I’m having a bad day and decided to rewatch the two-part premiere of The Librarians and I have thoughts. Don’t mind me 🙂

Right so, Judson was immortal, tethered to the library. For him to die he must have given up his immortality like Charlene did towards the end of season three. Why would he do that?

Flynn survived 10 years, longer than any other librarian – how? Maybe halfway in, so “five years ago” Flynn did die but Judson saved him by swapping the life force, the same as #spoilers I read that Jenkins got tricked into doing in season four. (I know I spoiled myself, I suck).

Ok now Cassandra – if surgery could save her a) why did she never have it before season 3? and b) why was she so desperate? She said to Duloque that they should share magic, to save those that science couldn’t, so I always assumed from that her tumour was inoperable.

Maybe it was. I mean it was a lot smaller at the beginning and right before the surgery the doctor did say he was amazed she was still walking around. The last of Excalibur’s raw magic healed Flynn, and he said it would have healed Cassandra. By the time of her surgery she’d been using magic a fair a bit, casting spells etc. Maybe that had an effect and so magic saved her after all.

Now we could say there were a couple of continuity errors between the movies and the TV show but I prefer to explain things in universe if possible.

Excalibur in the first movie is shown in the stone. Judson invites Flynn to try and pull it out, though the sword does fly around on it’s own. Maybe it wasn’t ‘the stone’ because it didn’t need to be, the important relic was the sword. It’s like they put the artifacts on display cushions, well Excalibur got a display stone. You know like how museums have displays.

Also Charlene was recently divorced (Gaston) mentioned in 1st and 3rd movies but in the TV show it’s implied that she and Judson were an item, and that’s why Jenkins never had a chance with her (and also why he didn’t really like Judson). The original librarian and guardian – makes sense and it’s a nice echo with my OTP 🙂 so I really don’t know. I do like the name Gaston plus divorce because that kinda makes Charlene Belle (and she works in the library heh).

It has been implied that Judson was a bit of a James Bond type librarian with a girl in every port (a bit like Flynn pre-Eve tbh) and so maybe he and Charlene had an open relationship? They loved one another deeply, were committed to each other but had dalliances with other people, just not other immortals because that would get awkward. Alas poor Jenkins.

Oh and I really want to know when Jenkins told Eve he was immortal and therefore she couldn’t kick his ass. I bet he was laughing so hard on the inside when Eve tried to intimidate him with “make yourself useful or make yourself gone”. So funny.