Warning: This post contains spoilers from Wednesdays episode ofThe Magicians.
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Initially, I think it was a much looser, even lighter, less menacing plot.
Credit: Eric Milner/Syfy
That didnt really hold water, it just didnt seem to work.
It stopped the [writers] room.
It literally stopped all forward momentum.
Eric Milner/Syfy
Fortunately, wed been on schedule with our other scripts and we kind of planned out.
This was the knot to untangle at the end of the second third of the season.
All hands were on deck.
Eric Milner/Syfy
This was their debut professional script.
It wasnt just going to be like jazz hands.
When I got to this episode, I was surprised that it became about the group uniting.
We realized we hadnt had Josh in a bunch of episodes.
So that was really one of the first things that we could sink our teeth into.
Unlike John, I really dont have a brain for musical theater.
That to me felt like we needed something big and upbeat and party-ish.
We listened to a lot of songs, I cant remember the titles of all of them.
I thought it was like a really good introduction.
It then gave Alice, Quentin, and Kady something to stare incomprehensibly at.
So that informed the decision to have Kady sing her song.
I thought disco was a pretty good route to get to the death of the soul.
None of us started out knowing how or why.
That was just always on the board as the big number.
In a weird way, the only one that we planned ahead of time was Under Pressure.
Is it someone weve met before?MCNAMARA:No.GAMBLE:Its someone youve been hearing about.
Ill leave it at that, but its someone highly consequential for the season.
The Magiciansairs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on Syfy.
