Ok thanks. Memory bad. Must re-read. Books good.

How are they going to do Reynard on TV? It could look ridiculous. I wonder if they're going to change that up.

What bugged me in the books is that J begged Q to help her. And yes she did try to use sex. But Q didn't try to help at all, he just ignored it. He could have tried to get them to wipe her memory again, so she wouldn't be so miserable. Or he could have tried to get them to let her try the exam again. Or he could have…

Good point about mythologies. I will still cringe and wish Julia had found another path.

Yeah, I'm not saying that she shouldn't suffer and redeem herself. I'm just saying that there was one particular incident that I thought was too much, over the top in her long litany of suffering.

What was the spell that Kiera was having Julia transcribe? It must have been something pretty powerful. It was long, complicated and she was a math/science genius.

I love Julia's storyline. I just hope (VAGUE BOOK SPOILER here) they don't have her suffer as much as in the books.
I like that her and Q may be on the road to being Friends again. That kind of bugged the shit out of me in the books, the way he treated her. He used to be good friends with her and was in love with her…

Can't the Dean barely do magic anymore since his hands were regrown? I get the impression he doesn't know what to do to help.

Yes, and that could be because there are a lot of women characters on this show. In fact it seems as if there are more women characters than men, but I haven't counted.

I really hope Jimmy finally unloads on Chuck and tells him he's batshit crazy. In particular it would be awesome if he rubbed it in Chucks face all the times he was next to active electrical/EM fields and didn't react because he wasn't aware they were there. Like when Chuck was in the hospital and the doctor sneakily…

Yes, SyFy has a new head/president of development (I can't remember the exact title) that wants to get back to good sci-fi/fantasy. He went to their parent company and basically said "hey we need to spend some money and make some good sci-fi and fantasy shows or we are going to lose ratings". That was a big departure…

Good point! They did say that spellcasting from pain was real power.
And I did like what they did with the Mike storyline (although it sucked for Eliot and Mike) because it actually give Eliot some motivation to hate the Beast and be involved with Fillory.

Richard was in the books? Was he part of FreeTraderBeowulf? Trying not to spoil anything though.

Disagree - show Penny is awesome, even though he finds Quentin irritating (or maybe because of it, heh). I hated book Penny - he was a smug dbag and never got better. I like the show's Quentin-Penny frenemy relationship much better.
I do find Eliot irritating though and I did not in the books. He's too much of a…

Agreed , I thought it was a Fillory rabbit for sure and was going to give him a message. It's probably better it did not talk as what happened next was disturbing enough.

They checked him for mind control and didn't find it. Thus they were going to send him to prison. THEN, he freaked out and killed Jane/Eliza and tried to kill the Dean. That's when they figured out it was the Beast. I'm guessing the Beast is powerful he could evade mind control detection.
Yes I know it's kind of dumb…

In the books they flew all they way. It did take them several weeks, maybe months.
Sad they left out the "final exam" from Mayakovsky.

I've read the books and I won't spoil anything. But I can say that, based on the books, you're not supposed to anything about the Beast other than what you know. He was summoned accidentally (it's a little different in the books, how he was summoned, but whatever), he's evil based on what he does to the Dean and…

Well that's kind of the point of Julia's story, she is obsessed with magic and power at this point. She really doesn't have an "non-magic life." Even in the books she pretty much drops everything else. She would work at a job the minimum amount to have money for rent and food and spend every other moment on magic. She…

Yeah the Kady's mom bleedout scene shocked and surprised me too