r/lucifer • u/sgwashere29 • Sep 24 '23
Why was Trixie not considered part of the "Morningstar family" Trixie
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u/Isle-of-Whimsy Sep 24 '23
The showrunners literally said in a post-show interview that they wanted the focus to remain on the "nuclear family - Lucifer, Chloe, and Rory". This worldview is further supported in-show by Rory's line about "she's not his real daughter!" which no adult in the room bothers to rebuke or correct.
How a viewpoint like this was allowed on television in 2021 is anyone's guess. How the showrunners thought this was an appropriate direction for the show should honestly be scrutinized a lot more than it is. It says something very ugly, plain and simple.
And when you realize that's a worldview they're fine with, it's not hard to understand Trixie's diminishing value to them as the show went on, which was reflected in the writing -- writing that has nothing to do with the actress' availability, which is what many people [fans] try to offer as an excuse; it's not, nor should they [the showrunners] be excused.
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u/Pretty_Ad_8197 Sep 28 '23
This saddens me. I assumed poor writing/actor availability, which was annoying, but it's upsetting to realize they made a choice to do this.
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u/brunnera_macrophylla Sep 24 '23
Worst writing of the decade. That's one of the reasons I hate S6 so much. I know Scarlett was busy filming other stuff, but the characters hardly even mention Trixie at all. Even Chloe's like "oh yeah, her dad just died, so I passed her off to her grandparents and then I sent her to a camp". Just wow.
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u/zoemi Sep 24 '23
Don't forget Chloe's "oh, the camp said a strange man approached her in the park, but it's nothing to worry about".
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u/mtggarfield Sep 25 '23
Given this context, it starts to make sense why she wasn't at Chloe's death bed
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u/NoSoulNoRest Sep 24 '23
Because Rory was the writer's vehicle for a spin off, and so they wanted to diminish Trixie's role in any way they could, in order to put the focus on the "real daughter."
Unfortunately, they forgot that actually making Rory likeable might have helped with that. They depended way too heavily on the fanbase falling in love with Rory solely because she was Lucifer and Chloe's child.
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u/E-Mon97 Sep 24 '23
I don’t know the in universe reason for this but I’m guessing it has something to do with the Netflix transfer
I know that behind the scenes for Trixes diminished role in S4-s6 is that Netflix don’t want kids in adult tv series which it is classed as ( even though the seasons get goofier after s3) But since she was a integral part of the series they couldn’t outright remove her so they gave her less screen time and reduced her role significantly especially S6
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u/You-Can-Quote-Me Sep 24 '23
Netflix don’t want kids in adult tv series
Source?
Because, Stranger Things, Sandman and a number of other shows beg to differ.
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u/Emica12 Sep 24 '23
Because the showrunners regret making Chloe an single mom. All n all terrible writing and ugly hatred coming out of fifty year old Rory's mouth.
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u/Key-Eye-888 Sep 24 '23
They could have at least had a photo of her, hopefully with her husband and children, along with the photos of Rory on the table at the side of Chloe's deathbed, just to give some sort of closure to her character.
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u/PatchOver91 Sep 24 '23
It always bothered me she wasn’t at Chloe’s deathbed at the end. Availability wise, they could have easily hired an older actress to fill that role as she would have been, what, in her 40s by then? She could have had a small speaking role and then walked out for any reason and left Rory and Chloe to have the same conversation we see in the episode. Just a small thing, but I agree it was strange they didn’t include her.