The Magicians Land _ GUSH

The Magic of The Magicians: A Fan's Perspective

As I sat down to write about my thoughts on The Magicians, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and wonder. I had just finished reading the latest book in the series, and I was eager to share my reactions with others. But as I began to type, it became clear that my thoughts were going to be quite long-winded. My experience with the series has been nothing short of amazing, and I wanted to make sure that I captured all of the emotions and thoughts that came flooding out when I first started reading.

One of the things that struck me most about The Magicians was its portrayal of female characters. As someone who loves complex and diverse female leads, I was thrilled to see how well the series handled this aspect. Each of the main female characters - Julia, Alice, Janet, and Plum - was unique and multi-dimensional in their own way. Julia's story was particularly captivating, as her journey from being a part of a powerful group to finding her own path was both heartbreaking and empowering. I loved how well-developed she was throughout the series, and I appreciated how her character evolved over time.

Another aspect of the series that I adored was its representation of mental health. The show tackled this topic in a way that felt both authentic and respectful, without shying away from the complexities and challenges that come with it. Janet's storyline, in particular, resonated deeply with me, as it explored themes of anxiety, depression, and recovery in a way that felt both poignant and uplifting.

The TV series adaptation has also been a game-changer for me. While I knew going in that it would be different from the books, I was pleasantly surprised by how well the show had captured the essence of the characters and storylines. The casting was excellent, with standout performances from each of the lead actors. I've only watched one episode so far, but I'm already hooked and eager to see more.

One thing that did strike me as different about the TV series is its approach to diversity. While the book series has traditionally been quite white, the show has made a conscious effort to include more diverse characters and storylines. This was particularly welcome to see, given the lack of representation in many fantasy series. I'm excited to see how this will play out over time and whether it will have a positive impact on the wider fandom.

Overall, my experience with The Magicians has been nothing short of magical. From its complex female characters to its thoughtful portrayal of mental health, there's so much to love about this series. Whether you're reading the books or watching the TV show, I highly recommend getting involved and experiencing it for yourself. With its rich world-building, compelling storylines, and memorable characters, The Magicians is sure to captivate fans of fantasy and magic alike.

I've also been thinking a lot about how much I love the ending of the latest book. Everything came together so perfectly, tying up all of the loose ends in a way that felt both satisfying and emotional. It was wonderful to see Julia return, and her storyline was one of my favorites throughout the series. The way that Alice's character evolved over time was also really impressive, as she went from being a sort of innocent newbie to becoming a confident and capable magician.

One aspect of the ending that I particularly appreciated was the way it handled themes of identity and purpose. As someone who has struggled with finding their place in the world, I found this aspect of the story to be incredibly resonant. The idea that sometimes, you have to let go of your ambitions and goals in order to truly find yourself is something that I think many readers can relate to.

The final scene, where Julia reflects on her experience and decides to forge her own path, was particularly powerful for me. It felt like a moment of liberation and release, as if she had finally found the courage to be herself without apology or expectation. This theme of self-discovery is something that I think is at the heart of The Magicians, and it's something that I believe will continue to resonate with readers long after they finish the series.

