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I’m sure this has been discussed but I just gotta say: I really hate the dismissive episode summaries for season four and five. What were they thinking? I guess they thought they were being funny but it comes off as apathetic. Also ineffective, because they do not represent the content. Greet

I just finished watching the entire series, and every single scene with a dragon never failed to make me laugh. The way they talk is just so hilarious lmao

I’ve watched the first 2 seasons of the show, begrudgingly, and they were horrible comparatively. The books are modern fantasy masterpieces, real depth and real consequences. And real growth. The show was a pale imitation of what the trilogy offered and they ruined many aspects of it. I’m happy Lev Grossmans work got to be shared for more people to see, and I hope the people who watched will read the books. I’m so tired of people saying “this is the one time where the live action adaptation was better than the source material” because this is one of the worst adaptations I’ve ever seen.

God damn it I so want it to be real and that somehow I end up going there and learn it all. It’s such a good idea of it all.

How was marina able to help control the moon? I thought they needed to have moon brain to do the spell

According to Spotify I have listened to Evolve by Phoria 556 times. It's my second most listened to song on Spotify!

I'm at a restaurant and they're playing a terrible cover of "Don't Get Me Wrong" and I'm so sad. That's it. That's the post.

I don’t know how to really explain this, but I fell in love with the characters and the real life actors. I think they did an outstanding job with all their roles. Hale Appleman killed it in season 4 as dark Elliot. I relate very well with the actor and character Penny, with my Indian background. I don’t want to watch season 5 without Q

Knowing season 5 is the last season and Q isn’t in it, makes it very hard for me to continue binging the show.

I would love to hear what you guys liked about the show and what got you hooked.

I'm doing another partial rewatch (watching only the episodes I like) and season one Julia was a horrible human being. Sleeping with him to get locations on hedge bars, treating hedges like crap and oh yeah, locking her best friend inside his own mental ward all because Q said things she didn't like. Boo hoo. I feel like Kady would've made a great goddess. Thoughts?

Edit: I GET the addict part of it I DON'T GET locking your mentally unstable friend into his own mental ward that mimicked real life.... To me that is skin crawling

I was thinking about the suffix -son/-sen meaning son of and i realized something.

Martin is an Umberson/Umbersen.

In the chronicles of narnia the boys are called sons of adam and the girls are called daughters of eve.

Umber came from Ember so Umber would be the eve in this scenario.

This tracks with Nietzsche's assertion that Christianity suppresses the Apollonian man and Dionysian woman.

Idk what it says about him that he stands apart as a son of eve but it says something!! Lol

I'm sure I'm not the only one that's thought of this but I'm trying to figure out how the underworld works with the timelines. They're all running parallel to each other because timelines can visit other timelines. When Quentin and Julia go to the underworld looking for her shade the guy at the counter says they've died 39 times and their computers don't handle it well. In one of the timelines we know Quentin hasn't died yet because he becomes with beast just without his shade. So, is the underworld computer wrong? And what happens to their soul when they die in the other 39 timelines? Are there 39 other versions of them that have been to the underworld? Did they move on right away like Quentin in timeline 40 did? How's all that work?