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Don't waste your time if it's magic you're after...
Eye Wonder is appropriately named, as it focuses on things that are pleasing to the eyes. The problem here is that it's kind of heavy-handed using the term 'magic'.
First off, most of the 'tricks' are digital. I wouldn't call people who are good at editing videos magicians. Sure, I give credit to the influencers who put all their own stuff together, but the bottom line is everyone has seen editing before, and on a much better scale. There is only one skill involved here, and it's editing. Anybody can learn it, so there's no 'wow factor' to most of these deceptions.
Secondly, you have a recurring segment called 'Chat Magic' featuring a 'magician' named Royal Pain. Again, not to marginalise her skill, but it's done via chat with a stationary camera...and more than once I saw her reach off screen. This isn't magic either. At one point she gets someone to pick a card, then shuffles it into the deck. She 'magically' pulls the same card out of a filing cabinet beside her. We can't see the back of that filing cabinet, so who's to say there isn't someone off camera who saw the card in question and just grabbed it from another deck and threw it in there?
The ONLY reason to watch this show is the father/daughter segments which feature a genuine magician, doing genuine tricks, and teaching them to his daughter. I could've watched entire episodes of just these two doing their thing.
First off, most of the 'tricks' are digital. I wouldn't call people who are good at editing videos magicians. Sure, I give credit to the influencers who put all their own stuff together, but the bottom line is everyone has seen editing before, and on a much better scale. There is only one skill involved here, and it's editing. Anybody can learn it, so there's no 'wow factor' to most of these deceptions.
Secondly, you have a recurring segment called 'Chat Magic' featuring a 'magician' named Royal Pain. Again, not to marginalise her skill, but it's done via chat with a stationary camera...and more than once I saw her reach off screen. This isn't magic either. At one point she gets someone to pick a card, then shuffles it into the deck. She 'magically' pulls the same card out of a filing cabinet beside her. We can't see the back of that filing cabinet, so who's to say there isn't someone off camera who saw the card in question and just grabbed it from another deck and threw it in there?
The ONLY reason to watch this show is the father/daughter segments which feature a genuine magician, doing genuine tricks, and teaching them to his daughter. I could've watched entire episodes of just these two doing their thing.
- DeceptiveFox
- Jul 1, 2024
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