#6x8

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

2x10 | 3x1 | 6x8

[schruutes]

Do you mind if we do it sitting down? (requested by anonymous)

[pictures-of-yxl]

[gothprentiss]

DEREK MORGAN & EMILY PRENTISS

[tobias-hankel]

Season 6 Spencer + Lip Biting 🥰

[amyritter]

house is talking about a male pornstar

[trapezequeen]

Leo Fitz in Collision Course Part 1 (6x8)

[mothalas]

Castiel wasn't even in this episode but he was in the title crawl. Wtf.

[patrikcmejla]

[scripted-downfall]

An Interpretation of Confidentiality

I’ve been doing a rewatch of Lucifer, and I forgot how much I hated the season 6 episode “Save the Devil, Save the World.”  There are so many things that piss me the hell off about this episode, and I find myself disliking most of the people in it for various reasons.

I mean, first there’s Linda, and I cannot express enough how much I dislike her in this episode.  For all she spoke about Doctor-Devil confidentiality across the seasons, she started a very, very long book based on what should have been confidential therapy — and not just therapy with Lucifer, either, since it featured components of everyone’s conversations with her — and intended it to be mass-published eventually.  When Lucifer found out, he had every right to be pissed (and, frankly, I was hoping he would be)... and yet he sees the best in the gesture and is legitimately enthusiastic about it… and then, later, she turns the entire situation into being about herself.  It’s selfish and unethical.

Then, there’s the collective response to reading the book.  Everyone jumps on Lucifer for how he portrayed them in the story, but the fact is that it’s not just his account that’s been put into the book??  It’s really unfair for him to get all the blame when the fact is that Linda knew everybody involved, that she’d had counselling sessions with all of them, and that the book contained things that Lucifer literally couldn’t have told her.  I mean, the snippet about Maze and Dan feeding Chloe’s father’s killer to the Russians wasn’t something Lucifer knew about, or, at least, certainly not in as much detail as was contained in the narrative: not the exact wording, for example, of what they’d said.  Linda quite clearly took information from everybody in the celestial inner circle — quite possibly including Ella — for her book, so blaming Lucifer for how everyone is represented is idiotic at best and purposefully unfair at worst.

And then there’s Chloe and her damn, “What if you think I’m smart and… and beautiful and ‘perfect’ because you’ve never stuck around long enough to see me at my worst?”  I mean, on the one hand, I guess that I kinda get where she’s coming from, but also…  She broke into his penthouse, trashed the place, stole his stuff, and tried breaking into his safe in a fit of pique because he and Ella had to go deal with a case on her birthday.  She tried to poison him and send him back to Hell.  She got addicted to super strength from Amenadiel’s necklace and tried to kill him permanently with Azrael’s blade to keep it.  He’s very clearly seen her at her worst and consistently stuck around anyway, so acting as though she’s been a picnic the entire time is ridiculously naive and kinda insulting to him.

All of this is made so much worse by the fact that Lucifer legitimately doesn’t seem to recognize there being a problem.  He takes the book-writing as a good gesture and makes the best of it; he does the same with Chloe’s decision to renege on their plan to go with him to Heaven without any notice.  I’ve talked about the way he seems to view his own rights as not especially important in the post Needing the Eggs, but this entire episode showcases it.  I really wish that someone alive had pointed out to Ella that three other humans had found out about Lucifer’s devil nature, and that it had prompted one of them to have a slight breakdown and two of them to try to kill him; Lucifer certainly wasn’t going to point that out and, while Dan kinda tried to do so, he had to do it through Linda’s book, which meant that it was contained in a single line that Ella didn’t even seem to register.

Honestly, the only two characters in the episode for whom I truly, completely felt bad were Ella and Lucifer.

I feel for Ella, I really do… I fully understand why she feels hurt.  (I would say that I’m not sure that Lucifer actually knew that she lost her faith in the aftermath of Charlotte Richards; I don’t remember precisely what was going on, but I recall him being absent/extremely preoccupied at the time.  I think that it might have been when he was worried about salvaging his relationship with Chloe post Devil-face-reveal/when she was trying to kill him, but I very well could be wrong.  Either way, I’m not sure he was that aware that she lost her faith such that it’s fair to say that he just stood by watching without helping.)

And then Lucifer… I mean, Rory’s appearance was already a pretty vicious cut to any progress he’d made towards not hating himself (telling him that he’s no better than the father he hated, saying she hated him, trying to kill him, etc), but this episode… Slowly but surely, the entire cast of characters — including Ella, if I’m being honest, though, again, she’s the only one at all justified in it — spend their time jumping on Lucifer, slowly but surely eating away at that same progress.  By the time the episode ends, he’s internalized everything into “You think I’ll fail, don’t you?  My own therapist doesn’t actually believe that I’ll become God.” and “I’m not capable of real change.”  (Oh, and then Chloe acts all surprised by that statement, trying to excuse her earlier accusations with “What I said back there… I was scared” as though that fixes anything, but not intending to hurt someone does not erase the hurt, especially since she’s supposed to be the one person who supports him, who has faith in him, etc.)  All in all, this episode was the very last thing he needed.

I’m not sure that’s everything I dislike about the episode — it’s probably not — but I felt the need to express at least some of how I felt… Honestly, it might be one of my least favorite episodes of that season.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Favorite Buddie Moments Per Episode: 6x8 What's Your Fantasy

[jamesrodayrodriguezpresents]

This week, Maggie & Tim podcast the s*** out of it LIVE from Indiana Comic Convention. Together, they talk about S6 E8: The Tao of Gus the episode where Gus and Shawn take up residence at a hippie commune to uncover a mysterious death and protect Gus' new love interest.

[pictures-of-yxl]

[brotherstonefish]

Beskid Mountains, Poland. by Wojtek Mszyca Via Flickr: fuji GSW680III fuji pro 400H The higher up, the more alien the landscape gets.

[biggsodorcitystories]

Percy's First Crush 💕💘💕

"I-I've got a pen you can borrow, Duck."

"Oh, thanks, Percy!"

My headcanon is that Duck was Percy's first proper crush, but Duck sadly friend-zoned/little brother-zoned him early on. This was made even more permanent when Donald arrived on Sodor.

Obviously, Percy got over this unknowing rejection and had several crushes and romances afterwards. But he never fully extinguished the little torch he carried for the Great Western engine.

[saltygilmores]

Thinking about the time Jess emerged from the bushes late at night unnanounced at Rory's grandparents home after presumably having not seen her for 2 years, after lying in wait for an unknown period of time, and Rory, rather than wetting her pants with fear and looking frantically for a blunt instrument to strike him with, looks only mildly surprised, calmly smiles and shrugs and invites him inside More observations after re-watching this scene for the first time in a while:

Rory says they need to be careful because "her window is right there." Jess says "Whose window?" After having intentionally traveled to, waiting at, and currently standing in, the home of her grandmother, a person he's met and who's home he's been to before. Who else could be "her"? Doofus. Lazy writing!

Jess says Luke tipped him off to Rory's location. One, way to go Luke. Two, I don't think Luke meant you should go and hide in the bushes.

Jess reassured Rory that he's now working a job that's "above board" and legal. Yep, just further proof that he was dealing drugs when he lived in New York. Can't convince me otherwise!