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• THE MAGICIANS CREATORS AND STAR EXPLA THAT WRENCHG, CONTROVERSIAL DEATHTHE SYFY DRAMA’S SEASON 4 FALE WAS A TEARJERKER FOR THE AG. BUT SOME FANS PLA THAT RCED ONE OF THE SHOW’S MOST TRIUMPHANT MOMENTS TO AN STANCE OF QUEERBAG.BY LRA BRADLEYAPRIL 18, 2019COURTY OF SYFY.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHIS POST NTAS SPOILERS FOR THE MAGICIANS SEASON 4 FALE.THE MAGICIANS LOV TO TT S FANBASE’S ENDURANCE WH AN ENDLS LUGE OF PLOT TWISTS BOTH SILLY AND HEART-WRENCHG. BUT EVEN SO, THAT SEASON 4 FALE WAS ROUGH. AFTER YEARS OF GROWTH, TRIUMPHS, AND TRAGEDI, QUENT COLDWATER IS AD—FOR GOOD. HIS MISE ME AT THE END OF A BETIFULLY SHOT AND EXECUTED EPISO; AS QUENT WATCHED HIS IENDS’ EMOTNAL TRIBUTE TO HIM, PLETE WH AN ATIC RENRG OF “TAKE ON ME,” ’S HARD TO IMAGE THAT ANY VIEWER EMERGED DRY-EYED.BUT FOR SOME, THAT EMOTNAL IMPACT REGISTERED A LTLE DIFFERENTLY. EARLIER THIS SEASON, THE SHOW OFFERED A LANDMARK MOMENT TO FANS WHO BELIEVE QUENT AND ELT’S FEELGS FOR ONE ANOTHER NSTUTE REAL, ROMANTIC LOVE—NOT JT THE STUFF OF SUAL CURSY OR BOREDOM. MIGATG CIRCUMSTANC—NAMELY, A MONSTER OCCUPYG ELT’S BODY—HAVE PREVENTED THE TWO OM EXPLORG THEIR ROMANTIC POTENTIAL. AND NOW, WH QUENT AD, THEY NEVER WILL. IN OTHER WORDS, SOME TRACTORS SAY, THE MAGICIANS JT TURNED ONE OF S MOST PROGRSIVE TRIUMPHS TO ANOTHER EXAMPLE THE “BURY YOUR GAYS” NON. IT DON’T HELP THAT QUENT ALSO SUFFERS OM PRSN—MAKG HIS CISN TO SACRIFICE HIMSELF FOR HIS IENDS EVEN MORE PLITED.SPEAKG WH VULTURE, SHOW-NNER SERA GAMBLE OPENED UP ABOUT THE CISN TO KILL QUENT. “FOR , A HUGE PART OF THIS SEASON WAS GETTG TO EXPLORE MORE OF THE STUFF THAT IS GOG ON SI OF ELT. HIS CHARACTER WAS SAVED BEE QUENT’S MOTIVATN FOR THE WHOLE SEASON HAS BEEN TO SAVE ELT,” SHE SAID. “YOU KNOW, WE’RE REALLY MTED TO EXPLORG TE, MSY HUMAN RELATNSHIPS. WE DIDN’T WANT TO SHY AWAY OM ALL THE TWISTS AND TURNS THAT QUENT AND ELT’S RELATNSHIP HAS HAD OVER THE SEASON. WE JT REALLY WANTED TO GO THERE. WE’RE EXCED TO NTUE TO EXPLORE WHAT ALL OF THAT MEANS FOR ELT.”LAST SEASON, QUENT AND ELT LIVED OUT AN ENTIRE LIFE TOGETHER AS ROMANTIC PARTNERS WHILE SOLVG A PUZZLE THAT MAND THEY MONSTRATE “THE BETY OF ALL LIFE.” (FOR THOSE WHO DON’T WATCH THE SHOW: JT GO WH .) IN THE END, THE TWO RETURNED TO THEIR FIRST TIMELE, YOUNG AGA, HAVG SOLVED THE PUZZLE. EARLIER THIS SEASON, WE FOUND OUT THAT ELT HAS BEEN REPRSG THE FULL MEMORY OF WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THEY ME TO, FACED WH THE FACT THAT THEY’D SPENT AN ENTIRE LIFE TOGETHER. QUENT ASKED ELT IF HE WANTED TO TRY FOR A REAL ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP, BUT