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ratcreature) wrote2016-03-29 03:34 pm
ratcreature) wrote2016-03-29 03:34 pm
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Damien
So, I checked out Damien, because of Bradley James and goss mentioning enjoying it, even though I'm not much into horror, especially not with religious apocalypses.
I'm not sure the series choice that you basically feel sorry for the Antichrist and how much his life sucks, because all these freaky horror deaths are happening around him really works as perspective for a horror story.
Though some parts are certainly creepy enough, like the Ann Rutledge character. And the tension between her being on the one hand this evil power broker, pulling strings in the background and manipulating and also gaslighting Damien for her secret society's evil plans, while on the other hand she's also some kind of obsessed cultish follower of his is interesting. It leads to some freakish scenes like, when she seems composed in Damien's presence but then after that orgasmed, presumably just from Damien allowing her to touch his 666 birth mark after she secretly re-cut that into her skin in his bathroom. WTF. That was certainly one of the weirder sex scenes I've seen in a tv series.
Also while Amani is obviously meant to be likable, and I hope he'll get some more story of his own, beyond Evil Lady Jr. (don't remember her name) flirting with him presumably just to get closer to Damien, from a meta perspective I'm not sure it's a great choice to make your Arab character (who may or may not be Muslim) the Antichrist's sidekick.
Though maybe there'll be an interesting twist with that or something. The series certainly managed to surprise my genre expectations when in the latest ep it gave the obsessive cop character the adorable gay domestic family breakfast scene with a partner and a kid at home (even if it was disrupted by the evil dog nearly causing their kid to drown), after it had first shown him to stay at work long into the night because of the case, skirting the line with threatening behavior, his captain warning him and such, so that you more or less expected the half-rogue, cynic loner cop, who at most is divorced. Instead we got basically Detective Shay curtain!fic on screen. I now really hope there won't be a tragic gay death by approaching apocalypse for them.
goss mentioning enjoying it, even though I'm not much into horror, especially not with religious apocalypses. I'm not sure the series choice that you basically feel sorry for the Antichrist and how much his life sucks, because all these freaky horror deaths are happening around him really works as perspective for a horror story.
Though some parts are certainly creepy enough, like the Ann Rutledge character. And the tension between her being on the one hand this evil power broker, pulling strings in the background and manipulating and also gaslighting Damien for her secret society's evil plans, while on the other hand she's also some kind of obsessed cultish follower of his is interesting. It leads to some freakish scenes like, when she seems composed in Damien's presence but then after that orgasmed, presumably just from Damien allowing her to touch his 666 birth mark after she secretly re-cut that into her skin in his bathroom. WTF. That was certainly one of the weirder sex scenes I've seen in a tv series.
Also while Amani is obviously meant to be likable, and I hope he'll get some more story of his own, beyond Evil Lady Jr. (don't remember her name) flirting with him presumably just to get closer to Damien, from a meta perspective I'm not sure it's a great choice to make your Arab character (who may or may not be Muslim) the Antichrist's sidekick.
Though maybe there'll be an interesting twist with that or something. The series certainly managed to surprise my genre expectations when in the latest ep it gave the obsessive cop character the adorable gay domestic family breakfast scene with a partner and a kid at home (even if it was disrupted by the evil dog nearly causing their kid to drown), after it had first shown him to stay at work long into the night because of the case, skirting the line with threatening behavior, his captain warning him and such, so that you more or less expected the half-rogue, cynic loner cop, who at most is divorced. Instead we got basically Detective Shay curtain!fic on screen. I now really hope there won't be a tragic gay death by approaching apocalypse for them.
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However, that being said, I agree with your analysis. It's creepy, it's curiously interesting in that he isn't not evil and I want him to find a friend who will save him and prevent the apocalypse. If it becomes a redemption story I will likely cheer,
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