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shadowkat1. I'm not sure if anyone is watching Lucifer outside of shapinglight?
Anyhow...I'm finding I'm enjoying it for the most part, except for the procedural bits or mystery of the week, which the writers don't appear to care that much about anyhow.
This past week's Lucifer was really good. Even brought back that 1990s song, What if God was One of Us by Joan Osborn.
The best part about this series is the character interactions, and the extended dysfunctional family dynamics of Lucifer's family and how they are interelating with Detective Chloe Deker's family.
They've done a good job of killing the faux love triangle between Chloe/Lucifer and her ex, by throwing her ex in bed with Charlotte, aka Lucifer's mom.
And I rather liked having God pop up, albeit maybe not...and Lucifer being fooled by it. A man wearing God's belt buckle or the divine buckle for the flaming sword, got imbued with the divine and thought he was God, to such a degree that so did Lucifer.
Charlotte realized he wasn't when she kissed him. But like Lucifer both were upset it was an illusion because they wanted it to be real. Both feel rejected by "God" and are acting out in rage. Although not enough to make sword work -- it needs two more pieces.
And the reason it needs to work is Charlotte aka Mom is breaking apart...and doesn't have much longer.
The additional characters this week worked better than previous weeks, God, the nurse who wanted to kill her mother because her mother had tortured her and now was killing everyone who figured it out or tried to stop her -- nice analogy to Lucifer and God. Setting it up so God would kill Lucifer...his son. And the Doctor who like Det. Deker doesn't believe Lucifer or God.
Doctor Linda did...and how she pushes at Lucifer about what he really wants, and how he has to let himself feel the pain.
Oh and God, he asks Lucifer if he really thinks he has no free will? That's Lucifer's problem, he doesn't believe he does, he can't own his choices...he believes it is all manipulated by God or all God's plan. He really has no understanding of free will.
And feels rejected by his father.
Loved that God embodied via belt buckle a Texas Oil Man. LOL!
2. Once Upon a Time Season Final -- this could have very easily been the series finale. And in some respects it was. And it ends happily. They make a big point of talking about new beginnings.
Over and over and over again. As if the writers want to slam home to the viewer that guess what, we are rebooting the show. Next year we'll have a whole new show, it's the same one, but a new beginning, new hero, new villains, etc.
I wish had faith in the writers to be innovative in this regard. But I read the break down and it's just a gender flip on the Henry/Emma bit. Now it's a little girl who finds her father, who has no memory of her, and asks him to help her, because his family needs him. The father is Henry Mills. So, instead of Emma being found by Henry, asking her to have belief. It's a little girl bringing the Once Upon a Time book to Henry and asking him to have faith...and the story she holds, is the story of his life in Storybrook.
My mother said the ending reminded her of Back to the Future 2 -- where they come back and say..."your family needs you". (This synced into a conversation about how the middle Back to the Future sucked, but parts 1 and 3 were pretty good. The only two things interesting about 2, was they predicted that the Cubs would win the World Series, and that someone like Trump would become President.)
The episode itself felt repetitive. I'd seen it before. Started fast-forwarding. The show, I think, has been stretched too thin. Not sure what they are going to do with Hook, Rumplestilskin and Regina...felt those characters had been sort of stretched thin as well, also redeemed as much as possible. What else is there to say? I mean how many times...can we revisit the same issues?
The problem sometimes with television series is they don't seem to when to call it quits.
3. In other news, finished The Smoke Thief -- and liked it a lot. Surprised me.
Granted the ending was...a bit on the syrupy side, but they all are. Anyhow, decided to read the next one in the series..."The Dream Thief".
Anyhow...I'm finding I'm enjoying it for the most part, except for the procedural bits or mystery of the week, which the writers don't appear to care that much about anyhow.
This past week's Lucifer was really good. Even brought back that 1990s song, What if God was One of Us by Joan Osborn.
The best part about this series is the character interactions, and the extended dysfunctional family dynamics of Lucifer's family and how they are interelating with Detective Chloe Deker's family.
They've done a good job of killing the faux love triangle between Chloe/Lucifer and her ex, by throwing her ex in bed with Charlotte, aka Lucifer's mom.
And I rather liked having God pop up, albeit maybe not...and Lucifer being fooled by it. A man wearing God's belt buckle or the divine buckle for the flaming sword, got imbued with the divine and thought he was God, to such a degree that so did Lucifer.
Charlotte realized he wasn't when she kissed him. But like Lucifer both were upset it was an illusion because they wanted it to be real. Both feel rejected by "God" and are acting out in rage. Although not enough to make sword work -- it needs two more pieces.
And the reason it needs to work is Charlotte aka Mom is breaking apart...and doesn't have much longer.
The additional characters this week worked better than previous weeks, God, the nurse who wanted to kill her mother because her mother had tortured her and now was killing everyone who figured it out or tried to stop her -- nice analogy to Lucifer and God. Setting it up so God would kill Lucifer...his son. And the Doctor who like Det. Deker doesn't believe Lucifer or God.
Doctor Linda did...and how she pushes at Lucifer about what he really wants, and how he has to let himself feel the pain.
Oh and God, he asks Lucifer if he really thinks he has no free will? That's Lucifer's problem, he doesn't believe he does, he can't own his choices...he believes it is all manipulated by God or all God's plan. He really has no understanding of free will.
And feels rejected by his father.
Loved that God embodied via belt buckle a Texas Oil Man. LOL!
2. Once Upon a Time Season Final -- this could have very easily been the series finale. And in some respects it was. And it ends happily. They make a big point of talking about new beginnings.
Over and over and over again. As if the writers want to slam home to the viewer that guess what, we are rebooting the show. Next year we'll have a whole new show, it's the same one, but a new beginning, new hero, new villains, etc.
I wish had faith in the writers to be innovative in this regard. But I read the break down and it's just a gender flip on the Henry/Emma bit. Now it's a little girl who finds her father, who has no memory of her, and asks him to help her, because his family needs him. The father is Henry Mills. So, instead of Emma being found by Henry, asking her to have belief. It's a little girl bringing the Once Upon a Time book to Henry and asking him to have faith...and the story she holds, is the story of his life in Storybrook.
My mother said the ending reminded her of Back to the Future 2 -- where they come back and say..."your family needs you". (This synced into a conversation about how the middle Back to the Future sucked, but parts 1 and 3 were pretty good. The only two things interesting about 2, was they predicted that the Cubs would win the World Series, and that someone like Trump would become President.)
The episode itself felt repetitive. I'd seen it before. Started fast-forwarding. The show, I think, has been stretched too thin. Not sure what they are going to do with Hook, Rumplestilskin and Regina...felt those characters had been sort of stretched thin as well, also redeemed as much as possible. What else is there to say? I mean how many times...can we revisit the same issues?
The problem sometimes with television series is they don't seem to when to call it quits.
3. In other news, finished The Smoke Thief -- and liked it a lot. Surprised me.
Granted the ending was...a bit on the syrupy side, but they all are. Anyhow, decided to read the next one in the series..."The Dream Thief".
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Date: 2017-05-27 10:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-05-28 03:45 am (UTC)Yeah, I think so too on the power couple. Curious where they go with it...