ELT PHED HIM AWAY. THEN, FORCED TO NONT THE MEMORY—BY LERALLY STANDG AND WATCHG HIS FORMER SELF AND IEND TERACT—ELT ADMTED HE’D REBUFFED QUENT OUT OF WARDICE. HE KISSED HIS IEND AND TOLD HIM, “IF I EVER GET OUT OF HERE, Q, KNOW THAT WHEN I’M BRAVER ’S BEE I LEARNED OM YOU.” UNFORTUNATELY, THAT MOMENT, WHICH DIDN’T EVEN TAKE PLACE “REAL” LIFE, IS NOW AS FAR AS THE RELATNSHIP WILL EVER GET.IN THE TERVIEW, THE SHOW-NNERS AND PRODUCERS MA CLEAR THAT THEY KNEW EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE PLAYG WH WHEN THEY CID TO KILL QUENT— TERMS OF BOTH HIS AND ELT’S UNROLVED FEELGS, AND QUENT’S PLITED MENTAL HEALTH HISTORY. AS SHOW-NNER HENRY ALONSO MYERS PUT , “EVERY CHOICE YOU MAKE ON A TELEVISN SHOW, YOU ARE MAKG SOMEONE ELATED AND YOU ARE BREAKG SOMEONE’S HEART. I FEEL LIKE WE TAKE THAT VERY SERLY. THIS IS A TOUGH ONE! I FEEL LIKE THE THG WE TALK ABOUT THE ROOM A LOT IS THAT ELT’S JOURNEY IS NOT OVER, AND WE BELIEVE THERE ARE IMPORTANT EMOTNAL THGS THAT ELT HAS YET TO GO THROUGH, AND THAT [QUENT’S ATH] WILL RM.”BOTH THE SHOW’S PRODUCERS AND JASON RALPH, WHO PLAYS QUENT, HAVE NFIRMED THAT THE CHARACTER WILL NOT RETURN FOR SEASON 5. WHEN ASKED IF THERE HAD BEEN ANY THOUGHT OF LKG HIM AND ELT ROMANTILLY AGA BEFORE HIS ATH, SHOW-NNER JOHN MCNAMARA SAID, “THAT’S THE TERTG THG ABOUT ATH REAL LIFE—RARELY, WHEN SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU DI, DO YOU GET THAT KD OF MOVIE GOODBYE HOSPAL SCENE . . . THAT’S PART OF THE PA OF . AND I THK HAD WE GIVEN QUENT AND ELT A FAL SCENE, WOULD HAVE HAD A KD OF ARTIFICIALY TO FOR ME, AND WOULD HAVE LSENED THE IMPACT THAT IS GOG TO HAVE ON ELT GOG FORWARD. ELT IS GOG TO BE HUGELY CHANGED BY THIS, EMOTNALLY AND PSYCHOLOGILLY, AND A WAY, ‘QUELT’ IS NEVER GOG TO DIE AS LONG AS ELT IS ALIVE.”MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOTHE EPISO PAID TRIBUTE TO THAT S ENDG, AS ELT CHOSE TO BRG A PEACH TO THE BONFIRE TRIBUTE TO QUENT—A TOKEN OM THEIR TIME SOLVG THE PUZZLE TOGETHER. THE EPISO PAYS MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD ATTENTN TO THE OTHER MIGATG FACTOR OF QUENT’S ATH: HIS HISTORY WH MENTAL ILLNS AND SUICIDAL THOUGHTS. AS HE NTEMPLAT HIS CISN OM THE UNRWORLD, QUENT WONRS ALOUD, “DID I DO SOMETHG BRAVE TO SAVE MY IENDS? OR DID I FALLY FD A WAY TO KILL MYSELF?” BOTH THE SHOW AND S PRODUCERS SIST THE ANSWER TO THAT SEND QUTN IS “NO”—AS MONSTRATED BY ALL THE WAYS WHICH QUENT HAS GROWN SCE THE SHOW PREMIERED, WHEN HE WAS SUICIDAL, AND ALL THE BONDS HE’S FORMED, WH BOTH THE WORLD AND HIS IENDS. “BUT,” MCNAMARA TOLD VULTURE, “THERE’S A SAYG THAT A PSYCHIATRIST ONCE SAID TO ME, WHICH