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Friday, July 21, 2017

Shadowhunters TV Series, S2E16; DAY OF ATONEMENT/ Review #shadowhunters

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We caught up from our vacation with this week's episode, "Day of Atonement". Here's hoping that it's some real atonement and we see a glimpse of the books we love.

EMMALY'S REVIEW

So our evil Sebastian has captured Valentine during the transfer to Idris but he didn’t do it to let him go it seems. We are now confirmed Seb was the one who was helping Luke kill Valentine. We also have confirmation Seb is in fact our Jonathan and has demon blood. But even Valentine couldn't control him. Jonathan revealing some of his worst traits retelling stories of his childhood. Valentine actually looks scared and rightly so I’m guessing. Jonathan has some serious Father issues that's for sure.

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As the side plot of this story we are introduced to Maia going with Simon to his family dinner. Gotta have some nice stuff alongside the the evil stuff. It is cute and it’s nice that she is helping him out. At the end we see a small spark of what might be a future relationship. I do like this ship, it does fit this part of the story well.

Now Alec Jace Clary and Izzy are trying to find where Valentine has gone. Jace remembers a cabin in Idris and by looking at the map Clary makes her first portal. Yay some more of Clary’s extra powers are starting to show. So Jace and Clary go off to Idris landing in Lake Lyn. Book readers will be worried about them landing in the lake, and swallowing the water. And yes we realise that’s a problem as Clary looses Jace and starts hearing things. She even gets to chat to Etherial who tells her that Jonathan is alive. She thinks it is Jace, but do we know better. Was I the only one who thought Lake Lyn was a lot bigger? Or couldn’t they find a bigger lake for a shooting location. Aren’t the great lakes close to Toronto?

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After Alec is worried something is wrong with Jace and they see they have left via a portal, Izzy is sent to help. My first thought was why is she going alone? isn’t there hundreds of other Shadowhunters at the Institute that could have gone too, you know as back up. But of course she finds Jace straight away and they find Clary who is a little out of her mind. A weird staged fight scene happens and Jace saves Clary from the Lyn water madness activating her healing rune. They then have a moment. Like I said in last week’s review, closer to them getting together, but not there yet, gotta wait for the season finale for that.

At the end we work out that the clave doesn’t have the Soul Sword that in fact evil Sebastian/Jonathan has it. But against his plans of sending Valentine to Edom, the Soul Sword allows Valentine to tell the truth about how Jonathan was always his finest creation. So now Valentine and Jonathan are back playing happy families again in NYC. I’m guessing our Sebastian stand-in will go back to the Institute tomorrow like nothing happened. And the big reveal even the non book readers would be working out was that there are in fact two Jonathan’s, our Jace and the evil one.

A better episode by far as some of the major plot lines are kept closer to the book. I can see some of the plots from the final 3 books in the TMI series might show up now. Unless it takes a while for them to find out who the evil Seb is. We do have a major death to come soon I think, and I just hope they do it justice.


SOPHIE'S REVIEW

Well, Mundie Mamas, we're in for another rollercoaster ride. In today's very special Shadowhunters we learn that Downworlders depression can be "seriously dangerous". Someone hand me a Prozac and let's try to get through this episode together, shall we?

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Now, all sarcasm aside, I did absolutely love the special effects of Clary coming up with a rune that opens portals (the fact that she was inspired by a map of Idris is not canon, but I won't be picky).

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The Adventure in Vampire Dating segment, however, was a little weird to say the least. What was the purpose of this bit? To see Simon lie to his family? To have Simon partnered with Maia? To see Simon's sweet grandmother? It's Yom Kippur dinner at Simon's house and what we get to see is an absolutely awkward segment on atonement. I'm still processing it and shaking my head. If I was editing this, I would've deleted it entirely.

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And then we get what I'm calling Book Glimpses. Teeny moments of hope for those of us who cling to the thousand plus pages of beautifully written stories by Cassie -- there are portal shards which lead Robert (yes, Daddy Lightwood's back), Alec and Izzy to Jace and Clary by Lake Lyn. Clary begins to hallucinate (that was kinda-sorta true to the book) and sees Ithuriel.


And she doesn't recognize Jace until he hugs her. I know we would all recognize Jace in a hug, right?

My favorite part of the episode (and feel free to put Jace air quotes around "favorite") was the scene between Big Bad Daddy Valentine and Seb baby. They argue, they fight, they make up. Seb Anthony Bourdain makes dinner for Daddy. Whether you watch this sober or drunk, by this point, you are feeling queasy. Are we hallucinating along with Clary? Do we all need a hug from Jace to bring us back to reality? Yes, yes, we do. 

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Was the episode uneven for you, too, Mundie Moms? Emm and I had pretty much the same feelings about it -- a bit better, but still horrible in parts.

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