Lucifer - show review

[SpursforSix]

Just watched the first episode. Guess it was allright and will probably watch another. Pretty standard network television.

5/10

[boutons_deux]

This Week In Crazy: Put The Devil Back Into Hell

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5. Monica Cole

Well, I’m glad we have our priorities in order. Monica Cole, director of the American Family Association’s One Million Moms initiative, has her sights set on getting FOX’s new show Lucifer kicked off the air by organizing a boycott of companies that advertise on the network.

The new show, she writes (http://onemillionmoms.com/current-campaigns/tell-lucifer-sponsors-no-more-sympathy-for-the-devil/), is “spiritually dangerous” because it “glorifies Satan as a caring, likable person in human flesh.”

Cole complains that the show poses questions “meant to make people rethink assumptions about good and evil, including about God and Satan.”

( :lol don't want nobody doin' no rethinkin' :lol )

Permit a digression into comic book geekdom for a moment. This TV series is based on the DC Comics’ title Lucifer, written by Mike Carey, but this interpretation of the character originally appeared in The Sandman, the groundbreaking comic penned by prolific scribe Neil Gaiman. Gaiman said he took cues for his Lucifer from John Milton’s Paradise Lost when he fashioned the character. So let’s all stop pretending that literary works using the Satan archetype to examine weighty issues of predestination, free will, and moral character is, like, Barack Obama’s fault, or something remotely new.

Gaiman issued a succinct rebuttal to the OMMs on his Tumblr (http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/120223970701/one-million-moms-says-new-fox-tv-series), when the they got this boycott thing kicking eight months ago:

Ah. It seems like only yesterday (but it was 1991) that the “Concerned Mothers of America” announced that they were boycotting SANDMAN because it contained Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans characters. It was Wanda that upset them most: the idea of a Trans Woman in a comic book… They told us they were organizing a boycott of SANDMAN, which they would only stop if we wrote to the American Family Association and promised to reform.
I wonder if they noticed it didn’t work last time, either…


I should note here that organizing a boycott is totally cool — and hopefully trying to tell Olive Garden where to spend their marketing dollars will keep (http://onemillionmoms.com/current-campaigns/tell-lucifer-sponsors-no-more-sympathy-for-the-devil/) the OMMs distracted and occupied enough that they won’t do anything that might have an actual impact.

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[Blake]

So no chick fil a ads I guess

[SpursforSix]

This Week In Crazy: Put The Devil Back Into Hell

http://www.nationalmemo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/3234691193_dc74d4e384_z-668x501.jpg

5. Monica Cole

Well, I’m glad we have our priorities in order. Monica Cole, director of the American Family Association’s One Million Moms initiative, has her sights set on getting FOX’s new show Lucifer kicked off the air by organizing a boycott of companies that advertise on the network.

The new show, she writes (http://onemillionmoms.com/current-campaigns/tell-lucifer-sponsors-no-more-sympathy-for-the-devil/), is “spiritually dangerous” because it “glorifies Satan as a caring, likable person in human flesh.”

Cole complains that the show poses questions “meant to make people rethink assumptions about good and evil, including about God and Satan.”

( :lol don't want nobody doin' no rethinkin' :lol )

Permit a digression into comic book geekdom for a moment. This TV series is based on the DC Comics’ title Lucifer, written by Mike Carey, but this interpretation of the character originally appeared in The Sandman, the groundbreaking comic penned by prolific scribe Neil Gaiman. Gaiman said he took cues for his Lucifer from John Milton’s Paradise Lost when he fashioned the character. So let’s all stop pretending that literary works using the Satan archetype to examine weighty issues of predestination, free will, and moral character is, like, Barack Obama’s fault, or something remotely new.

Gaiman issued a succinct rebuttal to the OMMs on his Tumblr (http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/120223970701/one-million-moms-says-new-fox-tv-series), when the they got this boycott thing kicking eight months ago:

Ah. It seems like only yesterday (but it was 1991) that the “Concerned Mothers of America” announced that they were boycotting SANDMAN because it contained Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans characters. It was Wanda that upset them most: the idea of a Trans Woman in a comic book… They told us they were organizing a boycott of SANDMAN, which they would only stop if we wrote to the American Family Association and promised to reform.
I wonder if they noticed it didn’t work last time, either…


I should note here that organizing a boycott is totally cool — and hopefully trying to tell Olive Garden where to spend their marketing dollars will keep (http://onemillionmoms.com/current-campaigns/tell-lucifer-sponsors-no-more-sympathy-for-the-devil/) the OMMs distracted and occupied enough that they won’t do anything that might have an actual impact.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/this-week-in-crazy-put-the-devil-back-into-hell/?utm_source=National+Memo+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=3133d58709-Morning_Memo_2016_01_291_29_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8f8e3f883b-3133d58709-152384977




Interesting. I hadn't thought about it on that level. Trying to turn people on to liking Satan. Also of note, they had a black man with a white woman sex scene which we all know is Hollywood's (Jew) master plan to dilute whitey.

[DMC]

Looks like something that should be on the CW.

[SpursforSix]

I just watched episode 4 after skipping 2 and 3. I think it's a testament to my intellect that I instantly knew what was going on.

It's pretty average and will be done after this season.