Shadowhunters: Major Arcana – Review

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After piecing together the clues as to where her mother hid the Mortal Cup, Clary, Jace, Alec and Isabelle are on the clock to find its hiding place before anyone else. But with demons and Downworlders lurking everywhere, obtaining the Cup may not be as easy as they had hoped. Meanwhile, as Simon's symptoms become increasingly worse, he fears he is turning into a vampire.
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On Shadowhunters: Major Arcana (S01E07) while Simon is completely freaking out about the changes happening within him, his BFF has only one thing on her mind…and it’s not vampires.

Before we talk about that kiss though, let’s discuss everything else. But yes we will be discussing that kiss.

The episode opens with Clary getting all excited as she tells everyone that she knows where The Mortal Cup is. Her clever mother hid the Mortal Cup in a deck of tarot cards for which she did the artwork.

She fears that Valentine has the deck, but after Magnus dismisses that idea, Luke informs everyone that the tarot cards are in his desk at the precinct.

He, Jace, and Clary head for the station, but before he can grab the deck out of his desk, an Internal Affairs cop stops him rather abruptly, who could easily pass for Valentine’s other brother. (Izzy and Alec’s dad is Valentine’s brother number one IF we are keeping track and score.)

Luke is now, under investigation for his involvement in the Jade Wolf incident.

Clary and Jace are waiting outside, and oh my god, there are runes for everything, including binocular vision, which Jace uses to determine that Luke is in trouble. So, he and Clary go into the police station, use their invisibility runes to get into Luke’s interrogation room, and find out they have to get to Luke’s desk.

Clary comes up with a plan that includes slapping Jace (he never even saw it coming), but finds out that everything in Luke’s desk is now in the evidence vault. Nothing is ever simple in Clary’s world, is it?

They bump into Izzy and Alec outside, and while Clary is on the phone trying to calm a frantic Simon, Jace comes up with the most fabulous plan ever. It’s such a fabulous plan that he’s forced to take the phone from Clary and hang up on Simon without a word. Can’t let the nerd boy get in his way now, can he?

His plan calls for him and Clary to climb up an elevator shaft so they won’t be seen, even though they’ve already been walking around the police station and have already been spotted by demons. But let’s forget about that because these two future lovebirds need to be in the elevator so they can build on their sexual tension.

Wasn’t it sweet when he cuddled her as he was drawing the night vision rune on her that she couldn’t draw herself? I think she was just playing coy. The girl knew what she was doing. She could have drawn it on her body anywhere, why did she need it the back of her shoulder?

When Izzy succeeds at knocking the power out at the station, we get to see a glowy and gooey version of Clary and Jace. Kinda wanky and odd, but we got the idea, you know young love, and lust.

Clary and Jace get into the evidence vault and find the cards, but Clary can’t pull the Cup out. No surprise there. They get back to Alec and Izzy and leave the police station, but thanks to Izzy’s incredible flashing demon detector necklace, they realize they are surrounded by them.

And that’s when it happens: the grandma demon shows up.  She looks like a kind old granny, but then her face transforms, and just as she’s about to eat the suddenly frozen Clary, Jace calls her name, and in the cheesiest of the most cheesy moments of television I have ever seen, kills the little old lady demon.

No joke, I had to rewind and watch it a few times just to savor the cheesiness of that kill. I never would have guessed that a demon would respond to, “Hey, grandma.”

In effort to escape the crazy demons, the four of them run into a power plant where there are lots of tunnels and, apparently, shax demons, which look like a cross between the cigarette commercial monster and an overgrown grasshopper/scorpion mutation.

Jace tells them they should split up, and Clary runs off, straight into a dead end. Several of the shax demons start their slow descent upon her, but, suddenly, Clary is able to grab the cup from the card and scare off the demons. Not sure how or why that scares them, after all demons and everyone else are after the cup, why not rush her and try to grab it.

She runs into a shapeshifter Jace, kills him, and eventually ends up back at the Institute where she wastes no time, grabs the real Jace, and locks lips.

Clace-kiss-ShadowhuntersIt was a heart-fluttering moment. The only person whose heart didn’t flutter was probably Alec, who stormed off in disgust with maybe a twinge of jealousy, because he can’t do that with Jace or because he wants to do that with Magnus and can’t. We NEED a Malec kiss!

I would imagine had Simon seen it, he would have done the same thing, but he was too busy trying to come to grips with all of his odd hallucinations and behaviors.

It’s kinda getting on the annoying side. I mean how many hallucinations does he need to have to convince us and himself that he’s turning into a vampire. Hasn’t this been going on for a couple of episodes now?

Him sleeping with Maureen and hallucinating about Clary was a bit over the top, too, as was the whole scene with his mom and sister. And what did he really expect to find on the internet or by watching the infamous Nosferatu? It was all a bit silly. It also kinda reminded dare I say it but of the scene in Twilight when Bella was figuring out about Edward. I don’t think it was dragged on this long in the books, but maybe I’m wrong.

And if Camille really wanted to kill him or whatever she did to him, why did she wait until he went to the Hotel Dumort? I guess we’ll find out soon enough.

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