#lucifer s5 trailer

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A tale of dissecting the chronology of a trailer (in which chronology is made up and the voiceover definitely matters—but doesn’t always align).

LUCIFER SEASON 5 TRAILER SPOILERS AHOY.

Me: I avoid spoilers!! Don’t spoil me!!

Also Me: Hark! Is that a trailer I see before me?? Better analyze it frame by frame!

So, the truth is, I don’t know most of the other BTS stuff and I really don’t want to. I haven't seen the episode titles. I do know Neil Gaiman’s not ... reprising his role. I’m going on ONLY what’s in the trailer, so some of this speculation may already be wrong.

First: a moment of AWWWWWWW YEAAAAAHHHHH because I’ve wanted Twin!Michael for years.

Okay. Moving on.

Trailers are not chronological. They are magic tricks, designed to manipulate their audience.

Now, chronologically, the crime scene with Ella is at (or very near) the beginning because I’m preeetty sure the victim is Mr. Said Out Bitch (RIP; obviously they did not think they were getting a S6!). It’s hard to make out exactly what Chloe is wearing. Dark jacket, dark shirt with a t-shirt-like collar.

Okay, we know this is Lucifer; we know this is what he was wearing when he went to Hell. Very, very, glowing in the black light white shirt. This could be at the beginning? We assume it is because of how it’s placed right after the goodbye from s4, anyway.

Look how haggard he looks. Like, Lucifer. You need some sleep, buddy. Those dark circles have dark circles. My heart hurts.

Okay wtf, my heart hurts here, too. We assume that Chloe’s pajama(?) stakeout and drinking/dancing and her looking up (and looking super sad on what I think is Lucifer’s balcony) are part of the “since you’ve been gone (everything sucks)” montage. 

I will say it’s very possible that “shots at the bar” happens after “crime scene with Ella.” Chloe’s wearing a black jacket and Maze’s arm is bare. Perhaps this night of drowning sorrows (again) is what leads to the conversation (the next day, I think) between Chloe and Maze (“We don’t need him”). In that scene with Maze, Chloe’s wearing a pinstripe blazer and grey t-shirt. Which is important, because that’s the outfit she’s wearing here (in what I would guess is Mr. Said Out Bitch’s home):

I know the assumption is that this is Michael. Although, I wonder how Michael knows the crime-solving Devil song, and the mannerisms (tugging on the sleeves, “Hello, bad guys” as he strolls in) are definitely Lucifer’s. As is the outfit, which is a perfect mirror of the one Lucifer wears in Hell: black suit, white shirt with texture, red pocket square. (Also, no evidence of Michael’s injury.)

Other questions: If he’s so good at playing Lucifer here, why isn’t anyone taken in by him when the grey sateen shirt (hold that thought) appears? Where has Michael been? Why is he here now?

So, I think it’s the combination of his non(?)-reaction to Chloe kissing him and the expression on his face that Michael this up, right? That it’s shown while Michael is voiceover monologuing is also an indicator (but could just as easily be a misdirect because Michael’s not speaking in the image in front of us, and it’s not like we’ve never seen Lucifer make this kind of face before).

(Incidentally, the non-reaction to the kiss could also be seen as in-character for Lucifer; he can’t be sure of his reception, which also plays well with his hello-bad-guys/cocky-to-cover-insecure entrance.)

If it is Michael in the shooting/hug scene, he may START by playing Lucifer perfectly, but that degenerates.

We know this is Michael. There’s some evidence of Michael’s injury in the unevenness of the shoulders. It is NOT a white shirt. It is a grey shirt with a bit of shine; sateen, if you will. We’re going to see a lot of this shirt.

Michael: grey sateen shirt. Also, Chloe’s wearing the white and black striped (VERY FUNNY, COSTUMING DEPT.) shirt she’s wearing when she tells Linda that Lucifer is acting different—so we assume this is the day(?) after Michael shows up. (There’s also a slight possibility that his Lucifer 2.0 bit is his introduction.)

