Dominion
2016 09 29
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I've been watching the show Dominion (based on the film Legion), the basic premise of which is that God's abandoned us all and there's a war going on between angels and humans. Outside of the fact that it's got some terrible acting, gawdawful writing, and shit characters, it's not a bad filler watch for someone with the high tolerance for bad sci-fi/dystopian fiction that I have.
It's fabulous that some are finally taking the kid gloves off enough to treat biblically- and religiously-oriented stories like the fiction fodder source material they should be. There's an entire Bible of material waiting to be mined - along with rafts of apocrypha, and the books that were left out on purpose during the council of Nicea. Go to town, kids.
My only concern is that at the end they'll find a way to directly, and nauseatingly, moralise the entire thing (which has been fairly avoided until now, except for no more moralising than one gets in any TV show); and we'll end up with a hokey mess like the last episode of Lost, which has to be one of the most excruciating let-downs in TV finale history. Such potential, and all we get is sappy, spiritual community.
If you need a simpler reason to watch Dominion, the actor who plays the archangel Michael is 6'4" and has a lovely British accent - even though he's an odd-looking duck. I love super-tall men.