Shadowhunters: Rewatch for Season 3

Hey Guys,

welcome to my rewatch of Shadowhunters. Truth be told I am not a really big fan of the story. But the characters are great. Also I think that the story got a lot better in season 2 than it had been in season 1. Truth be told this is already the second rewatch I did of the series. Soo… I will let this stand like this. Just one think this will of course hold spoilers for season 1 and 2.

The most unbearable character

Season 1 of Shadowhunters was tiring in a lot of ways. Jace is impossible to bear in the first season. He is an asshole to everyone around him except to Clary. He thinks he is so much better than Simon. It is really annoying how much he tries to belittle Simon. He treats Alec his Parabtai like a dog. He has to do everything that Jace say, but god forbid that Alec has an opinion on his own. For me he is one of the worst characters in season one.
The way I see him changes in the last few episodes of the first season. It starts after the big fallout of Alec and Jace. They way Jace tries to repair their relationship is… so wrong in many ways. For the sentence ‘I saved you from yourself’ I wanted to hit him just like Alec did. I am not saying that Alec made the right choice. Obviously Lydia and the Clave were ‘overreacting’ and this could have started the war. This is not about right and wrong. It is about the way that Jace thinks that he is the one who always chooses the right pass. Izzy nearly paid the price for Clary and his stunts. But like I said this episodes changes the way I see Jace. Because we see him actually worry about Alec. We actually see him be happy for Alec.
In season 2 he isn’t treating Alec like a dog anymore. He is respecting him and following him. I am still not a big fan of Jace. He is to overdramatic and I still hate the way talks sometimes to Simon.
This episode in season two were Simon has his first date with Maia? Why does he have to do this? If I had the choice between him and Simon. I would always choose Simon. You are not that great Jace. He is broken, doesn’t know who he is and acts so overdramatic all the time.
But also I feel with him. Because he feel so bad for loving Clary. It is really hard for him and also I like the friendship that starts between him and Magnus.
Maybe some day I will really start liking Jace. But still next time the bad guy tells you that you and Clary are siblings just make DNA test… I am sure Izzy could have done it.

My favorite person in the world

Alec Lightwood – always in Jace shadow. I already talked about the relationship between Jace and Alec in the part before. The way Jace treated him at the start is the worst, but Alec always let him do this. He tries to talk back to make Jace see his point but in the end he always do it Jace way. The truth is he is not dealing well with the new situation around Clary. But he is right. They have no reasons to believe Clary. They have no reason to believe her. I don’t say that Jace is wrong for helping her. But they should at least thing about what is actually going on. Alec is the one that things further. Not just in season 1. When Sebastian starts to appear in the institute he questioned Sebastian. He sees that there are to many coincidences. Sadly later he starts trusting him.

The reason I fall in love with Alec is his love for his family. The way he treats Izzy. The way he would do everything for his family. He is closed of but he loves so deeply. Sadly he is also always paying the price for Jace and Clarys decision and Jace doesn’t seems to see it – Clary doesn’t either but she actually doesn’t know how this world works.
I hate that everyone is giving him a hard time for choosing to marry Lydia. Of course it is the wrong choice. She is actually the right choice if he wouldn’t be gay. He and Lydia make a great team. Of course people need to tell him that what he does is wrong but not like Izzy and Jace does it. More like Magnus.
I read that many people had a problem with Lydia accepting the proposal with the knowledge of Alecs feelings for Magnus. I don’t see it as that bad. Both of them are people who are making decisions with their head. This marriage was from the start just an alliance. They both are more than clear that they do it so they can keep the institute.
Alec made that choice on his own. He asked her and she is accepting that decision. She chooses support Alec to do what he wants to do and that is sadly not being happy but restoring the family name and leading the institute.
I really wish we would see more about the friendship of Lydia and Alec. Because they make a great team and I love to see them together as friends.

