![]() ![]() I honestly don’t know how to feel anymore. I rooted for Julia for a long time, even against criticism that the show was exploiting her victimhood, because I respected the show’s honest portrayal of consent and abortion. This really doesn’t set well with me, especially as someone who’s defended this storyline. You could argue that Julia’s shadeless self made the decision that killing a god came with too many risks, or she inevitably chose empathy over revenge, but in the end all it was still a man raping someone and facing zero consequences. So, at Persephone’s behest, Julia let Reynard go - royally pissing off Kady in the process. That means Reynard was raping and murdering a shit-ton of people because he had fucking mummy issues, and she was totally cool with ignoring it… at least until he faced actual consequences. ![]() ![]() She begged Julia not to kill Reynard, because, get this, Reynard was her son. Just as Julia was about to pull the trigger… in popped none other than Our Lady Underground herself. Julia and Kady succeeded in luring out the Fox by faking a storm, and had him at their fingertips. Then, of course, you’ve got the other crazy family connection - the one that still makes me feel uneasy, several hours later. The brothers Ember and Umber are locked in this eternal power struggle that puts the entire source of magic at risk, for basically no reason other than godlike pettiness. If there’s one theme in this episode, it’s that gods and their families are fucked-up arseholes. Speaking of which, everyone might die next episode. Umber doesn’t really care, because he’s building his own “way cooler world,” but it leaves millions on the brink of annihilation. Without him, Ember’s been running Fillory like his own twisted reality show, creating twists and turns for no reason other than boredom. Umber, the voice of reason, was the yin to Ember’s yang, the (Law &) Order to Ember’s chaos. There, they learned that Ember is the one behind all the chaos in Fillory, like turning half the court into rats, since the two brothers originally created the magical realm. Quentin and Eliot discovered this after tracing Fillory’s portal clock to Umber’s Vancouver home. Yep, it’s Umber! You know, Fillory’s other goat god, the one we never saw before because he was supposedly killed by the Beast? Surprise, he wasn’t murdered, he faked his death for an easy way out. However, twist! Alice isn’t the only character this episode brought back from the dead - because it turns out technically the other guy was never actually dead to begin with. It’s a little disheartening, as she started out as my favourite character, but I’m going to give this new Alice a chance (at least for the reason of the season, which is only one more episode). It’s clear the original version of Alice is gone, and she’ll probably never come back. She spent the entire episode struggling to write down everything she learned while flying around the cosmos as an infinite being of pure magic - that is, when she wasn’t glaring at Quentin like a pissed-off demon. Niffin Alice is not happy being stuck on the mortal coil again. After Quentin, Julia, and Mayakovsky performed the reunification, a ritual that had never successfully happened before, we were left with a woman seriously scorned. ![]()
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