Lucifer season 3 episode 22
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shapinglightJust watched this, and to compound my gloom about the show possibly being cancelled...
Spoilers behind cut.
...have to admit it was not a favourite by any means.
On Twitter, the showrunners/writers were talking it up as a reprise of the season 2 episode, Girls' Night Out, but in reality it was kind of the anti-girls' night out, since everyone except Ella (and possibly Linda when she wasn't too busy yelling at Maze) had their own agenda and weren't really focused on Chloe and her actual needs.
Mind you, even in the original season 2 episode, Maze had an agenda. But in that, she transcended it. Here, quite the opposite. I'm not really arguing about it from a character POV, though. Maze is a demon, she's really pissed off and is being very demonic. It's going to be a toss up which between Lucifer and Pierce she's most angry at as to who she ends up killing by the end of the season, I suspect. However, female bonding friendly, this episode was not.
The Chloe part of the episode was never going to quite work for me because her decision to accept Pierce's proposal never worked for me on the Doylist level anyway (due to complete lack of chemistry between Tom Welling and...well, anyone except Tom Ellis). Not to mention, her decision to break off the engagement leaves her in the icky situation of still working for the guy whose offer of marriage she just threw back in his face, when I feel that she would have been too sensible ever to get herself in that big a hole in the first place, Pierce's great (according to some) arms, or not.
So that didn't really work for me, as I said, not to mention the whole break up being pretty much a foregone conclusion. What also didn't work for me was the Lucifer/Dan team-up. I do like them together, but this time it felt a little forced simply because the daft conclusion Lucifer had come to this week (one of a string of them, of course) felt all wrong after his Dr Linda-inspired revelation of the week before.
It seems like nothing he learns ever sticks for long.
All the above said, there were plenty of things I did like in the episode, not least Charlotte's machinations. In fact, Tricia Helfer was great all the way through.
Which brings me to my final gripe. As I've said before, co-showrunner Joe Henderson has been saying on Twitter that the season ends with a massive cliffhanger. I'd persuaded myself (no idea why, that's not how these shows work) that it would be Lucifer finally showing Chloe his wings (or his devil face if he gets that back). Now, having seen some possible (not at all verified) spoilers by accident, I'm afraid it's not that at all, and am getting Joss Whedon inspired warning bells going off in my head about anyone who seems too happy.
More gloom.
On the other hand, Pierce's nasty look at Lucifer and Chloe at the end of the episode makes me hopeful that everyone will find out before the end of the season that he was the real Sinnerman all along. Also that we might find out why the fake Sinnerman was so desperate for Lucifer to be the one to kill him. Given how hard he tried to make Lucifer furious with him I think that might be the key. Maybe if Lucifer is angry enough he can kill Cain/Pierce mark or no mark. Or maybe none of it will get referenced ever again.
Trivial(er) stuff: I wish Lucifer would dress down a little more often. I liked his 'pretending to be a real detective' look.
Spoilers behind cut.
...have to admit it was not a favourite by any means.
On Twitter, the showrunners/writers were talking it up as a reprise of the season 2 episode, Girls' Night Out, but in reality it was kind of the anti-girls' night out, since everyone except Ella (and possibly Linda when she wasn't too busy yelling at Maze) had their own agenda and weren't really focused on Chloe and her actual needs.
Mind you, even in the original season 2 episode, Maze had an agenda. But in that, she transcended it. Here, quite the opposite. I'm not really arguing about it from a character POV, though. Maze is a demon, she's really pissed off and is being very demonic. It's going to be a toss up which between Lucifer and Pierce she's most angry at as to who she ends up killing by the end of the season, I suspect. However, female bonding friendly, this episode was not.
The Chloe part of the episode was never going to quite work for me because her decision to accept Pierce's proposal never worked for me on the Doylist level anyway (due to complete lack of chemistry between Tom Welling and...well, anyone except Tom Ellis). Not to mention, her decision to break off the engagement leaves her in the icky situation of still working for the guy whose offer of marriage she just threw back in his face, when I feel that she would have been too sensible ever to get herself in that big a hole in the first place, Pierce's great (according to some) arms, or not.
So that didn't really work for me, as I said, not to mention the whole break up being pretty much a foregone conclusion. What also didn't work for me was the Lucifer/Dan team-up. I do like them together, but this time it felt a little forced simply because the daft conclusion Lucifer had come to this week (one of a string of them, of course) felt all wrong after his Dr Linda-inspired revelation of the week before.
It seems like nothing he learns ever sticks for long.
All the above said, there were plenty of things I did like in the episode, not least Charlotte's machinations. In fact, Tricia Helfer was great all the way through.
Which brings me to my final gripe. As I've said before, co-showrunner Joe Henderson has been saying on Twitter that the season ends with a massive cliffhanger. I'd persuaded myself (no idea why, that's not how these shows work) that it would be Lucifer finally showing Chloe his wings (or his devil face if he gets that back). Now, having seen some possible (not at all verified) spoilers by accident, I'm afraid it's not that at all, and am getting Joss Whedon inspired warning bells going off in my head about anyone who seems too happy.
More gloom.
On the other hand, Pierce's nasty look at Lucifer and Chloe at the end of the episode makes me hopeful that everyone will find out before the end of the season that he was the real Sinnerman all along. Also that we might find out why the fake Sinnerman was so desperate for Lucifer to be the one to kill him. Given how hard he tried to make Lucifer furious with him I think that might be the key. Maybe if Lucifer is angry enough he can kill Cain/Pierce mark or no mark. Or maybe none of it will get referenced ever again.
Trivial(er) stuff: I wish Lucifer would dress down a little more often. I liked his 'pretending to be a real detective' look.
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Date: 2018-05-06 09:17 am (UTC)Same here. The much-lauded arms do nothing for me.
FWIW, though, I've rewatched this episode and I like it better the second time around. Lucifer's behaviour, while still ridiculous, makes a lot more sense than it did the first time. After re-watching all three of the latest episodes, even Chloe's does, up to a point. There are clues here and there, such as her thinking Pierce's initial rejection of her was her fault, which suggests she was linking it with the time she thought she and Lucifer were a 'thing' only for him to disappear off to Vegas and come back married to 'Candy.' In light of that, her acceptance of Pierce's proposal of marriage- which she's obviously regretting right from the beginning of this latest episode - makes more sense. It's still all a bit muddy, though.
I also once again thought that Tricia Helfer as Charlotte was the best thing in the episode. I never thought the Lucifer writers could find something really convincing to do with the character once she wasn't Mum any more, but they've managed it. It does seem like a short term thing, though.