As I wrap up this article, I'm excited to hear from others about their thoughts on The Magicians. What were your favorite moments or characters throughout the series? Did you have any surprises or revelations along the way? Let me know in the comments below!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys it's Sam and this is my spoilery gush on the magician Land by love Grossman so as I said in my review I adored this series I didn't really love the first book I will leave my review for the first book on the screen I knew it had a lot of potential I heard a lot of really amazing things from friends that enjoy the same kind of fantasy that I do so I knew I wanted to continue but the first book felt really clunky to me but the last two books were so so good I just love that it twists around expectations continuously like I even in the last books I was like oh this is going to work out you know this is going to happen and it never did and I still had that expectation like love girl been such a good writer that I still felt like these traditional fantasy like plot points and tropes were going to happen and they didn't and I like that they didn't but they also like he did a good job of still building up that hope and still like commenting on that and expectations that you have like for example when quinton's dad died and he went was looking in his office and he was like my dad's going to be somebody you know special like he's going to be the magician and you know he's looking through all of his stuff and I was like okay he's going to find something like it's written as if like he's going to find something and then he obviously doesn't he's like my dad was normal we didn't have a good relationship like that's the reality you know because a lot of times fantasy is such an escape for so many people like so you are looking for that like yeah your dad's like a magical guy this whole time he left you this like magical Legacy and this like series does a really good job of bringing it back and being like yes this is Magic and Magic is real but you still have to deal with the reality of life and like it's just done so well and thing happened with the chapters with Elliot in the beginning when he was fighting that like giant guy I forget what his name was and he was like I'm going to defeat this guy and then Quinton is going to get to come back and you're like yeah yeah he's totally going to let I'm like this is awesome and then it doesn't happen like that you know like and just the whole series in a lot of ways isn't fair like Quinn gets kicked out of fillery all the time and at first I was like yeah you deserve it cuz you suck you know like the first book I didn't like him and later on like the second book I was like that's not fair and the third book I was like he's not going to get back to fillery like it was it's like a devastating series and like it's so dark and so Sinister from like the beginning and just like that magic isn't so magical all the time and that like bad things still happen and people die really gruesome deaths and people lose their hands and like horrible things happen and they get cheated out of stuff and like Plum's whole story too being brought in and her being like constantly running from like fate kind of but also being able to change her fate and being different and like all of that is so so good I also just really love how far Quinton has come as a character like I was ready in book one to like really just hate Quinton like the entire time like I was like I'm not reading this for Quinton like he sucks he is so whiny and like he's flawed and I appreciate that he's flawed but like he's really annoying and then the second book he really really grew on me and by the third book I was like you've come so far like him being a teacher and just like trying to like just do his best and also know that like you just have to keep going and you just have to keep dealing with stuff and you know nothing's ever going to be perfect and that at the end when it came full circle and he's like I'm not going to go back to fillery I'm going to do my own thing it's just like oh and him like creating his world like that was another thing too when they were creating the world I was like the world's going to be great it's going to be perfect like the first time they created it and then like obviously Alice is in there and it's all just like messed up cuz he hasn't dealt with like all this emotional trauma that he has and I was like I went through all that look at this crappy world you created with Alice in there and I wasn't expecting the Alice thing to come back around I was like okay I think Alice is gone like but then you know she came back and that whole like discussion that they had where she was just like I hate you yelling at you you brought me back to make yourself feel better like I didn't want to be back blah blah blah like that whole discussion was very real and it was really good to listen to on audiobook too because like I said I listened to this book on audiobook and that scene was done so well like chills honestly but that scene was just done so well because you just really felt how angry she was and how much time had gone by and how like her experience was and like I really love how varied and complex the female characters are in the series because there was definitely a chance for them all to be just a certain way after I was so rudely interrupted what I was saying was the female characters are all just so varied I love Julia the most she's definitely my favorite absolutely I wish we saw even more of her in the last book like I'm glad she came back but I loved her story so so much but I really appreciate how far Alice came I really liked learning more about Janet in this book too and her whole little like Side Story with the axes and how angry she was and like her upbringing and stuff that was really great and even the addition of Plum like I didn't really expect her at all like I didn't expect us to have brand new character coming in and then her whole like Chatwin thing coming in and her like being a part of everything and also not being a love interest like we only really have Alice as love interest we kind of had Julia as a love and interest from the beginning but also just being like representative of like high school love and getting over crushes and stuff like that because in book two she's really not she's not about that with him and Plum wasn't