Discussion: Season 4 Episode 1, "A Flock of Lost Birds"

[allheadybooks]

This is the official discussion post for the Season 4 premiere episode! Feel free to jump into the comments below and share your reactions, questions, best lines, weirdest moments, quippiest quips, and most tragic facial expressions.

I work Wednesday nights (unfortunately), so I will be joining in tomorrow once I've had a chance to watch the episode. I'm planning to use SyFy's one-day-delay streaming option, but if anybody knows of a good black market source for fresh-off-the-back-of-a-truck Magicians eps, do us all a favor and link below.

This post is just for discussing the episode itself. A second post will go up tomorrow where we can collect screencaps, icons, gifs, fic prompts, episode codas, and meta about the episode.

Comments

[bluewinged_songbird]

First thought: Todd cleans up nice.
Second thought: Todd what the hell?!

The Santa thing really threw me off. Best way to hammer in how evil and controlling The Library is!

I'm quite pleased that Eliot's alter is the bastard son of an English Lord. This amuses me. So does Brian/Quentin's face when he thinks he's been kidnapped by a serial killer.

Ahhh, I can't wait to get back to Fillory (although I feel bad that Margo had to wake up alone like that)! I need to know what's happened to mah gurl Fen!

[allheadybooks]

Somebody somewhere on Tumblr (cite it if you remember who!) once described Eliot/Quentin as "if Lord Byron went out with Blair Sandburg," which is actually really really close to "bastard son of an English Lord and English professor," so nice to see that the show knows itself so well.

[bluewinged_songbird]

Google tells me Blair Sandburg is from a show called The Sentinels? And I can kinda see it??

This show's shameless lamp-shading is honestly one of the best parts about it. Having Margo say it? A GIFT WE DO NOT DESERVE!

[allheadybooks]

Yeah that was a show with a mega fandom in the 90s/early 2000s, and Blair is the anthropologist character who like studies weird superpower people. Small, awkward nerd, basically. I have never seen the show but picked this much up through fannish osmosis

[bluewinged_songbird]

Fannish osmosis is such a blessing! I learned something new today.

All hail smol awkward nerds with long hair!