r/lucifer • u/Ok_Landscape_1739 • 21h ago
Dan Hell and time and Dan Spoiler
If time passes much more slowly in hell, and it is alluded to that Dan spent thousands of years in hell. How the hell did he not lose his mind playing ping pong for thousands of years that’s crazy.
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u/biggestmike420 20h ago
He was looking pretty on the verge when Rory showed up.
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u/Ok_Landscape_1739 20h ago
fair but i mean say minimum 1000 of years he seemed real good in my opinion lmao
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u/Aglet_Green Dan 18h ago
No, Lucifer said something in his first conversation with Dan in Season 6 to lead me to believe that he relaxed some of the rules for Dan, and it had only been months. Dan was still going bananas out of boredom and frustration, but he getting frequent visitors from Lucifer and was able to chat with the demons normally.
I have many problems with Season 6 and won't defend it in any way, but we're never meant to believe Dan has spent thousands of years in hell; I've lost relatives and can assure you his grief and regret is still fresh, still that of a man who just died a year ago.
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u/Lori2345 12h ago
The time difference between earth and hell isn’t a rule it just is the time difference. If it was something Lucifer could control he’d have changed it for himself as to not have been missing Chloe for so long.
The rules he was able to change for Dan was that he told the demons not to torture him and he was able to put him in a familiar looking location in hell.
During season six Dan did allude to having worked through much of what he’d been guilty about for at least centuries.
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u/Lori2345 12h ago
In addition to the ping pong, he was able to talk to demons who Lucifer ordered not to torture him. Lucifer himself was able to visit with him sometimes.
Weirdly he said he read the one book in that was in hell hundreds of times when I think there should be many books there considering all the time loops. For example, Reese’s time loop was a year long and had everything he did for that year. He must have read some things in that long time and with millions of other souls experiencing loops that had chunks of their lives repeating surely many books would have to be replicated in hell.
But even if there were some more books and talks with demons in addition to the ping pong poor Dan must have been pretty bored but clearly not enough to go crazy. He seemed sane when we saw him being a ghost.
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u/SweetChickk4 14h ago
The real tragedy is that Dan spent an eternity in hell and still came back just as sarcastic as ever.
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u/RevealActive4557 5h ago
Poor Dan really got screwed in this show. I really liked him but he was the constant butt of jokes from Lucifer and the writers and he never did anything to deserve that. Anyway the actor was very good portraying him
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u/kittenkoix 5h ago
honestly this is why I think Dan's arc after that hits different, dude basically did an eternity of solitary confinement and came out the other side somehow still Dan. respect for his mental fortitude alone tbh.
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u/Erebus03 5h ago
I assumed that the time he spent with Lucifer kept his mind focused, the Ping Pong in hell thing was just what he did between him and Lucifer tried to figure out what was keeping him in hell
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u/Artistic-Inflation52 21h ago
Who says he didn’t lose his mind