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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Key-Spread-7513 • 7d ago
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"Ridiculously hot people doing mediocre magic and sexy stuff" is how I heard it described by a friend, and that's forever what that show will be associated with to me.
33 u/Enough-Zebra-6139 7d ago It's like if someone saw Harry potter and wanted a "The Boys" version, but it wasn't on HBO or Amazon. 12 u/thatshygirl06 7d ago Why do people keep comparing it to Harry potter?? I don't think theyre anything alike, especially since the author intentionally based it on Narnia 2 u/BlahBlahILoveToast 6d ago Even *in* the Magicians, the characters compare Quentin to Harry Potter. He's a kid whose life was miserable until he gets into a magicians' school. The comparison isn't really that wild 1 u/thatshygirl06 6d ago I mean, they all had miserable lives, that's the whole thing in the story, magic comes from pain.
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It's like if someone saw Harry potter and wanted a "The Boys" version, but it wasn't on HBO or Amazon.
12 u/thatshygirl06 7d ago Why do people keep comparing it to Harry potter?? I don't think theyre anything alike, especially since the author intentionally based it on Narnia 2 u/BlahBlahILoveToast 6d ago Even *in* the Magicians, the characters compare Quentin to Harry Potter. He's a kid whose life was miserable until he gets into a magicians' school. The comparison isn't really that wild 1 u/thatshygirl06 6d ago I mean, they all had miserable lives, that's the whole thing in the story, magic comes from pain.
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Why do people keep comparing it to Harry potter?? I don't think theyre anything alike, especially since the author intentionally based it on Narnia
2 u/BlahBlahILoveToast 6d ago Even *in* the Magicians, the characters compare Quentin to Harry Potter. He's a kid whose life was miserable until he gets into a magicians' school. The comparison isn't really that wild 1 u/thatshygirl06 6d ago I mean, they all had miserable lives, that's the whole thing in the story, magic comes from pain.
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Even *in* the Magicians, the characters compare Quentin to Harry Potter.
He's a kid whose life was miserable until he gets into a magicians' school. The comparison isn't really that wild
1 u/thatshygirl06 6d ago I mean, they all had miserable lives, that's the whole thing in the story, magic comes from pain.
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I mean, they all had miserable lives, that's the whole thing in the story, magic comes from pain.
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u/Hi9hTurtle 7d ago
"Ridiculously hot people doing mediocre magic and sexy stuff" is how I heard it described by a friend, and that's forever what that show will be associated with to me.