Lucifer season 3 episode 16
Mar. 6th, 2018 11:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightInteresting episode, this.
More behind cut with spoilers.
Firstly, the Lucifer showrunners were muttering about a Pierce/Chloe/Lucifer love triangle at the beginning of the season. Tom Ellis was muttering about it again in a recent interview. However, after watching this, I think the person in the triangle who was feeling jealous and left out was obviously Chloe, who didn't like or understand the sudden closeness between Pierce and Lucifer. What's more, I think Lucifer broke up with Pierce at the end of this episode so the triangle is officially over.
Unless I'm wrong and Pierce decides to take revenge on Lucifer for letting him down by trying to take Chloe away from him. Could be that, I guess, because I don't for one minute believe that we've got to the bottom of the darkness in Pierce/Cain, or that a seeming reconciliation with his brother has changed anything. I think it's far more likely that the only thing that will free Pierce from the curse is genuine repentance over the killing, which he obviously doesn't feel. In fact, learning that Abel was in Hell all along has just made him feel even more self-righteous and hard-done-by.
There's also of course the little matter of the Sinnerman, and who really was this underworld figure that so many people were terrified of. Not to mention why the Sinnerman was so desperate for Lucifer to be the one to kill him. What was that all about?
We'll see, I suppose. In the meantime, I hope I'm right about that love triangle business.
Needless to say, the procedural part of the episode was pretty dull, but there was lots of other good stuff in it - the Lucifer/Amenadiel confrontation, where Amenadiel reminded Lucifer yet again that there were still many things Dad could take away from him if Lucifer pisses him off enough (which Lucifer seemed to have pretty much forgotten about, even though I'm sure Amenadiel has said it before, and I think Maze has too). Then there was the Maze/Amenadiel confrontation, which was also pretty awesome. I think more and more that Maze's extreme anger comes not just from her sense of betrayal, but also from the fact that she's in love with Linda. But I may be way off there. Again, we'll see.
Finally, couldn't not mention the wonderful Charlotte/Linda scene at the end. Tricia Helfer knocked it out the park there, I thought. Also, the actress playing Abel was terrific. I'm sorry she's gone so soon - and was pretty surprised when that truck killed her. Was not expecting that at all.
Other stuff: the Cain/Abel endless torture stuff, where Cain is doomed to kill Abel over and over forever and Abel is doomed to be killed by Cain forever likewise, comes straight from The Sandman Wikipedia tells me. Glad to see the show using more of its source material.
Glad to see Lucifer's wings again too. For a minute, I was taken aback that he can suddenly go to hell and back so easily. But then I remembered that he expected Amenadiel to be able to do the same before he realised Amenadiel had lost his wings. So, no hell tokens or dying temporarily needed.
Tom Ellis also said in a recent interview that he'd quite like the show to play more with the darkness of the source material. I doubt they will, though, if they think they have a winning formula.
Not that the show has been officially renewed yet. I'm getting a bit anxious about it, have to say. :(
More behind cut with spoilers.
Firstly, the Lucifer showrunners were muttering about a Pierce/Chloe/Lucifer love triangle at the beginning of the season. Tom Ellis was muttering about it again in a recent interview. However, after watching this, I think the person in the triangle who was feeling jealous and left out was obviously Chloe, who didn't like or understand the sudden closeness between Pierce and Lucifer. What's more, I think Lucifer broke up with Pierce at the end of this episode so the triangle is officially over.
Unless I'm wrong and Pierce decides to take revenge on Lucifer for letting him down by trying to take Chloe away from him. Could be that, I guess, because I don't for one minute believe that we've got to the bottom of the darkness in Pierce/Cain, or that a seeming reconciliation with his brother has changed anything. I think it's far more likely that the only thing that will free Pierce from the curse is genuine repentance over the killing, which he obviously doesn't feel. In fact, learning that Abel was in Hell all along has just made him feel even more self-righteous and hard-done-by.
There's also of course the little matter of the Sinnerman, and who really was this underworld figure that so many people were terrified of. Not to mention why the Sinnerman was so desperate for Lucifer to be the one to kill him. What was that all about?
We'll see, I suppose. In the meantime, I hope I'm right about that love triangle business.
Needless to say, the procedural part of the episode was pretty dull, but there was lots of other good stuff in it - the Lucifer/Amenadiel confrontation, where Amenadiel reminded Lucifer yet again that there were still many things Dad could take away from him if Lucifer pisses him off enough (which Lucifer seemed to have pretty much forgotten about, even though I'm sure Amenadiel has said it before, and I think Maze has too). Then there was the Maze/Amenadiel confrontation, which was also pretty awesome. I think more and more that Maze's extreme anger comes not just from her sense of betrayal, but also from the fact that she's in love with Linda. But I may be way off there. Again, we'll see.
Finally, couldn't not mention the wonderful Charlotte/Linda scene at the end. Tricia Helfer knocked it out the park there, I thought. Also, the actress playing Abel was terrific. I'm sorry she's gone so soon - and was pretty surprised when that truck killed her. Was not expecting that at all.
Other stuff: the Cain/Abel endless torture stuff, where Cain is doomed to kill Abel over and over forever and Abel is doomed to be killed by Cain forever likewise, comes straight from The Sandman Wikipedia tells me. Glad to see the show using more of its source material.
Glad to see Lucifer's wings again too. For a minute, I was taken aback that he can suddenly go to hell and back so easily. But then I remembered that he expected Amenadiel to be able to do the same before he realised Amenadiel had lost his wings. So, no hell tokens or dying temporarily needed.
Tom Ellis also said in a recent interview that he'd quite like the show to play more with the darkness of the source material. I doubt they will, though, if they think they have a winning formula.
Not that the show has been officially renewed yet. I'm getting a bit anxious about it, have to say. :(
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Date: 2018-03-08 01:03 pm (UTC)Well, he has been capable of that for a while - from season 1, in fact. But yes, I agree this is a further evolution, because it meant him breaking his word to Pierce and up to now his word once given has been more important to him than anything, even Chloe.