Differences in Season 1 Episode 12: Malec
Be aware that there will be some slight Lady Midnight and Lord of Shadows spoilers in this blog post. So, if you haven't read up to Lord of Shadows be warned. Wedding preparations, please make this nonsense stop. Alec says that he and Magnus understand marriage differently. But really it's the show that understands marriage differently. Arranged marriages are just as strange and uncommon for Shadowhunters as it is for us in our contemporary world. And we see evidence of this in the new Lord of Shadows book. When we first meet Zara Dearborn in Lord of Shadows she introduces herself as Diego's fiancee (Diego you jerk). We find out a little later in the in the novel, from Diego's brother Jamie, that Diego and Zara's engagement is an arranged one so that the Dearborn family can gain power. When the Blackthorn family learns of this they are just as shocked and mystified as we are as readers. Livvy can hardly believe that two people would go through with
