magicians 4x12 thoughts

[necessarian]

• you know it's not the fact that q and alice are getting back together that pisses me off. it's the fact that they gave the alice the line that essentially went "you can be in love and still be you" when her relationship with quentin has defined her main narrative arc every season except this one [caveat: this is not the whole story but i can't be bothered going into the details of my argument here rn], and while margo was being robbed of narrative agency by the very same mechanism. i mean what the fuck. they'd better be keeping margo from the monster quest for a good reason. otherwise, the GALL.
• the conversation with q and alice honestly didn't read as much of a getting back together romantically scene anyway, she was the one who kissed and q did kiss back, but he barely reacted. i'm not going to say fandom's losing its shit over nothing but it's also not as bad as i thought it would be.
• also i am kind of baffled by how alice is suddenly a paragon of maturity in this episode. even the stuff in modesto, where she learns and grows a little bit, didn't seem like enough to justify this sudden excess of worldliness. feels like they just needed a character to say those lines and alice happened to be there, tbh. (i loved alice's modesto arc. more like that please.)
• dean fogg turning that cute librarian into a puppy was an injustice but the puppies were so cute i can't be entirely mad. also seeing dean fogg doing magic is sexy as hell. more of this please.
• zelda. i love zelda's storyline in all its complexity. i love how zelda does the arm thing; i do the arm thing too and it's such an anxiety tell.
• i feel like the quentin death flags are popping back again and i'm scared. the promo did not help this but it's a promo which means misdirection which means quentin lives right? right????
• glad penny 23 finally spoke to kady lmao even if it was a kind of futile thing. i also love penny 23. "are we screwed because quentin can't get it up for fillory?"
• "when you come back we'll both be fish" "well that'd be an improvement" I LOVE PENNY 23
• MONSTER TURNING HUMAN IS EVERYTHING I COULD ASK FOR. MONSTER HAVING FEELINGS. I LOVE HIM. i also love monster!julia and i am dreadfully worried about how she'll get out of there, the ending seems to imply it'll be tough... but anyway i have grown so fond of our monster!eliot. i am dying to get eliot back but i'll miss the monster so much :(
• (margo screaming eliot's name in the promo... god help me at this stage i need their reunion more than i need queliot, and i need the queliot reunion a LOT. but, you know, if the queliot reunion is no good i can just reread page161of180's amazing alice pov queliot reunion for the rest of my life, or i can write my own fix-it, or both.)
• i think the flower arrangement in the flower room is beautiful. jason ralph is beautiful. the writers are not beautiful for forgetting that quentin lived an entire lifetime in fillory and discovered the beauty of all life. this does not spark joy.
• please god that blue flash in q's eyes when he drinks the magic... i am begging you to bring back beast q (i know this won't happen shh shhhhh)