For future reference, Asmodeus is pronounced Asmòdius.
My favourite of the whole season is of course Magnus Bane. Alec… yes and no. They have lovely and touching scenes together, but Alec in this season makes me often angry. He so easily believes Magnus when he says he’s fine, he doesn’t understand when he’s suffering, and he doesn’t understand what it is for him to be without magic, I don’t think he even really tries, since he probably likes the idea of Magnus being as mortal as he is, and also maybe being the strongest of the two for once. If he really wanted, it would’t be too difficult to connect and try to understand what Magnus feels without magic, because he was born with magic, that’s the life he’s always known, so what would Alec feel if someone stripped him of his runes and forbid him to work at the institute? It’s a poor comparison, and yet I doubt he would be like: okay, there’s other things I could be doing, and if there’s danger my boyfriend will protect me. No, he wouldn’t accept it, he’d want to help, to know.
AND, Alec knows that not only Magnus did it for him, but also that to Alec it was worth it to help Jace…
I really like this last season’s Maryse, she’s basically another person, another character.
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Clary is officially a shadowhunter now, got her rune ceremony and her angel rune, but they all think she ‘prevented a wish from being granted’. Jace says nobody can ever know, so she keeps lying. She gets to choose her signature weapon, and she chooses two blades, one was her father’s, the other her mother’s.
Magnus is no more the high warlock of Brooklyn. He tells Alec it’s nothing, but Catarina says he was beyond himself because of it.
Alec is offered a good position in Idris, but he should move there and Magnus couldn’t visit. When Alec confronts him on his truth, Magnus also admits he doesn’t want him to go away, so he won’t. Well, it seems to me like Alec believed him too easily when he said he was okay, of course he wasn’t.
A kind nurse is attacked, maybe possessed by a demon or something, and he kills his wife.
Clary will kill him with the sun rune. The demon is set on finding more virtuous to ‘corrupt’.
Simon entertains the queen with songs, then she brands his forehead and lets him go.
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Magnus and Alec go to a warlock party for the new high warlock of Brooklyn, Lorenzo Rey. He appears to be a jerk, then something happens, everything shaking, and people losing control of their magic, and to me it looked like Magnus saved the day, but later he says his magic was useless like everyone else’s, and Lorenzo accuses him of sabotaging his party, and it turns out Magnus’ father is Asmodeus, very big demon. Magnus thinks someone much worse is actually responsible. Asmodeus is like the prince of Hell or something (it’s not clear to me : Edom is just one plane of demons, it’s not Hell, right? Otherwise it couldn’t end the way it did… ?)
Anyway, when Lorenzo accuses Magnus because that level of magic is like Asmodeus’ or something, Alec suggests he goes and investigate this magic:so Alec distracts Lorenzo giving Magnus the chance to enter his home and study the ley lines, discovering that it was not his father but a worse, greater demon…
Magnus will then cure the ley lines from the institute (and having a hard time during it, poor thing, but he does it).
Jace asks Simon a name of a nice restaurant without explanation, to have a dinner date with Clary, and they find themselves having to share a table… with Simon and Maia for one of the worst date ever, because first Simon knows her much better than he does, then Jace lets it out that he and Maia hooked up once… they are pretty ok with the date anyway.
Jace keeps dreaming of killing Clary of seeing Jonathan telling him to kill her.
The demon woman ‘corrupts’ more virtuous so she can then use their blood.
When the usual bad werewolves attack Simon because they don’t want him around, because he’s a vampire, his forehead glows and his powers are woah! The rune activates to protect him, hurting the werewolf.
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Jace keeps seeing Jonaathan and is voncinced that the demon with an owl face (it doesn’t really look like an owl to me but that’s what they call it…) is Jonathan.
Simon wants to know what the rune on his forehead means. He tries to reenter the Seelie world to find out, but can’t.
Raphael’s little sister Rosa, now an old woman, dies.
Magnus hosts a family dinner for Alec’s mom, it should have been all of them but Izzy goes out with Clary and Jace worried about the Jonathan situation. Needless to say, Maggnus is a great host. Maryse is all smiles and sweetness, and after dinner she tells Alec that the Clave has reclassified her a traitor and will strip her of her runes (or has already done it?… not sure)
Maryse hugs Magnus and tells him “thank you for loving my boy”, it’s a warm hug :)
We see that the owl is Jace.
