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Lucifer is definitely one of my favorite shows but I can tell you now that I fucking hate Maze. I don't get why she does half the shit she does. Ever since season 1. Shes so confusing. And then season five lucifer comes back and she's mad that he didn't take her with when she said herself she didn't want to serve him anymore. Lucifer was right when he said she could've just asked amenadiel ?????? Ugh what the actual fuck.
Você Me Conhece Tão Bem
Lucifer: Devo ficar fora da vida amorosa da Detetive?
Linda: Sim.
Lucifer: Eu vou fazer isso.
Linda: Provavelmente não.
Lucifer: Você me conhece tão bem.
Finalmente me entendendo
Linda: O céu está realmente bonito hoje.
Lucifer: Sabe o que também está bonito?
*Lucifer e Linda juntos*: Chloe!!!
Lucifer: Doutora, você finalmente está me entendendo...
Não Fez isso
Lucifer: Eu devia ter te largado no inferno. Ou melhor, nem ter te trazido a terra.
Maze: É, mais você não fez isso...
Faço o meu trabalho
Amenadiel: Hey, Luci, o que você faz no inferno?
Lucifer: Bem, basicamente eu cuido de todos os problemas.
Amenadiel: Eu nunca ouvi falar de nenhum problema lá.
Lucifer: Sim, porque eu faça o meu trabalho muito bem...
“You never saw me.”
the emotion Chloe showed - ready to kill Michael for what he did to them and Chloe kicking his ass - was spot on and absolutely amazing.
Cathartic
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - Hagrid Meeting The Dursleys and Bending the Rifle - Vibes
Surest way to disarm any person.
An appropriate response when a literal truth bomb drops in front of you
Coming out to your friends, as an angel?
In defense of Chloe Decker
Chloe is a detective. She’s used to looking for evidence. When she sees the hard evidence of Lucifer’s face, she goes to find more evidence to help explain what she saw because finding evidence of things is how she distances herself from emotional turmoil. How many times has something upsetting or emotionally devastating happened to Chloe where her immediate response is “Let’s get back to work” or “I just want to focus on work.” Is it healthy? Probably not. Is it realistic? Um, hell yes it is.
She’s tormented by the idea that all the evidence she has of Lucifer being a fundamentally good person has been a lie. A lie she told herself because she has feelings for him. Not only have the men in Chloe previous romantic relationships lied to and betrayed her–she has lied to herself to excuse them. Think about it: she has evidence that Pierce is a dick (the things he says, the things he does, giving Dan that washed-up cops union rep position). She doesn’t like him at all in the beginning. She must deceive herself about some of that initial reaction later to make a relationship even possible. This completely echoes her relationship with Lucifer. Going from “I find you repulsive” to “I love you” is a pretty freaking huge leap, you know?
Remember, Chloe sees Lucifer’s face like right after she realizes she had been about to marry a freaking crime lord who convinced her utterly that he loved her. Like. 24 hours later. Her terror and confusion are justified.
And what’s a crime lord to the Devil? Talk about freaking escalation. Dan was a dirty cop who lied to and gaslighted her; Pierce was a dirty cop … who was also a crime lord and also the world’s first murderer who lied to and gaslighted her; Lucifer is the goddamned Devil, societal embodiment of all things evil. Chloe, like a real person, has huge insecurities. Hers center around being loved/being lovable/being left/being used. If you can’t take a step back and imagine the last few years of Chloe’s life from her perspective, I don’t know what to tell you. She might not handle things as well as Linda (debatable), but Jesus, she’s trying, and she’s doing a lot better than, oh, most reasonable people would in her position.
Father Kinley plays on this. Remember, he’s been researching Lucifer for a long time. He knows exactly what to say to convince her. He knows exactly which books to show her. His voice is a slow-dripping poison in her ear, and everything he says trickles right down into the broken heart of a woman who has spent her entire adult life being lied to and left by the men she’s chosen. The evidence says she cannot trust her choices.
The things Kinley says are absolutely devious and absolutely devastating. Lucifer is funny and charming and kind–but it’s a lie. Lucifer will adjust his ploys to ensnare you more completely–and the first thing he says when she arrives boils down to “I adjusted the over-the-top date from last time to grilled cheese, the kind you like. I made you a playlist of music I think is silly because you like it.” He only bleeds around her to make her pity him.
Chloe is not weak or stupid or cruel or mean. If she hadn’t questioned and hadn’t walked this path, she could never have gotten to the point she gets to with Lucifer by the end of the season. And it all refers back to that first conversation she has with Ella about faith. In this case, Chloe’s faith–not in God, but in her own objectivity–has been rocked really damn hard.
ALSO, and I think this is super important and I’m not sure I’ve seen it mentioned yet–when Chloe does almost pour the contents of the vial into Lucifer’s glass but knocks the glass over instead, she goes over the freaking top with her apologies. How many times has she seen Lucifer’s bar and Lucifer’s club in various states of destruction? Her apology is not for spilling the wine or breaking the glass. She is apologizing so profusely because she almost did something she considers reprehensible to someone she cares about. She has so so so many conflicting feelings. It’s tearing her apart just as much as the later events of the season nearly tear Lucifer apart.
