Season 5, Episode 1
Do Something Crazy
In the wake of Quentin's death, everyone tries to cope while adjusting to their new reality.Tropes That Appear In This Episode:
- Alien Sky: Penny 23 teleports his class to an empty world he found that has a sky with Saturn and its moons visible.
- An Arm and a Leg: One guy's friend tried to take off his Reed's Mark with magic, so it blew up and took his arm off.
- Bizarre Baby Boom: Everett absorbed all the magic in the Reservoir, then he got blowed up real good. As a result, tons of people all over the world with magical potential awakened into Magicians.
- Call-Back: Margo was branded on her arms when she was banished from Fillory. Even three hundred years later, a guard recognizes them, knocks her out and imprisons her.
- Cigarette of Anxiety: Alice starts smoking, ostensibly over her grief over Quentin. But actually, she's got a crazy plan she's working herself up to.
- Colony Drop: Penny 23 takes Julia to see the work of an artist who manipulates meteors to create light shows. Unfortunately, a magic surge causes the pretty lights to become dangerous falling rocks, forcing the two to teleport out.
- Cynical Mentor: Penny's first lesson to the class is: "Traveling sucks and it's going to kill you someday". He planned for that to be his only lesson, too.
- Dangerous Forbidden Technique: The Clock Dwarf says he could rewind time for Fillory, but doing so would destroy Fillory, making the whole idea self-defeating.
- Disappointed in You: Margo gets sick of Eliot's denial of grief in regards to Quentin, saying she hoped he'd at least be sincere with her.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Julia tells Sir Effingham that she's saved the world before and used to be a goddess. It doesn't exactly impress him, as she is still of the feminine persuasion.
- Functional Addict: Even though the only thing the cave dwarf has to eat is cave mushrooms that make him high, he's still brilliant and good at his job.
- Future Imperfect: The play Eliot and Margo see is a rather distorted view of events—though the basics aren't too off.
- I Lied: Dean Fogg tells Penny that the contract he said was to protect him legally was actually a binding employment contract.
- Impossible Theft: Kady is directed to a Library annex with information she needs, only to find that someone has stolen the entire building despite the wards around it and mind-wiped everyone nearby so no one remembers it was ever there.
- Killed Offscreen: Josh was beheaded and Fen was hung when the Dark King took over. Margo isn't willing to accept this, however, and wants to Set Right What Once Went Wrong.
- A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: It is when there's a weird signal in it.
- Mistaken for an Imposter: When Margo and Eliot greet a cosplaying Fillorian native, the cosplayer assume the two to be cosplaying as Margo and Eliot, understandably operating from the assumption the genuine articles must be dead by now. Margo and Eliot roll with this, as it offers them a free pass into Castle Whitespire when they had spent a month trying and failing to discover a way past the guards.
- Mushroom Samba: The only thing the Clock Dwarf has to eat is cave mushrooms. They're okay...but they also get him high.
- Phlebotinum Overload: Because Everett blew up last season with the entire contents of the magic reservoir inside him, all that excess magic is leaking into the world and creating surges of magic which drive spells haywire. One such surge is why Fillory has moved 300 years ahead of Earth.
- Pig Man: Sir Effingham the porcine Questing Beast is one of these. But besides being sexist, he's also a hog-person.
- Read the Fine Print: Fogg drafts Penny into teaching a new group of Travellers, giving him a contract to sign that Fogg claims will protect him from legal liability. When Penny tries to blow it off, Fogg later sternly informs him that the contract was actually an employment contract requiring him to teach the class. Fogg notes that every Penny in every timeline has a problem with reading things before signing them.
- Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Invoked. Margo refers to her idea to go back in time and stop the Great Unshackling and the rise of the Dark King as "Endgame"-ing.Eliot: When did you have time to go see Endgame?
Margo: Does it matter? All I'm saying is we're gonna time-fix this bitch. - Shown Their Work: Dwarves in ancient mythology really weren't described as being short, just skilled craftsmen.
- Straw Misogynist: The pig-like lord who would rather have the Apocalypse happen that accept the possibility a "hysterical maiden" is the hero meant to stop it.
- Time Skip: The episode is set a month after the previous season finale.
