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SOPHIE'S REVIEW
Okay, the episode starts off with Jace playing the piano and Sebbie-baby watching him menacingly.
Seb (slow clap, literally): I had no idea I was in the company of a virtuoso.
Jace (chuckles): Yeah, right.
Seb: No, seriously, it's extraordinary. I mean I wish I could play like that. Where did you learn? Who taught you?
Jace (far off dreamy look and his nose stuck in a book): Valentine, if you can believe that.
Seb: Huh. I guess even an evil mastermind can appreciate fine music.
Here we go, it's the start of another episode, MMs. Hang on tight, I have a feeling this is going to be one bumpy ride because it starts off with Sebbie-baby summarizing Jace's feelings for Clary and reminding him of the romantic subplot in this season.
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Let's just keep swimming, shall we?
Honestly, I watched the rest of the episode without hitting the pause button to stop and write my thoughts. I just watched the entire trainwreck unfold. And I'm left thinking:
What do the show's faithful viewers see in it?
Is it the skeleton of the complexity of Cassie's story? is it a glimpse at the large cast of characters and their intertwined history? Is it the impossible romance of Clace and Malec that pulls them in? Is it truly Sebbie-baby? The villain who is so masked that you don't realize he's a mastermind behind it all?
What are they seeing that I'm not.
Maybe, it's that Kill Tree (did anyone else spit-take when Jace explained a fairy tree that "almost tore Simon's pretty face off"?). Where else have we seen a whomper of a tree, oh wait...
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I'd like to announce here that I'm done, but I just can't be. Not yet. I have loved these characters through thousands of pages. I have cried with them through impossible odds. I have cheered for them when all hope should've been lost. I hate what Freeform has done to them, but I keep watching and writing in hope that maybe, maybe they will listen and give back those characters, their plots, their quests, their impossible struggles back to me.
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MMs, it's awfully quiet uptown (sorry, I know, a Hamilton reference when you least expect it). Are you still watching this with us? What are your thoughts on this last episode?