Apparitions, Ep 2
Nov. 28th, 2008 12:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tree_and_leafDear show: if you're going down the Philip Pullman line, I will be a bit disappointed though, given that the Demonic Power was simultaneously claiming that Satan was stronger than God and that they were ZOMG OPPRESSED! by God tyrannically condemning them to the fires of Hell, I'm currently inclined to take its words with a pinch of salt. Especially given that the demon's claim that causing the Holocaust is OK because God was mean to them shows a rather shaky grasp of ethics...
Nice variant on the locked room mystery, though I am Not Pleased that Sister Anne got killed off. I liked her. But then I liked Vimal, too. Curse you, show, for making me care about characters and then offing them in distressing ways!
Also, the only thing that Fr Jacob is worse at than grasping basic points of police procedure is tying knots, which one would have thought would be a disadvantage in his line of work. (He also continues to be somewhat arrogant, and chronically unable to say things that it might be sensible to say, such as 'I didn't think the fact that Vimal was gay meant that he was possessed') Possibly he is well-suited to exorcism because demons tend not to benefit from the softer side of pastoral skills? Also, his planting evidence on the murderer is a little bit dubious, ethically speaking, even - especially? - as the Met's finest appeared to have worked it out for themselves anyway.
Meanwhile, Creepy Cardinal gets even more creepy, and while I know Friday is no longer an automatic fast, fish with a 1983 Barolo strikes me as trying to have it both ways. Also, there's something really, really weird about the little girl they saved from possession the previous week.
The trailer looks most peculiar: saints possessing rapists? Something doesn't quite add up...
On a side note, it strikes me that when US TV does horror/ hunters-vs-demons, it gives us Supernatural, with two hot young men and a sexy car, and attractive women (even if I understand that some of them are actually demons). The BBC, in a parallel case, gives us a crumpled late-middle-aged man in a dog collar (and no car), demons who are possessing middle management types or tramps, or are in league with elderly church functionaries, and absolutely no eye candy for anyone of any persuasion, not even in terms of vestments.
Actually, I think this speaks for the BBC, but it's an interesting difference.
Nice variant on the locked room mystery, though I am Not Pleased that Sister Anne got killed off. I liked her. But then I liked Vimal, too. Curse you, show, for making me care about characters and then offing them in distressing ways!
Also, the only thing that Fr Jacob is worse at than grasping basic points of police procedure is tying knots, which one would have thought would be a disadvantage in his line of work. (He also continues to be somewhat arrogant, and chronically unable to say things that it might be sensible to say, such as 'I didn't think the fact that Vimal was gay meant that he was possessed') Possibly he is well-suited to exorcism because demons tend not to benefit from the softer side of pastoral skills? Also, his planting evidence on the murderer is a little bit dubious, ethically speaking, even - especially? - as the Met's finest appeared to have worked it out for themselves anyway.
Meanwhile, Creepy Cardinal gets even more creepy, and while I know Friday is no longer an automatic fast, fish with a 1983 Barolo strikes me as trying to have it both ways. Also, there's something really, really weird about the little girl they saved from possession the previous week.
The trailer looks most peculiar: saints possessing rapists? Something doesn't quite add up...
On a side note, it strikes me that when US TV does horror/ hunters-vs-demons, it gives us Supernatural, with two hot young men and a sexy car, and attractive women (even if I understand that some of them are actually demons). The BBC, in a parallel case, gives us a crumpled late-middle-aged man in a dog collar (and no car), demons who are possessing middle management types or tramps, or are in league with elderly church functionaries, and absolutely no eye candy for anyone of any persuasion, not even in terms of vestments.
Actually, I think this speaks for the BBC, but it's an interesting difference.