I'm dying... Here it is, the most rewarding episode of this season. The one where the most important page of the show and of his entire life is turned forever for our beloved hero... Yet, when this episode begins, nothing suggests it, as Lucifer seems to have fallen back into his bad habits from early seasons, only preoccupied with himself and his latest whim, doing one inanity after another without listening to Chloe; his conception of the role of God as he exposes it at the beginning dangerously reminds of a dictatorship, and we can understand that his beloved is not thrilled; these understandable doubts do not, however, mar their lovely complicity: seeing them arrive at work in the morning together in a single car, which implies that they live together, kiss and touch each other affectionately, or hint at their sex life is not much, but it is priceless to us.
And what about their dinner at the fancy restaurant, where Chloe makes her entrance with her crimped hair and little black dress, the first one she's worn since season 2, breathtaking Lauren, greeted with a glass of champagne and a kiss by her man, impeccable hair, sumptuous three-piece suit and fiery gaze... it's definitely a date, their first real official date!
Too bad that this big dork spoils it all by inviting his Father too... and Chloe's mother!
I screamed with joy when Penelope arrived; she's a character I love deeply, for her trust and affection for Lucifer and her insight into her daughter's feelings for this man, a character I would have liked to see a lot more of in the show and who, in my opinion, has been sorely lacking in Chloe's characterisation and development as a woman, as a mother and as a lover; how many painful or inane moments in the unbearable love triangle of season 3 would have made sense if they had been put into perspective by Penelope's maternal experience and advice to her daughter?!
But awesome as she is, it is not an affair with a mortal woman that God imagines for the future; and in their search for what that future might be, all the characters involved in this plot, personally or together, take a beautiful and decisive step forward on the inner journey that leads them straight to that turning page.
Thus, through their bickering between an overbearing mother and an overly serious daughter, Penelope leads Chloe first to make clear her fears about her place with Lucifer if he is God, and then, in an overwhelming conversation about the plans she herself had with her husband before he was killed, to put love before career and leave the police force to become a true wife to Lucifer.
The latter, showing how much he happened to grow and mature, shares with Maze what is maybe the first scene in the entire show where they speak to each other as equals like true friends, when he unhesitatingly, without condescension or mockery, agrees to appoint her as Queen of Hell once he is God.
As for God himself, having set straight Ella so frightened and ashamed of her fascination with death that she sees herself as a bad person, whereas He knows her faith and goodness, it is with peace of mind that He can finally leave the universe for the future that He really wants: a future of happiness with the love of His life.
Yes, you read that right. The love of His life, His wife, the Goddess, mother of angels.
I nearly fainted with joy as I watched Tricia, back one last time but this time for a real reason, walk down the Lux stairs. With the help of his sister Gabriel, the messenger who hears everything and can deliver a message everywhere, Lucifer has found the universe of his Mother, this Mother he had agreed to lose forever to save her life and whom he sees again today for the first and last time for one scene, the strongest, the most poignant, the most meaningful and the most beautiful of this show: the one in which this torn and unhappy family is finally reunited in forgiveness and love.
God could have stayed, He didn't have to retire, He hadn't really lost control of His powers: it was Michael who had manipulated Him into believing it, and He knows it; but He still feels that the opportunity is too good for His children to fly on their own.
And while Amenadiel gives his Mother the farewell they were deprived of the first time, after a lifetime of misunderstanding and resentment, after eternity of claiming to be enemies, God takes the devil in His arms, the too cold and too hard father takes his sad and afraid little boy in his arms and tells him, finally, FINALLY, that He loves him; finally, FINALLY the wound is closed, finally, FINALLY the suffering on which Lucifer has built and defined himself flies away in those words he needed to hear to rebuild and redefine himself; a curtain of light that Father and Mother pass through, and that's it, the two sons are alone. Orphans. But adults. Ready to live their own lives. Sorry, I can't even write this without crying.
The page is turned, and that evening it is snuggled up to his beloved Chloe that Lucifer comforts himself with the loss of his parents and considers his future with her by his side... when Remiel bursts in with dramatic news: Michael has applied to become God too!
The trap is set: in their Mother's universe, Gabriel has found the Blade of Azrael, the weapon that can kill angels, and to Michael she gives it...
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