Lucifer season 3 episode 13
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shapinglightVery tempted to use a spoilery icon (that I just made) for this post, but I'll keep it behind the cut.
Well, what do you know, another episode Tom Welling managed not to spoil. In fact, he was...okay in it.
I admit (again) that my standards are low when it comes to this show, but I absolutely adored this episode. This is mostly down to Tom Ellis, of course, who managed to be utterly hilarious and very sweet as house-proud suburban gay husband 'Luke' to Welling's grumpy 'really not liking this charade at all' 'Marc.' Ellis totally convinced me, despite the ludicrous attempts to annoy the neighbours enough into making the murderer reveal themselves. Even Welling was just grumpy enough and no more for the whole ridiculous edifice not to collapse like a house of cards.
Pierce's reasons for not wanting to talk about himself were convincing to me too, and I hope his talk with Chloe has put the final kibosh on any Pierce/Chloe/Lucifer love triangle, because Chloe's attraction to Pierce has never worked for me, and still doesn't. Though if Welling continues to not screw everything up, that may change in retrospect.
The procedural part of the episode was silly as usual, but more enjoyable than a lot of them. I also enjoyed Lucifer's interaction with the Korean drugs gang, if only because he got to use his super-strength (he's not done that for a while, I think).
As for the 'B' plot (if you can put it that way), featuring Maze, Dan and Charlotte, I enjoyed that too, even if Maze was coming on to Charlotte so hard it made me cringe a little. Maze is Maze, I guess. She still has no real boundaries.
The episode was packed full of great scenes, in fact. Maze and Lucifer having some quality time with Maze's hell-forged weapons, Lucifer doing a Doctor Linda on Pierce, complete with glasses, Lucifer trying to think of more and more outlandish ways to kill Pierce, only to have Pierce say he's already tried them. The final scene between Charlotte and Maze, which actually sent a shiver down my spine. Maze can smell Hell on Charlotte. That's why she was attracted to her. Poor Charlotte.
Lucifer is really going all out to try and bond with Pierce, isn't he - something that Pierce is resisting. I can see why Lucifer would do it, but I wish he'd ask Pierce a few questions first.
For instance, if the Sinnerman was working for Pierce all along, who really was the criminal mastermind everyone was so scared of? Was Pierce telling the truth when he said he had no idea why his adopted son/minion/whatever the guy was did what he did? I find that very hard to believe.
I suppose Lucifer is just too focused on sticking it to Dad, to ask those questions. Either that, or, having found what he considers to be a kindred spirit, he doesn't care about the answers.
We'll see, I guess. I feel like the season is really coming together now.
Well, what do you know, another episode Tom Welling managed not to spoil. In fact, he was...okay in it.
I admit (again) that my standards are low when it comes to this show, but I absolutely adored this episode. This is mostly down to Tom Ellis, of course, who managed to be utterly hilarious and very sweet as house-proud suburban gay husband 'Luke' to Welling's grumpy 'really not liking this charade at all' 'Marc.' Ellis totally convinced me, despite the ludicrous attempts to annoy the neighbours enough into making the murderer reveal themselves. Even Welling was just grumpy enough and no more for the whole ridiculous edifice not to collapse like a house of cards.
Pierce's reasons for not wanting to talk about himself were convincing to me too, and I hope his talk with Chloe has put the final kibosh on any Pierce/Chloe/Lucifer love triangle, because Chloe's attraction to Pierce has never worked for me, and still doesn't. Though if Welling continues to not screw everything up, that may change in retrospect.
The procedural part of the episode was silly as usual, but more enjoyable than a lot of them. I also enjoyed Lucifer's interaction with the Korean drugs gang, if only because he got to use his super-strength (he's not done that for a while, I think).
As for the 'B' plot (if you can put it that way), featuring Maze, Dan and Charlotte, I enjoyed that too, even if Maze was coming on to Charlotte so hard it made me cringe a little. Maze is Maze, I guess. She still has no real boundaries.
The episode was packed full of great scenes, in fact. Maze and Lucifer having some quality time with Maze's hell-forged weapons, Lucifer doing a Doctor Linda on Pierce, complete with glasses, Lucifer trying to think of more and more outlandish ways to kill Pierce, only to have Pierce say he's already tried them. The final scene between Charlotte and Maze, which actually sent a shiver down my spine. Maze can smell Hell on Charlotte. That's why she was attracted to her. Poor Charlotte.
