I agree. The romance didn't make sense. Like she murdered him easily in one episode and a few episodes later we're expected to believe his paranoia and accusation slinging and his whole "just because you're a demon, you think you get to act like a demon" speech endeared her to him enough to risk her immortal life (and potentially spending eternity tortured in hell instead of running it) for him? Really?
I didn't find the villains predictable, though. Mostly because I expected more, I think. I really thought her boss was the main villain and he set her up and put her through this as a means to get rid of her. Learning from the previous attempted rebellion that it was important to smack people who might rise up against him down before they had the chance, and she had a "I'm THE demon of all demons" attitude. But then in the end he was like "I'm glad you're my right hand, it'd be a shame to lose you" moment. So, guess not. Which made the Lucifer underwhelming considering he seemed easier to deal with than her demonic coworker.
I completely agree (including about the wig). I was creeped out by the idea of it being a romance the longer it went on. Meow was so child-like. And it didn't help that they had him coloring with crayons on the floor, not understanding clothes or personal space or like...that you shouldn't just be licking food off people's mouths, making a massive mess, asking for attention like a bored toddler, insisting on going on the seesaw, needing help to bathe, etc.
But the thing that made him seem the most child-like to me was when it introduced his brother, who is also a cat-human who is not even that much older than him, but seems to not only know how to function in society without adult supervision, but was like attending school and living a normal life. Also it shows that they got separated riding the bus together as humans, so it's not like he hadn't been a human before.
It made me wonder if Meow's trauma didn't just cause some physical developmental delays in controlling his shifting, but also some emotional/mental ones.
Like even if it WAS a lack of understanding about human life, Dermdem essentially had to treat him and take care of him like he was a child and even had to explain things like he was a child, so any romance born from that seems questionable to me at best, a red flag warranting police intervention at worse.
The ending was so cringey. Not just the age difference and him essentially waiting for his boyfriend to be of age, but like now that his friend/boyfriend's dad lived and they were still close, there is like no way he wasn't going to be part of his life in the meantime. Like, he would have practically been Bamee's godfather or like uncle, meanwhile it gave off the feeling was just like creepily waiting for this kid to grow into his boyfriend...like he was going to be involved in raising his own boyfriend....there's no way to get around the ick of that.
And I'm not sure what the options were if they were sticking to sending him back to his own time, short of have Kiew end up with someone else in his own time and then his son "that looks exactly like him" ends up with Bamee in present day/future. Or having him go back to his time to save his friend, then going back to the future again to be with him. Just...anything but what it was seems like it'd have been better.
It's a shame too because until that point I enjoyed it quite a bit and thought the actors did a good job and there were some funny and refreshing moments.
I wish I'd seen this before I watched it (though to be fair, I skipped chunks in the middle because it didn't seem to be adding much). I came here to figure out if I missed something that would have explained how hard they're working to salvage this hot mess of what seemed more like a situationship than anything. Doesn't seem like I did. And the ending felt...unresolved. Like Fah STILL didn't trust him? He got screenshots of a text conversation that seemed not only really casual but more awkwardly friendly than anything and he immediately suspects he's cheating again. It's only because Pink was like, "but he can't be texting that guy's friend. That guy doesn't have any friends." That he even stopped to consider another possibility. I don't know. Considering...everything. It feels like the show ended in the eye of the storm, where it's deceptively calm before chaos hits again. I just don't see how they can have a future with so little trust and such poor (and violent) communication.
Also, regarding the thing with Sher and Prince, it wasn't just their respective partners telling them they weren't really comfortable with how they act with each other, the first two episodes or so Prince was telling Sher he was going too far and it was causing rumors and he was concerned about backlash. And Sher just liked shrugged it off and didn't even really take his feelings about it seriously.
I didn't find the villains predictable, though. Mostly because I expected more, I think. I really thought her boss was the main villain and he set her up and put her through this as a means to get rid of her. Learning from the previous attempted rebellion that it was important to smack people who might rise up against him down before they had the chance, and she had a "I'm THE demon of all demons" attitude. But then in the end he was like "I'm glad you're my right hand, it'd be a shame to lose you" moment. So, guess not. Which made the Lucifer underwhelming considering he seemed easier to deal with than her demonic coworker.
But the thing that made him seem the most child-like to me was when it introduced his brother, who is also a cat-human who is not even that much older than him, but seems to not only know how to function in society without adult supervision, but was like attending school and living a normal life. Also it shows that they got separated riding the bus together as humans, so it's not like he hadn't been a human before.
It made me wonder if Meow's trauma didn't just cause some physical developmental delays in controlling his shifting, but also some emotional/mental ones.
Like even if it WAS a lack of understanding about human life, Dermdem essentially had to treat him and take care of him like he was a child and even had to explain things like he was a child, so any romance born from that seems questionable to me at best, a red flag warranting police intervention at worse.
And I'm not sure what the options were if they were sticking to sending him back to his own time, short of have Kiew end up with someone else in his own time and then his son "that looks exactly like him" ends up with Bamee in present day/future. Or having him go back to his time to save his friend, then going back to the future again to be with him. Just...anything but what it was seems like it'd have been better.
It's a shame too because until that point I enjoyed it quite a bit and thought the actors did a good job and there were some funny and refreshing moments.
Also, regarding the thing with Sher and Prince, it wasn't just their respective partners telling them they weren't really comfortable with how they act with each other, the first two episodes or so Prince was telling Sher he was going too far and it was causing rumors and he was concerned about backlash. And Sher just liked shrugged it off and didn't even really take his feelings about it seriously.