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Jonathan is not yet back to life, his mom wants 33 deathsto bring him back and uses Jace to get them (this is how it goes:the owl finds a good person and attacks them, they become possessed by the demon and they kill the person nearest to them, a loved one, that’s the death. Then these possessed people willingly shed their blood for the demon woman).
Heidi escapes. Raphael was keeping her prisoner. She kills a man and he’s now a vampire - not for long though - Clary kills him. Heidi chains Raphael and leaves him on the roof to die in the sun; his leg starts to burn but Izzy and Clary save him. He says he doesn’t know who the rogue vampire is but Isabelle knows him and finds out: it was his own experiment to become a daylighter. He sort of tortured Heidi ? He kept her chained, experimented on her?
Izzy tells him to leave the city or she’ll report him.
Simon left the werewolf to avoid any more ‘accidents’ and now he finds a new roommate, but he works for the Praetor.
The owl frees Morgan of her demonic possession. I guess it’s because she was in a cell and Magnus could have found out something from her…
Jace remembers nothing and is losing his mind. The owl got 23 already.
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Jace helps Simon and they find out Kyle is a Praetor Lupus, “it’s a secret organization of wolves”, guardians. Simon leaves.
The demon mom goes to Magnus, she wants something to make someone fall out of love, and he gives it to her (because she words it like a good deed) but she needs a piece of Clary’s soul.
Clary wants to summon the angel Ithuriel herself, to help Jace. Of course when she wants to do something, she does it. Ithuriel tells her that it’s not her fault but Jace is now vulnerable to the great demon, the owl has a master… but the angel gets killed before saying the name. Killed by the demon that she sent, who then touched Clary to take a piece of her soul.
Jace wants to go to the Silent City for help, but the demon woman puts the potion in his beer.
izzy goes out with the mundane doctor, Charlie.
Alec asks Magnus if he can move in, but Magnus says it’s too soon. Alec saw him looking into a box, and when he’s alone, he takes it out and looks inside, and sees the picture of a soldier named George. He thinks everything in that box belongs to George, that maybe Magnus still loves him, but the truth is something else. After Alec apologises, Magnus says that that box is where he keeps his mementos, one for each people he had a relationship with, and outlived. Now Alec is upset for a different reason, because one day he will die and have a place in that box.
Clary tells Luke of the wish, of what she did, that Jace died.
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Heidi goes to her sire, Simon, totally shocking him. He didn’t know she was ‘alive’. She attacks Isabelle but Simon intervenes before Isabelle can kill her. Then he gives her to the Praetor group.
The greater demon already got 32 deaths, she needs the last one. The owl attacks Ollie, Luke shoots him and Clary sees that it’s Jace.
Maryse bears her heart to Isabelle.
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Jace throws Clary off a roof, and she calls Simon for help because she can’t move. Alec, Isabelle and Clary get Imogen’ help to get a cage to trapp Jace; they get it, but not before Jace kills Imogen. They trap him but Clary stays behind to let them escape when people arrive.
Jordan Kyle is Maia’s sire. She hates him because they were in love once: when he was turned, he changed, they broke up, he got jealous and attacked her in wolf form, but then he ran away and never helped her.
The demon is Lilith, Queen of Edom. Adam’s first wife, the mother of all demons.
Ollie killed her mother, now it’s 33 deaths, and it helps Lilith bring back Jonathan.
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Magnus helps Alec and Isabelle go into Jace’s mind to bring him back. They find him and he begs them to kill him because Lilith will make him do more horrible things, and they promise to protect him against Lilith, but she comes and takes him away. Magnus can’t stop her, Lilith doesn’t kill him only because she doesn’t want a war with Asmodeus.
This was probably the best acting from ‘Jace’ so far in the show.
Clary reveals everything under the power of the Soul Sword during her trial, and she’s sentenced to death.
Maia goes away to sort out her feelings.
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Jace stopped the praetor and took Heidi to Lilith.