IS THAT THE SUBNSC ALWAYS GETS WHAT WANTS, AND THE NSC MD OFTEN NEVER KNOWS.”SPEAKG WH THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, GAMBLE SAID, “WE WANTED [QUENT] TO EXPLICLY ASK THAT QUTN [OF WHETHER HE KILLED HIMSELF], BEE SUICIDAL THOUGHTS HAVE BEEN A PART OF HIS JOURNEY FOR THE WHOLE SERI, AND A HUGE PART OF HIS BACKSTORY . . . I WATCHED THE SCENE WHERE HE DI, AND TO ME THERE’S NO QUTN THAT HE’S BEG HEROIC, AND HE’S BEG SELFLS THAT MOMENT, AND HE HAS DONE THE MATH REALLY FAST AND HE’S DONE WHAT HE NEEDS TO DO TO SAVE HIS IENDS. BUT BEE THIS HAS BEEN SUCH A PAFUL AND NSTANT PART OF QUENT’S LIFE, MA SENSE THAT HE WOULD ASK ABOUT . IT GAVE AN OPPORTUNY TO CLOSE THE CIRCLE THAT WAS OPENED THE PILOT WHEN HE’S FACG THE PSYCHIATRIST AND TRYG TO AL WH HIS OWN MENTAL HEALTH.”“I THK HE DID A REALLY HEROIC THG WHOUT EVEN THKG ABOUT : SAVE ALICE, SAVE PENNY, TAKE OUT THE BAD GUY,” MCNAMARA TOLD VULTURE. “BUT THIS IS NOT A BLACK-AND-WHE SHOW, AND HE’S NEVER BEEN A BLACK-AND-WHE CHARACTER. TO ME, WHEN I LOOK AT PEOPLE WHO DO HEROIC THGS, SOMETIM I QUTN, LIKE, ‘THAT WAS REALLY HEROIC, BUT YOU CLEARLY AREN’T AAID OF DYG. FOR WHATEVER REASON, YOU DID SOMETHG THAT’S SO AMAZG, THAT I WOULDN’T HAVE DONE, BEE I’M A FUCKG WARD.’”THE RT OF THE ST DIDN’T ACTUALLY KNOW QUENT WOULD BE PERMANENTLY AD UNTIL THIS PAST MONDAY. WHILE SHOOTG THE EPISO, PRODUCERS ADD A SCENE THAT, TE MAGICIANS FASHN, SENTIALLY REVERSED QUENT’S ATH—BUT END UP BEG A Y. SPEAKG WH ENTERTAMENT WEEKLY, RALPH SAID HE’S BEEN UNR A GAG ORR ABOUT THE ATH, AND HAS BEEN DYG TO TELL HIS STMAT ABOUT HIS CHARACTER’S FATE FOR A YEAR. “JOHN AND SERA WANTED TO GET ALL DONE AND HAVE FISHED ORR TO STOP ANY SPOILERS OM GETTG OUT,” HE SAID. “JOHN AND SERA JT FALLY LET EVERYONE KNOW YTERDAY. SO AFTER MY LL YOU WH YOU, I’M GOG TO BE NTACTG EVERYBODY ELSE AND JT SAYG GOODBYE.”MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOAS FOR HIS CHARACTER’S CISN—AND WHETHER NSTUT BRAVERY OR SUICI—RALPH SAID, “I THK THAT’S A REAL QUTN. WE OPENED THE SHOW WH QUENT HAVG THAT SAME QUTN, AND HIS LAST MOMENT, HE’S STILL GRAPPLG WH , AND REQUIR AN OUTSI EYE TO SHOW HIM WHAT HE DID AND THE IMPACT THAT HE DID HAVE AND THAT HIS LIFE DID HAVE MEANG, NOT ONLY TO OTHER PEOPLE BUT TO AND FOR HIMSELF.”