Lucifer season 2 episode 9
Nov. 22nd, 2016 02:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightGod, I'm such a dinosaur! No one does stuff like this on LJ any more, do they? Reviews of TV shows, I mean.
Well, anyway...
Spoilers behind cut
For me, this show is more and more fun every week. This episode was dripping in sarcastic Trump references (though again, it must have been written and filmed before the election), plus it had a great Lucifer/Amenadiel scene at the beginning, Ella speaking Klingon, Dan getting it on with 'Mum,' which leads to a great Amenadiel/Maze scene at the end. Plus, there's the terrific 'Mum'/Dr Linda scene in the middle, with the deathless conversation about how 'Mum' doesn't like to be 'defined' as God's ex. Heh!
Sadly, though, it's plain as plain now that 'Mum' is just evil, and if you can excuse her disdain for humans as being down to the fact that she had nothing to do with creating them, and feeling that they took 'Dad's' attention away from her own children (and her), you can't really excuse the way she's manipulating Amenadiel for her own ends. That's not a motherly thing to do at all.
'Course, I suppose you could say that human standards don't necessarily apply to the goddess of creation, and you could get way with that in a comic book, but in a TV show with live actors, it really doesn't work as well and 'Mum' just comes across as spiteful and manipulative.
I wonder now if everything she's said to both Lucifer and Amenadiel is a lie, and all the time she's just out for revenge on both of them - Amenadiel for carrying her to Hell, and Lucifer for keeping her there. Which reminds me, as far as we know, Lucifer has never actually asked Amenadiel why 'Dad' threw 'Mum' out of heaven in the first place. I wonder if we'll ever find out?
We'll see, I suppose- some time next May.
:Sigh: That's the thing about full 22 episode TV series. You have such long hiatuses to get through.
Anyway, I'm glad that Dr Linda has finally made Lucifer confront and understand his feelings about Chloe. Really not surprised he didn't turn up for their date. Roll on episode 10 (even though I know it'll end on an awful cliffhanger and there won't be another episode for ages).
Well, anyway...
Spoilers behind cut
For me, this show is more and more fun every week. This episode was dripping in sarcastic Trump references (though again, it must have been written and filmed before the election), plus it had a great Lucifer/Amenadiel scene at the beginning, Ella speaking Klingon, Dan getting it on with 'Mum,' which leads to a great Amenadiel/Maze scene at the end. Plus, there's the terrific 'Mum'/Dr Linda scene in the middle, with the deathless conversation about how 'Mum' doesn't like to be 'defined' as God's ex. Heh!
Sadly, though, it's plain as plain now that 'Mum' is just evil, and if you can excuse her disdain for humans as being down to the fact that she had nothing to do with creating them, and feeling that they took 'Dad's' attention away from her own children (and her), you can't really excuse the way she's manipulating Amenadiel for her own ends. That's not a motherly thing to do at all.
'Course, I suppose you could say that human standards don't necessarily apply to the goddess of creation, and you could get way with that in a comic book, but in a TV show with live actors, it really doesn't work as well and 'Mum' just comes across as spiteful and manipulative.
I wonder now if everything she's said to both Lucifer and Amenadiel is a lie, and all the time she's just out for revenge on both of them - Amenadiel for carrying her to Hell, and Lucifer for keeping her there. Which reminds me, as far as we know, Lucifer has never actually asked Amenadiel why 'Dad' threw 'Mum' out of heaven in the first place. I wonder if we'll ever find out?
We'll see, I suppose- some time next May.
:Sigh: That's the thing about full 22 episode TV series. You have such long hiatuses to get through.
Anyway, I'm glad that Dr Linda has finally made Lucifer confront and understand his feelings about Chloe. Really not surprised he didn't turn up for their date. Roll on episode 10 (even though I know it'll end on an awful cliffhanger and there won't be another episode for ages).