Lucifer season 3 episode 24
May. 15th, 2018 06:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightWatched this early this morning, then was out for the whole day. Mulled it over a bit and have decided...
Spoilers
...that if that really is the last episode ever I can grit my teeth and live with it. Well, kind of. Okay, given that the showrunners (who I'm still angry with) insist Lucifer is a redemption story, it would have been better if Chloe had seen Lucifer's wings rather than his devil face as a way of learning the truth about him, but since the plan for season 4 appears to have been her learning to deal with that truth in all its aspects while Lucifer dealt with the fact that, despite Chloe, he still considers himself a monster (hence the return of the devil face), this was the way they decided to go - with Chloe seeing the truth at the worst possible moment, or whatever.
So if that really is the ending, it was rather downbeat, but it could have been worse. Chloe could have been shrinking away in horror, but they cut to black before she could. But the main thing is that she knows the truth that's been staring her in the face ever since season 1.
That apart, if this really was the last ever episode, the Amenadiel/Charlotte ending in the previous one works really well for those characters, and at least Dan and Ella both had something significant to do in this episode, plus some good character scenes with the leads. Also Maze and Linda's story ended how you might hope it would.
Tom Welling of course was still the fly in the ointment. His pretend upset about Charlotte was so fake that I'm surprised anyone believed it, let alone Chloe. Plus, even in the (really spectacular) fight scene with Lucifer at the end he just looked like this great big sack of lard being thrown around. Plus the whole Sinnerman story still made not much sense. I'm just sorry so much of the last episode had to be wasted on him/it.
Oh well, I'm still not hopeful the show will be picked up by anyone. I feel if it were going to be it would have been already. All I want to know now is what is going to happen to the two standalone episodes they filmed for season 4, which co-showrunner Joe Henderson says in this interview have been 'shelved.' One is Ella-centric, and the other - very intriguingly - introduces God as a character, though only as a voice, that voice having been provided by Neil Gaiman. I would so much like to see these, not least because - since they were meant to be shown in season 4 - they might provide at least clues as to how the Chloe/Lucifer relationship was going to develop post-reveal.
Anyway, until those episodes do appear somewhere (God, I hope they do, even if only on the DVDs), I guess it's goodbye Lucifer. I don't (still) know why I loved you so much, but I did. Very sad still that this is the end.
ETA: Should have mentioned, was gratified to know that at least one thing I'd speculated about was right - it was Lucifer and Pierce falling in love with Chloe that made them vulnerable to her. Not the other way around.
Spoilers
...that if that really is the last episode ever I can grit my teeth and live with it. Well, kind of. Okay, given that the showrunners (who I'm still angry with) insist Lucifer is a redemption story, it would have been better if Chloe had seen Lucifer's wings rather than his devil face as a way of learning the truth about him, but since the plan for season 4 appears to have been her learning to deal with that truth in all its aspects while Lucifer dealt with the fact that, despite Chloe, he still considers himself a monster (hence the return of the devil face), this was the way they decided to go - with Chloe seeing the truth at the worst possible moment, or whatever.
So if that really is the ending, it was rather downbeat, but it could have been worse. Chloe could have been shrinking away in horror, but they cut to black before she could. But the main thing is that she knows the truth that's been staring her in the face ever since season 1.
That apart, if this really was the last ever episode, the Amenadiel/Charlotte ending in the previous one works really well for those characters, and at least Dan and Ella both had something significant to do in this episode, plus some good character scenes with the leads. Also Maze and Linda's story ended how you might hope it would.
Tom Welling of course was still the fly in the ointment. His pretend upset about Charlotte was so fake that I'm surprised anyone believed it, let alone Chloe. Plus, even in the (really spectacular) fight scene with Lucifer at the end he just looked like this great big sack of lard being thrown around. Plus the whole Sinnerman story still made not much sense. I'm just sorry so much of the last episode had to be wasted on him/it.
Oh well, I'm still not hopeful the show will be picked up by anyone. I feel if it were going to be it would have been already. All I want to know now is what is going to happen to the two standalone episodes they filmed for season 4, which co-showrunner Joe Henderson says in this interview have been 'shelved.' One is Ella-centric, and the other - very intriguingly - introduces God as a character, though only as a voice, that voice having been provided by Neil Gaiman. I would so much like to see these, not least because - since they were meant to be shown in season 4 - they might provide at least clues as to how the Chloe/Lucifer relationship was going to develop post-reveal.
Anyway, until those episodes do appear somewhere (God, I hope they do, even if only on the DVDs), I guess it's goodbye Lucifer. I don't (still) know why I loved you so much, but I did. Very sad still that this is the end.
ETA: Should have mentioned, was gratified to know that at least one thing I'd speculated about was right - it was Lucifer and Pierce falling in love with Chloe that made them vulnerable to her. Not the other way around.