Luke loses his pack because he wants to save Clary.
When they’re about to kill Clary, she tells Jia that she can bring Valentine back to life (what luck that she was just informed of Jia’s interest…). And she does, she brings him back to life to question him. Valentine tells her that Lilith wants to get Jonathan back. Then Valentine takes Jia hostage, Clary helps her, she tries to stop him but he’s too strong. He kills a lot and frees his Circle. Clary stops Valentine again, then Jace takes his flesh and Clary to bring to Lilith.
Magnus has a way to stop Lilith, but he needs more power and Alec asks Lorenzo’s permission. Instead, Lorenzo forbids all his warlocks from helping him. Quite pissed, Magnus confronts Lorenzo and fights him. Just a bit, but it’s a really bad thing to attack your High Warlock.
Magnus is desperate to help Alec, because Jace is his parabatai, Alec loves him, and he also feels guilty for the promise he made and couldn’t keep, so Magnus thinks of asking his father’s help.
Heidi hurts Simon’s sister Becky when he’s starving so he feeds on her. Kyle went to Isabelle so they stop him, but his mom sends him away calling him a monster… well, come on, she just saw him almost killing her daughter…
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Magnus goes to Edom to find Asmodeus. It’s not a sweet reunion, Magnus resents him because Asmodeus took him under his wing when he was a child and had nobody else - which may seem like a good thing, but Asmodeus I think taught him bad stuff, he’s a demon after all, so now Magnus doesn’t want to be close. So, of course Magnus refuses to stay there with him and rule over Edom together. Still, he asks for help.
When Simon’s big sister Becky wakes up, she doesn’t hate him and doesn’t want to forget, she wants to be by his side. He makes his mother forget and believe that he’s dead.
To save Clary, Alec fights Jace while Luke and Isabelle fight Lilith’s disciples. Jace is winning, and the demon is all cruel, telling us that inside there is poor Jace crying for what he’s about to do. It’s a nice thing that Alec hold off long enough to tell him that it’s not his fault and that he forgives him. Luckily, Magnus arrives just in time to save Alec’s life. And to free Jace, actually. He hits Jace with a powerful bolt of magic that breaks the demon possession for good, but when Jace asks him to immediately cure Alec, he can’t do it because he doesn’t have his magic anymore, he gave it up to free Jace. That was the deal.
Simon frees Clary, then she tells him to destroy Jonathan’s body, so Lilith attacks him and she’s defeated - banished to Edom then, not killed. It’s a powerful blast, and Clary was behind Lilith and is not here anymore, so Simon thinks he killed her.
When Magnus tells Jace that he gave up his magic to break Lilith’s hold on him, Jace doesn’t even bat an eye, he simply takes his stele to help Alec as he can and then he runs for Clary. And Alec too! After what he heard, he caers more about telling Jace that “it wasn’t you”. Even later, I don’t think Alec ever acknowledges how big a sacrifice it was. Magnus was born with magic! What’s more, Alec never acknowledges that he let Magnus go to Edom because it was all worth it to save Jace…
Alec sometimes acts jealous of Magnus’ past, but at least that was way in the past, while Jace is here, in Alec’s present…
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Jace fights in a suicidal way thinking that Clary’s dead. Maia comes back for Simon. Jonathan is alive and so is Clary, of course; he has another face - which I guess is his own and not the one stolen from the real Sebastian? Who was that Sebastian anyway? Was he really called Sebastian?
Iris comes to get Madzie, but when she fails she gets Magnus. In my opinion he showed great strength and character: she wanted to get Madzie’s location from his mind, but he’s got centuries of memories in there, and he had her move around his thoughts showing her lots of different memories to keep her away from what she wanted. He may have been the bravest, cleverest, most admiring thing he’s ever done. But he still needed to be rescued and cured, and because of that he feels weak and humiliated.
Jonathan and Clary are linked by a rune, if one dies the other dies too.
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Now that he’s mortal, Magnus and Alec train together which may be a very good or very bed idea, lol, since Magnus keeps flirting and the training stops rather quickly…
Luke and Jace work together to find out if Clary’s alive, because Luke is convinced that she’s not. Good dad. Jace, Luke and Alec find them but can’t kill Jonathan and have to let him go.