“SHOOTG THAT SCENE WAS REALLY, REALLY EXTREMELY DIFFICULT AND EMOTNALLY TUMULTUO,” RALPH ADD. “I FELT LIKE I WAS ON FIRE WHEN I WAS SHOOTG THAT SCENE. BRGG THIS CHARACTER TO AN END AND SPEAKG WORDS THAT FELT SO HONT AND QUTNS THAT A LOT OF [] HAVE HAD BEFORE, AND THEN GETTG THE LUXURY OF HAVG THE REALIZATN THAT I WAS WRONG, THAT THE ANSWER IS, NO, YOUR LIFE DID HAVE MEANG AND YOU ARE IMPORTANT, WAS REALLY SPECIAL.”MORE GREAT STORI OM VANY FAIR— GAME OF REPS: EASTER EGGS, REFERENC, SUMMARI, RNNS, TLE-SEQUENCE-GIVEAWAYS, AND MORE OM THE EPIC FIRST EPISO— THE MONS, DGS, PHILANRG, MUTUAL LOVE, AND MASTERPIEC THAT ENDURED BOB FOSSE AND GWEN VERDON’S UNNVENTNAL RELATNSHIP— REVIEW: WHY OUR PLA SHOULD BE MANDATORY VIEWG— LOUGHL AND HUFFMAN: A TALE OF TWO P.R. STRATEGILOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.LRA BRADLEY
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THE MAGICIANS CREATORS AND STAR EXPLA THAT WRENCHG, CONTROVERSIAL DEATHTHE SYFY DRAMA’S SEASON 4 FALE WAS A TEARJERKER FOR THE AG. BUT SOME FANS PLA THAT RCED ONE OF THE SHOW’S MOST TRIUMPHANT MOMENTS TO AN STANCE OF QUEERBAG.BY LRA BRADLEYAPRIL 18, 2019COURTY OF SYFY.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHIS POST NTAS SPOILERS FOR THE MAGICIANS SEASON 4 FALE.THE MAGICIANS LOV TO TT S FANBASE’S ENDURANCE WH AN ENDLS LUGE OF PLOT TWISTS BOTH SILLY AND HEART-WRENCHG. BUT EVEN SO, THAT SEASON 4 FALE WAS ROUGH. AFTER YEARS OF GROWTH, TRIUMPHS, AND TRAGEDI, QUENT COLDWATER IS AD—FOR GOOD. HIS MISE ME AT THE END OF A BETIFULLY SHOT AND EXECUTED EPISO; AS QUENT WATCHED HIS IENDS’ EMOTNAL TRIBUTE TO HIM, PLETE WH AN ATIC RENRG OF “TAKE ON ME,” ’S HARD TO IMAGE THAT ANY VIEWER EMERGED DRY-EYED.BUT FOR SOME, THAT EMOTNAL IMPACT REGISTERED A LTLE DIFFERENTLY. EARLIER THIS SEASON, THE SHOW OFFERED A LANDMARK MOMENT TO FANS WHO BELIEVE QUENT AND ELT’S FEELGS FOR ONE ANOTHER NSTUTE REAL, ROMANTIC LOVE—NOT JT THE STUFF OF SUAL CURSY OR BOREDOM. MIGATG CIRCUMSTANC—NAMELY, A MONSTER OCCUPYG ELT’S BODY—HAVE PREVENTED THE TWO OM EXPLORG THEIR ROMANTIC POTENTIAL. AND NOW, WH QUENT AD, THEY NEVER WILL. IN OTHER WORDS, SOME TRACTORS SAY, THE MAGICIANS JT TURNED ONE OF S MOST PROGRSIVE TRIUMPHS TO ANOTHER EXAMPLE THE “BURY YOUR GAYS” NON. IT DON’T HELP THAT QUENT ALSO SUFFERS OM PRSN—MAKG HIS CISN TO SACRIFICE HIMSELF FOR HIS IENDS EVEN MORE PLITED.SPEAKG WH VULTURE, SHOW-NNER SERA GAMBLE OPENED UP ABOUT THE CISN TO KILL QUENT. “FOR , A HUGE PART OF THIS SEASON WAS GETTG TO EXPLORE MORE OF THE STUFF THAT IS GOG ON SI OF ELT. HIS CHARACTER WAS SAVED BEE QUENT’S MOTIVATN FOR THE WHOLE SEASON HAS BEEN TO SAVE ELT,” SHE SAID. “YOU KNOW, WE’RE REALLY MTED TO EXPLORG TE, MSY HUMAN RELATNSHIPS. WE DIDN’T WANT TO SHY AWAY OM ALL THE TWISTS AND TURNS THAT QUENT AND ELT’S RELATNSHIP HAS HAD OVER THE SEASON. WE JT REALLY WANTED TO GO THERE. WE’RE EXCED TO NTUE TO EXPLORE WHAT ALL OF THAT MEANS FOR ELT.”LAST SEASON, QUENT AND ELT LIVED OUT AN ENTIRE LIFE TOGETHER AS ROMANTIC PARTNERS WHILE SOLVG A PUZZLE THAT MAND THEY