#s3ep07

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Okay, so I’m low-key freaking out over Magnus’s line about his power in the scene with Catarina. Because I think I see what’s coming down the pike, and if I’m right, it’s could be really not good.

Putting this under a cut for spoilers from the rest of 3a and the stuff we know so far about 3b

I’ve been thinking for months now that something about the timing of Magnus’s trip to Edom is weird. Because it would be easy to assume the half-season would end on a cliffhanger with him there, but we know from behind-the-scenes stuff that Magnus was filming in the Institute in 3x11, and 3x12 is supposed to be an intensely Malec-centric episode. Magnus is back in New York by early 3b, so the storyline a lot of us assumed would take place--everyone going to Edom to rescue Magnus--just isn’t going to happen.

But I think I know what is, and isweartagod I’m in tears literally just contemplating it.

I think Magnus is going to offer to give us his immortality to save Jace. He’s going to go to Edom and make that deal with Asmodeus (apparently Asmodeus gets a power-up when his warlock children sacrifice themselves to him or something like that, I can’t remember why Asmodeus wanted that in the books, except to make everyone suffer.)

EDIT: Having slept on this idea for a while and discussed it with people this morning, I am going to say that I now predict Magnus will actually give up his magic (I’m fairly firm on that one, because there is foreshadowing for it ALL OVER THE DAMN PLACE) and I THINK his immortality will go with it. I can’t point to any reason why, but I’m pretty sure his magic and immortality are linked.

Anyway...

But unlike the books (where Magnus’s centuries of living would have caught up with him instantly and he would have died on the spot when he gave up his immortality) Magnus is going to return to New York pretty quickly. No one is going to need to rescue him. And all he’s going to say is that he asked his father for help and received it. He’s going to avoid answering any questions about what price he had to pay for it.

But suddenly he’s totally okay with Alec moving in. Awesome. Let’s do it.

Which brings me to a lot of the vague hints from Todd and others we’ve been getting about things like Prague in Spring and Madzie being in the episode where they’re in Prague in Spring and whatnot. About all these awesome Malec episodes (3x12, 3x16 and I think 3x18 or 3x19?) 

Prague is apparently a pretty popular wedding destination, and a lot of the hints and hashtags from the producers have led people to speculate that a Malec wedding would happen in season 3b, though I can’t remember where all I saw the speculation.

What if 3b is Magnus going full-steam ahead on his relationship with Alec because he’s got a countdown timer hanging over his head? Maybe he bargained for a single mortal lifetime with Alec. Maybe he’s only got a few months, before Asmodeus calls in his I.O.U.

So basically, 3b is going to be this idyllic Malec dream-come-true happy ending. Until Asmodeus shows up to cash that check Magnus wrote him. And we’re going to cry for fucking ever because we’re going to have All The Joy, followed by All The Pain.

(of course, they’ll find some way around it or to get Magnus out of his bargain, but still....it’s gonna hurt.)

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That look Alec gave Simon. Magnus almost peace-outing from the drama. THAT HUG. “I would have done the same thing.” All of that was spot-on.

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What are your opinions on the hug?

The Malec hug?

I thought it was fine, I thought it showed just how committed they both are to making this relationship work.

I also thought it was where they need to be right now. Yes, they still have issues to resolve but right now there’s a crisis and that’s where their energy needs to be going. They have decades to deal with the rest.

While I’m sure we can all side-eye whether or not we’re going to get the follow-through we need on this issue from the showrunners, I think there’s no reason to let that skepticism detract from the good that is there in this scene. Let’s focus on what we were given–which was lovely and tender and sweet–rather than borrowing future drama.

If you’re asking what I thought about the physical presentation of the hug (since I’m the poster-girl for the physicality discourse *sigh*) I have no issues with it. Because filming a hug while also delivering dialogue that isn’t muffled and faces that aren’t obscured is tough. The only other times we’ve seen Malec hug, when they were throwing their whole bodies into it, they weren’t delivering dialogue. They also weren’t just coming off of a fight and feeling tentative with each other. So yeah they weren’t hugging as tightly as they have in the past, but there are perfectly reasonable explanations for that and I really don’t feel the need to be nitpicky about it.

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Is it just me or does the hallway of that building they were in in Alicante look like they just put some different paneling on the doors and walls of the Institute set?

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Okay so that explains the weird lighting in the 308 promo stills.

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Oh yay. We get to listen to Jace verbally abuse Alec some more.

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Okay Alec time to step up your lying game.

Oh shit. No, not that.

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ngl I’m totally down for desecrating Valentine’s remains. Go Lilith.