Michael. Black wings. TINY STRIP OF GREY SHIRT at the wrist. So, we assume this happens right after the previous Chloe-with-Gun moment. Michael might want to mess with his brother, but he doesn’t want Chloe to die—there’s even some protective head cradling. So. There’s that.

Michael. Lux. Still the grey sateen shirt. Important: Amenadiel is wearing a shirt and tie. 

In the bit where he’s (presumably) talking to Lucifer in Hell (“He’s stronger than you think.”), he’s wearing the same Lux-grey-sateen-shirt-Michael suit and tie. I’m guessing Amenadiel was like “Do not pass Go, do not collect $200″ and pops down to Hell ASAP.

The “He is stronger than you think” line also makes me wonder if Lucifer hasn’t worried—or even thought—about Michael because he believed his twin was broken beyond the possibility of being a threat (presumably by Lucifer; I think there’s a Rebellion-related, bad-blood, mutually-assured-destruction story behind Michael’s injuries). That hubris/pride is pretty much what gets Lucifer into 925% of his problems, after all, so it would be in character. 

Oh, Luci. Why do you assume you’re the smartest in the room? Soon that attitude may be your doom. 

Michael is ALSO wearing the grey sateen shirt when Maze shows up and he admits he’s not Lucifer. A lot happens on the day of the grey sateen shirt. To me, this means everyone’s onto him right from the beginning. Also, it means the trailer is pulling pretty heavily from just this one out of the eight episodes. The first episode, unless I miss my guess.

Now, going by wardrobe, we enter a very jumbled section. We’ll call this the Dark Days of the Turtleneck.

During the Dark Days of the Turtleneck, we see Michael fight with Amenadiel in the time-stopped precinct. One assumes Michael’s not even pretending to be Lucifer anymore because ... turtleneck? Bloody hell, might as well be board shorts and Crocs. Note: Michael is NOT wearing (Lucifer’s) ring, here.

Again, the voiceover is misleading because suit-and-tie Amenadiel in Lux and Hell wouldn’t have had a chance to fight (wearing a red jacket) with Turtleneck Michael yet.

At yet another point, we see grey-knit Amenadiel fight with zip-up-halter Maze. Whatever’s going on, Amenadiel is getting around (on different days). And apparently everyone is mad at him.

Okay, so this happens after Michael’s had time to “make a mess.” Of what sort, though? I mean, the penthouse looks fine, so ... what haven’t we seen? What has happened between grey sateen shirt Michael and brown blazer turtleneck Michael? Note: Michael’s also not wearing (Lucifer’s) ring, here. I think Michael’s true lack of fashion sense is turtlenecks and roomy blazers. Yikes.

Well, we assume it’s a mess of Lucifer’s life on earth ... but is that possible? All the evidence points to pretty much everyone knowing sateen-shirt Michael isn’t Lucifer right away, so how could he have had the time or the leverage to make a mess that involves them? 

And if Michael doesn’t mean he made a mess of Lucifer’s life on earth, does he mean a more far-reaching mess? A much older mess? Something celestial? Something involving Hell? Something involving the Rebellion (have they seen each other since?)? Something involving God? Something involving whatever or whoever the REAL Big Bad of the season is (because I really doubt it’s Michael)?

How long has Michael been ... watching? stalking? Lucifer? Has he been involved in any of the other stuff that’s happened over the years? Was he the one who let Mum out of her cell?

But MOST IMPORTANT: How does he know the crime-fighting-devil song????

Well, whatever that mess is, Lucifer’s pretty pissed off about it. 

White shirt, white wings is Lucifer (he was also wearing his black jacket, but not a red pocket square. Note: he has had time to remove his jacket and put his wings away before throwing a punch!). TRAGIC turtleneck under a blazer (with different-colored trousers) and the obvious injury is Michael. But it’s not grey-turtleneck Michael—more than one turtleneck, how dare—so we’re at a different time, chronologically speaking. Could be before Michael’s precinct-fight with Amenadiel, even; we don’t know the chronology of those turtlenecks. We just know Michael, for some unknown reason, chooses them. 

