I think Lucifer and Cain make a great couple.
What? They had a little lover’s spat and then made up by talking it through. It’s a good healthy relationship.
Well, if you subtract the parts where they lied about who they are, aren’t actually married, and one wants to use a chainsaw on the other.
Ever notice you sound completely insane when talking about TV shows? Whenever I’m talking to my friends about one I feel like someone is going to walk in at the wrong moment. The devil used a chainsaw on Cain. No, I’m not nuts. Why do you ask? It was a TV show. I swear!
Anyway, I wonder how long before they actually get to the bottom of how Chloe’s effect on Lucifer really works. If you watch the series as whole from beginning to end you’ll notice Chloe’s effect is getting stronger as we go along.
In the first episode both of them are shot but the bullet has no ill effects on Lucifer. He’s able to recover as normal. A few episodes later she shoots him and injures him but not for very long. He starts to heal as soon as he’s away from her. In season two Chloe had to be nearly an entire campus away to stop the effects. Early on in season two he didn’t even need to know she was nearby for it to work.
In this episode Lucifer discovers Cain doesn’t want to care about anyone because he knows he’ll outlive them. Lucifer does not have this same problem he hasn’t lived among humans long enough for one to die by old age. Lucifer cares about Chloe and it seems the more he does the more vulnerable it makes him.
If Cain could do the same thing by letting someone in again, maybe he could be killed same as Lucifer.
It’s entirely possible this person could be Chloe for him as well but he hasn’t let himself care. Chloe’s existence is still an anomaly. A union blessed by an angel for a child. Chloe is literally an act of God’s Will. Why? Who knows? God. I’m sure. But not us.
Anyway, back to the episode last night.
One thing I love about Lucifer is it’s ability to be funny and serious at the same time. It took a brutal murder and with Lucifer’s lack of tack made it funny. The overly cooperative mob, the drug dealer in suburbia. Even Chloe and Dan talking about almost moving there once because it was nice and safe… Or not.
The whole neighborhood looked like some kind of culturally approved form of cult. I’m sorry suburbia is always portrayed as some kind of evil onto itself in TV and movies. It’s like you move there and your brainwashed into grass height and bush height. Neighborhood barbeques and other activities where everyone who lives there is so likeminded and ridiculously organized. It’s weird. I’ve never liked it and honestly it freaks me out more then most things.
People get so uptight over grass or bushes or where their kids play, how they play, who they play with, and being utterly perfect in all endeavors it takes a lot out of people. Most stories like this involve someone snapping because they can’t take it anymore or take it too far. Things that actually happen to people, I’m afraid.
I could never live in a neighborhood like that. I’d probably end up in the tree chipper. I’m horrible at keeping things organized or cutting my grass regularly. My house would be the eyesore because it’d look different. I like different, I like weird, and I hate being uniform unless it’s required with a purpose. Like playing a sport or being in the military.
Watching Lucifer flaunt the rules was awesome. Again, that’d probably be me without the sexy random strangers. I’d purposely drive the people there nuts with my indifference to the rules.
The little spat between Cain and Lucifer at the barbeque was funny. Chloe pushing Lucifer back into the house was great. It illustrates how well she can get through to him. Sometimes.
I wonder how this little partnership between Cain and Lucifer is going to work out in the long run.
As for Maze’s storyline in this episode, I could not stop laughing throughout her scenes with Charlotte. They were hilarious. I couldn’t figure out what Maze was smelling until she explained it. I was also glad she didn’t fall back into any of her own bad habits. She made a decision last season to be her own person and she’s sticking to it.
However, Charlotte’s flabbergasted reaction to Maze was perfect but it helped her realize she’s not 100 percent yet. She’s still got a long road in the wake of what happened to her. But she’s got help and someone who doesn’t mind the less then normal.
Seriously, I find myself wondering this so often when I watch TV shows: What’s the big deal with normal?
They all want normal lives back. Find some normal. I want to be normal. We have to do this to be normal. Get things back to normal.
Good gracious. Why? Normal is overrated. I want to be weird. I want to be myself. If that means dealing with crazy things on a daily basis, sign me up. Why can’t I ever have one character who tells me I want to be weird? Or different?
One of my favorite TV shows growing up was Charmed. Phoebe and Paige both insisted on wanting to be witches because they loved the craft, helping people, and not being a witch turns their back on who they are fundamentally. I loved that they owned their own specialness. Yeah, it came with bad stuff, cost them a sister, but it brought them one too. They looked for the good in the weird and different and I loved that. Still do.
Not enough characters in the world declaring they want the abnormal life, thank you very much.
So those are my thoughts on the latest Lucifer! Let me know what you thought!
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