In season 1 Alec makes so many bad and wrong choice. In season 2 he actually changes that. He does make mistakes. Asking Magnus for a hair wasn’t his best hour. But he sees his mistake – truth be told nobody sees the error in this and when the shipping comes up Alec is speaking against it. He does see the errors in the Clave decisions and in himself. He also is going to accept his mistake and apologize to Magnus for it.
Alec learns from his mistakes and works on him. He does a lot right in the relationship with Magnus. He tries to balance his relationship with Magnus and his role as the head of the New Yorker Institute. That brings me to Magnus.

The High Warlock

Magnus is an amazing character and obviously I love the relationship between him and Alec. How they grow closer and the respect they have for each other. I love that we see him in season two interact with Luke and Raphael so much more,  that we see him in a storyline beside being with Alec, that we see his other relationships, that we learn more about the character and his past and I hope that there is more to follow.
We see him with the other characters and in a relationship with Alec. Magnus is a really good boyfriend. But he doesn’t be the High Warlock. He attend this meetings as Alecs boyfriend and not as the High Warlock. Alec tries to balance both. But Magnus seems to forget that he is more than Alecs boyfriend. Like he lost himself in this feelings for Alec.
And when he realized it he makes a big mistake. He chooses the easy way. He chooses to give Alec up. I get that he is angry at Alec, but I still think that Alec did the right choice – right choice is not the right way to say it. I think that Alec had legit reason to not tell Magnus. There is and has to be a line between personal life and business. It is a fact that you can’t tell you partner everything. Total transparency was a little to high goal. This information about the soulsword could start a war. In the end it nearly did.
What I don’t understand is why he let himself blend like that from the Seelie Queen. He knows the Seelie Queen most likely better than Luke but still it seems that Luke has the better grip of who she is. I don’t get why they choose the way of the Seelie Queen. Because yes it makes them save from Valentin. But does it really make a different if the dying in a war against the Shadowhunters?
But what is worse is the way he let the Queen treat him. He is the High Warlock of Brooklyn not her dog and still it got worse. That they refuse to help the Shadowhunters, that they rise a barrier that will kill every Shadowhunter that try to leave the town or want into the time without telling the Shadowhunters? This is innocent death are on Magnus hands.
Also all the people on the graveyard could be still alive if they all would have worked together. I don’t get it.
Also I hate that Magnus doesn’t make it clear that the break up is not Alecs fault. I hate that Alec again apologize. But I am happy that they are back together.

The annoying red head

Clary is annoying and I hate how she always brings everyone in danger. I really understand that she is overwhelmed by everything. But why can’t she not just stop for one second and think? She is an untrained shadowhunter, how can she think that she and Jace can stop Valentine on their own? It is so annoying. As much as I understand that she can’t sit still, it is so annoying to see her overestimate herself.
What I love about her is that she is thanking Alec. That she is actually trying to talk with Alec about his feelings for Jace. I love the fragile friendship that forms between them.
In season 2 Clary calms down a little bit.

Izzy and Raphael

Truth be told even when I love Izzy she got on my nerves in season 2. This whole addiction storyline is tiring. It is good that they didn’t take the easy way out. This is an important theme and needs to be handled showing it realistic. There are these little details like Simon with this groups. I love that she tells Alec about it and he just accept it as something she needs. But it is hard to see her tell Alec that he didn’t even notice that she wasn’t okay. He asked her and yes he should have tried harder to get her to talk about it. But his head is so full with so much stuff. It is hard to see her think that Alec would be disappointed in her. When all he feels are just worries about her. He just wants that she gets better.
It is so hard to see her dragging Raphael down with her.

Raphael is of course not innocent in this because he shouldn’t have given it to her – not even once. I saw a lot of people who thought that Raphael and Izzy are a sweet pair. But I couldn’t see them like that. The relationship they are in is so destroying and wrong. This has nothing to do with being sweet. They are addicted to each other and bringing each other down.
As much has I hate Sebastian to hurt Raphael with telling him that he is not good for Izzy, but he is right. They shouldn’t be together. It is not that I have anything against them as a pair. But they can’t.

There a lot of characters I didn’t talk about but I still love – like Maia. I really hope they will have a lot of screen time in the next season of Shadowhunters.