Simon and Isabelle go down the sewers to find the oldest vampire who maybe can remove the Mark of Cain, the rune on his forehead, and they find Cain himself. He’s lonely and scared, it was all Lilith’s fault, she changed him and made him kill his brother Abel. (… still, that was a long time ago, and he’s still stuck on that… of course it’s a trauma that stays, but what has he done with his life ever since?)
Cain says that only the Seelie Queen can remove that mark. So Simon goes there with Cain’s stone to perform the required ceremony, at risk of death. It hurts a lot but he makes it, and then Isabelle has him feed on her because he might die, evecn though it will renew her addiction.
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The Praetor wolves hunt for Heidi. (Why is it that when a werewolf dies the ritual is to say Beati Bellicosi? What does it mean? That you die a fighter and therefore you’ll go to Paradise? But they say it for all werewolves, not just the good ones… )
Luke encourages Maia to become the new Alpha, and to put the pack first she breaks up with Simon.
Luke and Maryse kiss. Heidi makes a war break out between the vampires and the werewolves.
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Magnus begs Lorenzo to help him, he wants to have magic again. Lorenzo can’t give him ‘his’ magic, meaning Magnus’, but he can give him a transfuzion of his own, it’s a thing apparently, and to be fair Lorenzo does warn him that there is no guarantee that all will be well… but Magnus insists, says he can take care of himself. So Lorenzo, as High Warlock, gives him some magic.
As his prize, he asks for Magnus’ apartment. Magnus of course agreed - and not only because the transfusion had already occured when Lorenzo made his demand, but most importantly because he would have given almost anything to have magic again, probably anything other than Alec or staying with his father. Alec is angry at Lorenzo when he learns this, and he really doesn’t understand why Magnus isn’t, why he says he’d do it again. Alec never had magic, and he really can’t understand what it means for Magnus.
Jonathan takes Jace’s appearance and takes Clary around. She only understands the truth when he kisses her… because this Jonathan calls her sister, but he doesn’t act very brotherly…
What Jonathan wants is the Morning Star swork, that only a Morgenstern can wield. It can be used to summon demons from Hell.
Jordan is badly hurt after the vampires attack because he protected Maia, and almost dies but Simon arrives barely on time.
Clary is back with her people but she fails to stop Jonathan.
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Luke is arrested for the deaths of his pack.
Isabelle goes to arrest Raphael, who now lives in a shelter helping poor people.
Heidi gives Alec the names of the vampires who attacked the wolves.
Maia finds Heidi and kills her, the sneaky Alpha injected herself with holy water so when Heidi bites her she dies.
(Two questions: do all hospitals keep holy water around? Where did she get it, since it didn’t take very long before she confronted Heidi? Just the time for Magnus to get there and help the woman in a coma and then they went looking for Heidi…
Also, did nobody notice while they were shooting that Maia had different shoes? At the hospital she had high-heel boots, but when she confronted Heidi she had no heels… I mean, they made close shots of her feet, that’s why I noticed, how come they didn’t?)
Magnus was living at the institute with Alec while looking for another apartment, and so he talked to Underhill and found out that Alec talked to him when they were having problems… and he’s jealous, especially because when he says ‘your handsome friend’ Alec immediately guesses it’s Underhill :)
At the end, Magnus and Alec agree to move in together when he finds a new apartment, then Magnus starts bleeding and collapses.
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Alec is terrified for Magnus, Catarina helps: Magnus’ body is rejecting Lorenzo’s magic, and using it again could put him at risk, so Alec asks Lorenzo to help him, to save him by taking his magic back.
At first Magnus refuses, but Alec explains that he loves him for who he is, not for his magic, and tells him that he can’t lose him, so Magnus accepts and loses his magic again.
After being so terrified to lose him, Alec goes to Maryse to ask her for the family ring, he wants to give it to Magnus, wants to ask him to marry him.
