UNEDITED EXCLUSIVE: Shadowhunters Season 2 Episode 13 REACTION!
Added 2018-09-26 04:41:09 +0000 UTCWhat it dooski! Here's my UNEDITED EXCLUSIVE: Shadowhunters Season 2 Episode 13 REACTION!
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This was most definitely a filler episode. It did however picked up several threads from past episodes. Kailey clearly stated that it was because of her brother dying in the massacre at the Institute by the hand of Valentine and the soul sword. The context of taking the runes brought up by Raphael goes back as far as S1x4 when the Circle member told Magnus that he took Elias' horns and that Magnus' cat eyes would look great as trophies. When Kailey was in bed with Jace at Magnus' loft, she was quizzing Jace about his runes and in her madness she obviously connected the runes and the history of taking trophies. The gig for Simon follows on what he said to Clary after he became a daylighter that he wants to return to his music. Magnus and Dot is not so farfetched as Valentine, when he was in Magnus' body got Dot to teach him magic. Catarina and Dot seems to be Magnus' go to when he gets stuck on magic. The dancing scene was not that farfetched as Magnus has been brooding over whiskey and he was blowing off steam with a good friend. Her trying to kiss him was obviously a heat of the moment and alcohol induced thinking. This is not a stellar episode because of the pacing and some things that were just a bit off (and I'm not talking about the camera angles) but it is also not totally out of the realm of Shadowhunters.
Johanna Nel
2019-06-06 06:59:23 +0000 UTCI finally got a chance to sit down and watch this reaction. My feelings about this episode are difficult. All your criticisms are totally on point. The pacing is off, some of the camera choices are iffy (though I think having the camera on a slant during the scene where they learn of the tracking chips is a sound choice; that's camera language for "something isn't right here" and obviously a moment where the privileged people are discussing planning tracking chips in minorities is about as wrong as it gets.) The writing is clunky, and there are a couple moments of absolutely atrocious acting. The plot twist with Kaelie came out of nowhere and needed a lot more buildup, Raphael forgave Izzy for having Simon implicitly threaten his sister all too quickly, and don't even get me started on Magnus and Dot. And yet...I love this episode desperately. I love it because it's ballsy. I mean, I don't think anyone could miss the metaphor that underpins Shadowhunters, of Valentine as a would-be fascist/white supremacist dictator with dreams of genocide. But it's a little easier to overlook the Clave as a racist, authoritarian institution and to mistake the Shadowhunters for good guys when in fact, mostly the Clave is pretty awful and even our "good" Shadowhunters have moments of excruciating privilege at best and outright racism at worst. It would have been easy to leave all of that as simply subtext. That's what most genre shows would have done, because that is sort of where most genre stuff lives. They insinuate similarities to real-life politics without ever explicitly drawing the connection. This episode...actually made those connections. It's hinted in numerous places in season 1 that Alec being involved with a man, and a Downworlder, would be detrimental to his career prospects, but here it's actually called out. The parallels to fascism and abuse of police authority and racial profile are explicitly called out. It was clumsily executed, but DAMN it takes a lot of heart to actually go there when it would have been safer not to. And it was written by a gay man and directed by an Asian director so, however ham-handed the execution was, it came from a place of authenticity there, too (though Alisha Wainwright was the one to get them to actually write in the racial profiling call-out; they had included the holocaust parallel already but she pointed out after the table read that Maia being black would absolutely inform her perspective and reactions to being falsely accused and arrested.) And then they went and shot holes in the whole "cheating bisexual" trope and killed that dead, so that was a good day. Plus, Alberto is actually an incredible musician and that song freaking rocks. Also, I loved Jace and Maia, I thought they had amazing chemistry. So yeah, I love this episode, despite its many, MANY flaws.
Singing Wordwright
2018-09-27 06:49:33 +0000 UTCI think you are the first to have this reaction...but oh well.....I need to point out that Jace was willing to die for those ungrateful downworlders when he pulled that sword out!!! Second...Maia could have NEVER hit Jace he is to fast and to strong, that is one of the deviations from the books that I think they should have put in the show. Don't forget Shadowhunters are faster stronger and heal fast.
WillAlwaysLoveClark
2018-09-26 23:12:19 +0000 UTCAgreed this was a set up filler type of episode but don't worry next episode if I remember right is back to your regular schedule programming lol
Crystal Balogh
2018-09-26 21:05:30 +0000 UTCI didn’t like it all too much. Felt jarring and pacing was off for me
Failwhale34
2018-09-26 17:54:16 +0000 UTCSo what did you think of this episode??? I really couldn't tell......
Elisa Ingo
2018-09-26 16:47:04 +0000 UTCAnd the Dot/Magnus thing? Pretty sure that was just so they could show a little of Harry's dancing off. No, they were trying to show Magnus is really in love with Alec, because there was some buzz at the time that the "I love yous" were only because of the battle, they were "heat of the moment". This was to establish they were real. Things will pick back up.
Rochelle Dunlap
2018-09-26 12:58:28 +0000 UTCThis was one of those tie up/set up episodes. There were loose ends (the addiction arc, the mass killings, Jace's new identity) that had to be sorted out to set up for future storylines.
Rochelle Dunlap
2018-09-26 12:52:18 +0000 UTCIt’s definitely one of their weaker episodes of 3b. And with your question of the time frame of last episode to this episode, this episode takes place only a day or two since 2x12 it’s a very fast paced show in terms of the timeline
Ragan Michelle
2018-09-26 12:05:30 +0000 UTCI mean 3b obvs + 2 h special wrapup
Sandra
2018-09-26 11:22:17 +0000 UTCOne of those episodes where they try to comprise a huge chunk of storyline or like backstory into one episode. Similar to the episode when Luke was telling Clary about Jocelyn and Valentine and we got all those flashbacks They’re fillers, the weaker episodes for sure, but at the same time necessary in order to present the information needed to support the main storyline. This is always the problem when they try to fit books into neat seasonbased timeframes. And for sure a contributing factor to why there was issues with getting s4 funded and produced, it’s going to be intresting to see that season on screen.
Sandra
2018-09-26 11:20:06 +0000 UTCGetting my Cheerios, all good to go 😀
Sandra
2018-09-26 10:23:44 +0000 UTCYes I didn’t dream it this time, you did post 😘
Sandra
2018-09-26 10:22:37 +0000 UTC
