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Lucifer - Television Series
Mar. 5th, 2016 09:55 amFinished watching the last four episodes of Lucifer last night, which has suddenly gotten interesting. I'm admittedly watching it for the metaphors, backstory, and mythology not the case of the week. But finally, the last episode made the case of the week personal. Actually, to a degree, each of the cases of the week have been related to or personal to...the lead and title character, Lucifer Morningstar.
For those of you out there who have never heard of the series...go HERE.
Lucifer Morningstar is based on a supporting character in the comic book series The Sandman. The character later became the protagonist in the spin-off series Lucifer. Like the comic book, Morningstar runs an Los Angeles piano bar (ummm, club) called Lux, and explores the ideas of free-will, human desire, and sin. For comic book nerds, spotting where the show deviates from the original is half the fun.
The set-up is that Lucifer Morningstar was cast off from heaven to rule hell for all eternity, until he decided to take a vacation in Los Angeles (the City of Angels) and ends up partnering up with a local detective and solving crimes. It's like Sleepy Hollow in its first season, except not as gory, violent, or melodramatic.
What I like about the series...is the title character is depicted as a contradiction. Which I just realized last night is the interesting thing about the mythology surrounding Lucifer. Light-bringer - Prince of Darkness. Light into Darkness, Dark into Light. Yin and Yang. Favorite Son - Cast-Off son.
Most Beautiful of the Angel - Devil. The idea of good bending into evil and evil bending into good.
The two concepts occupying the same space. Similar to Faith and Doubt being next door neighbors.
You can't have one without the other, and often in humanity they are bit mixed up.
The show got really interesting, when ( spoilers )
I gave up on Gotham, which is wee bit too violent and nihilistic for my taste. Both series are based on DC Comic books. Is it just my imagination or are there a lot of television series adapted from comic books on at the moment? More so than ever before?
For those of you out there who have never heard of the series...go HERE.
Lucifer Morningstar is based on a supporting character in the comic book series The Sandman. The character later became the protagonist in the spin-off series Lucifer. Like the comic book, Morningstar runs an Los Angeles piano bar (ummm, club) called Lux, and explores the ideas of free-will, human desire, and sin. For comic book nerds, spotting where the show deviates from the original is half the fun.
The set-up is that Lucifer Morningstar was cast off from heaven to rule hell for all eternity, until he decided to take a vacation in Los Angeles (the City of Angels) and ends up partnering up with a local detective and solving crimes. It's like Sleepy Hollow in its first season, except not as gory, violent, or melodramatic.
What I like about the series...is the title character is depicted as a contradiction. Which I just realized last night is the interesting thing about the mythology surrounding Lucifer. Light-bringer - Prince of Darkness. Light into Darkness, Dark into Light. Yin and Yang. Favorite Son - Cast-Off son.
Most Beautiful of the Angel - Devil. The idea of good bending into evil and evil bending into good.
The two concepts occupying the same space. Similar to Faith and Doubt being next door neighbors.
You can't have one without the other, and often in humanity they are bit mixed up.
The show got really interesting, when ( spoilers )
I gave up on Gotham, which is wee bit too violent and nihilistic for my taste. Both series are based on DC Comic books. Is it just my imagination or are there a lot of television series adapted from comic books on at the moment? More so than ever before?