Lucifer

1. Got kinda bored watching the latest Lucifer episode....entitled Anything Pierce Can Do I Can Do Better. And looked up spoilers...there's three episodes left.

SpoilersGuide Lucifer

They are:

1. Episode 22 - All Hands On Decker -- Chloe asks for time off and Dan/Lucifer solve a case.
2. Episode 23 -- Quintessential Decker
3. Episode 24 -- A Devil of My Word (Final)


2. Five things the writers need to fix about Lucifer in order to survive. Otherwise this show is going to end either this year or next year.

* Avoid cliche love triangles. They've been overdone and unless you have equally charismatic leads and know how to write it and are working on a daytime soap serial or a night-time soap serial? And your whole story is basically love relationships -- don't do it.

* Kill off Pierce and bring back a female Lieutenant, build on the female relationships. We need more powerful female characters, who are not overly sexualized or demeaned.

* Do not do a boss/employee relationship -- in the post #metoo environment (it's offensive), boss/employee love relationships are skeevey. It's a power imbalance and impossible to watch without cringing. Don't do it unless you are a daytime serial and/or serial drama and focus more on characters.

* Bring in more from the comics verse, build up the world a bit more. Get away from the repetitive Daddy issues. Spend more on CGI, less on stunt casting that doesn't work. Make it more a fantasy series than a procedural. The mysteries of the week are boring and don't make a lot of sense.

* More female bonding. Have Chloe work with Ella on a case. Maze work with Linda. It's a little too male centric.

It may be too late.

3. Lucifer - Episode 21 - Anything Pierce Can Do I Can Do Better

Outside of the fact that the plot and Pierce's characterization don't work, there were a few good bits in the episode.

Good bits first.

( good bits or things that worked )

Bad bits...unfortunately everything else. Which was about 80% of the episode. This is a problem.

( bad bids )

I think the writers have some issues. The acting is actually fine as is the direction. I feel sorry for the actors, it's not their fault that they are stuck with bad writers.

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1. Comfort television shows. Mine appear to be:

* Buffy
* Angel
* The Good Place
* Farscape
* Star Trek
* Doctor Who

I'm re-watching Buffy and Angel on Hulu now. Yes, I have the DVDs, but I decided to get Hulu with no commercials so I could stream. Sigh. I also own the DVDs to a portion of Doctor Who and all of Farscape. And I liked Veronica Mars.

What this says about me, I honestly don't know. Caveat -- I have to like 98% of the characters for a show to be a comfort show.

The new television shows just aren't working for me at the moment. Don't know why.

Also in rewatching? Spike was a better developed character than Angel, he kept evolving and changing while Angel had two settings - this was due mainly to the actors relationships to the writers than anything else. Marsters is unrecognizable in various roles, while Boreanze plays himself and is always recognizable. In addition it's clear Angel was a very two-dimensional character, with a soul brooding, without -- pure evil, while Spike fell more among the spectrum, and was never quite as evil as Angel. In Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Spike gives Dru a necklace, Angelus - a human heart.
It should be noted when I originally watched this live, I was shipping Angel and Buffy and didn't figure out that the writers had no intention of putting them together until S1 Angel - I Will Rememer You.

Also the paralleling of Angel and Cordelia and their cruelty is evident in Bewitched. I think Whedon came from some of the same educational background I did and somehow hit a chord. At any rate the show worked for me.

I know a lot of fans didn't like one of the following: Spike, Buffy, Angel, Xander, Willow, Tara, OZ, Giles, Cordelia, Joyce, Giles, Drusilla, Riley, Dawn, etc. But for the most part? I loved all of them. Which made me a weird fan. I had no problem analyzing any of the above. So I became very popular on the fanboards in 2002-2003, because I loved all of them. There's a lesson in that. Fighting with people over favorite characters is counter-productive. Kindness and love gets you further, always. Also being patronizing, self-righteous, condescending turns folks off. You can't change another's mind, I learned that. You can't attack their argument by attacking them. Morally righteous tends to end in failure. The only way to win is through love. Nothing else.

Why I loved all of the above? They are character centric, metaphor heavy, and over-arching message is caring about others not just yourself and your own tribe or family.

2. Politics

I've found over time it works better to attacks the politics not the person. Which is hard to do.
So I've backed off.

3. I'm struggling with my social life. I want to hide. All week long -- intense human interaction.
Then I want a break.

I bought a membership for Brooklyn Museum of Art for $75 Bucks. It furthers art. And I get free tickets to David Bowie. Also concerts.

And, it's not that far on the Q.