"The magicians": [Spoiler] Dies / Not Return for season 5

Warning: The following contains major spoilers for Wednesday The magicians final season.

"Take me" from A-Ha has never been so sad. during The magicians Final of season 4, Quentin, Alice and Penny 23 went to the world of mirrors to throw the monster and its sister in the seam between the worlds. However, their quest was interrupted by Everett, who broke the mirror. After fixing something minor, Quentin managed to send his two siblings into the vein – but also sacrificed his own life, at the same time that Alice watched with anguish. (Do not forget that magic is a no-no in the world of mirrors.)

After his death, Quentin found himself in the underworld with Penny 40, who accompanied Q to his own funeral to show him that he had changed the lives of his friends as much as his own. In tears, Quentin watched his friends enter a tender call, a cappella interpretation of "Take on Me." At the end of the episode, Penny 40 handed Q an underground pbad for the subway before declaring that it was as far as he was going. On this, a Quentin solo has crossed a mysterious door … and left the show.

Below, spectators John McNamara, Sera Gamble and Henry Alonso Myers talk about Quentin's departure – his representative, Jason Ralph, will not return as a regular season 5 series – and what will follow for Q.'s friends.

TVLine | So this is the last time we see Quentin?
JOHN MCNAMARA | This is the last time we see Quentin, although you've seen The magicians…
HENRY ALONSO MYERS | It can appear in other forms.
MCNAMARA | Yes, but that's the last time you'll see Jason play with Quentin. And I'm not shy. As far as we are concerned, this is the last we will see of Quentin.

TVLine | At the beginning of the season, what kind of conversations did you have with Jason about this goodbye? Did he know at first or did you know later in the season?
MCNAMARA | In fact, we had a very open and pretty good conversation at the end of season 3. We always want to talk to the actors. "What did you think of the season? What were your favorite things? What do you want to do next season? We had the impression that Jason was beginning to feel that he had explored a large part of this character and that he had made tremendous progress in the course of his career. [We had a] chat with him on Skype. Will, myself and Jason have clearly understood that the best step for this character would be the kind of death that we presented to him and that finally formed this climax. So it was a decision that was strangely free of drama, very reciprocal and totally creative. It was fair: how best to serve the journey of this character and how to continue to shock and surprise our audience? And the answer has turned out to be this one thing. He was aboard jump street.

TVLine | What qualities did you want to imbue with this last episode of Quentin and its release?
WILL BE GAMBLE | We knew we had a great opportunity because Quentin has a dear old friend who is working on a $ 1 billion contract in the underworld. So we understood that we had a unique opportunity on this show to explore life and death, as well as the questions we all ask ourselves about what constitutes a complete life and what will follow. For us, some of these questions are unanswered, so we do not want to answer them either. It was just exciting to be able to access it.

It's really a chance and a privilege to be able to tell a story for so long. The shows are usually canceled, complete stop. So, when you come to tell a story for many years and you have creative partners invested as much as you want, they are very rigorous and challenging for everyone involved in storytelling. Sometimes you have to do something like this, where you take a character along the way, essentially. With the incredibly important part of this, namely that all the people who love him the most live and live what it means to lose Quentin, just as the public feels what it means to lose Quentin, and we 're I'm all very excited about this too. Because we are basically a show about growing up and becoming an adult in the true sense of the word, and losing someone is an important part of that, losing someone you love.

TVLine | The way he goes out is a heroic sacrifice. And between the special effects and the choice of the song, I think it's one of the most beautiful death scenes I've ever seen on a TV show.
BET | It was a real writing situation with John and I, who wrote the script together. In fact, I had this song before we wrote the scene, and I sent it to him and said, "I kind of imagine this song. [‘Cruel World’ by Active Child]"Then, because John is John, he came back to me and he said," And then there will be a musical number. "[[[[Laughs]That's how you know it's a real collaboration.

TVLine | Did you think about the special effect or something that the special effects team has come up with? It was so striking. I could not get it out of my head after watching it.
MYERS | If you read the description in the script, it is strangely specific and we have tried many different elements before we deal with it. What was very moving for us was, in the [writers’] In the meantime, we spent a lot of time looking at the books to find stories that we had not touched yet and that we knew we would not have the chance to do without Quentin. One of the main elements of this process was the minor repair. So once we decided it was his last act of minor repairs that would eventually bounce back, it was kind of our real north. We kept looking at it, and what it would look like if it was slowly building and then submerging it somehow.
MCNAMARA | We give a lot of credit to our visual effects supervisors, Jay Worth and Curtis Krick, because they have been tireless in offering us choices. There was a lot of genre, "Yes, that. Not that. Yes, that, but not that color. Too much fire, too much stuff, "and they were great about it. They were really. They never gave up. … Chris Fisher, who directed it, directed it so beautifully and so neatly. I think the geography of the staging is extraordinarily exciting and clean enough. You know where everyone is. You have a very complicated configuration. You know exactly what's going on. Often, I think, one of the things that can hinder a fictional or science fiction show is suddenly creating new, very practical rules. It was a world in which all the rules had been put in place very early, and everything had conspired to kill Quentin, unfortunately. It's like a giant Jenga tragedy.

TVLine | And congratulations, John, for getting another number of music before the end of the season. How did you land on "Take me"?
MCNAMARA | My son is very musical. She is a wonderful pianist. Every night we go to YouTube and try to find different songs, new songs, music videos, and so on. We literally stumbled on this A-Ha concert in Sweden, I think, where they created a live acoustic version of "Take on Me". I just rang it like this: "It's a cool version of this song. It's a bit sad and interesting. Then I was recording some of the songs from our musical. [episode]and Olivia [Dudley] she sang to sing her part and she hummed "Take me". I say, "Do you hum" Take me "?" And she answers, "Yes, I listen to it every day. I like it. I said, "Why do you listen to it so often? I love him too. She adds, "It's really a great way to feel my emotions. If I have an emotional scene, it will really help me get there. I thought that if there was a way to incorporate this quality of the song into the series, I really want to try it.

I have probably attended more funerals than I would have liked, but I find they all have one thing in common: the moving parts of the funeral are usually not the oratory, but the music chosen. It kind of reflects the life of the person. Because we created this type of spell that a magician can do that gives you lyrics, orchestration and instant lyrics, it was a natural place to start with the clumsy "What do we say? What do we say? What are we saying? So Kady takes a step back and leads them to express what I think is much more difficult to express in simple words. And that would also allow brief moments of flashbacks at certain times in the series that have a lot to do for Quentin, or in which Quentin had a huge effect on one of the characters. And finally, when we realized that Quentin could attend his own funeral with Penny 40, it was like the last [piece] by clicking together, because you basically have a performance and an audience. He is well staged without being too much, hopefully, peaceful or too sentimental.

TVLine | We do not see Alice in the upcoming previews that Penny 40 will give to Quentin. We just heard about the fact that they want her to run the library. How does she behave after losing Quentin?
BET | I do not think there is a character in the series who has not been profoundly and deeply touched by what is happening to Quentin. This seems honest to us. It's just human to have lived a little bit of life. Quentin had a unique relationship with each of these characters that you will see in season 5. Although they somehow metabolize his death, it's not always linear, but it's kind of a scent that runs through history of each in season 5.

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