MONSTRATE “THE BETY OF ALL LIFE.” (FOR THOSE WHO DON’T WATCH THE SHOW: JT GO WH .) IN THE END, THE TWO RETURNED TO THEIR FIRST TIMELE, YOUNG AGA, HAVG SOLVED THE PUZZLE. EARLIER THIS SEASON, WE FOUND OUT THAT ELT HAS BEEN REPRSG THE FULL MEMORY OF WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THEY ME TO, FACED WH THE FACT THAT THEY’D SPENT AN ENTIRE LIFE TOGETHER. QUENT ASKED ELT IF HE WANTED TO TRY FOR A REAL ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP, BUT ELT PHED HIM AWAY. THEN, FORCED TO NONT THE MEMORY—BY LERALLY STANDG AND WATCHG HIS FORMER SELF AND IEND TERACT—ELT ADMTED HE’D REBUFFED QUENT OUT OF WARDICE. HE KISSED HIS IEND AND TOLD HIM, “IF I EVER GET OUT OF HERE, Q, KNOW THAT WHEN I’M BRAVER ’S BEE I LEARNED OM YOU.” UNFORTUNATELY, THAT MOMENT, WHICH DIDN’T EVEN TAKE PLACE “REAL” LIFE, IS NOW AS FAR AS THE RELATNSHIP WILL EVER GET.IN THE TERVIEW, THE SHOW-NNERS AND PRODUCERS MA CLEAR THAT THEY KNEW EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE PLAYG WH WHEN THEY CID TO KILL QUENT— TERMS OF BOTH HIS AND ELT’S UNROLVED FEELGS, AND QUENT’S PLITED MENTAL HEALTH HISTORY. AS SHOW-NNER HENRY ALONSO MYERS PUT , “EVERY CHOICE YOU MAKE ON A TELEVISN SHOW, YOU ARE MAKG SOMEONE ELATED AND YOU ARE BREAKG SOMEONE’S HEART. I FEEL LIKE WE TAKE THAT VERY SERLY. THIS IS A TOUGH ONE! I FEEL LIKE THE THG WE TALK ABOUT THE ROOM A LOT IS THAT ELT’S JOURNEY IS NOT OVER, AND WE BELIEVE THERE ARE IMPORTANT EMOTNAL THGS THAT ELT HAS YET TO GO THROUGH, AND THAT [QUENT’S ATH] WILL RM.”BOTH THE SHOW’S PRODUCERS AND JASON RALPH, WHO PLAYS QUENT, HAVE NFIRMED THAT THE CHARACTER WILL NOT RETURN FOR SEASON 5. WHEN ASKED IF THERE HAD BEEN ANY THOUGHT OF LKG HIM AND ELT ROMANTILLY AGA BEFORE HIS ATH, SHOW-NNER JOHN MCNAMARA SAID, “THAT’S THE TERTG THG ABOUT ATH REAL LIFE—RARELY, WHEN SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU DI, DO YOU GET THAT KD OF MOVIE GOODBYE HOSPAL SCENE . . . THAT’S PART OF THE PA OF . AND I THK HAD WE GIVEN QUENT AND ELT A FAL SCENE, WOULD HAVE HAD A KD OF ARTIFICIALY TO FOR ME, AND WOULD HAVE LSENED THE IMPACT THAT IS GOG TO HAVE ON ELT GOG FORWARD. ELT IS GOG TO BE HUGELY CHANGED BY THIS, EMOTNALLY AND PSYCHOLOGILLY, AND A WAY, ‘QUELT’ IS NEVER GOG TO DIE AS LONG AS ELT IS ALIVE.”MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOTHE EPISO PAID TRIBUTE TO THAT S ENDG, AS ELT CHOSE TO BRG A PEACH TO THE BONFIRE TRIBUTE TO QUENT—A TOKEN OM THEIR TIME SOLVG THE PUZZLE TOGETHER. THE EPISO PAYS MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD ATTENTN TO THE OTHER MIGATG FACTOR OF QUENT’S ATH: HIS HISTORY WH MENTAL ILLNS AND SUICIDAL THOUGHTS. AS HE NTEMPLAT