#s3ep20

So, 3x20 is titled “City of Glass”, which is the title of one of the books, and I think we need to take some of our cues from there where Malec is concerned. Obviously, they’ve already had their Alec-coming-out-via-big-public-snog moment back in season 1, but there’s another semi-iconic Malec moment we haven’t seen play out on the show, and I think this is where we’ll get some variation of it.

The good news is, I’m pretty sure Malec are going to reconcile BEFORE what would have been the s3/s4 hiatus, had the show not been cancelled. They weren’t going to leave us with Malec broken up, thank God.

We know from the promo that demons are going to attack Alicante, probably because Jonathan manages to open the rift to Edom with the Morningstar blade.

When demons attacked Alicante in the book CoG, Magnus and Alec were estranged. They encountered each other in the midst of the chaos and reconciled while fighting demons together. It’s where Magnus tells Alec he loves him for the first time, i.e. “you stupid Nephilim, yadda yadda yadda”

I think we’re going to that battlefield reunion in this episode, and it’s going to be all sorts of fun, because by the time it happens, Asmodeus will have revealed his ulterior motives to Magnus, Magnus will have put together all the pieces and realized what Alec did, and if he does call Alec a “stupid Nephilim” (which is not actually a line I’m in love with and I sort of hope we don’t get it because it will probably feel shoehorned in like a lot of the iconic book moments they’ve been trying to force this season) it will probably be for 1) thinking Magnus would choose his magic over Alec and 2) being a dumbass for giving Asmodeus his way out of Edom.

So they’re going to argue and hash it out and reconcile while fighting off demons, and then we’re going to get a battlefield proposal. Possibly not intentionally, possibly Alec just blurts it out that he had wanted to marry Magnus, but either way, it’s going to be GLORIOUS.

And then it will be agony, because Magnus will be taken to Edom, either by force or by sacrificing himself because it’s the only way to seal the rift (I really hope by force, because I’m tired of Magnus sacrificing himself, y’all.) We know from BTS shots of filming the last two eps that he’s in Edom with Lilith at some point, and we know from the season promo that there’s a moment when Alec is kneeling, looking at the sky, devastated, so I think that’s the cliffhanger we were going to be left on.