I don't think the Powers are portrayed the proper way, but I don't think they are overbearing either. Angels are not cute little chubby cherubs. They are fierce creatures who have killed, spilled blood, laid cities to waste, and brought empires to their knees. To quote from another good angelic movie, The Prophecy,
"You know when God wanted to punish someone, when someone needed a killing, he sent an angel. Can you imagine what a being like that must be like? Spending your entire existence praising your Creator, with one wing always dipped in blood."--Det. Daggett
"I'm an angel. I killed firstborn children while their mamas watched. I've turned kings to cripples and cities to salt and even when I feel like it, I rip the souls from little girls and from now until kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence, is never understanding why."--Gabriel
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Ichabod_Fletchman
17 years ago
I never really took the bible as anything but a really good fairy tale.
Bender: I was God once.
God: Yes, I saw. You were doing well until everyone died
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ericxman
17 years ago
I am christian and obviously belive in it. But i have no problem wiht ppl messing with "cannon" because i know alot of ppl veiw it on par with ,say, greek myths. And i don't think that just becuase i belive something i should hold others to hold it sacredly.
And i also enjoy most stuff involving angels and demons and heavean and hell. Most notably the prophecy films,Fallen (Books only saw the first tv movie but i got the other 2 recorded so i'll eventually look at those),Preacher comics, ghost rider comics, and i'm a huge hellblazer fan. The only thing i've ever found that i didn't like was the arammagedon arc of spawn i just didn't liek the whole god an dthe devil are just bickering children thing. but otherwise i'm really open minded to ppls interpertations of the christian mythos
Timothy Dalton should get an Emmy and bash Saun Connery over the head with it!
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SilverSpiderTM2
17 years ago
May I be the first to say, you rock, man! I only wish other Christians thought the same thing. I'm Jewish (though I do admit to viewing most religious things with a questioning eye) and I've gotten heat on other forums just for liking these books. *sigh* I just wish everyone else was as open-minded as you. Cheers!
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riftstyle
17 years ago
So far I just watched the first part. However I don't think that the Powers are portrayed as overbearing. The view that seems to be being upheld in the first part is that the Powers are acting on The Creators orders. However there is no scene of God actually ordering the Nephilim destroyed. Also the sheer idea that they are hlaf human falls on the "Free chocie" umbrella. I just think it's awesome that the Powers were the ones that were more demonic in nature than the Halfbreeds they were supposed to be killing.
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SilverSpiderTM2
17 years ago
<i>However there is no scene of God actually ordering the Nephilim destroyed.</i>
Yup! Moreover, in the books, the Powers actually fall for going after the Nephilim. They even hint about that in the first part of the series where Verchiel can't actually hear God speaking to him anymore. Sorry, I have to refer to Verchiel as 'he'. Hardwired from the books.
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budorob
17 years ago
2 points:
1)When you see someone messing with canon, it should be a challenge to reinforce your faith. Based on your post, your faith is unaffected by little things such as this show, and I applaud you for it.
2)Religion is an attempt to explain the Divine. I fear those who read the Bible LITERALLY are not understanding that the knowledge of God and Heaven may be ineffable=unable to be understood by humans in our terms. That may sound Agnostic, but God in the Old Testament tells Moses that if he sees God's face, he'll be with God. My interpretation is that humans can never know God until they return to the divine at death, so everything we read is, at best, an educated guess.
The Mullet: "Business up front; party in the back."
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smr598
17 years ago
Just one point to make about this whole discussion...the war between heaven and hell is not mentioned in the Old Testament at any point and not told in the New Testament either. The story (myth, truth, whatever) is a piece of Apocrypha similar to the Book of the Watchers or other religious texts that did not make cut in the original cannon laid down after the destruction of the first temple when the rabbis decided to combine the texts outlining the religion in case the culture died out in the diaspora. In fact, the only time Satan is directly referenced (I mean directly, not interpretively, check your texts) is in Job (the Hebrew calls the one challenging G-d ha-Satan translated by some texts as "the Adversary" and some as Satan). So while the story of the sons of G-d having children with the daughters of men is in Genesis, the rest of the movie has no direct biblical, textual basis. Just a point that needed to be made.
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duncreg
13 years ago
God decides to let Moses see his ass instead!
"Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock: And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by , that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by : And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen."
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