Its greatest moments were well-earned treats dispensed to an audience careful enough to pay attention, like Season 3's "A Life in the Day" episode that gave Quelliot shippers an entire episode of Quentin and Elliot's love, its infinitely gif-able pop culture references, and the show's many delightful musical numbers.

There's some complicated magic surrounding the birth that doesn't really matter in the end — baby HQ's birth is really a gift for the audience, who gets to imagine what their life will look like as a family. .

Margo gets a box pendant to hold her fairy eye whenever she feels like popping it out, a gesture at her transformation from The Magicians' resident ice queen into someone who would endure endless pain to protect the people she loves. .

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Though the show came to an end one full season after the great misstep of killing Quentin Coldwater, it's difficult not to imagine every beat of the finale hitting harder if his character were still around

Losing Quentin before the finale ensures that The Magicians' ending will be forever short of satisfying

But the withheld possibility of every character getting their deserved ending feels like there's one gift the show could never deliver.