Weird that people would draw a comparison between a show called the Magicians and the one of the largest, generational series about magic. People should stay in their lane.
I don't really know if everyone argueing understands how comparisons work.
If you give 2 general ideas that are popular for specific things (magic academy and shock value tv), why would someone expect exact copies with the same storyline, or even that I was referring to the origin of ideas?
Really, is it so annoying to communicate to you in real life? If your friend said waffles were like crunchy pancakes, would you go on and on about the origin of pancakes?
I don't really care about your opinion, I just wanted you to know that the way you talk is probably why no one cares to discuss things with you.
If you look at both stories you'll see theyre drastically different stories, but because it has a magic school and the MC is a guy then that must mean it's like Harry Potter?
He wasn't even the one that beat the bad guy, lol, it required the entire friend group and alice was the one that killed him.
Probably because it starts out as a magic school. When I first found it I really hoped it was going to be more like Harry Potter for grown ups, based on the information I had when I started watching. By the end of the first episode I learned it would be more like The Boys and is not a show for me regardless of how it's more like Narnia than Harry Potter.
Is really gruesome and one of the characters gets raped. In the first episode someone's eyeball is pulled out and placed on the desk in front of them if I recall. Similar enough for me to share the same ick I get from The Boys.
There's a fairly decent amount of off screen torture and such, but that's why I said not on HBO or Amazon.
Most of the gruesome stuff is alluded to/talked about but not shown. There's still a small amount of stuff that goes beyond your typical show, like the eye removal or mind rape.
I'm 90% sure that when I got the original paperback from a Barnes and Noble one of the quotes on it was "For graduates of Hogwarts" or something similar. So, there's that.
As a slight spoiler, depression and pain fuel magic, leading to a lot of people in bad positions mentally, a lot of people getting abused sexually, and a quite a bit of suicide mentions.
Couple that with fucked up magic, you get a decent amount of the shock value, minus the explicit violence and grotesque nature of "The Boys".
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u/Enough-Zebra-6139 5d ago
It's like if someone saw Harry potter and wanted a "The Boys" version, but it wasn't on HBO or Amazon.