either like it was very it was blatantly said multiple times like we're not together we're not together we're not together and I thought that was a really good friendship as well and like a really good like kind of mentorship and stuff so I love the female characters in this I just thought it was a really great ending as well like everything tied up so wonderfully you have them going back to break bills you have them going to like break Bill South you have like all this stuff them turning back into like you know animals to go to break Bill South you have like the creation of the world and you have them seeing Penny and all of this stuff is brought back up and it's so wonderful all of that all that stuff like all these different characters are brought back in and at the end having all them to like having Julia pop back up and having like Quinton save fery and like recreate it and he was like f he's God and like it's so perfect and then after he's like you know I don't need to go back like I'm I'm fine I'm going to do my own thing like Alice and I are going to do our own thing and I'm going to create my own like thing and we're going to go and explore and like it's so perfect like letting go of those like Ambitions that you and goals you had when you were younger and being like things change and like I'm not supposed to be in fillery and fillery is not for me and like I helped save fillery and I helped create fillery and filler is very important to me but like ultimately that's not what need to do I just have a lot of feelings about like how great of a conclusion it was I also just started the TV series now I already know that the TV series is very different than the like books I've I've been told like numerous times so I'm going in with really low expectations but I'm liking like the casting so far and I'm even liking some of the CH that they're making they're a little bit different I've only watched one episode but I like seeing it like on screen and stuff I'm interested to see like how different things are like I'm definitely going in knowing things are different knowing they're going to change things knowing they're changing characters because like I think instead of Janet we have like Margot I don't know so I'm really interested with that and it looks like it's going to be like very very very different and I'm excited they're also making it way more diverse obviously because the magician series as a book series is pretty white but they have a ton of diverse characters in the TV show which can be really cool and I think it has potential to go even darker and also seeing some of the gross stuff that's happening in just the first like episode it's really funny so I have realistic expectations for it it could be another really great fan favorite TV show for me that's very different from the books because I tend to actually like series that diverge a lot from the books so we will see but comment down below and let me know what you thought of the magician land and also let me know if you're watching the TV show and your thoughts again I know that it's different so if you're like really mad at it for being different like I know obviously so comment down below and let me know all of your thoughts was she a big pain the entire time being all whining and crazy what the heck so thank you all for watching and I'll see all you guys soon byehey guys it's Sam and this is my spoilery gush on the magician Land by love Grossman so as I said in my review I adored this series I didn't really love the first book I will leave my review for the first book on the screen I knew it had a lot of potential I heard a lot of really amazing things from friends that enjoy the same kind of fantasy that I do so I knew I wanted to continue but the first book felt really clunky to me but the last two books were so so good I just love that it twists around expectations continuously like I even in the last books I was like oh this is going to work out you know this is going to happen and it never did and I still had that expectation like love girl been such a good writer that I still felt like these traditional fantasy like plot points and tropes were going to happen and they didn't and I like that they didn't but they also like he did a good job of still building up that hope and still like commenting on that and expectations that you have like for example when quinton's dad died and he went was looking in his office and he was like my dad's going to be somebody you know special like he's going to be the magician and you know he's looking through all of his stuff and I was like okay he's going to find something like it's written as if like he's going to find something and then he obviously doesn't he's like my dad was normal we didn't have a good relationship like that's the reality you know because a lot of times fantasy is such an escape for so many people like so you are looking for that like yeah your dad's like a magical guy this whole time he left you this like magical Legacy and this like series does a really good job of bringing it back and being like yes this is Magic and Magic is real but you still have to deal with the reality of life and like it's just done so well and thing happened with the chapters with Elliot in the beginning when he was fighting that like giant guy I forget what his name was and he was like I'm going to defeat this guy and then Quinton is going to get to come back and you're like yeah yeah he's totally going to let I'm like this is awesome and then it doesn't happen like that you know like and just the whole series in a lot of ways isn't fair like Quinn gets kicked out of fillery all the time and at first I was like yeah you deserve it cuz you suck you know like the first book I didn't like him and later on like the second book I was like that's not fair and the third book I was like he's not going to get back to fillery like it was it's like a devastating series and like it's so dark and so Sinister from like the beginning and just like that magic isn't so magical all the time and that like bad things still happen and people die really gruesome deaths and people lose their hands and like horrible things happen and they get cheated out of stuff and like Plum's whole story too being brought in and her being like constantly running from like fate kind of but also being able to change her fate and being different and like all of that is so so good I also just really