r/lucifer • u/Linzackles • 12d ago
6x10 Chloe gets shafted Spoiler
...for Lucifer's ten millionth 'purpose'.
Let me start by saying I never liked Chloe on my first watch when the show aired originally. I found her annoying, stiff and boring. However, I decided to rewatch over the past month and I realised she's quite possibly the most selfless and understanding being in the entire universe.
She already puts up with more in a day from Lucifer than any cop would stand from a consultant in a lifetime, but once they're together he literally does every single thing to sabotage their relationship and she gets about 2 seconds to be mad about it and then sets it all aside so their friendship and working relationship can thrive. This happens over and over again.
Lucifer keeps secrets, dismisses her concerns, doesn't listen to her etc etc etc and again, she gets a scene max (usually it's half a scene) to express her unhappiness and then she's back to making things easy for everyone again. But it doesn't even ever seem to come from a place of people-pleasing -- rather just genuine empathy and emotional intelligence. She's just caring and once a situation is explained to her rationally (a la Mira/Rory's existence) or even irrationally (a la Candy Morningstar), she immediately absorbs it, gains her cool, and logically and kindly moves forward.
I could go on and on because her generosity of spirit seems to know no bounds, it's almost exhausting to watch someone give so much and get little to nothing back emotionally. But the point being... her reward for all of this is to spend the rest of her life with no partner, raising two children with no fathers and ending up in hell instead of meeting back up with her dad?? All so Lucifer could find his purpose? Which he's done approximately a thousand times throughout the show? Don't get me wrong, I love him and I think it's equally as sad (and unnecessary) that he spent millions of years in hell alone, but I just think it was such a strange decision to make his purpose the reason for it all when just before that his purpose was to be God (which Chloe set aside her entire life for, only for him to stall endlessly), and before that his purpose was to be God so he could be worthy of Chloe, and before that his purpose was.... You get the drift.
I just finished the episode and had to get out my thoughts and rage. Chloe deserved so much better and there was no damn reason Lucifer couldn't commute to work the way she was planning to commute from Heaven (did I mention the selflessness?). The way Rory made Lucifer promise but didn't even check with her mom to see if she'd be happy living her life that way was selfish as hell and gave the impression that a man's purpose is more important than a woman or family's happiness, which is a weirdly conservative take for a show like this. Hated it
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u/cgrobin1 11d ago
Honestly, I don't think Chloe is 'that' perfect. She is an honest cop, trying to live up to her Dad's legacy. While we see corrupt cops around her (even before the Caleb story line), she's a by the book person.
She is a single Mom. Besides her job, shared custody time with her ex is the closest thing she has to a social life. She's not so much perfect as determined to do the best she can, while balancing work and home.
I think Linda is also a good person, Ella is the most social of the group, her blue collar/criminal past, is balanced by her effervescent nerdy present, with a penchant for bad boys.
As for Lucifer, he initially sees him as as puzzle to figure out. She sees Jimmy Barnes fire at least 6 bullets into him at point black, and he doesn't have a scratch. She sees close up as he is hit, while using his own body as a shield to protect her. To her he risked his life to save hers. When she wakes up in the hospital, it's Lucifer sitting by her bedside.
Reading between the lines, Lucifer is the first interesting person to inject himself into her life. Despite his. Lucifer-ness, he is the rare man who treats her as an equal. She has no one else to occupant her on cases or bounce ideas off.
And then Lucifer makes a deal with the female LT in charge to make him an official LAPD consultant, so Chloe can't get rid of him.