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

[mific]

Unf - I LOVE that pic of Eliot, but we won't get season 4 streaming here for a whole damn year. We only just got Season 3! *pouts*

[bluewinged_songbird]

Psst, I'm here to provide hedgewitchery.

Can't guarantee if it'll work next week but it worked for me so far.

[allheadybooks]

Here are my extremely not organized, impressionistic livestream thoughts. Big thanks to bluewinged_songbird for magicking up a putlocker stream. :)


Oh my GOD, Todd's Eliot impression is amazing and terrible

The library is so ~*~*~eViL~*~*~

I'm weirdly attracted to Cop Kady

"Great *boop* ill *boop* is *boop* afoot!"

Margo did it with BANKSY. And it makes total sense that Fillory would need her back, did the Library not anticipate that happening? It's been a while since I watched the end of season 3 so I don't remember if they addressed it.

Her eyepatch is back!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alice's cell neighbor is Santa?!??!

I know I'm using a lot of exclamation marks but this episode has had some Batshit Elements so far.

this is my HAPPY shirt! Possessed!Eliot and Brian have a very Hannibal vibe.

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.

[schneefink]

That was a great episode. "Eliot" and Quentin and the ice cream were so wonderfully creepy, poor Quentin. Ember with the kittens looked adorable. (So the "emanation" is a failsafe that every High King automatically gets installed?) The library is such a great villain, especially Zelda.