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[potentiality_26]

I watched a couple of episodes of Lucifer because I had to know.  It's not a bad show by any means, and I found it entertaining, but I stand by my original point and I have some issues with it.



1) The similarities to Castle are frankly astonishing here.  It's the same eccentric yet useful male character who follows around the uptight lady cop character until she lets him help and there's UST.  The only difference is that he's a club owner instead of a writer and also he's the devil, which doesn't effect the basic premise as much as you'd think.  I mean, there are angels and demons and people with (kinda) superpowers on this show, and yet they're solving regular run of the mill homicides, because that's apparently what the world needed more of.

2) It's crazy heteronormative.  Like there's a bit with a gay guy in one of the episodes I saw, and no one was homophobic, but having Lucifer be bi seems like such an obvious choice that I hate that he's just so straight.  I mean maybe they were afraid to tread on that ground when it's the devil or whatever, but it's really counterintuitive for this character who flirts with everyone (and by everyone I mean all the women) and gets flirted with in return to not... branch out more.    

Chloe's kid is really cute though.  The show has that going for it; she's adorable.


I watched some of Shadowhunters too.  I've missed a couple episodes so I can't really judge it but my feelings are sort of... mixed?  Like it's certainly pretty, the ideas are interesting, and Malec is cool- but it's weird for me to see a show where I don't recognize a single actor, and I find the writing quality a bit low.

Also, I have questions about Jace and Clary:



From what I've heard the show is pretty different from the books but I'm hoping maybe someone who has read them could maybe tell me what the deal with those two is?  My impression going in was that Clary and Jace were the love story, like I saw a lot of people going "OMG they finally kissed and it was perfect" and all that, and then it turns out they're siblings and the show's like "let's put that away real fast" and I so desperately want to know what's happening there.  I mean... Are they not the big love story?  Is he gonna be the bad guy now or something?  Or are they going to turn out not to be related after all?  Or are they going to get back together even if they are?  (I doubt it'll be that last one with a series like this, but hey, sometimes crazy shit happens.)

Seriously, what's endgame here?  Wikipedia could probably answer some of these questions for me, but I'm lazy- and right now I'm just really confused about where that's going.


I've also been spoiled about what happened in the Sleepy Hollow finale.  It's put an end to what desire I had to ever get back into the show, which is sad.  I'll always miss the first season.  It was so good.
  

Comments

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

The first season was the best...why couldn't they have stuck to that (and to less prejudice?!?!)

*Headdesk*

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

Yes! It was so good! And like... I trusted them. It was so good that I thought there was no way things would go as wrong as they eventually did.

I just don't get it. Shows have better access than ever to what people want to see- and I don't expect them to just do everything their fans want all the time, it just wouldn't be possible, but you would think they would at least use it to zero in on what people liked about the show and not slowly ditch all of it.

[verdande-mi.livejournal.com]

Jace’s not a bad guy and he and Clary are end game (though I have a few books left)

The show handled their relationship and romance so much better than the books, well that’s my opinion anyway. In the books it is way too much focus on the two of them (way overkill if you ask me), but they are the big romance. Magnus/Alec and Isabelle/Simon are on the side-line, but I like how their relationships are written so much better.

Clary and Jace believe for a time they are brother and sister, but that is just a lie, but we haven’t gotten that far yet in the show.

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd get bored pretty fast if they were even more the focus than they are on the show.

I was thinking it would probably turn out that they weren't siblings after all but it's just such an odd plot-point, you know? I was watching kind of going, "Why is this happening?"

[verdande-mi.livejournal.com]

It got grating to me in the books, but I must say, the author does get better and better handling such stuff with each new book I read. And with the book I am reading now (the Clockwork Prince) I have no complains and are quite impressed actually.

Yeah, the show could have spent a little more time on that storyline and in general on Valentine and the history, which could have helped the Clary-Jace storyline make more sense. The season really needed some more episodes in my opinion.

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

Yeah, more episodes would probably have helped. It seemed like the show had a lot to do and not a lot of time to do it.

[megan-moonlight.livejournal.com]

I wanted to give a second try to both these shows, but I guess they're just not my thing. Which is sad, because a lot of my friends watch them (I like Malec, though, but I can watch their scenes without watching the rest of the show).

I've read about the Sleepy Hollow thing, and whie I wasn't watching the show, it made me sad. I saw the first few episodes and this character was one of the only two I cared about :(

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

Is there a collection of just Malec scenes up somewhere yet? I'd definitely enjoy that more than the show itself. It's kind of a hot mess. And Lucifer... it's just not doing anything new.

I watched the first season of Sleepy Hollow pretty seriously and I cared about everyone, but she was my favorite. Even if she hadn't been, I'd still be sad. It was just such a terrible thing for the show to do.

[megan-moonlight.livejournal.com]

There is a whole playlist when you check YouTube. It's a list of all Alec's scenes, Magnus' scenes and their scenes together. It saved me a lot of time, really.

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

Cool! I'll look into that.