love how far Quinton has come as a character like I was ready in book one to like really just hate Quinton like the entire time like I was like I'm not reading this for Quinton like he sucks he is so whiny and like he's flawed and I appreciate that he's flawed but like he's really annoying and then the second book he really really grew on me and by the third book I was like you've come so far like him being a teacher and just like trying to like just do his best and also know that like you just have to keep going and you just have to keep dealing with stuff and you know nothing's ever going to be perfect and that at the end when it came full circle and he's like I'm not going to go back to fillery I'm going to do my own thing it's just like oh and him like creating his world like that was another thing too when they were creating the world I was like the world's going to be great it's going to be perfect like the first time they created it and then like obviously Alice is in there and it's all just like messed up cuz he hasn't dealt with like all this emotional trauma that he has and I was like I went through all that look at this crappy world you created with Alice in there and I wasn't expecting the Alice thing to come back around I was like okay I think Alice is gone like but then you know she came back and that whole like discussion that they had where she was just like I hate you yelling at you you brought me back to make yourself feel better like I didn't want to be back blah blah blah like that whole discussion was very real and it was really good to listen to on audiobook too because like I said I listened to this book on audiobook and that scene was done so well like chills honestly but that scene was just done so well because you just really felt how angry she was and how much time had gone by and how like her experience was and like I really love how varied and complex the female characters are in the series because there was definitely a chance for them all to be just a certain way after I was so rudely interrupted what I was saying was the female characters are all just so varied I love Julia the most she's definitely my favorite absolutely I wish we saw even more of her in the last book like I'm glad she came back but I loved her story so so much but I really appreciate how far Alice came I really liked learning more about Janet in this book too and her whole little like Side Story with the axes and how angry she was and like her upbringing and stuff that was really great and even the addition of Plum like I didn't really expect her at all like I didn't expect us to have brand new character coming in and then her whole like Chatwin thing coming in and her like being a part of everything and also not being a love interest like we only really have Alice as love interest we kind of had Julia as a love and interest from the beginning but also just being like representative of like high school love and getting over crushes and stuff like that because in book two she's really not she's not about that with him and Plum wasn't either like it was very it was blatantly said multiple times like we're not together we're not together we're not together and I thought that was a really good friendship as well and like a really good like kind of mentorship and stuff so I love the female characters in this I just thought it was a really great ending as well like everything tied up so wonderfully you have them going back to break bills you have them going to like break Bill South you have like all this stuff them turning back into like you know animals to go to break Bill South you have like the creation of the world and you have them seeing Penny and all of this stuff is brought back up and it's so wonderful all of that all that stuff like all these different characters are brought back in and at the end having all them to like having Julia pop back up and having like Quinton save fery and like recreate it and he was like f he's God and like it's so perfect and then after he's like you know I don't need to go back like I'm I'm fine I'm going to do my own thing like Alice and I are going to do our own thing and I'm going to create my own like thing and we're going to go and explore and like it's so perfect like letting go of those like Ambitions that you and goals you had when you were younger and being like things change and like I'm not supposed to be in fillery and fillery is not for me and like I helped save fillery and I helped create fillery and filler is very important to me but like ultimately that's not what need to do I just have a lot of feelings about like how great of a conclusion it was I also just started the TV series now I already know that the TV series is very different than the like books I've I've been told like numerous times so I'm going in with really low expectations but I'm liking like the casting so far and I'm even liking some of the CH that they're making they're a little bit different I've only watched one episode but I like seeing it like on screen and stuff I'm interested to see like how different things are like I'm definitely going in knowing things are different knowing they're going to change things knowing they're changing characters because like I think instead of Janet we have like Margot I don't know so I'm really interested with that and it looks like it's going to be like very very very different and I'm excited they're also making it way more diverse obviously because the magician series as a book series is pretty white but they have a ton of diverse characters in the TV show which can be really cool and I think it has potential to go even darker and also seeing some of the gross stuff that's happening in just the first like episode it's really funny so I have realistic expectations for it it could be another really great fan favorite TV show for me that's very different from the books because I tend to actually like series that diverge a lot from the books so we will see but comment down below and let me know what you thought of the magician land and also let me know if you're watching the TV show and your thoughts again I know that it's different so if you're like really mad at it for being different like I know obviously so comment down below and let me know all of your thoughts was she a big pain the entire time being all whining and crazy what the heck so thank you all for watching and I'll see all you guys soon bye\n"