Fairy Tales

 For the first time here, I am gonna be writing about some spoilers.

Last summer, I picked up watching Lucifer.  At the recommendation of Kitty, I dove in, and found it entertaining.  At that point, I was only able to watch up to the first half of season five, but looked forward to seeing the other half, and then the final season, wondering how it would be tied up.

And recently, the final season did drop.  It took me a bit, but I finally got to it, watching it over the course of a week or so.  There were some incredibly vital themes to it that I loved, including covering things like systemic racism, racial profiling, police brutality, and corruption.

However, the main theme of the season left me feeling many things.

Lucifer's daughter from the future apparently gets so angry with him that she travels back in time.  She confronts him, ready to kill him, but instead gives him a chance, telling him that he abandons her for her entire life.  Over the course of the season, while claiming to want to prove himself to her, he leaves her stood up, angry, and feeling uncared for.

Suddenly, with one episode left to go, even though everyone is calling Lucifer out on all the shitty behaviors he has, she decides that she can see how much he cares about everyone, and starts to forgive him.  It isn't until the very last episode that Lucifer decides he's meant to become hell's therapist, and his daughter tells him that he needs to abandon her, and go do this, and that's why he is gone and causes her pain for her entire life.

It creates this situation where in the time loop, she allows herself to have an existence of hurt, pain, and distress, because he "means well".  That people who abandon others or cause them pain probably have some redeeming meaning behind it which makes it ok.  Which is great and all, except for people who actually grew up with shitty parents.  Sometimes people are just shit.  Sometimes people don't get redeemed.  Sometimes people don't deserve an excuse to hurt others.

It made me angry.  Angry that someone would allow those years of hurt, when creating a new different loop may have managed to remove that pain. 

A lot of the base themes were more or less the structure of Bioshock Infinite, and I should have just spent the time with that.