Lucifer 5x15 Thoughts
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iariaIs This Really How It's Going to End?!
+ :( Oh, Dan. I did not see that coming. It was heartbreaking. Chloe's breakdown as she held him as he died got to me.
+ I appreciate that they let Dan go out with respect and showing him as someone very capable - he realised the woman was being held hostage, he managed to leave a clue behind, he got free from the chair and fought back, he held on long enough to give them the final piece of information that allowed Lucifer and Amenadiel discover the truth of Michael's plan. I like that his last thoughts/words were for Trixie, and I'm glad for him that he died with Chloe instead of alone.
+ I really love that the Dan being in hell is what pushes Lucifer into deciding he has to be God. Before it was selfish, about wanting to feel worthy of Chloe's love. Now Daniel is in hell and the only way to save him from it is to be God and thus Lucifer is damn well going to become God even if it means war. Considering how their relationship has gone over the seasons, how disdainful Lucifer so often seems of him, it makes me really happy to see how much Lucifer actually does care. Also I just like so much more for Lucifer's reason to be about someone other than Chloe or himself. I mean it's still largely about himself - his grief over Dan's fate, his grief for the other people he loves grief - but it's also largely about the unfairness of what happened and is happening to Dan and the desire to change that.
+ Dan being in hell makes me hopeful that this isn't the last we'll see of him. For one thing I would be surprised if Lucifer/Maze/Amenadiel didn't go to hell to visit him. And while it's very unlikely he'll be brought back to life I am 100% sure that Dan's final fate isn't to stay in hell. He will be rescued. He will get into heaven (and reunite with Charlotte). I just hope we get to see it, as a better and happier goodbye to Dan, instead of only being told about it.
+ Honestly I should have guessed that Dan was in trouble when the show suddenly had him interacting with all the characters (Ella, Chloe, Trixie, Amenadiel) and when Lucifer took his kidnapping seriously enough to call in favours and be genuinely worried. But mostly that first part. I wish even more now that we'd gotten more Dan scenes this season - especially with Chloe and Trixie - and he'd gotten the support he desperately needed.
+ I'm choosing to take, until shown otherwise, that the lack of Maze/Dan scenes means that we'll see them interacting in hell together. Fingers crossed.
+ Chloe reaction to learning why Lucifer wanted to be God really worked for me.
+ I am not a fan of Amenadiel becoming a cop.
+ When Amenadiel pulled Linda into a hug at the funeral Ella was left standing beside them and looked so alone and I really wish Amenadiel had held out his other arm and pulled her into the hug too.
+ I liked how they shot Maze's grief fulled rage rampage and how menacing Lucifer was during it.
+ I liked that we did get to see what Lucifer really thinks of Dan. That he does respect him in his reassuring the others "This is Daniel. He's more than capable." That he does care about him in calling in his favours with the criminals in town and in his grief after Dan's death.
+ I thought it was interesting that Zadkiel, and thus I assume the other angels, know about Chloe and her being a 'gift' to Lucifer from their father. I guess Gabriel learned about it and spread it around? Zadkiel appeared very thoughtful when Lucifer revealed his reasoning and I think Lucifer doing it for his 'God given gift' might actually have been a reason Zadkiel finds acceptable. I wonder what the other angels think about this Lucifer getting this gift?
+ "Because 'he’s the devil you know'? Do you have any idea how ironically infuriating that is?" - Lucifer. Hee.
+ The line about doing a reading for 'a programming exec at Fox' amused me.
+ :( Oh, Dan. I did not see that coming. It was heartbreaking. Chloe's breakdown as she held him as he died got to me.
+ I appreciate that they let Dan go out with respect and showing him as someone very capable - he realised the woman was being held hostage, he managed to leave a clue behind, he got free from the chair and fought back, he held on long enough to give them the final piece of information that allowed Lucifer and Amenadiel discover the truth of Michael's plan. I like that his last thoughts/words were for Trixie, and I'm glad for him that he died with Chloe instead of alone.
+ I really love that the Dan being in hell is what pushes Lucifer into deciding he has to be God. Before it was selfish, about wanting to feel worthy of Chloe's love. Now Daniel is in hell and the only way to save him from it is to be God and thus Lucifer is damn well going to become God even if it means war. Considering how their relationship has gone over the seasons, how disdainful Lucifer so often seems of him, it makes me really happy to see how much Lucifer actually does care. Also I just like so much more for Lucifer's reason to be about someone other than Chloe or himself. I mean it's still largely about himself - his grief over Dan's fate, his grief for the other people he loves grief - but it's also largely about the unfairness of what happened and is happening to Dan and the desire to change that.
+ Dan being in hell makes me hopeful that this isn't the last we'll see of him. For one thing I would be surprised if Lucifer/Maze/Amenadiel didn't go to hell to visit him. And while it's very unlikely he'll be brought back to life I am 100% sure that Dan's final fate isn't to stay in hell. He will be rescued. He will get into heaven (and reunite with Charlotte). I just hope we get to see it, as a better and happier goodbye to Dan, instead of only being told about it.
+ Honestly I should have guessed that Dan was in trouble when the show suddenly had him interacting with all the characters (Ella, Chloe, Trixie, Amenadiel) and when Lucifer took his kidnapping seriously enough to call in favours and be genuinely worried. But mostly that first part. I wish even more now that we'd gotten more Dan scenes this season - especially with Chloe and Trixie - and he'd gotten the support he desperately needed.
+ I'm choosing to take, until shown otherwise, that the lack of Maze/Dan scenes means that we'll see them interacting in hell together. Fingers crossed.
+ Chloe reaction to learning why Lucifer wanted to be God really worked for me.
+ I am not a fan of Amenadiel becoming a cop.
+ When Amenadiel pulled Linda into a hug at the funeral Ella was left standing beside them and looked so alone and I really wish Amenadiel had held out his other arm and pulled her into the hug too.
+ I liked how they shot Maze's grief fulled rage rampage and how menacing Lucifer was during it.
+ I liked that we did get to see what Lucifer really thinks of Dan. That he does respect him in his reassuring the others "This is Daniel. He's more than capable." That he does care about him in calling in his favours with the criminals in town and in his grief after Dan's death.
+ I thought it was interesting that Zadkiel, and thus I assume the other angels, know about Chloe and her being a 'gift' to Lucifer from their father. I guess Gabriel learned about it and spread it around? Zadkiel appeared very thoughtful when Lucifer revealed his reasoning and I think Lucifer doing it for his 'God given gift' might actually have been a reason Zadkiel finds acceptable. I wonder what the other angels think about this Lucifer getting this gift?
+ "Because 'he’s the devil you know'? Do you have any idea how ironically infuriating that is?" - Lucifer. Hee.
+ The line about doing a reading for 'a programming exec at Fox' amused me.
