#it *might* be bedtime so apologies if i don't respond to anything after this til tomorrow lol

[michals]

Ooh yes, I'm digging that angst potential. I'd love to see the return of complex, character-centric storylines like that again. I think everyone got simplified for S2... We got great sibling moments for it, but lost some depth in the process for everyone in the process, RIP. Man, though, S2 AU where Luther was with Reginald? That would be WILD. Imagine Luther interacting with human!Grace, or him being there to see the serum used on Baby Pogo.

I think what s2 did was focus more on the siblings with each other vs them with themselves which definitely meant that them as individuals had to become kind of simplified. Lost some depth from them for sure, but maybe now that the new guidelines for their relationships has been established they can shake up the characters as individuals and use those relationships in a new way. (Like, vanya’s obviously bonded with allison and klaus even more so if she gets her own moments we can see how that effects her relationships with them). Also right?? I mean it’d kind of hijack his whole storyline for s2 but the idea of Luther being with Reggie during that whole time in the 60′s? Could have been so fascinating. Cause I see it as Reggie would treat human Grace and Pogo the same as he actually does but Luther really would just be an outsider at that point (that Reggie uses as a bodyguard or something?) so him seeing Reggie treat them with actual human kindness would absolutely mess him up but he’d still stick around cause he doesn’t know anything else. 

I do like Luther and Diego and I appreciate the two of them together in s2, they really put effort (writers and actors) into making them an interesting, but funny, dynamic. Very def someone behind the scenes realized there was too much himbo power for it to be continued to be contained. But I can see s3 pushing them apart again if they do go with Luther having conflicting feelings about Reggie. Like, I like the idea of Diego seeing the Sparrows and everything Reggie’s done and being all ‘fuck this, fuck you, fuck them, right guys??’ and Luther dealing with his loyalty and connection to Reginald and shrinking away from that.