SyFy: Dominion

Dannyalcatraz

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• Jun 20, 2014

• #1

Saw the pilot.

The fight between the Archangel Michael and another angel- a Power named Furiad that looked a LOT like Magneto- were the high point for me. And that fight wasn't exactly the best choreographed one I've seen of late.

What else did we get? Lots of retreads.

Mystic tattoos that tell of a secret destiny. A hidden "Chosen One" who will save mankind. Archangel Gabriel cast as the master enemy of humankind....again. Shapechanging angels that can pass for human, undetectably. Las Vegas become quasi-Roman "Vega", the sanctuary of humanity. Human leaders who don't believe what their experts are telling them...or the evidence of their own eyes. Angels succeptible to (apparently) conventional weaponry...but who survive things far more damaging. Dark mood lighting.

Verdict: Won't be watching.

 

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trappedslider

Legend

• Jun 20, 2014

• #2

during the opening credits it stated that it was based on the movie Legion

 

Dannyalcatraz

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• Jun 20, 2014

• #3

Missed the opening credits, and never saw Legion. If it was that derivative, I guess I have a list of good reasons not to.

 

trappedslider

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• Jun 20, 2014

• #4

Dannyalcatraz said:

Missed the opening credits, and never saw Legion. If it was that derivative, I guess I have a list of good reasons not to.

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I didn't see legion either, but i read about it on the web http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_(2010_film)

as an aside it looks like Syfy is trying to bring the sci-fi this year

 

sabrinathecat

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• Jun 20, 2014

• #5

Don't forget the other trope of doom:
Yet another attempt to make christian mythology cool by retooling it to modern youth as a comic book style TV show.

 

Scott DeWar

Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure

• Jun 20, 2014

• #6

I don't know about movies about christian mythology as film, bus as literary works I found Frank Paretti's 'This present darkness' and 'piercing the darkness' to be very much to my liking. I heard they were made into movies, but never seen hyde nor hare of them.

 

sabrinathecat

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• Jun 21, 2014

• #7

Scott DeWar said:

never seen hyde nor hare of them.

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Isn't that a mixed metaphore?
Hyde was Robert Louis Stevenson's fictional creation, Dr Jeckle & Mr Hyde.
Burke and Hare were murderers from Edinburgh who supplied cadavers to the university--some still warm in spite of their... attentions.

My comments on "This Present Darkness" would violate the "no religion" rule. Author uses "pagan" and "evil" as interchangeable terms in the first chapter, must as Star Wars:The Clone Wars cartoon used "Sedition" and "Treason" as the same word in season 6.

 

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Umbran

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• Jun 21, 2014

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sabrinathecat said:

Yet another attempt to make christian mythology cool by retooling it to modern youth as a comic book style TV show.

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You say that as if we don't retool Norse, Greek, Arthurian or other mythologies very often.

The whole point of Mythology is the retelling! Of course we rework it over and over again!

 

Dannyalcatraz

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• Jun 21, 2014

• #9

So...that makes us myth metavores?

 

Cergorach

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• Jun 22, 2014

• #10

Wasn't the biggest fan of Legion (if I remember correctly), read the whole postapoc type setting + Angels and wasn't really looking forward to it. The pilot was interesting enough, with just about enough stuff for me to feel I hadn't wasted an hour watching it. Will continue to watch (for now).