(I know it wall all Magnus imagination but I so didn’t like that ‘dance scene’… :/ )
Jonathan wants to kill Lilith and bring her head to the Seelie Queen in exchange for the sword, but before he can do it, Clary summons her elsewhere, to find out how to erase that rune that bonds her with Jonathan. Cain frees Lilith believing her word that she’ll bring Abel back (is he a naive kid or what? He should be old enough not to believe this stuff anymore, come on…)
Clary watches Jonathan hurt her friends until finally Simon bites him, and then she banishes him into a cell. Poor Simon had to spit black stuff.
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Isabelllew wants Simon to go into the Clave prison to find out what happens there, if they really torture people or not, and to look for a mythological sword called the Glorious.
This Victor of the Clave has a piece of the Glorious, and he’s using it to make a serum that once injected can make them all human again. (Well, humans that were turned into vampires or wolves go back to being human again, but the Seelies and the warlocks too for that matter were born the way they are, so they would just bes tripped of their powers and become mortals?)
Raphael is glad for it, Iris is not, but Victor plans to spread it to everyone, that they want it or not. I think Iris gets killed.
How long has this serum being perfected? How many downworlders have been turned into humans? What happened to them, since not one of them gave ever any news about themselves? They were all kept there at the Clave prison? Maybe, it’s where Simon finds Raphael, and there are a few people, although not all that many…
Magnus finds a grey hair, he’s without magic and feels useless, so he starts drinking. He always loved to drink, but maybe because he’s mortal now, his body can’t take it as well as before.
It was supposed to be Alec’s great night, he wanted everything to be perfect, he put together a romantic dinner for two, there were flowers, but Magnus shows up late and drunk. He says that he’s not happy, that what he’s feeling might never end, and that he’s now a mortal like Alec always wanted… and then he cries in Alec’s arms.
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Becky comes to celebrate Halloween with Simon like always. She’s nice, I like her. She makes Simon smile with her cape and enthusiasm, and he brings her to Maia’s bar where she can watch lots of downworlders without their glamours. Did they already say that every warlock is born with an animal feature, but they hide it with glamours? I don’t remember it, but Magnus surely got lucky to have fascinating cat eyes instead of a pig’s nose…
The Praetor Lupus free Luke from prison, all legal, he’s free now.
The Seelie Queen now wants Jonathan dead, but Clary knocks out Jace and goes to save her big brother.
When Magnus was drunk he explained how miserable he is without his magic, and that he’ll never be happy now (well, not exactly but this is how Alec perceived it) so Alec speaks with Asmodeus, asks him to help Magnus, and Asmodeus will do it only if he breaks Magnus’ heart. Alec thinks about it, and he believes it’s the only thing that will make Magnus happy, because Alec knows he’s not his first love and says that he won’t be the last either, he’s sure Magnus will recover and be happy, so he does it. He goes to Magnus and breaks up wiht him. He tells him that the spark he fell in love with is gone.
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Asmodeus finds a way to enter this wordl and goes to Magnus and gives him his magic back. He wants him at his side, but Magnus refuses. He has his magic back now, but he’s not happy because he’s heartbroken. He keeps walking around aimlessly for hours, and then he asks Brother Zacharias to erase his memories of Alec, but Brother Zacharias refuses and does so by speaking out loud, to make clear how important this is, because he thinks it’s a mistake and thinks that Magnus knows it as well, because Magnus has the power to do it himself if he wants to.
It was really bad to see that Magnus was actually going to do it, his weakest and worst moment, although I understand he was hurting a lot… still, that was bad… I hated that scene because of this. Good thinkg Asmodeus stopped him, for his own reason for sure, but at least he stopped him. (Maybe he did watch The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and knew it mit start all over again and he doesn’t want that, he wants Magnus to get evr him and become hard-hearted because of it)
Now Magnus cries in his father’s arms.
Clary is with Jonathan now, she still loves Jace though. Jace goes with Clary and Jonathan, she wants them both with her. Thy’re to kidnap the Seelie Queen to get the sword from her.
Maia is upset that they destroyed all the serum, taking away their choice to go back to a normal life. And what was left, they’re using it all to help Clary, of course.
