So, last episode Alec decided to risk his on lie in desperate
attempt to bring Jace (who hardly notices he’s there) back.
Because this is Shadowhunters
not only is Alec willing to risk his life for Jake, he’s not even effective.
His little woo-woo does nothing to find Jace except risks his own life and
render him completely unconscious for the whole episode
He does have lots of flashbacks to him and Jace – but this
seems to be more serve to show how much more awesome Jace is and show Alec’s
desperate fixation on him. Which is especially galling when a desperate Magnus,
unable to save Alec with magic (and of course the Shadowhunters whistle him up
when needed) he resorts to kissing Alec. Which does nothing. There follows memories
of how much Alec is obsessed with Jace, then Jace arrives and lo he wakes up.
It’s hard not to contrast Alec’s obsession with a disinterested Jace and then see
Magnus’s legitimately caring and it still not being as important as Jace.
So that’s one annoying wreck but naturally not the most
important.
Jace and Clary have escaped the boat. Clary arrives at
the shore, makes it back to the Institute while Victor promptly interviews her –
hey she’s found the boat full of Valentine’s Shadowhunters of evil, maybe she
wants to share some information about that before said shadowhunters do
terribad evil things?
Nah, Clary doesn’t care about Valentine, a war, hundreds, maybe thousands dead – because she’s Clary. She decides to lie, say nothing and focus entirely on Jace because he is all that matters in the world.
I have to say how amazingly close to the books this TV
series is. I loathed book Clary as well. At least Magnus has sharp words for everyone’s
obsession with her – now if his actions would only match
Izzy runs around trying to comfort everyone while not
realising she really needs to ditch them all and find better people in her
life.
Jace also washes up to shore with the body of the
werewolf killed last episode. They both wet, banged up and on the shore and
found by a jogger. To which Jace says “it’s not what you think!”
What? Before you said that, what I thought was “oh no,
these two soaking people have washed up from a tragic boating accident”. Since
they’re both beat up and dripping wet this would be reasonable. Until Jace
opens his mouth and speaks like a murderer
He goes on the run and ends up in a werewolf bar, full of
Luke’s pack who is really pissed at Jace kidnapping and apparently murdering one
of their own. They give him a thorough beating and plan to even more thoroughly
murder him as they chase him from bar to hospital to street and eventually to
Alec (the Clave is using Alec as bait for Jace because Alec is a tool not a
person or warrior etc)
Along the way Luke follows passionately pursuing justice
for his slain pack member. Hah No. Luke follows doing Clary’s will and does his
very best to do everything he can to protect Jace from his Pack’s wrath. I don’t
think he spends a millisecond caring one iota for the actual dead woman
Jace ends up arrested by the Clave. And maybe, just
maybe, we can focus on something a little more important than him
Meanwhile Simon is still not doing a great job of
actually finding his sire Camille and she’s apparently killing vampires.
Raphael is upset about this. Since he’s also caring about his people who he
leads rather than being a good little minion, he’s also a bad guy. Clearly he
needs to go to Luke’s school of appropriate Downworlder behaviour
Simon gets a call from his mother who points out he hasn’t
called her in forever; he worries about her, especially since she has had a problem
with alcohol in the past and appears to have started drinking again. Clary
decides to be supportive and we even repeat the book’s horrendously appropriative
and disgusting “coming out as a vampire” scene. It was awful in the books.
It’s awful in the TV show. The least you can do if you’re going to turn your
gay characters into subservient shadows is to not then hijack LGBT rights for
the sake of blood sucking monsters
Raphael finds Simon’s mother and has some nice little
ominous threats for Simon to actually get on with sorting out his Camille
problem already
