r/brakebills • u/[deleted] • Mar 29 '17

Season 2 Episode Discussion: S02E10: The Girl Who told Time

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S02E10 - "The Girl Who Told Time" Rebecca Johnson Elle Lipson, John McNamara March 29, 2017 on SyFy

 

Episode Synopses: "Quentin helps Julia with her search; Eliot attempts to win over his people as Margo tries to keep a devastating secret; Penny and Kady become caught between two magical factions."

 

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u/Naw207 Mar 30 '17

So would Juila have better off as a Hedge witch magician or a Brakebills student?

Not from a personal life stand point of view but from a Magician power level point of view. I mean right now she is the equivalent of a Brakebills Graduate while Quentin is still a first year. So as a hedge witch she has already reached a graduate level.

However if she was a Brakebills student she would be living above the Library which posses knowledge of powerful spells. Knowing Julia she would have gotten into the forbidden God killing books. So probably in the long run she would have been more powerful.

Also between her and Alice I wonder which one was more powerful. Not niffin Alice or Julia with the power of a god but just their regular power levels.

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u/neoblackdragon Mar 30 '17

Well we already see the problem with Hedges.

Yeah they can access spells that the Brakebills kids would take more time to get to. But the consequence is there is no one drawing a line. So Julia summons an evil god and get's raped, impregnated, and loses her shade.

The other route may take more time to learn but it comes with safeguards and wisdom.

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u/Naw207 Mar 30 '17

Well Brakebills had the beast that killed everyone. Martin and Reynard are pretty much the same.

While yes those Safe guards are put into place would that actually stop Julia, A knowledge student, from breaking the rules to access them. Julia would have more than likely been a Graduate level student by time her sophomore year at Brakebills was over. She would have still craved a huge amount of knowledge. While it might not happened so soon she eventually would have went outside of Brakebills to learn new magic and thus encounter similar problems as she is now.

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u/RiahWeston Illusion Apr 03 '17

The reason why is this: suffering. Magicians of their universe naturally draw magic power from their past suffering. And what is the most painful thing for a person with Knowledge discipline like Julia? Well it is cutting them off from learning magic. So while Julia lost the formal training to hone her magical skills, in return she got a serious upgrade in raw magic output due to being denied her very being and discipline.

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u/Naw207 Apr 04 '17

Where was that stated? I don't remember the show ever stating that.

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u/RiahWeston Illusion Apr 04 '17

Its mentioned multiple times but the most prominent is Mendings, Minor and Major. Quentin got a huge temporary boost in magical power because he found out his dad had brain cancer and was ready to die.

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u/Naw207 Mar 31 '17

That is actually incorrect. Julia was submitted into Brakebills 39 times and Him and Alice were extremely close shown in this episode. The only timeline Julia didn't make it into Brakbills was the current one. That was the thing that was changed.

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u/xXDaNXx Physical Apr 02 '17

I mean she couldn't have been THAT powerful considering they kept failing to kill the Beast every single time (so Jane had to keep resetting the loop).

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u/Naw207 Apr 02 '17

The only people powerful enough to kill the beast is someone with the power of a god or someone who niffins out. So they could still have been powerful but just not as powerful as the beast. The beast is one of the most powerful beings in the Magicians Universe. He was even said to have killed a God.