Something that I don’t see mentioned a lot outside of fandom, even though apparently the show was quite big after Netflix picked it up. Lucifer arguably started going downhill in S3, mostly because Fox execs wanted to turn it into a soap opera. Which of course failed, so they dropped the show altogether, only for Netflix to “save” it.
I put that in quotation marks because I kind of wish they just let the show die at the cliffhanger instead of letting the narcs in charge run it into ground. Narcs being the two lapsed Catholic showrunners. The show was still salvageable by the end of S5, but S6 retroactively destroyed everything, making it unwatchable for half of the fandom, while the other half was vaping copium.
I’m not going to write the synopsis, because fuck that burning cesspit, but these are some of the issues with it:
abuse apologia and perpetuation of generational trauma “for the greater good” in a universe with an omni-potent god
uncontested sentiment that bio children are worth more than adopted/step-children
sex shaming
rampant misogyny
glorification of suffering
hamfisted tragic ending clumsily masked with a “bittersweet” wrapping
plus many more very Christian sentiments that nobody asked for (except for the part of the fandom that can’t separate their religion from a TV show).
I have never watched GoT, so I’m not a good judge on this, but not a negligible part of the fandom claimed the Lucifer season/finale was worse. So there’s that.
Hard agree, I remenver thinking netflix had fixed the show making it more of a comic book show, then it went downhill
It was screwed by it’s early popularity, they write to the lcd, the loud ppl on social media, like felicity becoming the main character of arrow
Something that I don’t see mentioned a lot outside of fandom, even though apparently the show was quite big after Netflix picked it up. Lucifer arguably started going downhill in S3, mostly because Fox execs wanted to turn it into a soap opera. Which of course failed, so they dropped the show altogether, only for Netflix to “save” it.
I put that in quotation marks because I kind of wish they just let the show die at the cliffhanger instead of letting the narcs in charge run it into ground. Narcs being the two lapsed Catholic showrunners. The show was still salvageable by the end of S5, but S6 retroactively destroyed everything, making it unwatchable for half of the fandom, while the other half was vaping copium.
I’m not going to write the synopsis, because fuck that burning cesspit, but these are some of the issues with it:
I have never watched GoT, so I’m not a good judge on this, but not a negligible part of the fandom claimed the Lucifer season/finale was worse. So there’s that.
Hard agree, I remenver thinking netflix had fixed the show making it more of a comic book show, then it went downhill It was screwed by it’s early popularity, they write to the lcd, the loud ppl on social media, like felicity becoming the main character of arrow