HIS CISN OM THE UNRWORLD, QUENT WONRS ALOUD, “DID I DO SOMETHG BRAVE TO SAVE MY IENDS? OR DID I FALLY FD A WAY TO KILL MYSELF?” BOTH THE SHOW AND S PRODUCERS SIST THE ANSWER TO THAT SEND QUTN IS “NO”—AS MONSTRATED BY ALL THE WAYS WHICH QUENT HAS GROWN SCE THE SHOW PREMIERED, WHEN HE WAS SUICIDAL, AND ALL THE BONDS HE’S FORMED, WH BOTH THE WORLD AND HIS IENDS. “BUT,” MCNAMARA TOLD VULTURE, “THERE’S A SAYG THAT A PSYCHIATRIST ONCE SAID TO ME, WHICH IS THAT THE SUBNSC ALWAYS GETS WHAT WANTS, AND THE NSC MD OFTEN NEVER KNOWS.”SPEAKG WH THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, GAMBLE SAID, “WE WANTED [QUENT] TO EXPLICLY ASK THAT QUTN [OF WHETHER HE KILLED HIMSELF], BEE SUICIDAL THOUGHTS HAVE BEEN A PART OF HIS JOURNEY FOR THE WHOLE SERI, AND A HUGE PART OF HIS BACKSTORY . . . I WATCHED THE SCENE WHERE HE DI, AND TO ME THERE’S NO QUTN THAT HE’S BEG HEROIC, AND HE’S BEG SELFLS THAT MOMENT, AND HE HAS DONE THE MATH REALLY FAST AND HE’S DONE WHAT HE NEEDS TO DO TO SAVE HIS IENDS. BUT BEE THIS HAS BEEN SUCH A PAFUL AND NSTANT PART OF QUENT’S LIFE, MA SENSE THAT HE WOULD ASK ABOUT . IT GAVE AN OPPORTUNY TO CLOSE THE CIRCLE THAT WAS OPENED THE PILOT WHEN HE’S FACG THE PSYCHIATRIST AND TRYG TO AL WH HIS OWN MENTAL HEALTH.”“I THK HE DID A REALLY HEROIC THG WHOUT EVEN THKG ABOUT : SAVE ALICE, SAVE PENNY, TAKE OUT THE BAD GUY,” MCNAMARA TOLD VULTURE. “BUT THIS IS NOT A BLACK-AND-WHE SHOW, AND HE’S NEVER BEEN A BLACK-AND-WHE CHARACTER. TO ME, WHEN I LOOK AT PEOPLE WHO DO HEROIC THGS, SOMETIM I QUTN, LIKE, ‘THAT WAS REALLY HEROIC, BUT YOU CLEARLY AREN’T AAID OF DYG. FOR WHATEVER REASON, YOU DID SOMETHG THAT’S SO AMAZG, THAT I WOULDN’T HAVE DONE, BEE I’M A FUCKG WARD.’”THE RT OF THE ST DIDN’T ACTUALLY KNOW QUENT WOULD BE PERMANENTLY AD UNTIL THIS PAST MONDAY. WHILE SHOOTG THE EPISO, PRODUCERS ADD A SCENE THAT, TE MAGICIANS FASHN, SENTIALLY REVERSED QUENT’S ATH—BUT END UP BEG A Y. SPEAKG WH ENTERTAMENT WEEKLY, RALPH SAID HE’S BEEN UNR A GAG ORR ABOUT THE ATH, AND HAS BEEN DYG TO TELL HIS STMAT ABOUT HIS CHARACTER’S FATE FOR A YEAR. “JOHN AND SERA WANTED TO GET ALL DONE AND HAVE FISHED ORR TO STOP ANY SPOILERS OM GETTG OUT,” HE SAID. “JOHN AND SERA JT FALLY LET EVERYONE KNOW YTERDAY. SO AFTER MY LL YOU WH YOU, I’M GOG TO BE NTACTG EVERYBODY ELSE AND JT SAYG GOODBYE.”MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE 25 BT SHOWS ON NETFLIX TO WATCH RIGHT NOWBY TARA ARIANOAS FOR HIS CHARACTER’S CISN—AND WHETHER NSTUT BRAVERY OR SUICI—RALPH SAID, “I THK THAT’S A REAL QUTN. WE OPENED THE SHOW WH QUENT HAVG THAT SAME QUTN, AND HIS LAST MOMENT, HE’S STILL GRAPPLG WH , AND REQUIR AN OUTSI EYE TO SHOW HIM WHAT HE DID AND THE IMPACT THAT HE DID HAVE AND THAT HIS LIFE DID HAVE MEANG, NOT ONLY TO OTHER PEOPLE BUT TO AND FOR HIMSELF.”