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bjornwilde) wrote2016-04-13 08:13 am
bjornwilde) wrote2016-04-13 08:13 am
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Lev Grossman is in fact gross
Saw the finale for Magicians finally and of course it ends on a cliff hanger.
So going into the series, I'd only read the first book in the series. I knew something horrible happened to Julie and heard people mention rape was involve, but wow. Of all teh horrible things to he could've done to Julie why a rape though? Props to Syfy for not making is sexual, at all. Through the whole thing you can not help but flinch at the awfulness and by awful I mean the emotion pain Julia was experiencing. Not one frame showed her attacker experiencing pleasure. The whole thing was brutal and I have to say, if you must show a rape, it *HAS* to be that way. Make it ugly, make it gross.
I am just not certain there had to be a rape.
Onto the sexuality bit. Eliot was somewhat forced to marry a woman. This was in order to become High King of Fillory, which they had to do to get the magic knife to kill the bad guy, and he did chose to become the High King knows this was the price. I knew Eliot was going to become High King, it was in the books. But I do not remember the books making him marry a woman and I do not remember the books making it so he could not return or visit Earth, nor that Eliot could not slept with anyone within Fillory.
I can see the marrying as a sort of marrying the land sort of Celtic thing, but I don't quite get the enforced fidelity. I think I will have to write in the wife being okay with him having affairs as long as she is not disrespected. To do otherwise just seems to erase Eliot's homosexuality or make it something that can be ignored for convenience sake.
Now to make sure I don't get to this point until the next season starts so I can see what the hell happened. I do hope they rewrite what happened to Penny and Alice in the books, but it doesn't seem like it.
So going into the series, I'd only read the first book in the series. I knew something horrible happened to Julie and heard people mention rape was involve, but wow. Of all teh horrible things to he could've done to Julie why a rape though? Props to Syfy for not making is sexual, at all. Through the whole thing you can not help but flinch at the awfulness and by awful I mean the emotion pain Julia was experiencing. Not one frame showed her attacker experiencing pleasure. The whole thing was brutal and I have to say, if you must show a rape, it *HAS* to be that way. Make it ugly, make it gross.
I am just not certain there had to be a rape.
Onto the sexuality bit. Eliot was somewhat forced to marry a woman. This was in order to become High King of Fillory, which they had to do to get the magic knife to kill the bad guy, and he did chose to become the High King knows this was the price. I knew Eliot was going to become High King, it was in the books. But I do not remember the books making him marry a woman and I do not remember the books making it so he could not return or visit Earth, nor that Eliot could not slept with anyone within Fillory.
I can see the marrying as a sort of marrying the land sort of Celtic thing, but I don't quite get the enforced fidelity. I think I will have to write in the wife being okay with him having affairs as long as she is not disrespected. To do otherwise just seems to erase Eliot's homosexuality or make it something that can be ignored for convenience sake.
Now to make sure I don't get to this point until the next season starts so I can see what the hell happened. I do hope they rewrite what happened to Penny and Alice in the books, but it doesn't seem like it.