They're going to bring Patty Spivot back and Barry's going to realize she's way hotter/better match/smarter/more charisma than his sis. And he's going to tell Spivot he's the Flash (which she already figured out). Then he's going to tell Iris "f… fate, I want her."

And why did they write Patty Spivot out so quick? Because they actually had, you know, chemistry together? That was weird. And Barry/Iris have zero chemistry - and they're bro/sis. I did find it amusing that Iris had her sexy leather pants on the episode where she declares her love for Barry. She was like…

That's getting a little nitpicky, in my opinion, if you start taking apart time travel in a story. I just go with it if I like the story.
I have two answers though - 1) He didn't know about the loop until after the classroom on every travel of the loop 2) he knew about the loop but wanted Q alive for some reason until…

In the books, I believe it's that she wasn't good enough at Taking The Test. She was still very good at magic later on. Q on the other hand was not flustered by the test because that was one of those things he did very well in school. Er , that's how I remembered it at least.

I'd agree though, I find TV Alice really irritating, not so with book Alice.

Stella Maeve is Julia. Alice is Olivia Taylor Dudley.

"her sitting on the bed waiting for him to wake up so she could storm off was the height of melodramatic cliches" - heh good point, I didn't even think of that, but that was so… Alice.

Queen

Time loop was in the books too. It just wasn't as big of a deal. Jane mentions it to Q after the climax of book 1 and he realizes it's (either the climax or the whole book, it's not clear) happened multiple, multiple times.

Did they actually ever see the Cozy Horse though? I thought they just talked about how weirdly convenient it was for the Chatwins.

You shut your mouth - Stella Maeve is gorgeous!
LOL her eyes are a little droopy - she looks like she just hit the bong hard - but that's part of her beauty. Mouse - NO!

Jane's a villain. So what should she have done? Nothing and let the Beast rule Fillory and spread death and destruction? Seems to me she chose the best possible outcome of a bad situation. She tried again and again until the Beast was defeated. Yes she used people and they got killed.

I thought wow the show has a lot of sexytimes, but…

Loved Julia in the books, but I like the show version even better. So glad they skipped that WTF moment. I think her character arc is just fine without Reynard.

So, so glad. I think it might have ruined the show. Julia suffered enough already.

Margot point blank asked Eliot what was going on in a previous episode and he basically put her off. I may be mis-remembering that, but I'm pretty sure it happened.

Being a D&D nerd, I loved the callout to Magic Missile.

The only thing that bugged me about that, is that it would take way too long to do those hand movements during a fight. I was thinking it would be a quick snap or something and a lot of it mental, like the way Mayakosky made them cast spells.

That made me think of Dean Fogg's fake hands - much easier than Penny's golden hands from the books - maybe that's why those were introduced. Or maybe they're just going to skip that since Penny is much more of a central character. Show Penny is 1000x more enjoyable and interesting than book Penny.

They could have had one line from Dean Fogg saying they were on break since the Beast is trying to murder them all. But then that would have begged the question : "then why aren't you helping us?"