“SHOOTG THAT SCENE WAS REALLY, REALLY EXTREMELY DIFFICULT AND EMOTNALLY TUMULTUO,” RALPH ADD. “I FELT LIKE I WAS ON FIRE WHEN I WAS SHOOTG THAT SCENE. BRGG THIS CHARACTER TO AN END AND SPEAKG WORDS THAT FELT SO HONT AND QUTNS THAT A LOT OF [] HAVE HAD BEFORE, AND THEN GETTG THE LUXURY OF HAVG THE REALIZATN THAT I WAS WRONG, THAT THE ANSWER IS, NO, YOUR LIFE DID HAVE MEANG AND YOU ARE IMPORTANT, WAS REALLY SPECIAL.”MORE GREAT STORI OM VANY FAIR— GAME OF REPS: EASTER EGGS, REFERENC, SUMMARI, RNNS, TLE-SEQUENCE-GIVEAWAYS, AND MORE OM THE EPIC FIRST EPISO— THE MONS, DGS, PHILANRG, MUTUAL LOVE, AND MASTERPIEC THAT ENDURED BOB FOSSE AND GWEN VERDON’S UNNVENTNAL RELATNSHIP— REVIEW: WHY OUR PLA SHOULD BE MANDATORY VIEWG— LOUGHL AND HUFFMAN: A TALE OF TWO P.R. STRATEGILOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.LRA BRADLEY

Unfortunately, after four seasons of gettg to know him, durg the fale of the fourth season, Quent was killed off, leavg many fans very, very upset at yet another awful example of the Bury Your Gays trope.

This fale is has #BuryYourGays and has a succsful su*ci like what the leral fuck #TheMagicians\u201d — Zo\u00eb Marcel VA (@Zo\u00eb Marcel VA). In other words, some tractors say, The Magicians jt turned one of s most progrsive triumphs to another example the “bury your gays” non. " by many of the creators, but fact, falls to a trope that's cidly not novative at all: "bury your gays.

Many see as the wrers mtg the credibly annoyg “Bury Your Gays” trope. Queerbag and killg your gays is a pretty big misstep imo #TheMAGICIANSfale. I believe the Goln State Warrrs, Los Angel Lakers or Boston Celtics should sign Rudy Gay has been the NBA for 17 seasons, and at one pot, he was among the bt forwards the league.

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This summer, Gay has been trad twice, and Shams Charania of The Athletic and Stadium recently reported that the Oklahoma Cy Thunr have waived the 36-year-old. Who should sign Rudy Gay? They don't need to add much to their ele roster, but Gay has played 1, 120 regular season gam, so he would be a pendable veteran to have their locker room.

The Warrrs have been known to brg out the bt their role players, and Gay uld play a siar role to Andre Iguodala as an experienced forward to have their locker room and as pth limed playg time.

That said, Gay would give them signifint pth at the posn, as Jam and Davis missed a bed 53 gam last season. In addn, Gay uld be a good mentor for some of their younger players.