Oh, gee. If only there was some way we could find out if we were truly related... you know, something like a blood test...
I know there was more to this episode, and much of it was pretty good, but the elephant in the script is hard to ignore. The actress playing Clary is slightly less irritating after the previous parallel universe episode (she showed there that she wasn't completely one dimensional), but it's still hard to watch her for more than a few seconds at a time. There's a difference between portraying an ingenue and, well whatever valley girly girl persona either the actress or the writers and director think to be good acting. Unless this is supposed to be a campy spoof...? No, I thought not. I doubt that Katherine McNamara could handle "camp" anyway.
The show is slightly improving in spite of the lame teenage romance (and bad acting chops) between Clary and Jace, but it's touch and go because said lame romance (and bad acting chops) keeps getting in the way of me getting drawn properly into this world. So far the ideas for the plot are far better quality than the execution of the scripts being written to communicate them.
Kudos to the actors portraying Magnus, Isabelle, Luke, Simon and Lydia for creating layered characters that supercede the mainly mediocre character writing, and which are drawing me back (so far) to see what happens next.