Chloe, Lucifer and the Eggs: The heartfelt interpretation.
I believe that many just brushed that reference pretty easily but while I was writing tonight I had this urge to use the eggs in my fanfic again. So I had to sit back and think. Then it struck me. Annie Hall. Annie Hall is a movie by Woody Allen. If you haven’t watched it let me tell you that although is labelled as a romantic comedy it’s also a bit of a drama as well. But it ends with that joke. The psychiatrist, the guy who asks, the brother and the eggs.
The writers use references all the time and I have to admit that I’m a sucker for trying to see where and why they use certain lines in the show. Like the most notable one in 2x17 for me, the Nephilim one. So what does that joke tells us according to Annie Hall?
“I thought of that old joke. This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, ‘Doc, my brother’s crazy. He thinks he’s a chicken.’ And the doctor says, ‘Well, why don’t you turn him in?’ And the guy says, ‘I would, but I need the eggs.’ Well, I guess that’s pretty much now how I feel about relationships. They’re totally irrational and crazy and absurd and . . . but I guess we keep going through it because most of us need the eggs.”
The lead ends up breaking up with Annie and in the last scene, he talks about relationships and how it reminds him of that joke. Relationships are often absurd and ridiculous there is no sense of what drives them or why you fall for a person. Sometimes there is nothing you can do to prevent a break-up or a relationship itself. You see feelings are always there whether you like it or not. Whether they flourish or not and in 2x01 Chloe is still finding her emotions getting stronger for Lucifer.
Moving forward to 2x14-2x17 we see that what she told to Lucifer about the eggs also affect her cynical to most attitude towards what her relationship with Lucifer has come to be. An enforced, if you like, friendship. She respects his wishes and she perhaps stays true to her realisation and the eggs. Never forget that she told him that “Damn right I do [need the eggs].”
As another interpreter has stated: “The remark and the film itself (Annie Hall) pay tribute to those failed relationships that are no less powerful or worthwhile simply because they did not succeed.”
That’s what Chloe knows. For her it was real and although she respects Lucifer’s wishes she also respects that her feelings were real and sometimes you cannot let that person leave from your life even when you have tried to cut him out and move on. Sometimes you need to pretend because pretending is not always a bad thing (2x15). Pretending makes you stronger because by the end of the day you still need the eggs which for you are still there. Imaginary eggs and perhaps beyond your reach, a mirage as I like to call it often, but the cruel reality is that for you these eggs are real. For Annie Hall’s lead, the eggs were love.
Despite what a relationship of any kind or a lack of a romantic relationship may be, the eggs are there and humans need them no matter how weird and painful they can be. So we are talking about the illusion we are clinging on. The same illusion Lucifer saw it dissolving before his own eyes. For him, the eggs exist but they are empty, worthless and forcefully put in Chloe’s basket. So he had to crack them one by one for her. The thing is though that he has not reached that point yet and when he get to these eggs he might figure out what their relationship is all about.
Lastly, the eggs are also the reason why Chloe stays by Lucifer’s side and the other way around. But for her, her resolution early in season 2 remains. She cares for him and even loves him and that will not change. She will worry and try her best to help him and thus she will pretend but as she has already declared. she will always need the eggs. She will always love him no matter what, just like Woody Allen’s character confesses over that reference in the movie. Because loving something broken or non-existent anymore doesn’t make your love any less real and present in your life.
So that’s it! Are you as affected as I was when I realised this?
Oh and Alis Grave Nil chapter got to be around 6549 words. Not bad :)
