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

Some Thoughts

[bluewinged_songbird]

I cannot believe with all that effort Julia still ends up in Brakebills! Do you think it's her goddess nature that's gotten her an invite, despite her not being able to do any magic at this point of time?

I'm also glad that Jade Tailor gets to do so much in this first episode. She gets almost the entire team back together so quickly! Shoutout to whichever huge nerd constructed their fake identities for making things so easy.

Re: Some Thoughts

[allheadybooks]

They said she shorted out the whole network or something, right? I'm assuming she still has some weird volatile magic that's inherent to her, rather than using the Library's rations like everybody else. Which would explain why they sensed magic in her but she can't do the normal stuff all the other students can do.

Ooo, so you think the comic book existed already? I assumed it was created as part of the spell, to go along with their new identities, the way that everybody has their own book in the Library.

Re: Some Thoughts

[bluewinged_songbird]

That makes sense, since Julia's magic comes from her goddess seed and not the Wellspring. Maybe that's why she can't do magic now too, because the seed has to be renurtured.

Actually while we're on the topic of magic rations, how the hell do hedge witches still have access to magic?! I am confusion, Magicians explain! EXPLAIN!

Kady said it was an obscure comic book series that was available out there. I assumed that when she found other people who had names and backgrounds straight from the book she got hella suspicious and that's why she tracked down "Janet Pluchinsky" first thing. Whoever crafted their identities probably saw the chance of making their nerd dreams come true and took it (which is par for the course in this show)!

*Edit: The books in The Library have to be manually written either through magic or Cassandra so I don't think the witness protection spell produced the comic book. Why would it, when it was so adamant to not have people talk about it at all?