13.13: "Devil's Bargain" Discussion Thread [spoiler]
Mar 6, 2018 23:43:40 GMT -5
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Post by thesnowleopard on Mar 6, 2018 23:43:40 GMT -5
Yeah, I know. I've been putting this off. What can I say? The Nep Duo eps are a huge snore for me.
Starting now.
Boring recap of the Nep Duo storyline so far this season reminding why I'm finding it so tedious. You'd have thought the show could have found somebody more competent to do episode 13 of season 13.
Cut to Now. Castiel is staggering through the woods, bleeding, yelling Lucifer's name. He passes out and is found the next morning by two pubescent budding serial killers who gloat over finding a dead body - until he wakes up and scares them off.
He goes back to that creepy old mental hospital the show's been filming since ... oh ... "The End" in season five, at least, but no Lucifer.
Nope, Lucifer is stalking some poor Cupid, who's just trying to pair up a young woman on roller skates with a guy who drops a wedding cake to catch her. Lucifer rewards the poor guy by stealing his grace, interrogating him about finding more angels, and then killing him basically for kicks. Lucifer does realize that said angel now has a soul and will go to Heaven, where he can be interrogated by other angels, right (that was the storyline for Castiel)? And that (also per Castiel's lost grace storyline) this stolen grace will only burn away inside him and eventually kill him, right?
Oh, but wait. It's the Nep Duo. They don't do tedious things like check up on canon before writing their dreck.
Also, is anyone else totally over Lucifer by now? I mean, completely for the duration of the show?
Cue title cards.
Oh, hey, look, the show's actual protagonists. Dean is talking to Castiel, who has turned up at the Bunker and is filling Dean in on his kidnapping. Don't get me started on how dumb it was for the Brothers not to check up on Castiel and find this out for themselves.
Sam is freaked out by the news that Lucifer is back in town, even depowered. It's probably also not the wisest thing for Castiel to get so detailed about alt-Michael's threat to the SPNverse, considering Dean is right there. Sam asks about Mary. Castiel confirms that Lucifer said she was still alive.
Cut to Lucifer having some after-effects from his grace meal. Gee, consequences for that? Do tell. But mostly this is just an excuse for the writers to engage in more tasteless homeless person jokes. Yay.
Also, once again, what the hell happened to Lucifer using his wings to fly anywhere he wants in the world in nanoseconds? Instead, we have Lucifer feeling hungry (um ... why?) and begging for money because he can't just fly into a burger joint and out with a dozen burgers before anyone notices - oh, wait. He can.
Another homeless guy takes him dumpster diving and tells him about a healer named Sister Jo. Lucifer starts to get an evil idea, which means she is probably an angel.
Meanwhile, two characters I have even less interest in (Asmodeus and Ketch) are discussing Lucifer's escape. Ketch twits Asmodeus a bit about how he was out of town and Asmodeus hedges that it was super-duper important then doesn't kill Ketch. Instead, he tasks Ketch with killing Lucifer while Lucifer is still weak because apparently, we can kill archangels while they are lacking a bit of grace. How does that work, exactly, when Chuck said in season 11 that archangels are fundamentally different even from angels?
Dean apologizes to Castiel for not realizing he'd been captured. Castiel admits that getting captured was on him (and that he knows Dean would have done something crazy to try to break him out if he'd known), and angsts about Jack and Mary. Good times.
Sam comes back from wherever he was with Donatello in tow. Dean lays out his plan to get Jack and Mary back, and then slam the door before alt-Michael can get through. Then they show Donatello the Demon Tablet which, as a Prophet, Donatello might be able to read, even though his talents are kinda different from Kevin's. Donatello asks for chicken wings.
Cut to a woman (Danneel Ackles' character) in a church. She is taking money from an older woman with a walker and then heals her with white light. Yup. Angel. She does this to a bunch of other paying customers, too. This is Sister Jo.
Starting now.
Boring recap of the Nep Duo storyline so far this season reminding why I'm finding it so tedious. You'd have thought the show could have found somebody more competent to do episode 13 of season 13.
Cut to Now. Castiel is staggering through the woods, bleeding, yelling Lucifer's name. He passes out and is found the next morning by two pubescent budding serial killers who gloat over finding a dead body - until he wakes up and scares them off.
He goes back to that creepy old mental hospital the show's been filming since ... oh ... "The End" in season five, at least, but no Lucifer.
Nope, Lucifer is stalking some poor Cupid, who's just trying to pair up a young woman on roller skates with a guy who drops a wedding cake to catch her. Lucifer rewards the poor guy by stealing his grace, interrogating him about finding more angels, and then killing him basically for kicks. Lucifer does realize that said angel now has a soul and will go to Heaven, where he can be interrogated by other angels, right (that was the storyline for Castiel)? And that (also per Castiel's lost grace storyline) this stolen grace will only burn away inside him and eventually kill him, right?
Oh, but wait. It's the Nep Duo. They don't do tedious things like check up on canon before writing their dreck.
Also, is anyone else totally over Lucifer by now? I mean, completely for the duration of the show?
Cue title cards.
Oh, hey, look, the show's actual protagonists. Dean is talking to Castiel, who has turned up at the Bunker and is filling Dean in on his kidnapping. Don't get me started on how dumb it was for the Brothers not to check up on Castiel and find this out for themselves.
Sam is freaked out by the news that Lucifer is back in town, even depowered. It's probably also not the wisest thing for Castiel to get so detailed about alt-Michael's threat to the SPNverse, considering Dean is right there. Sam asks about Mary. Castiel confirms that Lucifer said she was still alive.
Cut to Lucifer having some after-effects from his grace meal. Gee, consequences for that? Do tell. But mostly this is just an excuse for the writers to engage in more tasteless homeless person jokes. Yay.
Also, once again, what the hell happened to Lucifer using his wings to fly anywhere he wants in the world in nanoseconds? Instead, we have Lucifer feeling hungry (um ... why?) and begging for money because he can't just fly into a burger joint and out with a dozen burgers before anyone notices - oh, wait. He can.
Another homeless guy takes him dumpster diving and tells him about a healer named Sister Jo. Lucifer starts to get an evil idea, which means she is probably an angel.
Meanwhile, two characters I have even less interest in (Asmodeus and Ketch) are discussing Lucifer's escape. Ketch twits Asmodeus a bit about how he was out of town and Asmodeus hedges that it was super-duper important then doesn't kill Ketch. Instead, he tasks Ketch with killing Lucifer while Lucifer is still weak because apparently, we can kill archangels while they are lacking a bit of grace. How does that work, exactly, when Chuck said in season 11 that archangels are fundamentally different even from angels?
Dean apologizes to Castiel for not realizing he'd been captured. Castiel admits that getting captured was on him (and that he knows Dean would have done something crazy to try to break him out if he'd known), and angsts about Jack and Mary. Good times.
Sam comes back from wherever he was with Donatello in tow. Dean lays out his plan to get Jack and Mary back, and then slam the door before alt-Michael can get through. Then they show Donatello the Demon Tablet which, as a Prophet, Donatello might be able to read, even though his talents are kinda different from Kevin's. Donatello asks for chicken wings.
Cut to a woman (Danneel Ackles' character) in a church. She is taking money from an older woman with a walker and then heals her with white light. Yup. Angel. She does this to a bunch of other paying customers, too. This is Sister Jo.