Lucifer

So one of the things that sucks about having an editor personality is that you're constantly going through and correcting things. Makes reading books and watching TV and movies for pleasure kind of difficult. My biggest personal pet peeve is when two parents have blue eyes and the child has brown eyes. And this is all right with everyone . . . Like Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. That was just a bad movie, but when Karen Allen tells Harrison Ford that Shia LaBeouf is his son, well, I groaned, because two blue-eyed people can't give birth to a brown-eyed child. Adoption or adultry were involved . . .

So no surprise that I take a deep breath every time I see Scarlett Estevez (Trixie on Lucifer), my muscles tighten. I like the actress, it's a continuity issue for me . . . Now Kevin Alejandro is Hispanic, so maybe that's where the producers are confused. But he and Lauren German have pale eyes, both look blue to me. So no, the child with big brown eyes not happening . . . unless there's some genetic mutation I haven't heard of.

That kind of thing happens all the time in movies and TV, the thing that made me cringe while watching Wingman, the latest episode of Lucifer, was when Lucifer (Tom Ellis, a white guy) introduces his brother Amenadiel (D.B. Woodwide, a black guy) as his brother (they're angels, I have no problem with genetics here) and Det. Decker (Lauren German) has a seizure trying not to point out the obvious. OK, so we're supposed to be shocked when two different races are sibs but not when blue-eyed parents have brown-eyed children. Thanks TV, for once again making me face-palm.