Lucifer is really going all out to try and bond with Pierce, isn't he - something that Pierce is resisting. I can see why Lucifer would do it, but I wish he'd ask Pierce a few questions first.
For instance, if the Sinnerman was working for Pierce all along, who really was the criminal mastermind everyone was so scared of? Was Pierce telling the truth when he said he had no idea why his adopted son/minion/whatever the guy was did what he did? I find that very hard to believe.
I suppose Lucifer is just too focused on sticking it to Dad, to ask those questions. Either that, or, having found what he considers to be a kindred spirit, he doesn't care about the answers.
We'll see, I guess. I feel like the season is really coming together now.
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Date: 2018-01-31 01:29 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2018-01-31 01:30 pm (UTC)Absolutely! And surely they haven't just set all that up to forget about it. This show occasionally has writing flaws but its not that bad!
This brings to mind the fact that in mythology, Cain had children!
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Date: 2018-01-31 04:21 pm (UTC)Yes, and apart from the Biblical ones, he's had plenty of time to father a whole country by now.
Not that I'm expecting any of them to show up.
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Date: 2018-01-31 05:03 pm (UTC)Why not? There is a strong family theme running through the whole show.
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Date: 2018-01-31 06:14 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2018-01-31 04:23 pm (UTC)It was really good, I agree. I don't think by miles, though. Most of the episodes have been pretty good. I think it's more that the plot is beginning to gel now. Or feels as if it is.
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Date: 2018-01-31 05:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-31 06:16 pm (UTC)It was a great episode for him, it's true. And Ellis was fabulous.
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Date: 2018-01-31 06:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-31 06:18 pm (UTC)I think she'd already moderated her views on returning to Hell somewhat, when she chose to return to LA at the end of Mr & Mrs Mazikeen Smith, but yes, it's a further step in her development.
Which has not yet reached the stage yet of her realising that there are such things as personal space and boundaries. But I kind of hope she never does. ;)
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Date: 2018-02-01 02:23 am (UTC)I liked some things but not others about the episode. I do agree about the Korean gang scene. You're right that for such a very powerful being we hardly ever see Lucifer do much in that vein and that was really my favorite bit of the episode.
I suspect that the whole "we're pretending to be gay" trope isn't used as often these days and the way it was approached rather smacked of the 1980s. Perhaps it was the writers playing to Welling's lack of expression and general grumpiness. I did chuckle at their rapprochement over the salsa though!
What I quite liked was Lucifer's typical ends-justify-the-means rationale, getting the drug lord to confess to being one in exchange for getting the recipe he wanted. I'm fairly sure that wouldn't actually be so palatable as it would be more than just "a few years" in jail for that level of involvement. But from Lucifer's end it was amusing.
I also agree that the procedural story was particularly weak this time around. But what I really disliked was what they did with Maze. Granted she's an extreme character but had her behavior been carried out by a man we'd all be expecting Charlotte to be slapping him with a sexual harassment suit before he could set foot outside her office. I felt like that whole plot was shoehorned into this episode not only to give Maze something to do, but also as a form of "compensation" to all the straight guys for the central storyline with Lucifer and Pierce undercover. (By comparison, Maze's likely attraction to Linda seems earned and a serious storyline even if she also OTT in her jealousy).
I also don't get the whole Sinnerman subplot but hopefully that will come back around to make more sense.
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Date: 2018-02-02 11:14 am (UTC)I know it's an old trope, but I didn't think it was handled in at all the same way as these things used to be. There was always a huge element of 'gay panic' back in those days, with the participants making it plain they found the situation icky and a huge affront to their fragile masculinity. I didn't see any of that this time - certainly not from Tom Ellis, given that it's well established that Lucifer is omnisexual (showrunner Ildy Moldrovich's description). Even Welling's stone-faced grudging participation came across to me as resistance to Lucifer's attempts to find out more about him rather than disgust at the scenario they were in.
YMMV, obvs. Likewise with the Maze scene. She just reminded me of soulless Spike. No boundaries, no sense of the person-hood of people she doesn't think of as friends. I'm afraid it just didn't bother me that much. ;)
Very uncritical, as I said.