Isabelle forges the Glorious, it wasn’t all that impossible after all…
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Amodeus gets Magnus his apartment back, because Lorenzo’s father is a subject of his, which he says makes Lorenzo a subject of Magnus, or stuff like that, and Magnus doesn’t stop him when he turns Lorenzo into a lizard, nor does he turn him back or ask his father to do it.
But Maryse won’t let it go, she wants to know why Alec did what he did, and, smart woman that she is, she understands as soon as she sees that Magnus has magic again. Now she understands why Alec said that he had to break up with Magnus because it was the only way he’d ever be whole again, and she makes Magnus understands. Well, she can’t tell him because she doesn’t really know the details, she doesn’t know that Asmodeus is here, but she knows that the two things are related and so she makes him think of when exactly did his magic return.
Magnus exchanges words with his father, but he acts calm, so Asmodeus won’t go into defence mode. And then Magnus banishes him into Limbo forever.
They did say, maybe back in the first series, that if you enter a portal unconscious you get lost in limbo forever (no matter where that portal was to, I guess), so I wonder why didn’t they ever try this…
Jordan tells Maia he stole the last serum for her, and also that he’s not cured, he’s still poisoned. Maia gives the serum to Luke who got it under the Praetor’s orders. Jordan dies.
Clary and Jonathan exchange the Seelie Queen for the sword, and the three Lightwoods are there too (yeah, technically Jace isn’t, but he is, so there.) The boys trap Jonathan, waiting for Isabelle to free Clary. Simon arrives just in time to stop her from killing Isabelle, and Jace uses the sword to break the bond. Now Alec should kill Jonathan, but he fails because without the bond to Clary he has huge black wings, he’s what, a full demon now?
The Glorious breaks, huting Izzy that protected Simon because it could have killed him, being a vampire.
Jonathan still has the sword and he’s calling demons now. Jia’s daugher Aline and Helen are together now. Helen is the half Seelie that helped Simon destroy the serum.
Magnus arrives to help in the battle against the demons, it’s really bad. Magnus and Alec talk, and this is my favourite Alec scene, he really looks moved by it all, really emotional when Magnus tells him that he knows of the deal, and then Magnus asks him to marry him and they put the rings on… But since a rift has been opened and demons keep coming and destroying Alicante (they’re in Alicante, right? Where warlocks are not allowed? Could Magnus come here only because the demons were destroying the towers keeping downworlders out?) Magnus will go to Edom to strengthen his magic and close it from there. It’s really hard to separate now that they got each other’s back, but now they now that they’re still iin love, and love gives strength.
Clary and Jace said that Jonathan destroyed the sword, but to me it looked like he merely banished it, it didn’t break, it just disappeared is what I mean… anyway, the point is that without the sword they can’t close the rift, so Magnus does, he goes to Edom - without any Pentagram this time, he just fires up his magic and ascends as if to Heaven only he goes to Edom. Anyway, Alec cries but slowly the rift closes, they can clearly see the demons disappearing and none more arriving, and then the sky is clear again. Magnus did it.
Magnus’ expression when he talked to Maryse and realized the truth about why Alec left him, that’s what acting is about, I love that scene. For both of them. Also the scene when they propose to each other, it’s beautiful and well acted (or it wouldn’t be beautiful, would it now?). I love it.
Only thing is, where did the “only i you’ll marry me too” line come from? It makes no sense. Is it just a way for them to ‘both’ propose? Or a way to state that you’re not just accepting it like a girl? It’s nonsense and not nice at all from whatever angle I look at it. It almost ruined the scene, and it tarnishes it a little bit because it really irritates me to hear it.
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Magnus is not back, he can’t come back or the rift will reopen, so he has to stay in Edom to keep them all safe. He saved Alicante, but Maryse thinks that if he came back, the whole of Edom would come here as well.
Alec doesn’t give up.
In Edom, Lilith wants to raise an army against Magnus, because now he’s stronger than her - and this… how come he’s stronger? He’s got his power back, and that’s it, he didn’t take his father’s magic, so his Asmodeus by himself was not stronger than her, the Queen of Edom, how come he is? Sure, they say something about having been weakened by Simon’s rune, the Mark of Cain, but this much???
