Weakened by his crisis of faith, and with Michael on the loose, Father Jacob realises that he needs to be exorcised himself. But with Bukovak blocking all normal channels, Jacob is forced to coax Vincenzo out of retirement if he is to have any hope of defeating Michael before he can carry out his plans.
I am looking forward to it, I am not really a Martin Shaw fan to be honest, I have never really seen him in anything else (as the genres never interested me before) so I don't have anything to compare it to.
I have to admit I have found this series thoroughly entertaining, I think we have been a bit starved of supernatural programmes of late, they have tended to be killed off early or they wilt and die.
So few channels want to take a risk with supernatural, perferring the old tired genres (I swear if I see one more tortured cop show I will scream).
So bravo to Martin Shaw for bringing us a Priest with a little demon problem and I will be supporting this programme by watching it tonight and as it isn't a total cop out ending or of course, ending with the death of the protagonist (unlikely) then I will be supporting the calls for another series.
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It's a bit predictable. Final episode and the main guy needs exorcising. I could see that coming. Still! I will watch and I will hope and pray that this gets a second series, hopefully one with more than just six episodes. Hardly seems long enough to me.
shareThe problem I have with this show is that I feel a lot in common with the person who is supposed to be on the side of evil.
So the psychologist says exactly what I would have been thinking if I had been in her place.
When the cardinal talking about how the catholic church needs to combat the medieval mindset within elements of the Catholic church and I’m thinking what a good cardinal he would be in real life.
When the woman who is trying to pick him up brings up how God asked Abraham to kill Isaac and Father Jacob twigs that she’s a demon, I’m thinking that’s exactly what I would have said in response to what his saying God would never ask anyone to murder someone.
God wanted to test Abraham, he wanted to know if Abraham trusted God with the promise of the many descendants while also getting rid of his precious son. Abraham didn't actually need to murder Isaac because God provided an animal for slaughter. I can't imagine what Abraham and Isaac said to each other on the way down the mountain though!
Also, people in the Bible were expected to do amazing things because they were people in the Bible. There aren't any more prophets, sons of God, fathers of many nations, around nowadays as there were in the Bible. We are expected to learn from the story of Abraham, we are never going to have to actually do what he did. Abraham did it so we don't have to.
The woman is right though. God asked Abraham to murder his son and even though God stopped him at the last moment, he was prepared to do it and so Father Jacob can’t say that God wouldn’t ask him to murder someone.
Father Jacob reacted in a paranoid way to what she said. The thing is that Abraham’s decision to obey God’s request to murder his son was the subject of Fear and Trembling, which is regarded as one of the most profound books every written by a Christian thinker. As a well-read Christian I think he should have recognized such a well-known theological argument instead of deciding that she must be a demon to say something like that.
Yeah but context is everything, Fr Jacob is in the kind of show where the people who appear in front of him may or may not be demons, and most of the time are demons. Invisible but with real knives! You can't blame him for thinking he had a demon in front of him, specially when she started on the plural pronouns, ie "You can't stop us! We will do this or that..."
shareObviously from the way Joe Ahearn writes the rest of the conversation, it’s soon very obvious his concern was justified. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t being paranoid at that point though. It would be a bit like in an atheist writer has a Christian character that says something completely innocuous and then has a clever atheist pick on it actually being very sinister and then it turns out the atheist is completely right.
It just seemed to me to be an odd reason to decide that the conversation was no longer playful banter. Having said that I did enjoy the series.
I thought tonights episode was a bit of a letdown to be honest. Sort of relieved to see that Bukovak is not yet firmly entrenched on the side of evil, but I have a feeling that won't be far off if we are lucky enough to get a second series.
The only thing that made me go squee was when Daniel threw that b1tch shrink out of his church. I wonder what will happen to Michael though. I liked him a lot.
I liked this episode because not everything was neatly tied up, life just does not work like that.
For a finale I expected more.
Then again, it could also have been left open intentionally for another series.
Strangely enough, the scene I found most disturbing was when the little girl went in for confession with Father Daniel. Shudder.
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The fact that not everything was tied up neatly gives me hope a second series is in the works. Keeping my fingers crossed at any rate.
The scene with the little girl was disturbing. I think it worked much better then making Michael levitate. I also think it demeans the power of the adversary by portraying him that way. If Satan is as mighty as we are led to believe, how come we never got more then a taste of it? Especially with a finale episode I expected much more of a blowout.
All criticisms aside though, this is by far the best telly I've seen in a while. Every episode held my interest and I think both Martin Shaw and Rick Warden do a superb job.
"The Omen" remake was on the other side, so I got my demonic occultic fix there, cos I figured I can watch "Apparitions" on catch up television.
shareI loved this episode! I was sad about the Satanist priest still cursing god when he died, considering he had just heard his family are all in Heaven.
I liked the nun confessing and saying primly "Well what are you waiting for? Sexual thoughts about you? That's your lot." She's feisty, she should get her own spin off series.
I loved the high camp of the Cherlie Lunghi fake nun running around the church in flames. (That's not a sentence you say very often). And the demon Michael with the gun floating above the choir stalls, resisting bullets as he goes. The show was quite serious up to that point, then suddenly I was thinking "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace". It's like something from that haunting fabulist/dream weaver.
I hope this gets another series, with the annoying archbish guy making "Pope". That would be hilarious.