what's in a threesome

right okay so my plan to eagle eye watch the Magicians threesome somewhat hampered by final cut for some reason truncated the episode. Four platforms later, I watched the threesome, such as it is, frame by frame. I. Honestly. I'm still not impressed. What we have is:

--they're fucked up on emotion magic
--at least two of them (quentin and eliot) are pretty drunk
--margo and quentin are putting eliot to bed because he's stupid drunk
--and he passes out
--so there's a little scene where margo and quentin talk about how they're worried about eliot while lying on the bed clothed next to passed out eliot
--then Margo leans in for a comfort cuddle which quentin provides
--then we cut to the next morning, where quentin wakes up
--this is where final cut punked out like a prude
--and all three of them are naked in bed together, and he remembers little flashes, and if this is not supposed to imply he was blackout drunk then I'm sorry they made poor editing choices
--so the flashes are, in order:
--quentin and margo kissing, both topless
--quentin and eliot kissing, eliot still has his shirt on, for some reason I am wondering if he was too drunk for buttons
--margo and eliot embracing, possibly kissing? while quentin is a strong chest to lean on
--pan down the bed to their naked feet and Alice looking all betrayed

end of episode. Now to watch the next episode and see if the contextualizing dialogue salvages that any, but on the whole, it is still kind of, was anyone actually in their own head enough to meaningfully consent to that, for what portion of it was eliot even conscious, does this actually indicate anything about feelings or were they all just fumbling around on autopilot?? (it would not surprise me that much if eliot has sex autopilot. especially in his current spiral of self-destruction.)

i kind of do, but kind of don't, want a snapshot of fandom's reaction the week between that episode ending and the follow up.

eta: part II, episode 1x12
so we have everyone being awkward, and flashes of:
--quentin and margo going from the comfort cuddle to kissing
--to getting undressed kissing
--the same flash of eliot and margo embracing against quentin's chest
--eliot climbing that chest to kiss quentin. both of them are cupping each other's necks it's kind of sweet
--but seriously eliot was passed out has he even mumbled coherently at this point

in the morning after eliot is self-mocking and quentin is admitting to being "not okay" (alice broke up with him, so) and margo thinks they're both being self-pitying idiots.

so anyway I pretty strongly feel the show did not actually give fandom a gift here.

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I wonder if Fen's dad had tried the high king cutting knife on the girls, would he have gotten a hit on Margo