Simon goes to kiss Isabelle, but she has heavenly fire in her now, and to come into contact with anyone from the downworld could kill both her and the other.
They find a way to go to Edom but you should have downworlder blood to do it, so Isabelle goes by herself because ‘s got heavenly fire to protect her - she’s knows about it like five minutes and she already masters it, and uses it like magic… and what, giving Simon a hug could kill them, but going to the demon world won’t?
Alec wants Simon to bit him so he’ll be able to go as well, but of course they find another way. Alec saves Lorenzo, apparently Asmodeus wasn’t needed to turn him back into a human, I think Alec called Catarina after the lizard wrote help on the glass of its little cage. Clary invents a rune to connect them, so that shadowhunters can get into Edom. She has speed like Simon, Alec has magic like Lorenza, and Jace is connected to Meliorn…
The Seelie guard is the one that warned them about Isabelle going to Edom, that’s why he’s with them now. So now Jace can’t lie and he says out loud that he’s terrified.
Alec, Lorenzo, Clary and Simon reach Magnus, but Jace and Isabelle find Lilith’s place instead.
The Praetor has Luke use the serum on himself. He goes back to being a Shadowhunter, not a simple human, but what he was before he was turned into a wolf. He has all his runes and can use them. The Praetor wants him to check on the Clave for him.
I don’t know, it seems like Jonathan is sick somehow, maybe transforming into something, and the Seelie Queen wants to help him… I don’t know why, I don’t really understand it, does the Queen hate the Shadowhunter? So much so that she’s thrilled to help Jonathan against them? And what’s going on with Jonathan? Wasn’t he already stronger when he got wings and escaped Alec?It’s not really clear to me, he’ll just come back with fair hair being the only difference…
Jonathan now looks like Spike, and the Seelie Queen gives him Shadowhunters to kill, as a gift…
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Lilith injures Meliorn, then all the others reach him. They all fight together, then Izzy uses heavenly fire… and she starts burning, so they all bond to her to save her…
(One question, the rune Clary puts on them links them all to each other? I thought they were linked in pairs, otherwise why didn’ Jace get vampire speed or magic, but only Meliorn’s Seelie powers? Is it just stand in a circle and hold hands that makes them all linked???)
Clary can do anything with runes, she thinks she’s unstoppable and without limits… how did they survive without her before?…
Izzy and her heavenly fire destroyed Lilith, “but the chain reaction is destroying the entire realm”, so they escape, and Magnus brings them all back. No need to stay and keep the rift close since there will be no more Edom… - still, wouldn’t their escape free all the demons there? Or will they stay behind and die to the last one? Why?
All the three couples make up for lost time, and then Magnus watches Alec sleeping… *heart*
Magnus has never been married before (which, I guess, he sort of already told us in season 1 when he muttered about knowing nothing about marriage…), and Alec is all emotional about that, maybe he finally feels special for Magnus.
After all they went through Magnus doesn’t want to wait a single day more so he’s planning their wedding for “tonight”, at the Institute after Alec convinced him.
The Seelie Queen wants Jonathan at her side as her king, to destroy the Shadowhunters and rule the world together, instead he kills her … she’s dead, isn’t she? Can the Seelie Queen be killed?
Clary asks Izzy to become her parabatai. The Angel Raziel doesn’t like it when she invents rune after rune to do as she pleases, especially runes like the necromancy rune she used on Valentine, and she has an ultimatum now. Stop it or she’ll lose her gift.
Jonathan goes around killing people and Shadowhunters, destroying every Institute around the world - but he left Alec’s father and Max alive, so that the audience does not really perceive the great loss, it’s still a happy ending as long as our people are alive…
So Clary goes alone to Toronto where Jonathan is now, and she uses one last rune to stop him forever, using it on contact while she’s hugging him - and crying, but is she really crying for him at all, even a little bit? Or is she crying because she’ll lose her gift and be forced to abandon the Shadow World?
Right away, one of her runes disappears from her skin.
They all go to the wedding - not Luke, he’s busy, but Lorenzo is there after he had an open-hearted chat with Magnus and got an invitation from him.
Alec asked Jace again so he’s there as his best man, whatever they call it. Maryse is there with the dress that Magnus sent for her: wonderful taste, she looks great, and like a queen.
