Wizards In Arcadia: When Being A Jerk Has Millenia-Long Consequences

The downside of waiting to watch shows rather than catch up is that you never know if people will take interest in your thoughts. I just finished watching Wizards, the most recent installment within Tales of Arcadia. It certainly had an emotional impact, if a bit rushed due to Netflix reducing the number of episodes produced.

Obviously, I would have preferred the twenty episodes that the show was originally going to have. Whoever mandated the decision at Netflix needs to have their pay docked and a stream of polite angry letters from us that wanted more Douxie. I liked this show and would have wanted to see the creators’ original intentions.

Brief Spoiler-Free Summary

For context, the Tales of Arcadia series centers around a town that attracts various speculative fiction genres. Guillermo Del Toro is the frontrunner for the series. We had an urban fantasy in Trollhunters, science fiction in 3Below, and time travel hijinks in Wizards. Each series contributes to a mysterious whole. We don’t know what the eventual movie will contain where they all cross over, but we know it will be fun.

Merlin the wizard only appears in two of these series. In Trollhunters, he is a mysterious mentor and implied to have died before the series started…