(from Tumblr) The funniest thing about this Magicians clusterfuck... [spoilers]

[cimorene]

Verizon, who recently bought Apple and then killed off a third of Tumblr's userbase by turning on a blunt and draconian anti-porn banbot, have now put Tumblr up for sale, so that's a good reminder to not post my thoughts there because who knows what will happen. This post was actually from April 26 and has a lot of notes, mostly people fleshing this out with anecdata. The best one was the person who tagged it "#stupid doo doo heads can't even queerbait right".

The funniest thing about this Magicians clusterfuck to me is that they didn’t even wait long enough between making the queer couple canon and killing the dude to have benefited from the growth in audience that the former would normally create.

Like, the “There’s a queer character” bush telephone was activated, and people EVERYWHERE had put “check this show out, it has this queer thing” on their To Do Lists, but the number that had actually gotten around to doing it before they killed him was … not the majority by any means.

So from outside, elsewhere in fandom, it was like “Oh, what’s that, oh, it’s that show I heard about and I’m gonna check it out sometime because they made the lead bisexual and there’s a canon - what? Oh… he’s dead now.”

If anyone missed the context, cleolinda has written about it from inside the fandom on April 22, The Magicians S4 Finale Aired Five Days Ago And I'm Still Mad As Hell

Comments

[yvannairie]

This was me to a T. I was put off by the general darkness of it but I was thinking of maybe giving it another shot to see if anything worthwhile was under that bleakness and the they killed the "safe" mentally ill bisexual and I was like "WELP I GUESS NOT"

The exact same thing happened with The 100, too.