Listen, listen, I’m the next biggest fan of ‘the gentleman devil’ design, but... Lucifer? It just... doesn’t feel right. For a character that’s the dictator of the entire ring, a royalty upon royalty, a man that has the entire inferno under his boot: His demeanor and appearance fells more alike to that of Morningstar’s family butler rather than the head Morningstar himself. Perhaps it’s not necessarily his design at fault (that still is abomination of ties, suits and over-abused red contrast Viv puts in her every design like she owns these accessories money), but the way his character was executed. He’s revealed wayyyy too early and way too casually. Instead of sticking out, begin conversed about or at least properly shown on the screen to reveal his significance, he’s just a background portrait that has seconds of screen time. Once again, he feels like a butler. An minor character that goes and comes within command instead of the destructive evil force that rebelled against heavens itself. Perhaps the whole monologue about Alastor Vaggie lamented about should have been Lucifer’s. Perhaps Viv should have actually put the effort to make him look more unique and intimidating/important (those goddamn overused sharp smile, those goddamn teeth!). Perhaps the writers realize the worldbuilding and immersive potential Lucifer has, use him as a tool to establish how order and hierarchy goes, to his relationship with his daughter, from a bit piece of hell to bit piece of the Morningstar’s family status. The last one especially gets on my nerves. Lucifer’s name/presence alone is a gateway to Worldbuilding paradise. Like, for examples, the reactions of outside characters. Maybe Katie didn’t genuinely realize Charlie is the daughter of Lucifer cause she is just so non-harmful. You know there are gonna be people who came into her news claiming themself the successor to the throne, and when this perky white chick came calling herself the princess of hell, she was so amused by the idea that she decided to invite and publicly humiliate her. But once her insults actually starts tearing Charlie’s patience, we could had cool scene of very eldritch-esque Charlie very much failing to hold her cosmic fury back, foaming at the mouth and staring ice into the very soul of Katie. The news could have ended in bloody mess or glitch with the last scene begin Katie screaming for her dear life. This may have broken into another multiple new casts, where people got terrified of what happened and how it reached Alastor’s attention- But, here’s the deal. Despite what all they have seen so far, majority of people (including Alastor) still doesn’t believe Charlie’s legitimacy. “...That... fuck... that shit is fucking scary. Never liked the news reporter bitch, but you still think after that she is...?” “I don’t know, mate. But I sure as hell know she ain’t gonna be in one piece. That shit on the screen was hellspawn. But... I still don’t believe it’s the spawn of you-know-who.” “...Yeah. Same. It’s probably another delusional poser, but still, I’m not gonna go outside alone for a while. Especially that things hotel. Oh god, that fucking hotel.” From this entire interaction, we got: > An visual presentation of Charlie’s hellish princess powers, a much more believable and immersive than just stating she is hell’s princess. > An believable and reasonable reason why she was: 1. Allowed on the Broadcast 2. Caught Alastor’s attention 3. Why people reacted negatively to her proposition 4. Why people don’t want to go to her hotel > And despite how powerful she may be, that people still are unsure if she is the daughter to the King of hell. Not only out of denial, but also to show just how much more powerful his image is in hell that people can’t compare it. And that is only the the first 10 minute mark that had gave logic to questions I’ve been pondering for the entire 30 min run that was never brought up! Imagine what it could have done in rest of the pilot! Like... Man. I’ll never stop begin frustrated to how they downplayed such major character like that in the goddamn pilot.