Are they EVER gonna explain the origin of these lame ass ancients??
how many are they?
are their various groups that belong to each continent?
how were they even created? by God? human mutation? Devil offspring??
I want to know why the other ancients are so f^cking lazy.
The Master is taking over the world and they're just sitting in their chairs sleeping 23 1/2 hours a day.
^THIS
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In the books they font see the master as able to beat them until he starts destroying them. And by then it's to late they know they are doomed.
shareThe Master and the Ancients are the pieces of the Angel Azrael, who came to Earth with fellow Angels Michael and Gabriel to witness and judge the actions of Sodom and Gamorrah. Azrael found he loved the wicked pleasures of the flesh and was cut into 7 pieces by Michael and Gabriel. The 7 pieces were buried at various places around the world and their 'evil' blood tainted the ground and caused worms that came across the blood to mutate. The 7 pieces then became the Ancients and the Master wanted to rule the earth against the wishes of his 6 'brothers' who wanted to live in the shadows, and they have been at war secretly since Biblical times.
shareThat almost sounds plausible, did they mention this in the show because I really can't remember.
shareNot even a hint of this in the show yet, no. It's all from book readers having told us over the past few years. Who knows if they'll get to it innthe show and, whether they'll explain it in as much detail as we've been given here.
The only bit of backstory I was attached to (from having read the first half of the first novel intermittently from the time they were halfway through shooting Season 1 until it started airing on TV) was the Josef Sardu (Romanian? Hungarian?) backstory for The Master's giant host body. Was disappointed it wasn't included in Season 1, but was thrilled to get it right at the start of Season 2 and rendered more or less faithfully from the books. Would have to watch it again to see if they included the framing device of Abraham Setrakian's grandmother telling him the tale as a little boy while feeding him some delicious-sounding soup--was that on screen at all? Anyway, the Sardu story was creepy as heck -- much moreso in the novel -- and the Abe/grandma scene was warm and familial and that whole prologue was one of the best parts of what I read of Book 1.