We've started watching Lucifer as a household. I've only seen a handful of episodes, but so far it's a lot of fun! My housemates, who generally have little patience for the 'arsehole genius' character type, find it a lot more bearable when the arsehole has the excuse of literally being the Devil.
Lucifer, perpetually cheerful and smiley and morally bankrupt, does break the usual 'arsehole genius' frame in one respect: he has a surprising innocence to him. A lot of the time, he genuinely doesn't understand why his actions bother people!
'Manly Whatnots', episode four, is the best episode for two reasons:
- the scene where Decker hesitantly touches the wing scars on Lucifer's back and Lucifer, usually so affable, whips around and grabs her wrist with incredible intensity.
- Lucifer was talking about how he didn't feel pain or bleed (I announced 'DISAPPOINTING' aloud), and then we got an incredible scene where he talked Decker into shooting him in the leg to test it, and he experienced pain for the first time, and she went 'you're bleeding?? oh God of course you're bleeding I shot you.'
More Scrubs rewatch! There's a lot of sexism in this show that grates more now than it did in the early 2000s - to be fair, it's the characters being sexist more than the show itself, but there is a lot of sexism from the characters and it makes me like them less - but I'm still having fun.
I am finding myself increasingly intrigued by the prospect of messed-up Elliot/Cox. I wrote all that JD/Cox when I was younger and yet this never occurred to me! He calls her 'good girl' and I love it.
(EDIT: Wait, maybe this did occur to me when I was younger? I've just discovered this comment from 2008 in which I said 'Elliot/Cox is a pairing I've always sort of secretly liked.' Maybe I've changed less than I thought!)
Given my habit of writing fanfiction pairing one specific character up with everyone in their canon (I've now done this with Patrick Jane, Jeff Winger, Nagito Komaeda, Shuichi Saihara, Prompto Argentum, Mike Munroe, Alex of Oxenfree and Carlos of Zero Escape), I'm sort of tempted to attempt Perry Cox/everyone. I already ship Cox/JD, Cox/Elliot and Cox/Ben; Cox/Kelso is obvious; Cox/Carla is one-sided canon; Cox and Jordan used to be married (I really love Cox's 'I used to sit around and wonder why our friends weren't trying to destroy each other like we were' line about their relationship). Cox/Turk and Cox/Janitor might be more of a stretch, but Dr Cox is still an extremely shippable character. It might take some work to get the voices of the Scrubs characters back, though; I haven't written them in over a decade!
Although Dr Cox is exactly my type, i.e. an awful self-loathing wreck, I think Elliot might be challenging him for the title of my favourite Scrubs character. I've always enjoyed her for being a female character who's allowed to be an absolute disaster, but she's standing out to me more on this rewatch than she did when I was a teenager.
Lucifer, perpetually cheerful and smiley and morally bankrupt, does break the usual 'arsehole genius' frame in one respect: he has a surprising innocence to him. A lot of the time, he genuinely doesn't understand why his actions bother people!
'Manly Whatnots', episode four, is the best episode for two reasons:
- the scene where Decker hesitantly touches the wing scars on Lucifer's back and Lucifer, usually so affable, whips around and grabs her wrist with incredible intensity.
- Lucifer was talking about how he didn't feel pain or bleed (I announced 'DISAPPOINTING' aloud), and then we got an incredible scene where he talked Decker into shooting him in the leg to test it, and he experienced pain for the first time, and she went 'you're bleeding?? oh God of course you're bleeding I shot you.'
More Scrubs rewatch! There's a lot of sexism in this show that grates more now than it did in the early 2000s - to be fair, it's the characters being sexist more than the show itself, but there is a lot of sexism from the characters and it makes me like them less - but I'm still having fun.
I am finding myself increasingly intrigued by the prospect of messed-up Elliot/Cox. I wrote all that JD/Cox when I was younger and yet this never occurred to me! He calls her 'good girl' and I love it.
(EDIT: Wait, maybe this did occur to me when I was younger? I've just discovered this comment from 2008 in which I said 'Elliot/Cox is a pairing I've always sort of secretly liked.' Maybe I've changed less than I thought!)
Given my habit of writing fanfiction pairing one specific character up with everyone in their canon (I've now done this with Patrick Jane, Jeff Winger, Nagito Komaeda, Shuichi Saihara, Prompto Argentum, Mike Munroe, Alex of Oxenfree and Carlos of Zero Escape), I'm sort of tempted to attempt Perry Cox/everyone. I already ship Cox/JD, Cox/Elliot and Cox/Ben; Cox/Kelso is obvious; Cox/Carla is one-sided canon; Cox and Jordan used to be married (I really love Cox's 'I used to sit around and wonder why our friends weren't trying to destroy each other like we were' line about their relationship). Cox/Turk and Cox/Janitor might be more of a stretch, but Dr Cox is still an extremely shippable character. It might take some work to get the voices of the Scrubs characters back, though; I haven't written them in over a decade!
Although Dr Cox is exactly my type, i.e. an awful self-loathing wreck, I think Elliot might be challenging him for the title of my favourite Scrubs character. I've always enjoyed her for being a female character who's allowed to be an absolute disaster, but she's standing out to me more on this rewatch than she did when I was a teenager.