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I can't wait for you to watch the new episode and rant about it because it's a totally mess.

Okay, so let me get this out of the way: writing-wise, the episode feels like the first draft of a script. It feels like the writer just wrote the very first, very raw version of the script and sent it to Todd for notes but Todd decided it was good enough as is and sent it into production and, at some point, it was too late to go back and they just filmed the first draft instead of an actual polished script.

Because most of the storylines feel incomplete or weak. Things that a couple of notes would change, like “get Luke and Maryse to flirt more or accidentally touch each other during the code-cracking before they kiss” or “it’s too convenient that Alec and Izzy forget their shadowhunter training and asks questions before they try to heal the shadowhunter, maybe they try to iratze him first, it doesn’t work, and then they try to get the info but the guy dies?” or “Simon sounds too gleeful after being dumped by the girl he was desperately trying to reach just a minute ago, good sentiment in the scene though” or even “we’re missing a scene to explain why Clary went from willingly undergoing deruning to wanting to have sex with her boyfriend in the same episode she's being motivated by the uneasy feeling of having Jonathan there with her at all times.”

So yeah, a round of notes and some-rewriting would have benefitted the script. But, having said that, I absolutely adore the ideas in the episode and the structure of the stories work for me. It’s an episode about corruption and power struggle whose main characters are all women. What’s not to like?

We get Maia and Heidi in mirror-but-opposite plots when they disagree with their leaders’s decisions because they feel those decisions are self-serving and so they decide they need to undermine those leaders. Only, because Heidi is a villain she decides to manipulate Griffin while Maia, a hero, decides to take the right path and prepare herself to the responsibility in front of her.

Izzy is dealing with institutional corruption as well as she investigates the Clave’s torture of Downworlders. But Izzy is also dealing with the corruption of her own body by vampire venom and that lead to a beautiful scene between she and Alec about the importance of a support system.

Finally, Clary is dealing with the corruption of both her body and her physical safety. By the end of the episode, Clary chooses to claim her body autonomy back by having sex with her boyfriend. It doesn’t work to get rid of that corruption, but it gives Clary some sense of control over herself that she was missing since the first episode.

Honestly, I enjoyed this episode more than any other episode in season 3 as a whole for the themes it tried to deal with. Whether it succeeds or not, it’s up to debate and I do think the script feels unfinished, but I’ll take that over blatant continuity errors and empty-but-visually-interesting scenes any time.

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“Are you okay?”

“As okay as I was five minutes ago.”

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I love you, Clary. And I'll love you until I die. And if there's a life after this, I'll love you then, too.

Jace Herondale, Shadowhunters (3x13)

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“Getting Clary back really put things into perspective. No matter how much I lost, I still have her. She's family. And at the end of the day, maybe that's enough.”