Chloe’s journey this season precisely mirrors Ella’s story from that first conversation about God. Ella said, “My aunt was a nun, okay? And she always taught me that doubt was really important. Right? I mean, if you don’t question something, then what’s the point of believing it? Mm-hmm. I doubt so that I can believe.”
Chloe’s not doubting the existence of the Devil so she can believe in the Devil or God or celestials or Big Stuff beyond her comprehension. She’s doubting her love for the Devil so she can believe her love for the Devil is real. Even the painful steps are steps forward and steps that were necessary for her to take to make sure the love she feels going forward is, as Lucifer and Chloe have both raised concerns about in the past, real.
Lucifer and acting
Often, it’s easy to forget (or at least temporarily put aside) that Lucifer isn’t human. Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, etc. We see human because we know human and expect human.
Which is why the scene with Pierce at the precinct is so masterful. Yes, the text is gorgeous and menacing, but I actually want to talk about the acting choices (which may or may not have been influenced by directing choices; it’s hard to know) here.
In the scene, Lucifer knows he’s invulnerable. He says it. He walks into that conversation occupying a place of power and superiority. And, more importantly, pride regarding that place of power. He walks into Pierce’s office without knocking, defaults to a nickname (Piercey)–which we have often seen him do when he feels someone is beneath him–he paces slowly like an apex predator with prey in his sights.
Lucifer rarely moves quickly. Everything he does is controlled, unhurried. Even when he’s chasing a suspect, he may walk quickly but he doesn’t run. We never see him bolt. And why should he run? He’s the Devil; all villains come to him in the end. When Pierce first moves to the door, Lucifer steps in front of him quickly. It comes across as almost preternatural; he never once loses his grace or looks out of control but that sudden swiftness makes us, the audience, and Pierce, the prey, realize Lucifer could catch us any time he wanted. He just chooses not to.
“Sit. Down. Or I’ll make you,” is also pride. But Pierce sits, a naughty child about to get a scolding. We’ve seen Pierce get away with so much over the season but suddenly we’re thinking yes, yes, no more Mr. Nice Devil. “For every lie, I will break a body part,” is doubly menacing—one, because Lucifer never lies (so now we’re expecting real violence) and two, because of the specific gesture he makes with his hand. Lucifer has used this gesture before, usually when he is at the very end of his tether (with Mum manipulating him, for example); the audience knows Lucifer should not be crossed but we’re not sure what Pierce is going to do.
We also see the use of height as intimidation, here. Then, Lucifer doesn’t need that crutch anymore; he sits opposite Pierce, as if they are conversing about the weather and not matters of life and death, murder and punishment. He’s still oozing power and menace; we are seeing not Lucifer whom we love, but the Prince of Hell.
Just when we think Lucifer’s got all this in the bag, though, we see the first crack in his predatory demeanor. When he says, “Everyone hated me for it. Myself included, I’ve come to realize,” he glances briefly down and he blinks.
Crack.
Well, yeah, so? People blink. But here’s the thing: Lucifer blinks twice in this entire scene, which is several minutes long. To me, that seems a deliberate choice. A predator doesn’t take his eyes off his prey before he strikes. Even a proud predator playing with his prey watches to make sure their prey isn’t going away. Humans blink. Pierce blinks a lot more than Lucifer does. And even though this is a tiny, tiny specific choice, the audience feels unsettled without knowing why. The why is because Lucifer, whose power is so often connected with his eyes, isn’t human and he can hold his prey immobile indefinitely if he never needs to break eye contact. That’s scary, even if we don’t know why we’re scared.
“Myself included” is the first moment in this scene we really see the Lucifer he’s grown into over his years of working with Chloe. In a few moments, Pierce is going to use this tiny, tiny hint of weakness against him. He says, “You do have a weakness,” and here, Lucifer blinks again.
Because he knows he is not without weakness. And for the first time, I think the predator shows just a tiny flash of fear because his prey isn’t rolling over like it should. And because he is afraid—just for an instant—that Pierce will use his weakness (Chloe being the greatest one) against him. I genuinely don’t think Lucifer was expecting, “You want to be good.” It’s true; Pierce isn’t lying, and Lucifer is, momentarily, so shocked that Pierce is able to make his escape.
That this scene is followed by Lucifer immediately admitting his pride “I overestimated my abilities and underestimated his” is enormous, by the way; Lucifer is pride. Everyone knows that. It essentially encapsulates the recurring theme and conflict of the entire season while showing how much he’s grown. And here, Lucifer admits his pride and, more importantly regrets his actions; we wouldn’t have gotten that before, from him. Note, also, that his entire demeanor changes in the penthouse scene. His fingers tap nervously against the piano, his shoulders are hunched, he blinks, he ducks his head because he is sorry he has disappointed them, disappointed Chloe, let them down and, as we’ve seen so often, he immediately heads for the crutch of a glass of whiskey.
The Devil who faced Pierce is gone, or at least minimized; in his place, we have the Lucifer who loves Chloe and cares about things he never would have cared about as the Devil.
So. Masterful. Slow, appreciative clap. Seriously. Please give the man an Emmy.