Several characters in “Home Improvement,” the title of this week’s funnier-than-ordinary episode of The Magicians, deal with some idea of home. First, there’s Fen, who does something she will for her fatherland, even supposing that which means present process back-breaking yard paintings for the meant prophet in her desires. There’s also Alice, who ought to go to her mother to forge a vicinity spell for Zelda, the Librarian who has her very own home-related choice to find her daughter in the reflect realm. And then there’s a completely pregnant Poppy (an ordinary person performed using Felicia Day), who is increasing her own domestic — first with the aid of stealing dragon sperm to inseminate a dragon egg, after which with the aid of embracing the human infant developing inner her. Home for the group is a fickle element, something fleeting, it’s difficult to hold on to, yet something so powerful that it drives our characters to head wonderful lengths to keep (or push away).
Fen’s idea of home is arguably the most uncomplicated and, ultimately, the most challenged. Fen is a child of Fillory: her whole existence has been devoted to shielding her home United States. This equal commitment reasons her and Margo to get conned by way of a female pretending to be the prophet, even though fortuitously, the best price to them for doing so is a few hours of menial labor. It’s this willpower that drives her to head on a quest (with Margo coming alongside as her wing-lady) to locate the purveyor of her prophetic dreams. Less thankfully, however, when Fen, in the end, confronts the real prophet in a dream (a dream wherein she’s delivered Margo and Josh, not much less), the cat-like creature tells Fen that her destiny lies with usurping High King Margo.
The most unearthly storyline revolving around the concept of domestic this week belongs to Poppy and her infatuation with dragons. Quentin and Julia negotiate with Harold, the usher of the dragon of the East River (puns, as continually, abound in The Magicians), approximately trading for one of the stone organs Eliot-Monster is collecting. As a fee for the stone, Harold sends them on a venture to recover a vial of blue liquid that someone stole from thegon’s hoard. That someone turns out to be Poppy, who’s pregnant and camping out in the Physical Kids Cottage at Brakebills. As we noticed in earlier seasons, Poppy is a dragon enthusiast: she’s even written dragon pornography! The gang unearthed that she’s inseminated a dragon egg (that blue elixir she stole became dragon sperm), and the to-be-born dragon has ensorcelled all who contact it, which incorporates Poppy, Quentin, and, when he attempts to thieve it, Penny 23. Given her former god fame, Julia is immune to the egg’s powers, and they and Kady run back to the East River to trade the dragon egg for the stone organ Eliot-Monster wishes.
