception. Fogg and Margo have lost (and regained) eyes, Eliot and Quentin sacrificed an entire lifetime, Alice is on the verge of losing her sanity, and lets not forget what Julia endured. You would think they had lost enough in the name of magic, but it is an insatiable force. Here’s a quick run down of the sacrifices made in this finale:

1. The Fairy Queen gives her life to ensure the continued freedom and safety of her people.
2.  Quentin trades his freedom, becoming the castle knight in exchange for her letting them in to the magic fountain.
3. Julia gives up the god-power she has been growing all season to make the keys that Alice destroys.

Wait…what? That’s right! Alice destroys the keys. For Alice, magic has taken too much, and humans aren’t responsible enough to have it.  We know she got a potion from Fogg to erase her memory of magic, like they give Brakebills rejects. We assume she wants a normal life without magic. Plot twist! She thinks they should all have a normal life without magic. Was she saving some memory wipe potion for them too? Because it looks like she was only giving herself that small kindness. In the words of Margo somebody, “cut that bitch.” Julia swoops in and uses her god-power one last time to save the day, but wait. PLOT TWIST AGAIN! Fogg double-crosses them and sells them out to Irene and the library. They fill up their magic siphon, and use Alice’s potion to erase Q and the gang’s memory, except Alice who the library locks up, rambling Cassandra-style. Coincidence? I think not. Deserved? Yes. I am so done with her!

Will You Play With Me?

Alice’s ravings weren’t all crazy talk though. She is the only one who ran into the former castle knight roaming the halls looking for a playmate. So the god-killing bullet wasn’t strong enough to kill the monster, but it did set it free to get it’s body-snatcher on. Without magic, and now memories, how will Quentin and his friends protect themselves from the monster even the gods can’t stop? We end with Eliot stalking Quentin (now Brian) through the streets talking about wrath and card-tricks. The End!

Did anyone see any of this coming? I pride myself on being really good at predicting outcomes of shows and movies, mostly because there are no original stories anymore, but I am awestruck by the writing of this series.

A few final questions to get us through the break:

What really happened to Harriet? I refuse to except that they are gone for good. Sure, her and Victoria got trapped in the actual middle of nowhere, but that doesn’t mean dead. Victoria IS a traveler after all, and magic is back (although rationed). Could Harriet make an epic return and put mommy dearest and her librarian friends in their place?

Is Fen and Eliot’s child REALLY dead? Could she (or he) and her (or his!) fairy friends save Eliot from the monster and possibly have the answer to killing the monster?

Why, why, why did Fogg double-cross everyone?!

See you all in season 4!

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