the magicians book vs show reddit

I play a few sports for fun, and when I was first learning, I thought that I was doing a certain technique correctly and it felt easy for me. I'm not sure I could read books that focused so much on a character I hate.That said, to those who have read the books and are reading the show. It's pretty glorious and awful. The whole first book has this rising tension as you think, "Shit, these people are terrible! TV Quentin is a lovable happy-go-lucky extrovert compared to the Quentin Nihilism/depression are kinda a major part of the story. I found it to be a rather accurate 'coming of age' story from that angle.I liked the first two episodes, AFTER I started accepting that all the students are waaay too old.They made em grad students rather than 18 y/o bc of the amount of aging they have to doNew comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be castPress J to jump to the feed. The show plays many things for laughs that books … So don't go in expecting it to be Harry Potter with sex in it or anything.

It's fun enough, but I'm not sold on it yet.Which in my opinion was kind of the whole point: that if magic were real it wouldn't suddenly make everything okay. The Writing Room. Life wouldn't become perfect, and miserable people would still be miserable, they'd just have something new to be miserable about.

Exactly this. Plus there were a few small, totally unimportant but really annoying contradictions, like in book one it specifically says that one particular spell is now so easy for him it's funny it ever seemed difficult to him. Season 2. The World in the Walls. OP, read the books; if you like the show there's lots more to offer in the books.So it seems like a lot of the people replying haven't read the entire book series, so don't have full perspective. After this, I'd discovered that I was doing the technique wrong, and had to be taught again.I've seen all three episodes out so far and read only the first book. Now I'm disappointed all over again.I read the books, was looking forward to the show, was disappointed in the show, now I'm re-reading the books. Just in the show he seems to be like such a huuuuuuge dick to Julia.That said, if he's not an asshole towards other people as much in the book I think I'd enjoy his character a lot more.The books make him worse because you are stuck in his head with him...You aren't really supposed to like Quentin that much. Thirty-Nine Graves. But that's kinda the point. xDThe aging up felt wrong to me. I feel like they'll stretch out the Fillory sections from the first book into a second season maybe. The Magician King is just as good as The Magicians, if not better, and I highly recommend you read that, if you haven't already. Glad I did, it does pick up and I'm going to continue the series. They were college-age to start, which makes sense from both an educational standpoint and--more importantly--from the standpoint of being a point in life where many people take a sharp turn into adulthood, reinvent themselves, throw themselves into awkward situations relentlessly and generally blossom into to fuller lives.I agree on Penny and Eliot's casting and I have always found it distracting to take a beautiful actress, slap glasses on her and expect us as the audience to buy the whole "girl next door" routine.I've only seen the first couple of episodes. Life wouldn't become perfect, and miserable people would still be miserable, they'd just have something new to be miserable about.

But feel free to discuss within spoiler tags everything the show has so far covered (or maybe skipped past?) Sort of. He slowly grows up throughout the trilogy, but even at the end hes only ok. He spends the whole book, whining and complaining and being generally unsatisfied with all the incredible magical stuff that's happening around him, despite the fact that he spent his whole life fantasizing about magic being real . He has these in the book, but not as badly. So I'm wondering/hoping that he's portrayed better in the books. I don't remember there being much sex before Alice and Quentin hooking up in their final year at school. I'm about halfway through The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson, which someone on Reddit recommended to me on a thread I posted looking for books similar to The Magicians. A lot of people say it's an adult harry potter series which is true in the sense that throughout the magicians you're reminded how dull and mundane the real world is. That being said, I actually really enjoyed the book.As for the TV show, I'm still a little on the fence. The whole of the magicians is a growing up story, and Q needs some time to figure out who he is. That's not TOO bad. I feel like it missed the point.I think you can read magic in the books as all kinds of interesting things. "You won't like Quentin in the first book. Quentin included. I think they used the books as a skeleton, primarily, and are building a new body around it designed at a cable television audience.