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stePH:
She's a cop.
He's the Devil.
They fight crime!

 ::) You get a cool property like DC Comics' Lucifer and your best idea is a police procedural? I am disappoint.

I mean, I enjoyed the pilot, but if it's basically going to be a cop show, I'm out.

eytanz:
My problem with the pilot was that it was not a very good police procedural. Both cop characters seem to act totally unprofessional. The ex-husband cop seemed to constantly hint at some sort of consequences to the main character cop's pursuing the case, but why? I get that she's not popular, but his whole "don't look into this more deeply" thing implied that there was some sort of dark secret involved which ended up being absent.

And the bad guy seemed to miraculously recover from his gunshot wound just in time for lucifer to punish him. Not to mention that it looks like the police had no problem with lucifer just interfering with the case as he wanted.

It wasn't terrible, and it's only the pilot so maybe these things will get worked out in the future, but for now this seems to me to be totally skipable. At least both lead characters are charismatic and the totally gratuitous little kid was cute.

stePH:
I'm hoping they made it a procedural just to get it on teevee, and that they're going to subvert the fuck out of it and take it somewhere weird and awesome.

Also, I like the Lucifer character, but he's absolutely not the character created by Neil Gaiman in the pages of The Sandman. He abandoned Hell and opened a club in Los Angeles, but the similarities end there.

eytanz:

--- Quote from: stePH on February 29, 2016, 09:57:39 PM ---Also, I like the Lucifer character, but he's absolutely not the character created by Neil Gaiman in the pages of The Sandman. He abandoned Hell and opened a club in Los Angeles, but the similarities end there.

--- End quote ---

Yeah, no kidding.

stePH:
Season 2 is a marked improvement over the first. They've subverted the cop show format and are going weird with it.

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