Rewatching Wizard - from decent to dreadful

[Hobo ODST]

The odd thing is that the show seems to imply that Haruto, by default, was actually weaker than the mages, since he needed to power up quite a bit before being considered good enough for White Wizard's ritual, while the Mages apparently were ready as soon as they gained power. Of course, that doesn't stop all of them from being useless in the finale and Movie Wars...

It's not just implied. Fueki outright tells Haruto that the Mages are at the same level as Flame Dragon.

 

[Black Fang]

How did Gremlin find out about the Philosopher's Stone in the first place? Was he following Wiseman around all along until he found out that he was the white mage? What exactly was the giveaway to him that Wiseman didn't really want to create more Phantoms?

Actually, now that I think about it, was Wiseman really necessary at all? As evidenced by Drake in the movie, Phantoms don't need anyone to tell them to attack Gates and birth more of their kin. Fueki could just wait around as the white mage until enough people suppressed their Phantoms and teach them to become mages.

Putting aside her actress' lack of availability, perhaps Koyomi should've taken Shunpei's place as the one who tags along with Haruto and Co, and thus Shunpei could be written out entirely. That way she would have more of a presence for the audience to care about her plight. It would've also given episode 45 (which by the way has a nice twist with the toy plane) even more of an impact.

And why is Arachne male?? Whose dumb idea was that? In fact, why are there only two female Phantoms in the entire show, one of which I think is a KR Girl.

 

[TheLastBlade]

It's unfortunate that we find out that White Wizard was the bad guy late in the series :/

 

[Glamador]

Now, why didn't he just skip that middle phase and create a world inhabited by phantoms was never explained.

That part is what gets me about the film. If he has the power to basically generate an entire universe in which all of the rules are different, just to go about making the very world he created different from how he created (but from within and thus subject to opposition), then why not just make it the way he wanted to begin with?

Clearly he had the power to do *anything*. Anything at all. Because as was said before, Rinko and Shunpei didn't have Phantoms anymore in our world, so he must have somehow either generated or redistributed all of that magic that he was going to release...in which case whatever form it took in his new world was completely mutable at the point that world was created.

It isn't that the film didn't flow well or that the action was bad, it's just that the basic premise is undermined right when we're supposed to be amping up for the climax. A climax needs to be framed in the appropriate context for the audience to be properly hyped. They killed the hype.

 

[Lockon]

Could of just used time travel/magic BS to explain it. Just say he rewound time to before all the phantoms were destroyed and... I dunno about the rest, the premise is hard to work with and have it make sense.

 

[Black Fang]

I knew nothing about the movie going in, so I had assumed that Magicland was an actual place that had always existed. So the reveal at the beginning really put a dampener on things, besides the fact that the adventure was ultimately irrelevant.