The Magicians: Here’s How Quentin’s Story Plays Out in the Novels
Warning: spoilers ahead for the season four finale of The Magicians and the Magicians book trilogy.SyFy's The Magicians took a massive risk in its season four finale.
The show, which has always delighted in deconstructing the tropes of the fantasy genre, made its biggest - and most controversial - decision to date: killing off its protagonist, Quentin Coldwater, for real.
Over the course of the TV series, the storyline has departed more and more from the trilogy of novels by Lev Grossman that they're loosely adapted from.
Was Quentin's death another one of those departures?The answer to that would be a resounding yes.
Much like his TV counterpart, the book version of Q goes through the wringer, especially in the final novel of the trilogy, The Magician's Land, where he returns to Brakebills as a professor after being expelled from the magical world of Fillory, where he was a king.