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1. ( The Usefulness of Boycotting Television Shows and Movies )
2. Lucifer
Say what you will about Lucifer, they write the best stand-a-lone episodes. Or at the very least provide a lot of character development during them. I was highly impressed by the amount of character development and insight in this episode. Also two excellent guest stars. John Billingsly and Patrick Fabian (two journeymen actors who have played a lot of character roles between them).
I can sort of see why this episode aired this year as opposed to last year. It would have been a bit more jarring last year, and sort of disruptive of the story thread. On the other hand...it's a bit jarring here too. For a while I was trying to figure out where we were in the time-line, until I realized it was depicting events we weren't privy to, a year ago. (I think the writers should have introduced the character earlier in previous episodes for this to have worked. It seemed odd that they hadn't and a bit jarring.) That said, I was able to hand-wave it for the most part, because I loved the character development.
Also I feel validated for being spot-on in regards to my analysis/interpretation of this season's take on Hell. The show went out of its way to spell it out for us. Thank you writers. Since the show has brought it up various times and went out of it's way to make it a major theme in this episode -- I'm guessing I'm also right in thinking it's important. It's nice to feel validated. Don't often get that from television serials.
Although...it is a tad confusing -- the hell depicted in S1 seems really different than the hell depicted in S2-3. S1 seems more traditional, along with the devil, while 2-3 seems more revisionist. I may be wrong about that -- I admittedly have only watched S1 once, and memory isn't the most trustworthy thing in the universe.
( Spoilers )
2. Lucifer
Say what you will about Lucifer, they write the best stand-a-lone episodes. Or at the very least provide a lot of character development during them. I was highly impressed by the amount of character development and insight in this episode. Also two excellent guest stars. John Billingsly and Patrick Fabian (two journeymen actors who have played a lot of character roles between them).
I can sort of see why this episode aired this year as opposed to last year. It would have been a bit more jarring last year, and sort of disruptive of the story thread. On the other hand...it's a bit jarring here too. For a while I was trying to figure out where we were in the time-line, until I realized it was depicting events we weren't privy to, a year ago. (I think the writers should have introduced the character earlier in previous episodes for this to have worked. It seemed odd that they hadn't and a bit jarring.) That said, I was able to hand-wave it for the most part, because I loved the character development.
Also I feel validated for being spot-on in regards to my analysis/interpretation of this season's take on Hell. The show went out of its way to spell it out for us. Thank you writers. Since the show has brought it up various times and went out of it's way to make it a major theme in this episode -- I'm guessing I'm also right in thinking it's important. It's nice to feel validated. Don't often get that from television serials.
Although...it is a tad confusing -- the hell depicted in S1 seems really different than the hell depicted in S2-3. S1 seems more traditional, along with the devil, while 2-3 seems more revisionist. I may be wrong about that -- I admittedly have only watched S1 once, and memory isn't the most trustworthy thing in the universe.
( Spoilers )