So last episode we had Jocelyn killed, Alec doing the
killing, and everyone kind of angsty. So let’s continue that
Now, Jace saved Victor-bad-guy who runs the Clave in New
York and because of this he has been exhonerated of being a terribad awful
traitor. Y’know, I think he is still kind of traitorous since he did, for no apparent
reason at all, support Valentine for all that time. But hey, everyone makes
terrible bad decisions all the time on this show
But one good decision is Victor decides that Jace shouldn’t
be leading missions and grounds him to the Institute – for saving him. Now we’re
supposed to all think how terribly unfair and mean this is to Jace – but Victor
makes sense. Jace decided to save Victor rather than stopping Valentine run off
with a powerful magical artefact: he is emotional, undisciplined and doesn’t
make good decisions and can’t be trusted to follow orders. These are reasonable
points.
But this show has never been reasonable.
Speaking of, Izzie is injured from her fight with the
demon last episode and the wound is not healing. Of course, like any sensible
person and a warrior she decides to ignore it and hope it goes away. Because it’s
a terrible decisions and this show loves terrible decisions. Thankfully Victor
has a stash of horny healing paste for her.
Yes, there’s a salve that helps heal wounds but also
makes people super horny. Or maybe that’s the acting and it’s supposed to make
people feel super euphoric. Either way this will end badly.
Clary is not going through the normal stages of grief
because a) bad acting (seriously most of this episode there is no indication
that Clary is bereaved at all and her tone is identical to what it always has
been) and b) she intends to use warlock magic to bring her mother back from the
dead. Everyone tells her this is a terribad idea. She doesn’t care. Of course she
doesn’t.
She goes to Magnus because he’s the warlock everyone goes
to when they want something because he’s everyone’s favourite servant warlock. He
says this is a bad idea and, for once, actually refuses them. Yes, Magnus can say
no. Let us mark this on the calendar.
Magnus is also there for Alec to talk to – about his
guilt over Clary. Y’know I’m happy for Magnus and Alec to talk since it doesn’t
happen often enough or long enough – but it would also be nice if they actually
had a relationship at all. Whenever they meet it’s to talk about other people
and Magnus providing a lot of emotional labour and support – but they’ve kind
of fastforwarded to this point. They’ve got this connection which allows Alec
to confide in/rest on Magnus but no real attempt has been made to actually
build that relationship. They’ve basically put a gay and a bisexual man in proximity
with each other and declared that they have a relationship now. It’s not just a
terrible trope but it’s how neither character has actually been developed so
much as just pressed into service
Which we see again, with the added impetus of guilt Alec
is the only one willing to follow Clary to a warlock she’s found willing to
perform the Black Magic Magnus refuses. Alec knows this is a bad idea
- And my gods this idea is the worst idea ever. Everyone
tells her her mother could come back as a demon. The warlock she goes to doesn’t
even believe dark magic is dark. Oh and her fee is “an unspecified favour to be
repaid at a future date” which should raise all the red flags (but hey, I guess
Clary is shocked to find a Warlock who doesn’t just give her what she wants
with no fee). And this has to be signed by a blood oath.
So many red flags here. Alec disagrees with this entirely
but because he’s Alec he also does pretty much nothing except make nice to the
kids at her house (she’s running a warlock breeding program since warlocks are
quite thin on the ground and Valentine wants to slaughter them). This warlock
also wants to use Clary as breeding stock
Clary decides, belatedly, that this may be actually a bad
idea after all but she’s already drunk the Warlock’s potion (because of course
she has, this is the world of terrible decisions) and finds herself imprisoned with a demon
intent on raping her to breed new warlock babies. Alec fails to be any use
whatsoever, because he’s Alec. But Izzie and Jace show up and save her
Of course, Clary still owes this warlock a blood oath
failure. We’ll file that under “future plot hooks caused by character stupidity”.
Clary also pulled out an entirely new woo-woo ability
from nowhere because she’s just that special. Because she’s Clary, she and Jace
decide that there’s absolutely no reason to mention this to anyone who may know
anything about this.
Over to Simon, after helping Clary with funeral rites, he
goes to his mother and decides to move back home again.
That should be simple, he just has to stay out of
sunlight, sleep all day, not eat any solid food and keep drinking blood without
his mother of his friends finding out
Clearly hanging around with clary has begun to affect his
decision making abilities.
It goes epicly wrong and Simon ends up telling his mother
he’s a vampire. She, naturally, doesn’t believe him – until she finds him,
fangs and all, snacking on rats.