Later:

Okay, I think these two scenes happen in the same episode; Chloe’s outfit is the same. And I think that episode happens a bit later in the chronology. Why?

‘Cause Chloe doesn’t have bangs, yo. And anyone who’s tried to grow out bangs can tell you IT DOESN’T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT.

Head-scratching brown suit aside, that’s Lucifer and not Michael. Because this has to be after Michael has shown his true turtleneck colors. Lucifer also seems to have trimmed down his post-hell angst-beard. 

Chloe’s hand-injury is probably from that explosion. Her heart-wrenching anguish, though? I don’t know what caused it, but my hurt/comfort-loving little heart wants it now.

We have no idea what Michael’s doing at this point: we don’t see Michael with no-bangs Chloe.

Which leaves the scenes that have had Twitter freaking out for most of the day:

This might be after black-shirt-Chloe-anguish-explosion. I know it looks like bangs, but I think it could also be hair-pushed-behind ears; in the shot where you see her standing in front of the elevator, her “bangs” look long enough to be tamed into a no-bang ponytail. But then ... no hand injury. 

It could also be a dream (looking at you “Love Handles”) or a Hell-torment. 

In any case, it is 1000% Lucifer and not Michael. Every single moment of every single micro-expression is entirely That Look Lucifer Only Gives To Chloe Decker (I wrote a thread about this on Twitter today), and Michael is just NOT that good an actor.

I actually find this shot more baffling. It’s Lucifer’s shirt; it has men’s-shirt buttons. Is it a morning after? (But not the morning after the wall scene, because Lucifer was wearing a black shirt there.)

Is this a dream?? A HELL TORMENT?? Look, I just do not trust anything that looks like something the fans have wanted so badly. We were all there for elevator dream sex and Lucifer wing dream reveal. We know how these people work!

(Granted, they also sometimes give us axe scenes and beach kisses, but...)

I have about 32634 things to say about LIGHT AND DARK TWIN BROTHERS IS EVERYTHING and also FURTHER EVIDENCE OF QUESTIONABLE CREATION/PARENTING, but I’ve already been working on this for hours, and that screaming is, I think, best reserved for another post. 

In conclusion, ahh the sweet, sweet song of hyperfixation. I missed you, buddy. You and your neurotransmitters. Welcome back.

For now, I’m just gonna tricycle off to hell in anticipation of August 21st.

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Guys, seriously, how the hell does Michael know the crime-solving-devil song???????

[dahlia-molinas]

i refuse to believe that the crew of lucifer is actually dumb enough to reveal the michael thing if it’s supposed to be a big plot twist. which is why i think it’s more of a subplot, maybe a way to get lucifer out of hell? my theory is that lucifer finds out about michael pretending to be him and comes back to earth. maybe he sends michael to hell to replace him so they don’t have to deal with that problem anymore?

[unclevermoniker]

Do you think Tom checks the view count occasionally from between his fingers

“10 million.... 10 million people have seen my butt”

[que-mint-tea]

From anything ANYTHING I could have possibly imagined the Lucifer trailer drop for S5 to reveal about what’s to come I. Did. Not. for the love of God. even. think it was possible to be this:

My reaction is, like very wise devil once said...

...Oh God.

(plus a looot of screaming, like, im still screaming while posting this i dont think i can stop AAAAAA—

[blakescoven]

y’all I’m freaking out...just a little bit akdjwkdksnds

How can I possibly believe that Lucifer’s twin’s name being Michael is a mere coincidence omgggg I’m so exciteeeeed and I can’t fucking wait

[itwasmagic]

oh, trust me, it's complicated

[morningstr]

— Omar Sakr

[detectiveplease]

Spot the difference

[elisacifuentes]

Chloe & Maze in the trailer for Lucifer Season 5

[ababydeckerstar]

OMG OMG OMG WHAT IS THIS BEAUTIFUL TRAILER??? I’M GONNA CRY. OR SOBBING. OR FANGIRLING. OR ALL AT ONCE!!! 🥰🥺😭🥰🥺😭🥰😭🥺

[gilmores-glorious-blog]

if u had told me a year ago that i would be spending the next july crying alone in my room over a fictional tv show about satan, i wouldn’t have believed u.

anyways the ending of lucifer s4 destroyed me. i would like it to be august 21 please.

