DC Comics Series Lucifer

Well, to be fair, they only have 42 minutes. it's really hard for them to introduce too many characters, and it's unsatisfying to see the murder successfully pinned on an unexplored random. So the only thing they can do differently, really, is to have the murderer be someone who was already cleared once. Even that will get old if they do use that enough to offset the tiresome cliches of now.

They can try to shake things up. Pick ideas from Agatha Christie's playbook. Or have the episode be about finding the murderer instead of identifying him.

Or, heck, go part of the way towards shows like Murder in the First. Have each murder be a mini-arc of two or three episodes.

But you know these procedurals are mostly there for the gimmicks. Castle had the writer aspect, Monk had the illness aspect, this has the Devil himself. The case is generally secondary in the long run. It's about the story behind the gimmick all the way.

Which is understandable. Police procedurals are cheap and have proven to have staying power. It would just be nice if they were better about changing it up a little. I know Castle liked to play with meta-tropes (having the famous guest star turn out to be innocent, or stumbling onto a spy ring that turns out to be a high-class LARP club), and so on. Lucifer can just be a bit more blatant because the overarching Myth Arc is both much more interesting than the individual cases and rarely has anything to do with them at all.

That K-pop fight scene was glorious.

Researching how to kill an immortal being? The Da Vinci Code is a good place to start.

edited 5th Feb '18 5:04:13 PM by Eagal

Looking forward to the next psychotherapy sessions now.

The Maze/Ella association was surprisingly entertaining, although I wish they solved Maze's jealousy issues already instead of dragging them through all recaps.

This season feels a bit strange because while the endgame is quite obvious, the conflict isn't. In season 2, you could see the potentially disastrous consequences of the Celestial's plans, but here? I figure we are in for a big twist to up the stakes, because right now it looks like all could theoretically end up without anyone getting hurt (aside from the obvious).

Amenadiel will remove Cain's Mark and God will send Azrael to clean house. Mass "Oh, Crap!" ensues. End of season.

Oh yes, that would be a good way to do it. They've been hinting that Azrael was coming for a while, and they've said repeatedly that defying God is a bad idea but haven't actually shown anything besides Amenadiel losing his wings.

Ooooh...is Lucifer going to emulate Barry Allen?

Undo the reason the curse exists in the first place...so what is Lucifer going to bring Abel back to life? :hmm

I found Lucifer's nightmare a bit Narmy.

"Lucifer told me to tell you this is exactly the opposite of what Amenadiel wants."

"I'm in."

Lucifer hit Maze with Reverse Psychology. It's super effective!

I get the feeling this show could very easily get the Person of Interest treatment, moving from a classical procedural format (1 mystery to solve in 42 minutes) to a real arc story. Although not in 20+ episodes, but if the audiences lower and it gets down to 13 maybe? Not that I wish it to end, it is a really entertaining one.

Although I was not expecting such an emotional scene at the end, especially not coming from Maze.

If Chloe isn't Jesus, I must try to not feel too disappointed, because with the way this show's going - it's both so logical and so hilarious if she's reincarnation of Jesus.

To my memory Lucifer (the series and the man) have both been conspicuously silent on the subject of J-diddy, considering how bluntly Lucifer questions any and all of God's decisions. Foreshadowing?

I'd love for them to introduce Gabriel as Lucifer's hippie brother who does some of the mircles, implying J was him.

A very Love Triangle-y episode.

After I watched the latest episode, I spent some time trying to understand why I haven't given up on this show, why I'm still quite entertained.

Because, Jesus Christ... if another show did the marriage plot-thingy - I'd be copying Pontius Pilate and washing my hands clean off this show post-haste.

I'm mostly just watching out of habit still, but she show does have an interesting trait where it has very good scene by scene writing, as in they write snappy dialogue and have good set pieces for individual scenes, but the long term writing is pretty disastrous. All of their larger arcs are disappointing and the characters, while maybe at least consistent, are very one note and route.

This means that you can usually get through an episode being moderately entertained, but you don't really care about the show or the characters as there's nothing to sink your teeth in for the long run.

edited 1st May '18 5:14:22 PM by GabrieltheThird

I just think the supernatural characters are extremely stupid now. Then again, that makes sense. They're probably not far off from what unsocialized supernatural beings in the real world would be like. I definitely thought it was supremely idiotic that nobody even thought that maybe it was Cain's affection for Chloe that ended his curse, rather than her love for him. I mean, I've been pretty sure that Lucifer's wings returned and his Devil Face disappeared because he did a good deed for his mom instead of just sending her back to Hell. And yet the idiot's never given that a single thought either. I mean, how fucking blind do you have to be to not see that Devil Face doesn't jive with Good Deeds? They don't go together. Period.

Given that Linda the shrink is a human, AND knows all this stuff, I'm wondering whether she's on the stupid train too, or if she just knows that suggesting such a thing to Lucifer is bound to have disastrous consequences. Because I could see that totally being an accidental reverse psychology thing where she says "you did a good deed for your mom. Of course you're back to seeming like a good Angel!" and him thinking, "then let me be evil" and going all Mob Boss on LA to get his face back.

R.I.P. Charlotte Richards.

Well, at least something happened.

finally

In other news, Lucifer is cancelled.

edited 14th May '18 9:50:41 AM by ZheToralf

And yet Game of Thrones continues going strong. Where's the justice?