Lilith is free, the
queen of Edom! The biggest, scariest demon ever who no doubt has schemes that
could doom us all. In the face of this the gang has decided to… obsess about
Jace and Clary!
Of course, it’s not like there’s anything more important in the world!
Lillith is awfully
upset by there being a daylighter running around because he can banish her and
ruin all her awful plans. She decides the best thing to do about this is to go
visit the Seelie queen, since she’s the one who gave Simon the mark in the
first place
She goes to the
Seelie realm (possibly because the previous queen, before they became sworn
enemies, gave her an invitation) and kills a few of the queen’s knights before
confronting the queen. From this convo we learnt that when Lillith pissed off
the last queen the Seelie gifted Eve with super-beauty and that the Seelie
queen probably gave the mark to Simon as some kind of long term passive
aggressive way of fucking with Lillith
To which we know the
Seelie are both Supremely Petty and love to fight their wars 8 steps ahead
Lillith plans to kill
the queen but she buys her life by selling out where Jace is because unlike
everyone else on this show she doesn’t think Jace and Clary are the centre of
the universe.
Jace is being
imprisoned and doing the classic, pouty possession thing lashing out
ineffectually while everyone else gets all serious. Rather than deal with
Lillith and her world ending plans, Izzy and Alec decide to play around in
Jace’s head helped by Magnus’s magic where we get some child actors trying to
play these characters without upstaging the adults which must have been damn
hard given the acting quality of this series.
After many little
scenes which, in another series, would serve to build and grow his personality.
Not this show.
We do have a
wonderful scene where Jace begs Alec to kill him, please kill him, so he stops
doing bad things.
I second this plea.
Alas Alec says no. So he turns to Izzy and, alas, she also says no.
Don’t tease me Shadowhunters.
At this point Lillith
arrives to steal Jace away and threaten Magnus. She doesn’t kill Magnus because
his demon dad may start a war. Which suggests that that demon is invested in
Magnus. Think we may show that at some point? Or is what should be a major
character moment and story hook going to be a brushed over?
Meanwhile Simon, Maia
and Jordan are indulging in sexual tension and dealing with all their personal
issues while occasionally sparing a little time tracking down Lillith. This is
really the extent of how much attention they think Lillith is worth
The investigation is
derailed by Jordan repeatedly making puppy-dog eyes and creeping on Maia until
she nearly changes and needs hugging out of it by Simon and then she needs
space and
Can SOMEONE at least
pretend to care about the archdemon here. Even Maia says “Clary is what’s
important here”. Oh Maia, et tu Brute?!
Meanwhile Clary
completely wasted everyone’s time getting arrested by the Clave last episode
for no damn good reason. She’s not on trial with the Truthy Sword so she can
explain to everyone about how she was trying to cover up a murder, hide a
possession and generally being awful. Oh and that wish that the Clave was
keeping in case the world was actually ending and needed literal divine
intervention was instead used to resurrect Jace
Yup, the Clave are
really not excited about this. And plan to execute her
Oh, Shadowhunters
stop teasing me.
Luke is going to ride
to the rescue after getting Maryse to help him learn what’s happening by having
her go to the woman her ex-husband had an affair with. And I give huge respect
to actually depicting Maryse as respecting and not hating this woman. I also think
that Clary owes her a cake or a tasteful fruit basket or something. Oh and Luke
is going to risk his life to save Clary, of course.
