What this show needed.....

I love this show, but there are some things I wish could have been different about it. Here is my list, and feel free to comment on them if you like and or add your own list of what you would have liked to see:

1. And this is the biggie right here: mentions of Jesus Christ. For a show that's suppose to be Christian themed, it sure lacked mention of the primary star person of it. I don't know why Martha Williamson done this, but for her to be a Christian herself and not even mention Jesus all like that it's odd. Yes, there were some references here and there, but they were brief, vague, and not even stating Christ by name. The purpose of Christianity is to have salvation in Christ, not so much God himself, as the only way to God is through Jesus. So it rather hurts the show's theme when it mentions God all the time but skips through Jesus entirely.

2. More talk on accepting God. For a Christian show where Christianity is real, it surprises me that the angels never really persuade people to follow Christ. I'm sure a lot of the cases they dealt with people who are not religious, and while they may say "God loves you" and all that, they don't really get strict when it comes to their assignments needing to go to church and stuff. They'll basically just talk about the relationship dramas and how the families needs to fix it, but not really on them needing to follow Jesus and God.

3. Failure endings. I have yet to see an episode where it has this and tried to loom for some. Every episode I know about ends with characters learning their lessons and it's all happy. We needed some endings where the assignment characters just prove to be too much for the angels they're not able to help them and have to call it quits. Now I've seen a couple episodes when Monica calls it quits when she's needed on a case, but she later comes to her senses an helps close it up. I want episodes where they ended with a case not being brought to closure and people have shown to be unhelpful. If there are any episodes like this, please tell me. But we certainly would have needed a lot more of them than what we have been treated with if there's any out there.

4. More displays of Heaven and Hell. I don't think the show has featured both of this enough. A lot of views of Heaven would have been nice and seeing all the other angels and displays of Hell and seeing the souls of the lost being tortured.

5. Monica should have always been doing assignments even before the start of the show. In the first episode, she's just now working as a case worker. But she's been an angel for thousands of years so why is this now all of a sudden new to her? Especially in flashback episodes when we see her performing case duties.

6. More demons involved. Demons have played a role in the show, but they were put to use very little. There should have been some recurring demon characters, particularly that Monique character that was Monica's look-alike. She should have been featured early on in the show and appeared in about twenty episodes and managing to succeed in her duties to bring bad outcomes too. Jasmine Guy's character should have been in more episodes too, rather than the three she did appear in. I also liked to have seen the demons try to set up huge incidents like plane crashes, building explosions, whatever to claim souls, something like on "Ghost Whisperer". Perhaps some possession.

7. More use of Satan. I don't think he was in the show enough. I also liked to have seen him cause some major disasters across the world. I also would have had Paul Winfield's Sam character appear more than he did. I also would have used him in the episodes where Ossie Davis appeared as the angel Gabriel. I always thought it was weird they brought in a character pretty much similar to Sam rather than using Sam, and furthermore portraying him by an actor who had already appeared in the show multiple times as another character. Ossie played that Erasmus character in the "Promised Land" backdoor pilot as well as the spinoff show's crossover episodes with this show. So to see him pop back up as some one else months following the end of "Promised Land" (which was cancelled in 1999) was weird.

8. I probably would have cut back on the role of Andrew. He's an angel of death and should only appear when someone dies or is on the verge of death. The fact that he appeared as an ordinary social worker like Monica most of the time kind of bothered me. If they needed an eye candy male main character to support Monica and Tess, it should have been some one like Rafael. Speaking of Rafael, I think he should have appeared more. Sixteen episodes over the course of six years was ridiculous. He should have been a main and Andrew should have been an off an on character.

9. People dying and ending up being lost. The only time I've seen this happen was in the John Wilkes Booth episode where Tess teaches a class of kids about him and he died in his sins and ended up in Hell. I don't think there was any other episodes like this.

10. I definitely would have given the show a tenth season. Cutting it off at nine bothers me, only because ten straight years is more even and you could have had a little anniversary finale at the end of the season. Plus it would have been another season we could have gotten use to Gloria. I felt her two year stint on the show was rather short for her. I think she could have used another year to flesh her out some more.

So that's my list. What do you guys think of it and what do you have to share on what you would have which you saw differently in the show?