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SPNL writers:
Holy motherfucking god. Or gods, I guess. Way to kick it up a notch and introduce other religions' gods. For five years now you've ignored most other religions (except to mine their mythology for monsters and freaks of the week) and increasingly with the oncoming apocalypse your worldview has gotten very, very, Eurocentric. And then you go and step outside the box by introducing Kali (hi Tory from BSG!) and Odin and Baron Samedi and the rest of them. And they appear (at first) to be more powerful than angels, given Gabriel's reaction to them. Very good! Other cultures exist! Welcome to the 21st century.
And then you went and took two giant steps back and made Lucifer ridiculously more overpowered than all of them. That makes no sense. We've already established that Lucifer is just an overpowered angel, and none of the gods seemed terribly nonplussed when they found out Gabriel was there. Why does Lucifer get to waltz in and kill them without breaking a sweat? These are motherfucking gods. They're better than that. Kali can force-choke another god with a dirty look. Why does Lucifer get to toss her around like a rag doll?
Logic aside, did you really mean to say that Lucifer and the angels (not even Christian!God, because we spent an episode establishing his absence) are more powerful than gods from other religions? Seriously? Christianity is now canonically more powerful than voodoo, Hinduism, Greek gods, Shinto(?), and Norse gods? I think you need to take a time-out and go sit with M. Night Shyamalan and James Cameron in the "I need remedial cultural sensitivity" corner.
World in general:
Could we stop saying "Judeochristian" when we really mean "Christian"? Yes, there's a lot of similarities, but there are pretty significant differences in ideas about the afterlife, hell, what a judgment day/apocalypse looks like, and Lucifer himself. At any rate, I'm sure Jews and Christians can agree with we're not doing either system any favors by lumping them together like that.
Dear brain:
Yes, that plot twist was very cool. But making me hear Matt laughing in glee when it happened was a bit of a rude shock. Please don't do it again. I don't care if Granny Weatherwax, Jack Harkness, and Buffy all show up at once to stomp a mudhole in Jacob's Lucifer's ass - no more voices from dead people, 'kay? At the very least, if I'm going to hallucinate, make it really cool and dramatic.
Holy motherfucking god. Or gods, I guess. Way to kick it up a notch and introduce other religions' gods. For five years now you've ignored most other religions (except to mine their mythology for monsters and freaks of the week) and increasingly with the oncoming apocalypse your worldview has gotten very, very, Eurocentric. And then you go and step outside the box by introducing Kali (hi Tory from BSG!) and Odin and Baron Samedi and the rest of them. And they appear (at first) to be more powerful than angels, given Gabriel's reaction to them. Very good! Other cultures exist! Welcome to the 21st century.
And then you went and took two giant steps back and made Lucifer ridiculously more overpowered than all of them. That makes no sense. We've already established that Lucifer is just an overpowered angel, and none of the gods seemed terribly nonplussed when they found out Gabriel was there. Why does Lucifer get to waltz in and kill them without breaking a sweat? These are motherfucking gods. They're better than that. Kali can force-choke another god with a dirty look. Why does Lucifer get to toss her around like a rag doll?
Logic aside, did you really mean to say that Lucifer and the angels (not even Christian!God, because we spent an episode establishing his absence) are more powerful than gods from other religions? Seriously? Christianity is now canonically more powerful than voodoo, Hinduism, Greek gods, Shinto(?), and Norse gods? I think you need to take a time-out and go sit with M. Night Shyamalan and James Cameron in the "I need remedial cultural sensitivity" corner.
World in general:
Could we stop saying "Judeochristian" when we really mean "Christian"? Yes, there's a lot of similarities, but there are pretty significant differences in ideas about the afterlife, hell, what a judgment day/apocalypse looks like, and Lucifer himself. At any rate, I'm sure Jews and Christians can agree with we're not doing either system any favors by lumping them together like that.
Dear brain:
Yes, that plot twist was very cool. But making me hear Matt laughing in glee when it happened was a bit of a rude shock. Please don't do it again. I don't care if Granny Weatherwax, Jack Harkness, and Buffy all show up at once to stomp a mudhole in Jacob's Lucifer's ass - no more voices from dead people, 'kay? At the very least, if I'm going to hallucinate, make it really cool and dramatic.