Oh! Oh! I know this one!

The Magicians does have a convenient, AVClub-loved original source material.

Everyone already knows he's despicable! He is the most despicable character on the show and the show is Game of Thrones! Pull back, showrunners. We get it.

I think he can safely assume Cassie knows about the kid.

I understand the larger picture. It just hasn't made me care more about Deacon yet. We'll see if this changes going forward.

I wondered that as well.

I also don't care about Deacon's daddy issues, but I could listen to Kirk Acevedo's gravelly voice monologuing at me for hours.

I do like that they rooted Cole's change of heart re: killing people into something grounded. Saving a life that was supposed to be lost changed the future in a way that killing people earlier than they were meant to didn't.

A lot of the choices they've made with Ramse's character have been … odd, but I'm glad they didn't kill him off. His and Cole's back and forth was the highlight of the episode for me.

Ramse also looks better with hair than without.

Yep, it looks like my standing Monday night date with Syfy is continuing.

Them sitting there waiting for the witch and the fool reminded me of Harry Potter waiting for his dad to show up and patronus in the third book.

She got him away from the rest of them before he could actually kill them, too.

Yes! She wasn't cut out to be a Big Bad anyway. It was bothering me that they were just going to leave the Marina thread dangling, and then it paid off after all.

I'm going to give Julia the benefit of the doubt before I call her a villain. She's using one evil thing to help destroy another, but I didn't get the impression it was about revenge. She was worried about the evil she and the others had unleashed on the world and she wanted to take out that threat. It doesn't mean…

I still think Alice (or someone) is going to Niffinize sooner or later. It's too interesting an idea and was too clearly foreshadowed not to pay off at some point.

And from Marina of all people!

As a book reader, that was…not how I expected the goddess summoning to go.

That whole thing was absurdly rushed, wasn't it?

She is definitely developing a Sean Bean complex, isn't she?