LUCIFER
Okay, full disclosure, a) I used to think Tom Ellis was good looking, but maybe age and this tv show haven’t done him any favours and b) I’m still annoyed they killed Leslie Shay on Chicago Fire. that being said, let’s talk about Lucifer.
As I was checking out of Amazon for Cards Against Humanity, I accidently signed up to Prime one month free trial (note to self: remember to cancel), so I figured I’d put it to good use - and watch the second series of Sneaky Pete. After that was over, I flicked through the other shows and landed on Lucifer. Someone I know quite enjoys it, so I thought “what the heck, I’ll give it a go.”
There may be spoilers ahead...
I’m nearing towards the end of the second series and honestly, the only reason I’m still watching it (besides my free trial) is in hope that Lucifer and Decker never get together. I really enjoyed the fact that Decker was more or less instantly repulsed by Lucifer - because it’s easy to see why. And I get the bad boy gone good anti-hero trope they’re trying to play with here, but in the 30-odd episodes I’ve watched, he hasn’t really gotten better. For the most part, probably because he thinks he doesn’t need to. But where I’m at in the series, they’ve already kissed, feelings have long been developed and she clearly doesn’t feel as repulsed by him as she did in the first season. The thing that bugs me most about this show and their arc is that it’s a very inorganic blossoming of their relationship. It started during the first season, how Lucifer would come in on a case, find a way to cause trouble in it, vaguely save the day and Decker thanking him and/or apologising. All the while, he rarely shows any gratitude or remorse. Again, I know it’s in his character to do so and that’s fine by me, but I feel it shouldn’t necessarily be in her character to give in so easily. She says he doesn’t lie, yet she doesn’t believe he’s the devil. She says she relies on him, yet in nearly every episode he does something to make himself unreliable and she points it out. She says he’s a good person, yet he’s stubborn, selfish, arrogant, snobby, vindictive, douchey to Detective Douche (Dan, Decker’s ex-husband) etc etc etc. And again, he’s the devil, those personality traits are absolutely fine. I don’t care that he’s stubborn, selfish, arrogant, snobby yada yada yada. I care that this supposedly wholesome, good natured Detective has fallen for him, because it doesn’t make sense. Until they add the caveat that Decker was made by God for the purpose of meeting Lucifer. But technically we don’t know to what end - well at least where I’m at in the series. I was so hoping that it turns out she’s technically his sister by immaculate conception. That’s currently not where this story is heading. I just really want them to not be together. It’s kind of gross.