[dahlia-molinas]

should’ve known lucifer wasn’t lucifer when his first words when he came back weren’t dEtEctIVe

[que-mint-tea]

ok. OK. But lucifam, are we seriously prepared to watch our favourite devil’s evil(er?) twin take over his life including his relationship with Chloe when they finally finally have no barriers left between them only to reveal it was all false yet agaIN PUTTING THEM BACK TO SQUARE ONE??? AFTER. FOUR. FUCKING. SEASONS. OF ANGST AND SLOWBURN???

Aha

AHahahhahaha

I physically cannot take seeing michael break apart every relationship lucifer built. like he’s his brother and he knows the most painful way to hurt him and so he does just that and its sickening I— I did not sign up for so much angst.

Yes i did

[approximately7raccoons]

IM SCREAMING OMG!!!

I knew that Michael was going to be in this season. I knew that him and Lucifer were going to be twins

I CALLED IT

I’m literally so excited I don’t even know what to do with myself!!!!

[mantra4ia]

Guys, my fandom desires are coming true. Everything I've wanted since Lucifer season 1 is in the season 5 trailer.

Michael is 100% giving me Dr. William Rush vibes in all ways possible, I am here for it, and I expect all the crossover fanworks.

[flutteringphalanges]

Finger on the Trigger

Summary:  The two Lucifers stood before her. Identical expressions. Identical looks. Chloe's hand trembled as she moved the gun in between them. "Detective!" They both said in unison, eyeing her with such familiar dark brown eyes her skin crawled. "I'm the real Lucifer! Would I ever lie to you?" Never before had Detective Decker felt so unsure in her life. *spoiler based on trailer scene*

Rating: T

Read More because of spoilers

A/N: Kind of spoiler based if you've watched the trailer. Basically if Chloe walked in on Lucifer and fake Lucifer (Michael) fighting and had to determine which was her Lucifer. Feedback is greatly loved and appreciated! Hope you enjoy! -Jen

                                        Finger on the Trigger

An all too familiar trope. Two characters, one real, one a mere clone-possibly evil, claiming to be the “right one”. The right person to save. To spare its life. And the poor victim with the gun in hand unsure of what to do. That was Chloe. Her gun, the issued Glock by the Los Angeles Police Department, heavy in her hands as she pointed at the two Lucifers. Finger trembling on the trigger. The two exact, recognizable Devils she knew--or thought she did, all too well. 

“Detective,” the first Lucifer said holding his hands up. “Now be reasonable. It’s me! Your friendly Devil!”

“Don’t listen to him, Detective!” The other one interjected sharply. “That isn’t him! You know it’s me! Would I ever lie to you?!” “Would I ever lie to you?!” It was like a record echoing through the room, spitting out the same statement over and over again. “Devil’s word!”

Chloe’s hands were visibly shaking as she moved the gun back and forth between the two. “You know if I shoot,” she snapped firmly. “...If I shoot, you will die because you’re vulnerable around me.” They both nodded in unison. That didn’t help any. “Tell me something that only the real Lucifer would know!” 

“You were in an adult film once!” A Lucifer spoke up. “You don’t like it when anyone brings it up!” 

“One time you yelled at me because I spilled coffee all over the paperwork on your desk!” Brought up the other. “You got even madder when I tried to clean it up with one of your spawn’s drawings!”

Now she was pointing at the other Lucifer who gazed at her in desperation. “Wait, now hold on! Don’t give him the benefit of the doubt! You shot me!” She had. More than once. “You shot me and I gave you a necklace of the bullet!”

“He can bloody see it on your neck!” The other Devil groaned. “Come now, Chloe. Think real hard. You know which one is which.”

The corners of Chloe’s mouth twitched into an upwards smile. Oh now she knew.

“The real Lucifer never calls me Chloe,” she smirked, pressing down on the trigger. “Usually.”

And the gun went off.