Ok but when Chloe in ep 8 was saying like “you did it without me” it really hit me how much Lucifer has changed because season 1 his answer would have been like been something vain and self-aggrandizing, but now “it’s because I channeled you” i love it so much
One of the most interesting things this (1/2) season was seeing the ways Lucifer has actually incorporated the things he’s been learning all this time into who he is now (and who he wants to be moving forward).
I mean, look at earth time/hell time. To Lucifer, the years in LA were like the tiniest, tiniest blip on his radar even just compared to the thousands of years he spent in hell afterwards (i.e., after the S4 finale), let alone the entirety of his existence.
Michael shows up and plays on Chloe’s fears (essentially, the ones she voices in the S4 finale: that Lucifer would forget her or get caught up in cosmic-scale stuff). Michael is the one who relies on ideas that Lucifer would backslide, would go dark, would forget.
But when Lucifer comes back thousands of years later, he doesn’t struggle to remember who he was or what was important to him. If anything, he seems to have abandoned the crutches he had before (drinking, partying, drugs, sex, etc.) and he focuses more on the people he cares about.
In the beginning, this is mostly Chloe, sure, but actually accepting and wearing that bracelet from Dan? Not once implying he didn’t want Trixie hanging around if she didn’t come with her mom? Being genuinely concerned that Michael and his fear had got to Linda? Initiating touch and hugs??? Making a joke of his Devil face to make Charlie laugh? Comforting Ella???
He didn’t spend that time in Hell sitting around feeling sorry for himself (at least not all the time) and (most importantly) blaming everyone else for his being there. He spent that time remembering everything good that he’d lost; he spent that time missing them so much that he ditched a lot of his pride and superiority when he got back.
Obviously, he’s not a different person entirely. He’s still got anger and resentment; he still lashes out when struck; he’s still really good at thinking up scary punishments. But that’s not his primary motivator anymore.
Also the parallel between Lucifer trying to solve a crime in Hell in 5x01 and Lucifer trying to find Chloe in 5x08—both by trying to incorporate the things he’s learned from her—is really a thing of beauty. Another little thing: this time, he didn’t dress up like Chloe or try to get in her head by pretending to be her--no. All the lessons he’s learned from her are part of him now.
He’s already learned Chloe doesn’t need his help—she wants it. I think maybe he also needed to learn that he can be successful without her—but that he vastly prefers her being there. And I think it was important for Chloe to see that despite his glibness and distractibility and impatience . . . he does pay attention, does learn, does change.
So ... I love it so much, too <3
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