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Originally Posted by Locke

You see, this all sounds really cool, if the show had explored all of this I probably would have enjoyed this episode way more. But yeah, this is the first major criticism I've had with the series really, for reasons I've explain multiple times and am going to explain to Den-O again.



Because magic is a thing. I can cut some slack for writers trying completely original ideas, but the whole magic and wizards thing has been fine tuned by authors for hundreds of years. When you're making it from the ground up, there is bound to be points where you literally can't answering everything and I wouldn't expect you too. But Wizard's writers, if ever stuck, only need to pop onto the nearest Wikipedia page for inspiration. There are like a billion magic types, and a billion more variations on the mythology, so how can everything in this show be so poorly realised? I understand space switches more than I understand the magic in this show, and there is a problem when that is a sentence you write with conviction.

I think you need to realize is that this is not a show meant to explore how magic works. This is a story about a guy who gets sucked into a whole world of trouble when a man tries to reanimate the dead. Yes, there are some very cool concepts in the show, but if you want explanations for them, you'll have to do some of the work on your own. Not even Lord of the Rings explained how magic works, and that is hailed as one of the greatest fantasies of all time. There not making the show from the ground up, they're tweaking elements from general fantasy. Instead of a magic wand and a spell, you have Wizard Rings and a Driver. Instead of mythical creature body parts to power the wand, you have Magic Stones to power the Wizard Rings. Instead of magical energy from an unknown source, you have mana from Phantoms. But in the end, the story is about the characters, not the concepts.