The wedding is brief but lovely; Madzie walks first spreading flowers, Jace and Catarina have their seats up there next to them, then Alec arrives with his father and Magnus with Maryse on his arm. Magnus and Alec give their promise, one line each, and then they say together “I am and will always be your loving husband”, and after this Brother Zacharias who hasn’t yet spoken a word, speaks: “It is my honour to pronounce you one”, and everyone claps and smiles. When they dance, alone, Alec says “I’m not stepping on your feet, am I?” And Magnus “how could you be? It’s like I’m walking on air”, and it’s a slow slow dance.
They’re at the institute so it’s probably normal that Underhill is there. There is also Raphael, who entered a seminar, his true vocation apparently. Aline and Helen want to marry, there’s a cute spark between Lorenzo and Underhill, Max calls Magnus ‘brother’…
The wedding was so brief because this show is all about Clary so we see her most of all.
Clary wears a dress that shows a lot of bare skin, all her arms and shoulders and back, and yet nobody notices that her runes are disappearing one after the other.
The nicest thing about her is that she took Simon apart for an emotional talk, to properly say goodbye to him, since he was always her best friend.
Jace and Clary declare their undying feelings for each other… and then she walks away and cries.
She goes out just before the last one, and she forgets everything. She left Jace a letter to explain what happened.
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Actually, this is really weird, because the voice over explains why she left: “by the time you read this letter, my memories of you and the Shadow World will be gone. It was the price the Angels made me pay for the runes I’ve created. But I have no regrets. Even if I don’t remember you, you will always be in my heart”.
But the scene shows us Jace reading the letter, and we get a glimpse of it, butit’s enough for us to see what it is, and it’s something completely different, both in words and in meaning.
“Dear Jace, forgive me for leaving all of a sudden, I came to the realization that its time for me to move on. I dont know what is motivating me to take this action but I must act on my feelings”
Then it says that they had a connection from the start, and it goes on “You and I spent many years together and have experienced many adventures together which I will never forget” and at the bottom: “may our shadows meet again, love Clary”
The letter means that she remembers everything, and will keep remembering, and that nobody is forcing her to leave but she’s doing it anyway for her own reasons, it’s basically the exact opposite of what is going on.
I don’t understand why they had this letter in the show, did they write it on purpose for whatever reason? Or was it for some future scene that they never got to shoot because the show ended? I don’ think there would be any need to prepare a letter that much in advance, if it’s true that they knew from the end of season 2 that season 3 would be the last one.
I don’t know why, but I don’t like it because it sort of ruins the moment, and sort of makes you wonder if he’s really reading the words we’re hearing or he’s actually reading the letter that we see…
We move to one year later (and it’s clear that they know that Clary doesn’t remember them and are trying to keep their distance and move on).
Alec is an Inquisitor, Luke and Maryse are stll together and happy, Izzy is head of the Institute, Maia owns the restaurant and wants it to welcome everyone, not just werewolves, and is devising a menu to attract all sorts.
The Shadow World is more united and peaceful under Alec’s guide. There’s “deputized downworlders working hand in hand with Shadowhunters”, as Luke says.
Magnus is the High Warlock of Alicante! And full of work because “everyone’s been recalibrating their wards lately to allow for Downworlders”.
Magnus and Alec have a drink (that Alec poured) and say “to us”, which sort of is how it all started :-)
Simon trains with Jace, but Jace can’t forget Clary, of course, so he stalks her from time to time, without hiding since she can’t see any of them anymore.
She went to the Academy of Arts, and at a gallery she sees Jace watching her. She shouldn’t be able to, but she sees him, and even remembers his name…
What happened to Cain? Is he alive anywhere or did Lilith kill him? And Abel? Still dead, I suppose. And Edom? I mean, it got completely destroyed as in, it doesn’t exist anymore, so what about demons? There are other demonic planes full of demons or are there no more demons? And those in Edom, they all died?
I suppose that Lorenzo is still High Warlock of Brooklyn.
But how is the Seelie world? There is another queen or is she not dead after all? Seelie can die, can’t they?
