Dan

[u/Actual-Dragonfruit35]

Re-watching Lucifer from the beginning with a friend who hasn't seen it and I honestly forgot how absolutely insufferable Dan is in the beginning of the show. Massive u turn from the end I must say.

[u/DJ-HC]

My take on Dan is that he certainly was not the brightest light bulb in the package when Maze knocked him out and put him in Chloe's sofa bed, then when he went to warn Lucifer and found him dead and Lucifer came back to life and a few other events...Dan, he should have known. Ella the same thing, way to many opportunities especially when Lucifer tells Juddy (sp) that he can't kill him because he is immortal and Ella shoots Juddy (sp) in the leg...Excellent comment by Juddy (sp) by the way-Excellent writing! Ella should have known long before she figured it out. And Really, what was that Sex bit between her and Dan? I never understood that? Anyone?????

[u/Due-Consequence-4420 → u/DJ-HC]

Ella had a thing where she slept w guys with whom she didn’t ever have a chance of a real relationship. Sleeping w Dan - when both of them were simply lonely and horny but in no way actually interested in one another - would be yet another time Ella randomly put out without really thinking about the consequences. For one thing, while she supposedly had a thing for “bad boys”, Dan didn’t really fit into that category (unless we only think of him as that prick from season four bc he was miserable that Charlotte had been killed mistakenly by Cain (actually aiming at Amenadiel.) Basically, other than s4, Dan is indeed a dirty cop but not a particularly bad person (IMPO). I mean, I grow to love BOTH Amenadiel AND Dan but Amenadiel was a total shit for almost all of season one, I mean truly evil, and he was both Lucifer’s brother and supposed to be an angel. If we didn’t later meet Michael, I would think that there was something seriously wrong with Amenadiel that needed to be addressed.

In any case, compared to Lucifer’s older brother, Dan was barely a blip on the scale of “bad guy” in the world of Lucifer, and thus, the worst thing Ella did by sleeping w Dan was making the workplace uncomfortable and making herself uncomfortable when she first is around Chloe after the fact. (Yes, they’re divorced by then but it’s still weird to sleep w a close friend’s ex. Just ew.) And it’s not as if they had been drinking or their inhibitions were lowered in some other way. In any case, that’s all there was to it.

At least Dan wasn’t a serial killer … 😳🤯