With corrupted ley lines, awkward dates, new rivals and a
whole lot of Malec, ‘The Powers that Be’ – written by Peter Binswanger and directed
by Peter DeLuise – was certainly awesome episode.
Ain’t No Party like a
Warlock Party
Since the casting announcement was made at NYCC last year,
we have been (not so) patiently waiting to see Lorenzo Rey, the new High
Warlock of Brooklyn and rival to our beloved Magnus, come to life on our
screens. Portrayed by Hamilton star
Javier Muñoz, Lorenzo makes his debut hosting a party to celebrate his new
status has High Warlock. Lorenzo has no problem bragging and throwing shade at
Magnus as he greets Malec upon their arrival before going off to charm other
guests.
Magnus begins to rant, clearly not impressed with Lorenzo,
but is cut off by Alec as our favourite little warlock – Madzie – rounds the
corner, excitedly running to Alec. While Alec entertains his ‘favourite little
sorceress’ things start to go downhill as the warlocks start to lose control of
their magic. During this unexpected event we see Alec quickly ready himself to
protect Madzie and we get to see a few warlock marks such as Catarina’s bright
blue skin, Magnus’ cat eyes and Lorenzo’s scales.
Magnus quickly finds a way to fix the problem before things
get too bad but his actions clearly didn’t impress Lorenzo.
Clace and an Awkward
Date
Between taking out demons in epic baseball-slide-sunbeam
attacks, creating new runes and the rest of her crazy new life as a
Shadowhunter, it’s good to see Clary still makes time for her art – I wonder if
Jace will eventually take her up on the offer and pose as a model?
After what we can only assume was a desperate, do-it-or-die
phone call to Simon for restaurant recommendations Jace settles on a place and
takes Clary out to dinner – only to end up in the same place as Simon and Maia.
After being seated beside the Downworlder couple, the
awkwardness begins. To start things off, Jace has no idea what Clary eats and
ends up with Simon muttering the answers beside him. Cocktails are ordered and
the girls try to make the best of an awkward situation with conversations about
what happens to clothing when Maia ‘wolfs out’ and being covered in tattoos.
Just when things seem to be getting a little less awkward though, Jace goes and
mentions Maia’s butterfly tattoo and makes everything worse than it was to
start with.
When the double date from hell finally ends both couples are
quick to go their separate ways and we get a few sweet moments from both.
Neither Simon nor Clary seem too bothered by the fact Jace and Maia hooked up,
although Clary becomes confused as to why Jace doesn’t seem to want to sleep
with her.
Jace proceeds to list all the things he loves about Clary
and gives an adorable little speech about how he doesn’t want to take things
too quickly and risk ruining what he has with Clary.
Malec
This episode was full of Malec moments. To start things off,
we were barely a minute into the episode and they were holding hands. *Cue
fangirl squeals*
Later in the episode we see Alec walk out of the bathroom
with Magnus’ shampoo – which we find out is a home-brewed blend of Indian
Sandalwood that Magnus has been making since the 18th century. Alec
then asks Magnus, if he has the time, to brew a bottle of sandalwood shampoo
for him as it ‘way better than what he has back at the institute.’
Besides being adorably domestic, Magnus and Alec work
together to stealthily break into Lorenzo’s home without actually breaking in
so Magnus can investigate the ley lines beneath Lorenzo’s home.
Magnus discovers there is some seriously powerful demonic
magic corrupting the ley lines in the city and together Magnus and Alec return
to the institute to try and clear things up by using the Angelic core to flood
the ley lines with Angelic energy and wipe out the demonic corruption.
As per usual, Raj gets in the way and almost messes
everything up but Alec has a Plan B and activates his strategically placed
strength rune and pushes a lever to manually release the angelic power into the
ley lines.
Finally, Malec shares a sweet moment towards the end of the
episode. Magnus says to Alec that he hopes he doesn’t think less of him due to
the fact that Asmodeus is his father and Alec’s response is the sweetest. “I
don’t care who your dad is... I care who you are. You’re the furthest thing
from a greater demon.”
What did you think of the episode?
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