Fallen (tonight) ComicCon Review (Spoilers)

[Mistwell]

Though this was not chronologically the first of the media panels I attended this weekend, given the show is on tonight I figured I should post it first.

Fallen, on ABC Family tonight (Sunday July 23, 2006). 2 hours.

This is not a regular season show, but a one-shot. However, there is an additional 4 hours planned for next summer, and I think (though they did not say this) that if it does well they may make it into a regular season show.

Fallen is about a 20-something person who discovers he is half-man, half-angel. Apparently, there are several categories of Angels: Half Angels (Nephelum), Fallen angels, and full angels. Some full angels are "good", and protect half-angels and fallen angels. Others are not necessarily "good", and are jealous of mankind, as they feel they were the first and that man is just a bunch of glorified apes made the first-love of the Lord. These "bad" angels kill half-angels and fallen angels.

Once our main character discovers his powers, a fallen angel finds him (Ezekiel) and, with the hopes that our hero will find a way to redeem the fallen angel, begins teaching him how to use his angellic powers. Those powers include strength, healing, the summoning of flame-like weapons, fireballing, Matrix-like fighting, flying (eventually with wings), and related powers.

One of the writers I believe is from Buffy and Angel. One of the lead actors is from Battlestar Galactica (he plays a cylon on that show).

I liked what I saw (though they did not show the entire thing). I think it's worth checking out.

 

[Hand of Evil]

It was okay, effect were good and characters not bad.

 

[Templetroll]

Things that made me dislike this show.

1. The lead character, Aaron, asks something about God and a character, I think it was Exekial, comments "Allah, Shiva, Tao..." giving the impression that all religions are from the same source. From a comment on another board, I think the book this is based on refers to a Source for where the power comes from.

2. The 'bad angels' also torture freely and kill any human that gets in their way or finds out anything about their actual existance instead of just as a matter of faith. These evil acts cause no problem with them being 'angels'. Did the Fallen Angels articulate why they were Fallen? I may have missed it.

3. It may just be my family but we all thought the angel wings resembled feathered batwings and appeared ominous no matter if the 'angel' was good or bad.

4. The autistic child being used as an early warning system and the fact that Aaron is able to get a response from him almost as soon as he had been adopted. There is supposed to be this wonderful familial love between Aaron and the parents but at the time the mother is hysterically trying to get out of the house to help Aaron or see how he is, Aaron only sneaks over to a broken window to talk to the autistic child. He doesn't try to ease her mind, or explain jack to the parents he loves enough to finally call 'Mom and Dad'... well, he called them that once, then reverted back to calling them by their first names.

5. the bit about the girl he liked seemed like a setup for a series hook, although the storyline looked like it would cause Aaron to wander the world, not just hang out in the old hometown. I don't know how an 18 year old girl is supposed to jump up and wander with him.

Now, I did like the dog, and Aaron's reaction when he could understand what the dog was 'saying'. That was cool. The dog having an angelic name, Gabriel, was annoying.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Things that made me dislike this show.

1. The lead character, Aaron, asks something about God and a character, I think it was Exekial, comments "Allah, Shiva, Tao..." giving the impression that all religions are from the same source. From a comment on another board, I think the book this is based on refers to a Source for where the power comes from.

2. The 'bad angels' also torture freely and kill any human that gets in their way or finds out anything about their actual existance instead of just as a matter of faith. These evil acts cause no problem with them being 'angels'. Did the Fallen Angels articulate why they were Fallen? I may have missed it.

3. It may just be my family but we all thought the angel wings resembled feathered batwings and appeared ominous no matter if the 'angel' was good or bad.

4. The autistic child being used as an early warning system and the fact that Aaron is able to get a response from him almost as soon as he had been adopted. There is supposed to be this wonderful familial love between Aaron and the parents but at the time the mother is hysterically trying to get out of the house to help Aaron or see how he is, Aaron only sneaks over to a broken window to talk to the autistic child. He doesn't try to ease her mind, or explain jack to the parents he loves enough to finally call 'Mom and Dad'... well, he called them that once, then reverted back to calling them by their first names.

5. the bit about the girl he liked seemed like a setup for a series hook, although the storyline looked like it would cause Aaron to wander the world, not just hang out in the old hometown. I don't know how an 18 year old girl is supposed to jump up and wander with him.

Now, I did like the dog, and Aaron's reaction when he could understand what the dog was 'saying'. That was cool. The dog having an angelic name, Gabriel, was annoying.

I figure the girl has not turned 18 yet and will find out she too is a half breed. Waiting a year is what id going to kill this show.

 

[Templetroll]

I figure the girl has not turned 18 yet and will find out she too is a half breed. Waiting a year is what id going to kill this show.

Definitely an odd marketing scheme. I figure there must be some issue built into the contract that made this happen. SciFi is an odd network anyway. Some things work better than others.

 

[Darthjaye]

Definitely an odd marketing scheme. I figure there must be some issue built into the contract that made this happen. SciFi is an odd network anyway. Some things work better than others.

Sci-FI? This is a ABC family show isn't it? As for the waiting, yeah it's rather goofy that they set up such a interesting premise and show and then make everyone wait a year for a possible payoff. When I first saw the teasers for this, I was under the impression it was leading to a show soon. I enjoyed it. Hope it does get a greenlight for a series soon.